If you are building an app with users, logins and a database, Lovable wires that up and hosts it, and nothing on this page suggests replacing it. Orkas is for what appears the moment that app exists: the landing copy, the launch video, the comparison pages, the weekly read on your own numbers.
Lovable stands up and keeps a product. Orkas does the work that surrounds one.
| Capability | OrkasThis site | LovableFull-stack app builder |
|---|---|---|
| Database, login and backend | It writes the code; you wire the services | Wired up for you as part of building the app |
| Living with one app for months | The project is files in a folder you manage | One place that remembers the whole product's history |
| Hosting and a live URL | You host it wherever you like | Included — it is live as soon as it is built |
| A teammate who does not code changing it | They would need the desktop app and the folder | They open a link and edit in the browser |
| Work that is not an app at all | Marketing videos, SEO pages, decks, reports | Outside what it is built for |
| Your own files as the input | Spreadsheets, PDFs, footage, exports on your disk | The app's own data, inside the app |
| How many kinds of task one tool covers | Video, writing, sites, research, analysis — one subscription | Building and running web apps |
| Source you can read, keys you can bring | MIT licensed; managed models or your own provider key | You use the hosted product as provided |
Four rows go to Lovable, and they are the four that matter if your answer to "what are you making" is "a product". Nothing here suggests replacing it. The other four are about the work that appears the moment the product exists — and that work is usually larger than the product.
You probably should not pick one — Use each tool for the job it is built for, and pass the resulting files into Orkas when you need a coordinated, reviewable deliverable.
A live app still needs a landing page, a launch video, search pages and a weekly read on the numbers.
Keep the product in Lovable. Moving it out to save a subscription is rarely the win it looks like.
Put the go-to-market work in Orkas — landing copy variants, the demo video, comparison and SEO pages, launch posts.
Export your numbers to a folder and let Orkas read them there — the weekly report writes itself from the same files every time.
Orkas is MIT licensed and runs on your machine, but it is not the same product. Lovable stands up a hosted full-stack app with backend and login included; Orkas writes files into a folder you own and you arrange hosting yourself. If managed hosting is why you use Lovable, Orkas does not replace it.
It can write the code, including the backend, but you connect the services and deploy it yourself. Lovable does that wiring as part of building the app. For a product you intend to run, that difference is the whole thing.
That is the common arrangement. The product stays in Lovable; the go-to-market work — landing copy variants, the demo video, comparison and SEO pages, the weekly numbers — happens in Orkas on the files in your own folders.
No. It is a desktop application: it produces files in a folder on your machine and you decide where they go. With your own provider key, model calls go directly to that provider rather than through Orkas.
Free, MIT licensed, and it works on the files already sitting on your machine.
