Do I really own the code Lovable generates?

Ownership is real and practical, not just legal boilerplate. Lovable generates a standard React and Vite codebase, and its GitHub integration syncs that code into a repository under your own account. That repo is yours: clone it, edit it, hand it to a developer, deploy it to Vercel, or archive it. The database lives in your Supabase project, which is likewise your account and your data.

This matters because code ownership is the dividing line in the no-code world. Closed builders host your product as an inseparable part of their platform: cancel, and the product effectively ceases to exist. Lovable sits on the other side of that line, closer to 'an AI that writes a normal codebase for you' than to a walled garden.

The one nuance is that ownership is only as real as your sync habit. If you never connect GitHub, your code lives solely in Lovable's platform, and while it is still retrievable, you are one integration away from the guarantees above. Hence the universal advice: connect GitHub sync in the first session, before the first real feature.

Test your ownership once to make it concrete: clone the repo, run the app locally, and confirm it works outside the platform. Ten minutes of verification turns 'they say I own it' into 'I have run my product on my own machine.'