Cohostly vs Lovable’s built-in hosting: an alternative for AI-built apps

Lovable’s built-in hosting is the publishing built into Lovable, which serves a Lovable project on an address Lovable provides. Cohostly is for the small apps an AI assistant builds for you or your team: deploy from a folder or over MCP, share by email, and approve changes. Here is how to choose.

The short answer

Pick Lovable’s built-in hosting for what it is built for (below). Pick Cohostly when the app was written by an assistant, a specific set of people should open it, and you want nothing risky to change without your yes.

What Lovable’s built-in hosting does well

• One-click publishing from the tool you built the app in.
• No separate hosting account to set up.
• A quick way to show a prototype.

Where Cohostly is different

• Share by email, like a document: named people, your team, anyone with the link, or the public.
• Connect Google, Slack and other accounts one permission at a time, so no password sits in the code.
• Secrets are typed on a private page, never into a chat or the source.
• Every change by a teammate or an assistant waits for approval, explained in plain words with its risk.
• Deploy from a folder, .zip, GitHub repo, or straight from Claude, Claude Code or Cursor over MCP.
• Apps rest when nobody is using them and wake in about a second, so small tools cost little.

When Lovable’s built-in hosting is the better pick

• You only build and show things inside Lovable.
• A prototype link is all you need.

Moving an app from Lovable’s built-in hosting to Cohostly

Sync the project to GitHub and deploy it to Cohostly when you want your own address, per-person sharing, approvals, or one place for apps built in different tools.

Questions

Can I move my Lovable app?

Yes, via its GitHub repository. See the guide to hosting a Lovable app elsewhere.

Does Cohostly work with apps from other tools?

Yes: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Bolt, v0 and others.