Lovable builds new web apps from a description and hosts them for you. Shuttle by MoonPress improves the WordPress site you already have, without rebuilding it or moving it anywhere.
Both let you make changes by describing them. Choose by what you want to end up with: a new app, or a better version of the site you already run.
Lovable starts from a blank project or a copy of your public pages. Shuttle starts from your WordPress site as it is today.
Checked on each company’s own pages on October 17, 2026.
| Question | Lovable | Shuttle by MoonPress |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Building new web apps and sites from a prompt | Improving the WordPress site you already have |
| What it builds | New apps, separate from WordPress | Changes to your WordPress site, its design and its content |
| Your existing WordPress site | A new app can read and manage your WordPress content; Lovable can’t change plugins, hosting or site settings | Works on the site itself |
| Your existing code | Lovable can’t bring it in; its code sync only sends code out | Works with the code already on your site |
| Hosting | Lovable hosts the app, or you take the code elsewhere | Your site stays where it is |
| Which AI | Included through Lovable credits | Your own ChatGPT or Claude account |
| Price | Free plan; Pro $25 and Business $50 a month | $29 per website a month for the first 3 months, then $49 |
Lovable is a platform where you describe what you want, and it builds a web app and hosts it. You can take the code and host the app elsewhere, but the Lovable editor itself is an online service.
Lovable connects to WordPress in a few ways. Its WordPress connector lets a new app read and manage your posts, pages, media and users. Lovable describes it for separate front ends, editorial dashboards and content workflows, and says it can’t change permalinks, hosting, security certificates, plugins or site settings. Separate connectors cover WordPress.com and WooCommerce.
Lovable is rolling out a feature that copies a website from its address. It rebuilds up to 10 public pages as a new Lovable project. Logins, databases and anything that ran on the original site stay behind, and forms keep their look but not what the site did with submissions.
Shuttle is an AI workspace for the WordPress site you already have, made for established sites that are hard to rebuild. You connect your site once, Shuttle learns how it’s built, and then you ask for what you need in plain words: a new page, a design change, SEO fixes or a new feature.
New pages and sections come out in your site’s own design, so you don’t wait for a designer or a developer. Nothing is installed on your website, and it stays exactly where it is, with your plugins and wp-admin.
You use the ChatGPT or Claude account you already have, and your team works on the same website, each person with their own account. AI can make mistakes, so check each change.
What you end up with. Lovable produces a new app on its platform. Shuttle improves the WordPress site you already run.
Your content and your team. With Lovable’s connector, WordPress can stay behind a new front end. With Shuttle, WordPress stays the whole site: your team keeps wp-admin, and your plugins keep doing their jobs.
Rebuilding or improving. Lovable rebuilds a site’s public pages as a new app. Shuttle works with the pages, design and plugins you already have.
Paying for AI. Lovable includes AI through its credits. Shuttle uses the ChatGPT or Claude plan you already have.
Lovable has a free plan. Pro is $25 a month and Business $50 a month, each starting with 100 monthly credits, and yearly billing works out to two months free.
Shuttle costs $29 per website a month for the first 3 months, then $49. Each website includes one free guest, and extra team seats are $10 a month. Your ChatGPT or Claude plan and your hosting are paid separately. Your first payment comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
No. Its WordPress connector works with your content, and Lovable says it can’t change plugins, hosting or site settings. It can’t bring in your existing code either.
Bolt.new is another app builder that runs in your browser. Its documentation lists the technologies it supports, and the one WordPress runs on isn’t among them, so Bolt can’t run a WordPress site.
Yes. Keep your main site on WordPress and improve it with Shuttle, and build a separate tool in Lovable that reads your WordPress content.
Checked on October 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm current terms on each site.
Download Shuttle for Mac, connect your site and ask for your first change.
