A Lovable alternative for small business websites
If you need a website for a business (a salon, a café, a plumber, a studio), Ginta is a simpler and cheaper Lovable alternative: it publishes a finished website with booking, a menu, quote requests and a contact form built in, on your own domain even on the free plan, and you change it by asking. If you're building an app (user accounts, a database, custom features), Lovable is the better tool, and Ginta isn't trying to be one.
We make Ginta. Every fact about Lovable below comes from Lovable's own pricing page and documentation, checked on 12 October 2026 (links at the end).
Why people look for a Lovable alternative for a simple website
Lovable is an AI app builder: it writes a real web application (TanStack Start or React, with a Supabase-based backend) and lets you keep editing it with credits. That's powerful, and it's more than a small business website needs. The reasons we hear:
- Every change costs credits. Lovable's own examples: "Make the button gray" costs 0.50 credits, "Build me a landing page" 1.70. The free plan has 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month; Pro starts at 100 a month.
- A custom domain needs a paid plan. On the free plan your site lives at
name.lovable.appwith an "Edit with Lovable" badge. Pro is $25 a month, or $250 a year. - Business features are code you maintain. Booking, a menu or a quote form must be generated as part of your app. When something breaks, it's an app to debug, not a setting to change.
- Code you don't need. If nobody on the team reads code, a full app codebase is a liability, not an asset.
What Ginta does differently
| Ginta | Lovable | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A finished website for your business | A web application (code you own) |
| Live on your own domain | Free plan: yes, one domain | Paid plans only (Pro from $25/month) |
| Branding on free sites | A small "Made with Ginta" line in the footer | "Edit with Lovable" badge |
| AI included | 50 credits a month free; a new site usually about 8, a change 1 to 3 | Free: 5 a day, up to 30 a month; Pro: 100 a month plus 5 a day |
| Booking, menu, quote requests, gallery, blog | Ready-made parts you manage without the AI (booking, shop and events on paid plans) | Built as code in your app |
| Contact form | Built in, messages in your inbox | Built as code (with Lovable's backend) |
| Edit without AI | Click any text or photo on the page | Code editing on paid plans |
| From Claude or ChatGPT | MCP server; publishing from your assistant uses no Ginta credits | MCP server (tool calls use credits); ChatGPT app makes the first build |
| Your code | Standard HTML and CSS your assistant can read | Real app code; Git sync on all plans, download on paid plans |
| Best for | Salons, cafés, trades, studios, freelancers | Products, tools, prototypes, apps with users |
When Lovable is still the right choice
- You're building a product: customer accounts, dashboards, payments logic, an admin area.
- You want to own and extend the code with developers, with Git and your own deployment.
- Your "website" is really a SaaS prototype or an internal tool.
In those cases Lovable (or Bolt, or v0) fits, and a website builder like Ginta would get in your way.
Moving a business website from Lovable to Ginta
- On ginta.app, describe your business in one sentence, or paste the main texts from your current site. Ginta builds a new site in about a minute; it won't copy your Lovable design, but you can ask for the look you want, or send a screenshot as inspiration.
- Add your photos and logo, and ask for the parts you need: "add online booking", "add our menu".
- Connect your domain in Settings → Your domain: Ginta shows the exact DNS steps for wherever your domain is managed. Keep the Lovable site until the new one is live.
Developers who prefer to keep their Lovable-made code can also host a static build on Ginta: Claude Code uploads a
whole dist/ folder through Ginta's MCP server, with redirects and clean URLs (see files and routing).
Server-side code doesn't run on Ginta.
Sources (checked 12 October 2026)
Lovable pricing · Lovable plans · Lovable custom domains · Lovable MCP server · Lovable ChatGPT app · Lovable Cloud · Ginta: pricing, limits
Questions
Is Ginta free?
Yes: one website, one custom domain and 50 AI credits a month, with a small "Made with Ginta" line. Paid plans start at €5 a month (Hosting, for building with your own AI assistant) and €9 a month (Light, with 600 credits and no footer line). All plans.
Can Ginta build web apps like Lovable?
No. Ginta builds websites with ready-made parts (booking, shop, events, menu, gallery, blog, quote requests, forms). Sites can call outside APIs through secure connections, but there are no user accounts or custom server code.
Can I edit the HTML myself?
Your assistant can read and change every file through Ginta's MCP server, and you can click any text or photo in the builder to change it. There's no code editor inside Ginta's website.
Is it faster?
A new Ginta website is usually online about a minute after you answer the questions, and changes take seconds. Ginta-made pages typically score 90–100 on Google's PageSpeed test on phones.