Layouts vs Lovable for mobile app design
Lovable generates a brand-new web app from a prompt. Layouts connects to the React Native app you already have and lets an AI agent edit its real components. They live in different parts of the stack: Lovable for greenfield, Layouts for iteration on a shipping mobile app.
Lovable in one line
Lovable is a "talk-to-build" AI tool that creates new full-stack web projects from a prompt. The output is a fresh codebase that did not exist a minute ago.
Layouts in one line
Layouts is a design tool for mobile apps. The user connects a React Native repo; every real screen lays out on an infinite canvas; an AI agent makes the changes the user asks for, and each change appears as a variant beside the original.
When to use which
| Situation | Use |
|---|---|
| I have no code and want a working web app | Lovable |
| I have a React Native app and want to redesign it | Layouts |
| I have a Figma file and want to skip the engineer handoff | Layouts (for mobile) or Lovable (for web) |
| I want to compare 5 home-screen layouts side by side | Layouts |
Real-app fidelity
Lovable's UI is the UI Lovable generated. Layouts' UI is the UI in your shipping app. That sounds subtle until you try to iterate on a design system that already exists in production — Layouts has the entire system in scope; Lovable is starting over.
Frequently asked
Does Lovable support React Native?
Lovable's primary output is web apps. It does not lay an existing React Native codebase on a canvas the way Layouts does.
Is Layouts like Lovable but for mobile?
That is a reasonable shorthand, with one important difference: Lovable generates a new project from a prompt; Layouts attaches to a project you already have and edits its real components.
Can I use Lovable and Layouts together?
Yes. Many teams prototype a marketing site in Lovable, then use Layouts to iterate on their shipping mobile app.