Lovable publishes your project to a [url-subdomain].lovable.app address by default, with custom domains on paid plans. Paste whichever one is live into Free App Maker and get a signed Android APK in about 60 seconds — we never need your Lovable account or your repo.
Written by the Free App Maker team at My Mind Studio · Last verified 26 August 2026
Free App Maker turns a published Lovable app into a signed Android APK in about 60 seconds. Click Publish in Lovable, copy the live lovable.app URL (or your custom domain), and paste it in — no Android Studio, no repo access, no code. Building and previewing are free; downloading the signed APK is a one-time unlock, with the price shown before checkout.
Sources for the Lovable publishing facts above: Lovable Docs — Publish and Lovable Docs — Custom domain, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Lovable's own documentation describes it as a full-stack AI development platform for building, iterating on and deploying web applications using natural language, generating an application with frontend, backend, database, authentication and integrations, all backed by editable code that can be synced to GitHub or GitLab.
The generated stack has moved recently, which matters if you are reading older tutorials. Lovable's FAQ states that new apps created from 13 May 2026 use TanStack Start with server-side rendering, while older projects use React and Vite — with Tailwind for styling either way. The same FAQ says Lovable hosts every published app, giving it a public URL with HTTPS included, delivered from locations around the world with no servers to set up.
That public HTTPS URL is the whole input Free App Maker needs. We are a website to APK converter: we wrap the live address in a signed Android app. Your project keeps living on Lovable's hosting; the APK is a dedicated, installable window onto it.
Sources: Lovable Docs — FAQ (stack and hosting) and Lovable Docs — Introduction, both checked 26 Aug 2026. Device reach at API 21 (99.8%) from apilevels.com, compiled from Statcounter GlobalStats April 2026 data; Android's 68.36% share of worldwide mobile OS use from Statcounter GlobalStats, July 2026 figure, both checked 26 Aug 2026. The 60-second figure is our own average build time on the Free App Maker pipeline.
Android accounted for 68.36% of worldwide mobile operating system use in July 2026, according to Statcounter GlobalStats. If your Lovable app lives only at a URL, reaching it means opening a browser and remembering an address. An installed app is one tap from the home screen, opens full-screen without browser chrome, and can be handed to testers or members as a download link.
Here is the honest part. The APK wraps your live Lovable URL in an Android WebView. Your project has to stay published and publicly reachable for the app to show anything, and the app keeps no offline copy. Anything your pages already do on the mobile web — forms, checkout, sign-in, embeds — should behave much the same inside the app; native-only device APIs that web pages cannot use, such as Bluetooth or background services, are not available to a WebView app either.
Google Play is a separate path, and we will not pretend otherwise: Google's documentation requires an Android App Bundle for new Play submissions, not an APK. The build you get here is for direct installation, testing and sharing. An AAB is included in our Play Store Pack, along with your signing key, a hosted privacy policy, the store graphics and the answers to Google's forms.
Sources: Statcounter GlobalStats — Mobile OS market share worldwide (Android 68.36%, July 2026) and Android Developers — About Android App Bundles, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
No Android Studio, no Gradle, no Java. Just your Lovable URL — and your APK is ready in about a minute.
In Lovable, click Publish — and Publish changes if you have edited since your last deploy. Lovable's docs are clear that publishing deploys a snapshot and that only the current version goes live, so unpublished edits will not appear in your app. Copy the live address (https://your-app.lovable.app, or your custom domain on a paid plan) and open it in a browser to confirm it loads.
Head to freeappmaker.org and paste your Lovable URL. Enter a name for your Android app — this is what users will see under the icon on their home screen. Add your email, and optionally upload a square 1024×1024 PNG icon; if you skip it, we generate a clean default icon from your app name.
Our build system wraps your Lovable URL in a WebView APK and signs it — your build is ready on the build screen in about 60 seconds. Building and previewing is free; downloading the signed APK is covered by a one-time unlock, and its exact price is always shown before you pay. Install it on any Android device, or share the download link with your testers and users.
Source for the Lovable publishing behaviour in step 1: Lovable Docs — Publish, checked 26 Aug 2026.
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Start Free — Takes About 60 Seconds →From SaaS founders to educators, an installable Android app reaches places a bookmarked lovable.app tab does not.
You launched on Lovable and have web users — now you want an Android presence without rebuilding anything natively. Because the app loads your published URL, your Supabase database, auth and subscription flows carry on running exactly where they already run. Test the checkout path on a real device before you hand the APK to paying customers.
You designed a product in Lovable and want to see how it behaves as an installed app rather than a tab. An APK lets you put it on real devices and watch what changes — how people navigate without an address bar, how your Tailwind layouts hold up on a mid-range phone — before anyone commits budget to native development.
Your deck says mobile, but you built in Lovable for speed. An APK gives you something installable to hand round at a demo day or drop into an investor update — full-screen, with your icon on the home screen. No developer account, no review queue, and no waiting on a store before you can show it.
Courses and learning tools built in Lovable can be handed to a class as a download link instead of a URL students have to type. It works on school-managed Android tablets that allow installs from your source. Note that the app loads your live site each time, so devices still need an internet connection — it is not an offline copy of your course.
Chrome's own documentation says the WebView component is based on the Chromium open source project and shares the same rendering engine as Chrome for Android, so rendering should be consistent between the two. Here's what that means in practice for a Lovable app.
Sources: Chrome for Developers — WebView overview and Lovable Docs — Supabase, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: Chromium — Web platform compatibility in Android WebView (the Web Permissions API is not implemented in WebView), Chrome for Developers — WebView overview (not all APIs Chrome for Android supports are enabled in WebView), Google Identity — OAuth 2.0 Policies (no Google OAuth request to an embedded user-agent under the developer's control) and Lovable Docs — Publish, all checked 26 Aug 2026.
Use our free WebView Compatibility Checker to scan your Lovable URL before building your APK.
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If you are wrapping a Lovable app for Android, these are the named tools you are most likely weighing up. Every figure below comes from the vendor's own pricing page and was checked on 26 August 2026 — prices change, so click through before you decide.
| Approach | Free App Maker ✓ | Median.co | WebViewGold (Android) | Capacitor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android Studio on your machine | Not needed | Not needed — browser App Studio | ✗ Required (or their paid Cloud Builder add-on) | ✗ Required |
| Cost to start (26 Aug 2026) | Free to build — one-time unlock to download, price shown before checkout | Free plan $0 | $109 one-time (listed at $154) | Free — open source |
| Cost to remove vendor branding (26 Aug 2026) | Covered by the same one-time unlock | Starter: $229 one-time licence fee, then $179/yr from month 12 | Included — described as a white-label licence | No vendor branding to remove |
| Time to your first Android build | ~60 seconds | Varies by project | Your Android Studio setup and build time | Your setup and build time |
| Needs your Lovable source or repo | No — just the published URL | No — it wraps your web content | No — it loads your URL | Yes — a synced codebase to build from |
| Minimum Android version stated by the vendor | Android 5.0 (API 21) | Not stated on the pricing page | Not stated on the pricing page | API 24+ (Android 7 or later) |
| A re-publish in Lovable shows up without a rebuild | ✓ Yes — it loads your live URL | Yes for remotely loaded web content | Yes for remotely loaded web content | Depends how you configure it |
Competitor figures checked 26 August 2026 against each vendor's own pages: Median.co pricing (Free $0 with a "Powered by Median.co" watermark; Starter $229 one-time licence activation fee plus $179/yr beginning at month 12) — Median.co returns 403 to automated fetches, so this was read in a real browser; WebViewGold ($109 one-time against a $154 list price — a promotional price the vendor's page dated to a sale running until 31 August 2026, so expect it to move; Android Studio template, with a paid Cloud Builder add-on for browser-based compiling); and Capacitor — Android documentation (managed through Android Studio; API 24+ supported). Prices and plan rules change without notice — check each vendor before you buy. Free App Maker's own unlock is priced by country and always shown before checkout.
The technical and strategic advantages that make this the fastest path from Lovable to Android.
Lovable's docs describe publishing as deploying a snapshot: click Publish, then Publish changes, and that version goes live. Because the APK loads your published URL at runtime, app users see it the next time the app loads that page — no APK rebuild and no store resubmission. What stays fixed is what is baked into the APK: name, icon and start URL.
Lovable's Supabase integration covers your database, Auth, Storage buckets, Edge Functions and realtime subscriptions — and the wrapper touches none of it. Nothing is migrated or re-implemented; the app reaches the same backend over the internet that your site already reaches. Lovable's security docs are worth a read first: misconfigured Row Level Security rules are a common cause of data leaks.
Installing Android Studio and waiting on a first Gradle build is a detour before you see any APK at all — Capacitor's own documentation says Capacitor Android apps are configured and managed through Android Studio. Our build runs server-side and lands on your build screen in about 60 seconds, so you can try a different app name or icon in minutes.
Android scales launcher art across density buckets on a 3:4:6:8:12:16 ratio, so a 48 dp icon needs to exist at 48, 72, 96, 144 and 192 px for mdpi through xxxhdpi. Upload one square 1024×1024 PNG and we generate those densities for you — no Figma export step. Skip the upload and we make a clean default from your app name.
Source: Android Developers — Support different pixel densities, checked 26 Aug 2026.
The APK is yours. Free builds carry a small Free App Maker splash screen; the one-time unlock that lets you download the signed APK also removes it, priced by country and always shown before checkout. Share the download link privately, with clients, or with a testing group — there is no store listing in the way.
Our APKs run on Android 5.0 (API 21). Distribution data compiled by apilevels.com from Statcounter GlobalStats puts that minimum within reach of about 99.8% of active Android devices, built from April 2026 figures. The renderer is not frozen at install time either: on Android 7, 8 and 9 WebView is built into Chrome, and from Android 10 it appears as its own separately updated app.
Sources: apilevels.com (API 21 cumulative reach, April 2026 data) and Chrome for Developers — WebView overview, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Everything you need to know about converting your Lovable app to an Android APK.
Sources: Lovable Docs — Publish and Lovable Docs — Custom domain, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Lovable Docs — Publish, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: Lovable Docs — Supabase and Lovable Docs — Security, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Lovable Docs — Publish, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Lovable Docs — FAQ, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Google Identity — OAuth 2.0 Policies, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Chrome for Developers — WebView overview, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: Lovable Docs — Publish and Lovable Docs — Custom domain, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: Android Developers — About Android App Bundles and Play Console Help — Open a developer account, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: apilevels.com and Chrome for Developers — WebView overview, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
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