Both turn a description into a working application. The difference is what you hold at the end: a running app on a platform, or code you can take with you.
What they have in common
- An application built from a natural-language description, without scaffolding a project by hand.
- Iteration by conversation rather than by writing every line yourself.
- A preview you can share, so a non-technical stakeholder can react to the real thing.
- Front-end and basic data handled together, so the result is usable rather than a prototype of a screen.
Where the products differ
| Where the products differ | ORVYX | Lovable |
|---|---|---|
| Code ownership | ORVYX Cloud is built so the code is exportable and stays the customer's. | Lovable generates a project within its platform workflow. |
| Deployment | The application can be hosted wherever you want, including on your own infrastructure. | Lovable provides its own hosting and publishing path. |
| Exit path | You can continue development without the platform, because you hold the code. | Continuing outside the platform depends on the export available for your project. |
- Code ownership
Exportability is the difference between a platform you use and a platform you depend on.
- Deployment
Self-hosting matters the moment the app touches internal data or an internal network.
- Exit path
The exit path is rarely evaluated at adoption and always evaluated at renewal.
Which approach fits which project
- A founder validating an idea this week
Speed to a shareable preview is the priority, so a platform-managed builder is often enough.
- A team building something that must run internally
Portability and self-hosting come first: generate the app, then host it where the data lives.
- A product that will need engineers after launch
Choose the option whose output your engineers can pick up, so the prototype is not a dead end.
Competitor capabilities change. This page compares documented positioning around code ownership and deployment; verify current specifics on the vendor's own documentation before deciding.
Build it, then own it.
Describe the application, and see the code you would keep.