Open Lovable

Use it when

• You want to prototype a React app by describing it in chat instead of hand-writing the scaffold, and you want to run the builder on your own machine.
• You want an open source, self-hostable alternative to a cloud AI app builder like Lovable so you control the code and the LLM provider.

What it solves

Not the fit when

• Not a managed cloud service; the README points to Lovable.dev for that.
• Requires paid or keyed third-party APIs (Firecrawl, LLM provider, sandbox); not fully offline.
• An example app by the Firecrawl team, not a supported product.
• production hosting of the generated app
• mobile app generation
• multi-model local inference routing
• backend database schema design

Install

git clone https://github.com/firecrawl/open-lovable.git && cd open-lovable && pnpm install

Invoke

Create .env.local with FIRECRAWL_API_KEY plus one LLM provider key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or Groq) and a sandbox provider (Vercel or E2B), run 'pnpm dev', then open http://localhost:3000 and chat with the AI to build a React app.

Alternatives

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