LovableNo mobile binarySuperb at web apps. Does not produce a mobile binary.
Expo + EASShipsThe control row. What every Expo builder is ultimately doing.On free tier, Lovable is $0 / month and Expo + EAS is $0 /MONTH — 15 Android and 15 iOS builds. On cheapest paid plan, Lovable is $25 / month (Pro) and Expo + EAS is $19 /MONTH + additional usage cost (Starter). On cheapest plan that reaches ios, Lovable does not publish it and Expo + EAS is $0 /MONTH (Free). On what the plan is metered in, Lovable is 100 monthly credits and Expo + EAS is Build credit, then metered. StoreReady sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either — it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
The rows in brighter ink are the ones the two companies answer differently.
The thing you are building belongs on the web and you would rather stop pretending otherwise. Lovable's free tier publishes to a real URL with unlimited collaborators and no card, and Pro at $25 / month adds custom domains, roles and per-member credit limits — which is a better answer for a web product than paying a mobile builder to wrap one.
Free tier. $0 / month
"No credit card needed", workspace-private projects, unlimited collaborators, 5 lovable.app domains.
Cheapest paid plan. $25 / month (Pro)
Business is $50 / month for the same 100 credits and adds governance rather than capacity.
Cheapest plan that reaches iOS. Not published
Lovable's pricing page names no iOS tier and no App Store deployment. Every plan is described in lovable.app domains, custom domains and publishing — which is consistent with StoreReady's own verdict on it: a web product, not a route to the store.
What the plan is metered in. 100 monthly credits
"Credit rollovers" and "On-demand credit top-ups" on Pro; the Free tier gets "Free grants" rather than a stated credit count.
You can write the app, and what you actually need is the build and submit pipeline. Expo's free tier is the only one in this table that both compiles for iOS and submits — "15 Android and 15 iOS builds" and "Submit to app stores", at $0 a month — and everything above it is the same service with more credit and a faster queue rather than a feature gate.
Free tier. $0 /MONTH — 15 Android and 15 iOS builds
Also "Submit to app stores", 60 minutes of CI/CD workflows and updates to 1K monthly active users.
Cheapest paid plan. $19 /MONTH + additional usage cost (Starter)
Includes $45 of build credit, a high-priority queue and large workers. Production is $199 /MONTH with $225 of credit.
Cheapest plan that reaches iOS. $0 /MONTH (Free)
⛔ The one row in this table where the App Store is reachable on the free tier — 15 iOS builds and "Submit to app stores" are both listed under Free. What Expo does not do is write the app; every other entry here generates the code and then charges you for the store.
What the plan is metered in. Build credit, then metered
Both paid tiers carry that line. Past the included credit builds are metered, so this is the row whose real cost depends on how often you compile rather than on what you are building.
Lovable vs Expo + EAS — free tier?
Lovable: $0 / month. "No credit card needed", workspace-private projects, unlimited collaborators, 5 lovable.app domains. Expo + EAS: $0 /MONTH — 15 Android and 15 iOS builds. Also "Submit to app stores", 60 minutes of CI/CD workflows and updates to 1K monthly active users. Read from lovable.dev and expo.dev on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Lovable vs Expo + EAS — cheapest paid plan?
Lovable: $25 / month (Pro). Business is $50 / month for the same 100 credits and adds governance rather than capacity. Expo + EAS: $19 /MONTH + additional usage cost (Starter). Includes $45 of build credit, a high-priority queue and large workers. Production is $199 /MONTH with $225 of credit. Read from lovable.dev and expo.dev on 2026-09-18.
Lovable vs Expo + EAS — cheapest plan that reaches ios?
Lovable does not state it on lovable.dev. Lovable's pricing page names no iOS tier and no App Store deployment. Every plan is described in lovable.app domains, custom domains and publishing — which is consistent with StoreReady's own verdict on it: a web product, not a route to the store. Expo + EAS: $0 /MONTH (Free). ⛔ The one row in this table where the App Store is reachable on the free tier — 15 iOS builds and "Submit to app stores" are both listed under Free. What Expo does not do is write the app; every other entry here generates the code and then charges you for the store. Read from lovable.dev and expo.dev on 2026-09-18. Cheapest plan that reaches iOS here means the tier on which the product can actually produce and submit an iOS app — which on most of these is several steps above the price the page leads with, and is the single figure none of them puts next to the headline.
When should I pick Lovable, and when Expo + EAS?
Lovable — The thing you are building belongs on the web and you would rather stop pretending otherwise. Lovable's free tier publishes to a real URL with unlimited collaborators and no card, and Pro at $25 / month adds custom domains, roles and per-member credit limits — which is a better answer for a web product than paying a mobile builder to wrap one. Expo + EAS — You can write the app, and what you actually need is the build and submit pipeline. Expo's free tier is the only one in this table that both compiles for iOS and submits — "15 Android and 15 iOS builds" and "Submit to app stores", at $0 a month — and everything above it is the same service with more credit and a faster queue rather than a feature gate.