Lovable is better at how it looks. Bolt is better at how fast it changes. Neither one publishes a back office or an order list, which is the half of a shop you tend to discover late. Here is the split, and where MaShop picks up.
Start with what is true of both. Each one turns a chat into a working app and syncs the code to a repository you can open. You will have a screen in front of you inside the hour either way. If that is all you need, the choice matters far less than the internet suggests.
Lovable leans on the finish. Its gallery lists a large library of production ready projects from its community, ecommerce among the categories, and a remix drops you straight into a copy of one. That head start is real and it shows most on the pages a customer actually sees. Published plans start at $25 a month for 100 credits, with a Business tier from $50.
Bolt's pitch is the loop. Its own homepage says it automatically tests, refactors and iterates, reducing errors so you keep building instead of fixing, and that is the thing people are describing when they say Bolt feels fast. Pro is $25 a month there too, and the free tier is bounded by a daily token limit rather than a credit count.
So the split states itself. If the thing has to look finished on day one, Lovable. If you will be rewriting it twice a day for a month, Bolt. Then there is the third case, the one this page exists for: it has to take money from a stranger and then tell somebody what to ship on Monday. Both of them stop earlier than you would like there.
The wider version of this question, the one that outlives both products, is worked through in how to choose an AI coding assistant.
That $25 for 100 credits is also the number people misread the fastest, because a credit is not a message and building is not the only thing that spends one. The published rates are pulled apart in what a Lovable credit actually buys.
MaShop starts at the part the other two leave for later.
The storefront is the visible half, and it is the half that gets demoed. Product pages, and something that looks enough like a checkout. Lovable and Bolt are both good at it, and a screenshot from either will fool anybody who is not buying.
Then somebody buys. A number has to come down somewhere. A record has to exist for the person who paid, and whoever is packing the parcel needs a list saying which ones leave today. Refund that order and all of it has to move back. None of that appears in a demo, and none of it is in either vendor's documentation.
You can prompt your way to it. People do. It just stops being a weekend and starts being the project, and the second half is the one where getting it slightly wrong costs a customer rather than a screenshot.
Describe what you sell and who you sell it to.
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Your shop goes live ready to take its first order today.
If the thing you are building never takes a payment, go back to the other two. A portfolio, or an internal tool nobody outside the company will ever open, would make you carry a commerce model you have no use for, and both of them will beat MaShop to a working screen.
The design gap is the other one worth saying out loud. Lovable's gallery is large and its defaults look finished, and when the look is what you are being judged on, remixing somebody's polished project is a genuine advantage. MaShop generates a design too, and it aims at a shop that works before one that photographs well. The longer version of that trade is on replacing Lovable for a commerce project.
That gallery is worth counting rather than taking on trust. It held 192 projects on 5 August 2026, ten of them filed under ecommerce, which is the handful anyone shopping for a shop actually means. What those ten describe, and the parts of a sale they leave out, is set against a checklist in what a Lovable commerce template leaves you to build.
And if you are still in the phase where the whole thing changes twice a day, Bolt's loop is the one to be in. It keeps you moving rather than handing you a finished commerce backend, and that is a fair thing to be good at. What that leaves you holding is spelled out in what Bolt does not build for a shop.
If the shortlist has a third name on it, the third name is usually v0, and it changes the question rather than repeating it: v0 will attach a database and generate the SQL that creates your tables, so what is missing there is the commerce model rather than the backend. Read where v0 stops on a commerce project before you narrow it to two.
One more, because plenty of people arrive here weighing something else entirely. If what you are actually up against is a hosted platform rather than another builder, the twelve month arithmetic sits on the page about leaving Shopify.
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If the app has to look finished immediately, Lovable, because its gallery gives you a polished starting point. If you expect to rewrite it constantly for weeks, Bolt, because its own pitch is a loop that tests and refactors as you go. Both cost $25 a month at the first paid tier, so price is not the tiebreaker.
Up to a point, and further than people assume. Both will build a storefront and both can be prompted toward payments. What neither one documents is the commerce model behind it: stock that moves when someone buys, an order record, a fulfillment list, a back office. You build that half yourself, prompt by prompt.
No, and this page does not pretend otherwise. Every claim about Lovable and Bolt here comes from what they publish on their own sites and documentation, read on 28 July 2026 and quoted where the wording matters. A bake off we ran and scored ourselves would not be worth much to you anyway.
Yes, with a caveat on Lovable. Its Git sync creates a repository the docs describe as a synced copy that you own, and Bolt commits as you build. On Lovable's free tier, editing the code and downloading the codebase are restricted to paid plans. MaShop commits the application to a repository you connect from the first build.
Lovable hosts your published app on a lovable.app subdomain, with custom domains on paid plans. Bolt publishes new projects to Bolt hosting by default and can target Netlify instead. A MaShop shop runs on your own hosting account and your own database, from the first build.
One prompt, and MaShop builds the whole thing around what you sell.