Lovable is a front-end generator that produces beautiful React mockups on a Supabase backend. It’s popular with designers and founders who want a polished prototype fast. Sentrely is a different offer: we deploy AI agents into your Slack, supervised by real engineers, and build, ship and monitor production-grade software in accounts your company owns.
Where Lovable wins
- Beautiful front-end mockups. Lovable’s generated UIs look good out of the box in a way most vibe-coding tools don’t match.
- Fast prototyping. For a design demo or a stakeholder pitch, Lovable gets you a working front-end in minutes.
- Portable Supabase. Compared to Base44 (MongoDB on Wix servers), Lovable is more portable: the Supabase backend can run on your own Supabase project.
Where Lovable hits a wall
- Security incidents. The April 2026 BOLA vulnerability (CVE-2025-48757) compromised 170+ Lovable-built apps across 303 endpoints in a 48-day silent breach. CEO Anton Osika publicly apologized. VibeAppScanner data suggests around 70% of Lovable apps ship with row-level security disabled.
- Uptime. Lovable has hundreds of incidents on StatusGator since May 2025. A 42-minute worldwide login outage on Feb 26, 2026 knocked out access to projects.
- Credit-burn loops. Reviewers describe the “Fix Issue” function failing repeatedly, each attempt costing prompts, with the same error persisting.
- Support gaps. Getting to direct support requires a paid plan; free-tier issues linger.
- Deployment gap. Founders describe getting to “a beautiful mockup that you can’t actually launch without technical help.” The moment you need to ship to real customers, you need a developer.
What Sentrely does differently
- Safety checks and engineer sign-off. Every change runs through automated safety checks, and security and software engineers on our team sign off on anything important before it ships to production. Missing access checks like the BOLA-class flaw are exactly what that review looks for.
- Ships into your accounts. Your cloud, your source code, your data. Sentrely goes away, your app keeps running.
- No credit meter. Pricing is custom and scoped with you on a free 30-minute call. Cloud costs go direct to your cloud provider at their published rates.
- 35-day rewind. Point-in-time recovery on your database. If anything ever breaks, you rewind to a known-good state in one command.
- Real production complexity. Multi-tenant SaaS, payments, real-time systems, multi-region deploys: the things Lovable caps out on.
When to pick which
- Pick Lovable if you need a beautiful React mockup for a pitch or a design review, and you’re OK with taking it further later.
- Pick Sentrely if you want real production software your business will depend on, supervised by human engineers, running in accounts you own.