What it is
Lovable builds full web apps from a chat. It is the tool behind a large share of the other stories in this directory — Plinq was built on it in 45 days by someone who had never written code.
It crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch, which its CEO says is faster than OpenAI, Cursor, Wiz or any other software company has done it. In August 2026 it raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation.
Timeline
- 1 Nov 2024Launched, out of the open-source GPT Engineer project.
- 23 Jul 2025$100M ARR, eight months in.
- 1 Aug 2026Raises $400M at a $13.3B valuation; ARR up 4x over twelve months.
Founders
How it broke out
Built in public out of GPT Engineer, Anton Osika's open-source project that had already collected more than 50,000 GitHub stars. Lovable launched into that audience rather than looking for one.
Paid advertising
We have not checked this app for paid advertising yet. That is not the same as finding none.
Others in ai app builder
Every other app in this directory sharing the category. Not a market map — it is what we have researched, which is a different and much smaller thing.
