How to put your Lovable app on the App Store and Google Play
4 ways to turn a Lovable or vibe-coded web app into an iPhone and Android app: Capacitor, PWA, native rebuild or a wrapper service. Costs, risks, push.
Vibe Coding
Wrap Or Rebuild? What To Do With Your Vibe-Coded App When It Is Time To Go Native
So you had the idea at 11pm, opened Lovable or Base44, typed a few sentences, and by midnight you had a working web app. The dopamine was real… Then someone asked the question “Can I get it on the App Store?” And suddenly you are staring down two roads. Wrap the thing you already built,…
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I built an app with AI, now what? Your launch roadmap
So you opened Lovable on a Tuesday night, typed a few sentences, and three hours later you had a working app. It logs in. It saves data. It looks better than half the stuff on the App Store. You showed your partner and they went “wait, you made that?” And then the buzz wore off…
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How do I get my vibe-coded app on Google Play?
You just built an app in an afternoon – Lovable spat out a working web app, or Base44 wired up the whole thing while you drank your coffee, and it actually does the job. Now you want it on Android, sitting in the Google Play Store, tappable from a real phone with your icon on…
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How Do You Add Push Notifications to a Vibe-Coded App?
Lots of people are building vibe-coded apps with Lovable or Base44, stitching it all together, and have ended up with something that’s genuinely good. BUT… Then you try to send your first push notification to a user’s phone, and the whole thing fell over like a deckchair! Welcome to one of the most common questions…
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Why Did Apple Reject My AI-Built App? (And How to Get a Lovable or Base44 App Approved)
So you built an app with Lovable or Base44, watched it come to life, tidied it up… Then you tried to get it onto the App Store, hit submit, and a few days later Apple sent back a polite little note that said ‘no.’ and you know ask yourself ‘Why did Apple reject my AI-built…
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Why Is My Vibe-Coded App So Slow on Mobile?
You described an app to Lovable or Base44, watched it appear like magic, opened it on your laptop and grinned. Then you loaded it on your phone over 4G in a car park, and it wheezed. Buttons lagged. The screen sat blank for a beat too long. Something that felt slick on desktop now feels…
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How Much Does It Cost to Turn a Web App Into a Native App?
You built an app with AI: Lovable, Base44, Bolt, maybe v0 or Replit. It works, it looks the part, and you are rather chuffed with yourself. Then someone says the words that ruin your afternoon asking “Cool, so when’s it going in the App Store?” so you then ask “How much does it cost to…
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I built my own Subway Surfers with Claude Code in one evening. Then I got stuck.
Subway Surfers made $2 billion. I vibe-coded my own local twist with Claude Code in one evening, then hit a wall a website can’t fix. Here’s the whole build, GitHub repo included.
Is my vibe-coded app ready to launch? The bugs to fix before you ship it
You had your big idea on a Tuesday, maybe your own, maybe a fully worked one borrowed from somewhere like Prompt-King’s library of AI app-builder blueprints. By Thursday, Lovable (or Base44, or Bolt, or Cursor) had spat out a working app, and you sat there grinning at the screen like you’d just invented fire. It…
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