Open Lovable firecrawl/open-lovable

Firecrawl's example app for chatting with AI to build React apps, mainly by cloning an existing website. Needs Firecrawl and a cloud sandbox.

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Open Lovable at a glance

Checked 16 Oct 2026

Open Lovable is an MIT example app from the Firecrawl team (not made by Lovable). You chat or give it a URL, and it builds or recreates the site as a React app, previewed in a Vercel Sandbox or E2B cloud sandbox. A Firecrawl API key is required, plus one of Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI or Groq; local models are not documented. It has no database, auth or publishing. Small codebase (about 60 commits); last feature release November 2025, with a dependency bump in October 2026.

Cite this pageRepoQuarry. “Open Lovable.” Checked 16 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/open-lovable

How much of Lovable does it replace?

3 of 6 jobs. Best at cloning existing websites into React; no backend, database or publishing; needs paid cloud services.

Build a full-stack web app from a chat prompt Partial replacement

See the running app update as it is built Partial replacement

Change the UI by clicking on it (Visual Edits) Not covered

Add a database Not covered

Publish the app to a live URL (Publish) Not covered

Turn a screenshot Partial replacement

For change the UI by clicking on it (Visual Edits), add a database, publish the app to a live URL (Publish), see other Lovable alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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Runs on my machine? The app runs on your machine, but generated code runs in a Vercel or E2B cloud sandbox SANDBOX PROVIDER - Choose ONE: Vercel (default) or E2B github.com · open-lovable#setup ↗ 1d ago

Code licence MIT github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago

Model weights licence No separate model weights github.com · open-lovable#readme ↗ 1d ago

Commercial use Yes, MIT github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago

Paid services needed? Firecrawl API key required, plus a cloud LLM key and a Vercel or E2B sandbox account FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your_firecrawl_api_key github.com · open-lovable#setup ↗ 1d ago

Hardware Not documented Know the answer? —

Operating systems README documents a Next.js/Node developer app with sandbox-provider credentials, but does not state Windows/macOS/Linux host compatibility github.com · open-lovable#readme ↗ today

Setup effort Medium; clone, pnpm install, fill in several API keys, run the dev server pnpm install # or npm install / yarn install github.com · open-lovable#setup ↗ 1d ago