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Lovable vs Bolt — What's Best?

Lorenzo Zarantonello on May 14, 2025

I decided to compare Lovable and Bolt on the same task. For this test, I didn’t require any external connection e.g. no DB, APIs, etc. However, t...
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Ben Sinclair

I tried using loveable and it got into a right pickle when I asked it to do things like write a svelte component or make a react component more accessible or remove tailwind. Each of these caused it to completely melt down into a spiral of "there was an error [fix this error]".

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Lorenzo Zarantonello

Yes those things are still sci-fi in the world of vibe coding

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Michael Liang

Nice post.
But what about Replit (replit.com) or V0 (vo.dev)?
I think these are better than bolt or lovable. what do you think?

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Lorenzo Zarantonello

I tried Replit here Medium free link.
Generally, I have a positive feeling about the chat (maybe the best one?), but their generated UI is less engaging, IMO.
v0 not tried yet. What's your take?

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Michael Liang

Replit and V0 are more at generating clean UI/UX. Also there are less bugs than Lovable or bolt.
Lovable and bolt make many errors when generate the code, so they are very hard to use.
But Replit and v0 are more accurate and clean.

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Lorenzo Zarantonello

Have you tried them with any blockchain project?

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Michael Liang

Yes

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Ben Sinclair

Last I heard, v0 produced code with terrible accessibility. Has that changed?

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Michael Liang

It is very good for Next.js project

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Lorenzo Zarantonello

That's interesting! I might try it for that. Lovable made up things when I asked for Next.js

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Nathan Tarbert

love digging into stuff like this, you lay it out straight up - curious, you ever felt like having better chat support would change which platform you'd stick with long-term

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Lorenzo Zarantonello

It depends a bit on the user, but yes.

  • Devs can export the code to Cursor and fix/continue development there. For devs, a good chat support is a good feature.
  • But for non-developers, chatting with AI is all that matters long-term. How else are they supposed to fix/improve the app? For non- devs, a good chat support is the feature to nail.

So, chat support is the key feature for platforms that target non-developers

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Violet Brown

Lovable and Bolt are both good and popular tools. But there are other vibe coding tool such as Vitara?

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