The 8 best vibe coding tools in 2025 | Zapier TechTricks365

Decades ago, building the Facebooks and Twitters was reserved for a small elite. Those who speak in functions, methods, who know what lint and boilerplate are. People into obscure memes, who love to watch sorting algorithms compete against each other on TikTok.

No-code was the first opening of that group to mere mortals like us. But now the gate is wide open: vibe coding tools, as coined by Andrej Karpathy, are here to make you forget the code even exists. If it works, who cares how it’s written?

So, which ones are worth your time, money, and vibes? I kept about 15 browser tabs open to vibe code all kinds of stuff to answer that question. Based on all my testing, here are the vibe coding apps that’ll make you feel superpowered—understanding of niche memes not included.

The best vibe coding tools

• Lovable for ease of use

• Bolt for flexibility

• Cursor for debugging vibed code

• v0 for a clear view of the building process

• Tempo Labs for free error fixing

• Replit for planning before building

• Base44 for easy security controls

• Memex for vibe coding everything

What makes the best AI vibe coding tool?

Before this category came into shape, we had a loosely formed category named AI app builders. Most of the platforms already had app building features, adding AI technology to design a data schema, put together a user interface, or write data display functions for you.

We also had on that list the first wave of code-generation and rendering tools—an early set of vibe coding apps. You’d start with a prompt, and you’d see the platform generating the code in real-time, rendering it on the screen. The editor windows were pretty basic, and you could only design simple apps with minimal functionality.

There were two major changes since then. Model intelligence exploded, with reasoning models joining the scene. On top of that, thanks to AI agents, orchestration tools have been improving massively—this is the software that gives LLMs the capacity to run actions and keep and update knowledge bases, adding more autonomy and support for more complex tasks.

Thanks to this, the best AI vibe coding tool will take a prompt and transform it into a good app first draft, generating the user interface and basic functionality. It also includes all the core tools for editing with prompts, offering a way to publish it on the web easily.

Testing criteria

Beyond those general aspects, here are the criteria I used while testing:

• End-to-end app generation. These vibe coding apps can get you from a prompt to a published app without requiring moving them to another platform. (Cursor is an exception, but I’ll explain why once you get there.)

• Driven by natural language, not code. English is the programming language. You don’t need to code if you don’t want to.

• Minimal programming skills required. It’s definitely helpful if you have some programming experience, but it won’t tank you if you don’t.

• Guardrails. I made sure each vibe coding tool on this list had guardrails for basic security features, like including tight user authentication.

• Not dev-grade. There are plenty of coding autocompletes and copilots out there. I decided to consider only the most accessible to beginners and non-technical people.

Over the past two weeks, I vibe coded project management, eCommerce, and game apps, spacing my development cycles due to the daily prompt limitations.

What about autonomous AI engineers, IDE add-ons, and agentic coding tools?

Some popular AI technologies for coding didn’t make it into this list. They fall into a set of categories that make them too developer-grade, focusing on tasks they have to perform every day for work. They have highly technical language and focus on workflows that software engineering teams follow to write code that’s clean, performant, and secure.

There are no widespread official category names, so I took the initiative to break them down:

• Autonomous AI engineers, like Devin by Cognition, focus on replacing a junior human software engineer. This platform’s objective is to learn the codebase (the repository of the entire code of a company or a product), and iteratively develop features, write code, and fix bugs.

• Integrated Development Environment (IDE) add-ons, also known as AI pair programmers, such as Windsurf, extend the functionality of the apps developers use for writing code, adding chat tabs to ask questions about code, or autocomplete functionality where you start writing and then just tab tab tab your way to a first version.

• Agentic coding tools, such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, are mainly served via API or in a command-line interface. You can wire them into your internal systems to run development actions to write, check, and optimize code. Again, these assume you have a codebase, a lot of engineering experience, and extreme savviness using computers.

All the tools on this list are a great match for non-developers and beginners. You’ll have to pick up some technical skills along the way, sure. But you won’t get overwhelmed with technical lingo that’ll block you from progressing.

The best vibe coding tools at a glance

Best vibe coding tool for ease of use

Lovable

Lovable pros:

Lovable cons:

Ready to build a minimum loveable product? To have a loyal early user base as you expand a small app to a massive platform? Vibe it with Lovable. It sits at the top of the list not because it does one thing extremely well, but rather because it’s the most balanced in all aspects in my testing experience.

The starting design is generally smooth, the functionality works well, and the early stage of the building journey doesn’t have glaring bugs or issues. After you send your first prompt, the AI engine sketches out what’s going to implement before it writes the code. As you move forward and prompt more, it explains what it’s doing and how it implemented things, which gives a good feeling of control.

Even if you have no programming knowledge, it’s important to understand the difference between frontend (the app running on your users’ devices, mostly actions tied to the user interface) and the backend (server-side logic, databases, and web services). Lovable takes care of the design of the frontend and integrates with Supabase, a backend tool, to handle user authentication and data storage. This gives you decent control over both sides of your app, exposing all the tools you need to make it performant and secure.

Beyond integrating with Supabase, it also integrates with GitHub, a popular version control cloud software used by developers around the world. This is useful for exporting a codebase that’s working before you make major changes. This also opens a combo with Cursor, which is the best path to making sure your app is ready to publish. But before talking about that, let’s take a look at another great contender.

Lovable price: Free plan available with 30 monthly credits, with a maximum usage of 5/day. Paid plans from $25/month, with 100 credits included.

Best vibe coding tool for flexibility

Bolt

Bolt pros:

Bolt cons:

Bolt shares the throne with Lovable. The user experience is similar, and it’s also a great choice if this is your first rodeo. Really, you’ll probably want to use both as you learn how to vibe code, so you can rotate the daily token limits and get more action. Bolt’s range of integrations makes it more flexible than Lovable.

Complete the onboarding questionnaire for an extra 1M tokens: sounds like a lot, but they’ll fly relatively fast. When writing prompt zero, you don’t have to be too thoughtful: look to the prompt enhancement button on the input field to turn your first thoughts into a decent-looking set of product requirements. Hit send, and be ready to wait. In fact, be sure to have something to multitask with for every vibe coding tool—the wait is real.

You’ll notice that Bolt sounds a bit more technical. It installs dependencies, gives you a breakdown of files it creates one by one, and when it runs into errors, it automatically detects them and offers to start debugging them for you. It has a terminal you can run commands on (access it on the Code tab at the top of the screen).

There’s another golden feature hidden here in the Code tab. Once you familiarize yourself with the file structure of your app, use these controls:

• Target file makes your prompts modify one or many selected files.

• Lock file prevents AI from making changes to it. I highly advise you to remember to lock files as you find functionality that works really well.

If you already have a design in Figma, Bolt can start from there. Beyond that, it integrates with Supabase for backend, GitHub for version control (you can use the Cursor workflow for advanced customization/debug too), and Stripe for easy payments integration—this is really good, you don’t want AI to hallucinate your payment flows.

Bolt price: Free plan includes 1M tokens/month, limited to 150k daily usage. Paid plans from $20/month, with 10M tokens/month. Each prompt you send is about 25k tokens.

Best vibe coding platform for debugging vibed code

Cursor

Cursor pros:

Cursor cons:

All vibe coding tools try to make you forget the code. Cursor is when you remember that it’s actually there. Originally designed for developers, it’s an AI-powered IDE (code-writing app). Many people who use Lovable and Bolt then sync their code into GitHub, open it in Cursor, fix or customize, and then sync it back.

I synced the eShop I vibe coded in Lovable and opened it on Cursor. I started by asking the agent how to improve the app. It read all the files on the codebase to understand what to do, then it gave me a highly detailed breakdown of everything I could improve. The advice covers everything: performance optimization, user experience, accessibility, security, and even code quality, among too many others to mention.

I asked to add one of the suggested features, a price range filtering component. The agent immediately got to work: it identified which files it had to work on, briefly outlining the changes. You can see it generate code in real time, as well as a breakdown of how many lines of code were added, edited, or removed. Once the work is done, you can reject these changes or accept them on top of the chat input field.

There’s no preview of the app as you edit it. In typical dev fashion, you have to run a local server on your machine and visit it with your browser. In Cursor’s chat window, click the Agent dropdown and change it to Ask mode. Ask how to preview your app: it’ll give you the accurate, step-by-step way to get it done.

What I love about using Cursor is that every roadblock you hit is a learning opportunity. In the past, I’d be hopelessly lost and wouldn’t find a solution. Today, AI can guide you and explain as it goes—a really fun way to gain some real technical skills as you vibe.

Cursor price: Free plan includes a 2-week pro trial, 200 completions, and 50 requests/month. Paid plans from $20/month for unlimited completions and 500 requests/month.

Best vibe coding tool for a clear view of the building process

v0 by Vercel

v0 pros:

v0 cons:

v0 by Vercel has the most technical vibe of all apps on this list. And that’s good: where others will hide the code as much as possible, this app will give useful breakdowns on features it’s building and code it’s writing.

After you enter prompt zero, it’ll list all the pages with all the features of each page, followed by the technologies it’ll use to implement that. When you ask to spin up a database, it actually shows you the SQL, useful so you can check which fields it added and data types. And every coding action has this “code scrolling in the dark” animation that looks super cool.

The very first version already includes functioning search and filters. Despite the vibe, it’s super easy to ask for new features and see them implemented. What isn’t easy are the credit limits: they’re a bit restrictive, so if you love v0 like I do, it’s best to upgrade your plan soon.

I don’t know why, but v0 is the most addictive of the list. It might be the editor’s user experience: how the chat structure matches my needs for understanding what’s going on behind the scenes at a big-picture level. After all, if you don’t know the kind of functionality it’s building, how can you strategize your prompts to make the right changes?

After you finish vibe coding, your app deploys to Vercel, a trusted infrastructure, so you’ll be in good hands. Just make sure to familiarize yourself with the very powerful deployment dashboard.

v0 price: Free plan includes $5 of credit usage. Paid plans from $20/month offers the equal amount of credits and unlocks unlimited projects.

Best vibe coding tool for free error fixing

Tempo Labs

Tempo Labs pros:

• Good range of integrations with Supabase, Figma, and VS Studio Code

• Generates a design system for you

Tempo Labs cons:

I recently met someone who told me “vibe coding is magic when it works, maddening when it doesn’t.” The madness compounds when you try to word your prompts perfectly and watch your credits evaporate as the bug remains unfixed—or worse, everything breaks. Tempo Labs is generous: no token consumption for fixing errors.

The platform focuses more on the product and user experience design. When you start with your prompt zero, you’ll notice that Tempo Labs creates something like a Figma board: all the screens of your app with arrows displaying the navigation flows that the users will follow to interact with it. This is super useful because an app isn’t just a technical thing; it needs to solve a pain point easily and beautifully, and it can’t do that if the user interface/experience is a mess.

There are three main tabs in the editor window:

• PRD, short for product requirement document, is where all the details about your app live. It contains an overview of core features, the user flow in a diagram, and context where you can upload visual references that the AI should focus on.

• Design is where you can interact with each screen. What’s great about this is that you can click each visual element and edit its layout and visuals in the same way you would in a design app, adjusting position, classes, or spacing.

• Code is where all your code lives, including a terminal to keep track of system updates and to run commands if needed.

Tempo Labs acts as a great bridge between product and implementation, with a good range of integrations to turn a design into a functional app. And if you want human-powered AI development, Tempo’s team is available for $4,000 per month, ready to roll out 1 to 3 features per week with up to 72-hour turnaround time. Vibing is fun if you’re a beginner, but vibing with pro humans is still much, much more powerful.

Tempo Labs price: Free plan includes 30 prompts/month, 5 daily maximum, with error fixes not counting towards these limits. Paid plans from $30/month with 150 prompts, full access to code, and reasoning agents.

Best vibe coding tool for planning before building

Replit

Replit pros:

Replit cons:

Replit is already loved by many as a web-based coding platform. Instead of using VS Code on your computer and having to sync your code to the cloud every time you want to take it into another machine, just use Replit to always have access to the latest version of whatever you’re building. And now, with its AI Agent, you can plan, execute, and customize with vibes only.

When starting a new project, you don’t jump straight into the traditional chat window and preview screen combo. Instead, Replit AI Agent asks core questions to understand what type of app you’re building, to make sure it uses the appropriate development strategies.

When you actually start building, you get to the familiar screen with the chat and the preview screen. But since Replit is already an established code platform, there are a lot of useful extras. It has the deepest database controls on this list, letting you control your schema manually after it’s generated. You can choose how to bring your app live with the most varied set of options on the list: as a reserved virtual machine, a static HTML page, or an autoscale instance for dynamic demand matching.

The agent is accurate most of the time, but in some instances it runs into trouble. When you point out something that wasn’t implemented yet, it writes the code and asks you to test your app live—click the buttons and see what happens, for example—so the agent can see if the changes were made. At least twice it said it edited the code and that everything was working when, in fact, it wasn’t.

This isn’t a complete dealbreaker, just a bump in the road. Replit AI Agent still deserves its spot on this list due to the advanced tools it has, which you can inspect by opening new tabs on the preview window. Among many options, you’ll see screens to handle user authentication, external integrations, and even a security scanner to check for app vulnerabilities.

Replit AI Agent price: Free plan includes 10 checkpoints and basic AI features. Paid plans from $25/month unlock all advanced AI features.

Best vibe coding tool for easy security controls

Base44

Base44 pros:

Base44 cons:

Tom Blomfield launched Recipe Ninja, an app he vibe coded in 20 hours. He was pretty happy to see that a few hundred users had generated about 1,000 recipes. But the next day, he woke up to a $700 OpenAI token bill. Someone had exploited the app to generate the same recipe over 12,000 times. Base44 isn’t a fortress that will completely prevent events like these, but it includes basic, easy-to-use security controls to prevent common exploits.

Out of all apps on this list, it was the only one that fully implemented the basics of an eCommerce store from prompt zero: pages with data displays, filters and search that actually worked, and an interactive cart that I could fill and empty at will. A zero-shot miracle.

The interface is simple to navigate. One unique aspect is the mobile view, where you can click to see how the app would look on a smartphone—although I didn’t see any way to publish it to any of the app stores. I like that each of my prompts in the chat has a button to revert, making it easy to backtrack if the AI didn’t vibe with my command.

At the top of the screen, click Workspace to see the settings. The range of options here is good to make your app more secure. You can set visibility, choosing if the app is private or public; manage the user list (passwords aren’t exposed here); and when you click Security, you can set custom rules for each data type, so you can show or hide based on custom rules. Please do set them up, otherwise your app will send almost all of its data down to each user’s computer, and anyone with basic dev skills can read everything in the browser tools.

Overall, Base44 is pretty solid. It lacks the advanced tooling of other platforms, integrations, and advanced features, but it’s simple, interprets your instructions well, and might be another vibe coding tool to include in your rotation as you learn—or as you wait for your daily credits in others to reset.

Base44 price: Free plan includes 25 credits/month, with a 6 daily limit. Paid plans from $20/month unlock 100 monthly messages, code editing, and 2k integration credits.

Best vibe coding tool to vibe code everything

Memex

Memex pros:

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Most people want to build either a web app or a mobile app. But what if you want to vibe code an API, a machine learning project, or a 3D application? That’s when you pull Memex out of the magic hat and cross your fingers.

Memex runs on your machine. It will create virtual environments as a base for your vibed creations, storing everything in files inside your computer. It installs all dependencies to make everything run as it should. It creates directories and runs Windows PowerShell commands automatically, preparing everything for the building process.

I started vibing a 2D Python game with a car on the road, where you have to dodge oncoming rectangles. A few minutes later, I was playing it and discovering the controls didn’t work. After some pleading, Memex made the car move better than expected, with a really nice turn rate and actual acceleration, not just jumping from speed = 0 to speed = 60 instantly, giving this a nice touch.

It’s exciting to have absolutely no limits as to what you can create. The editor window is super simple and Memex’s AI engine handles pretty much everything about the building process. But if this is your first rodeo building apps on top of your operating system, this may not be the best starting option: your antivirus will be angry at the powerful changes that the platform has to make, flagging files for suspicious behavior. Black PowerShell windows will occasionally pop up as libraries install in your development environment. And it’s a bit unclear what kinds of interactions this could have with other Windows services or apps that you use.

Still, if you’re the kind of builder who loves to bring a naked flame close to a powder keg—not because you’re reckless, but to see how you can harness real power—Memex will be a joy to use. It has an open sky feeling that I am still coming back to every once in a while to wonder if it can do that niche idea. If it gets weird, run it inside a virtual machine to be safe.

Memex price: Free plan includes 250 credits/month. Paid plans from $10/month for 1,000 credits.

Tips for picking the best vibe coding tool

Here’s my shortlist of tips for finding the right tool to use—and making the most of it:

• Sign up for a bunch of the apps above.

• Send the same prompt to three to five different apps (thank you, free plans!).

• Wait. These apps do a lot of thinking.

• See the results. Test stuff out. Try to break it.

• Prompt the changes you’d like to make in every app.

• Rotate to see which works better for you. When you find the one, lose your love for your savings and invest a couple dozen bucks in extra credits and see how far you can go. 

• If you build something that’s ready to launch, read up on security, especially user authentication, sensitive data storage, storing API keys, rate limiting, and protecting privileged pages in your app.

• Use Cursor for understanding and fixing your code.

Additionally, be sure to check out these vibe coding best practices: this will save you a lot of time if you’re serious about vibing an app out to the market.

What’s next for vibe coding tools?

I attended a visual development and AI conference in London last May. Among other moments, one that stuck with me was the presentation of Sutro, a vibe coding tool that’s going to be released soon. (How soon? As the founder says, it depends on how much coffee he drinks.)

Before that moment, I thought vibe coding was just a fun thing to create the first draft of an app, but that you’d still have to know code and software development workflows to make it work—really work, with security, payments, and not racking up thousands in AWS invoices. But after seeing Tomas Halgas’ framework for thinking about vibe coding, these tools can actually take off to become an entirely new category of visual development.

Here’s his thought process:

• Building software is about adding layers and layers of code and functionality that progressively enable product features.

• No-code (now slowly rebranding as visual development) turns these layers into customizable blocks, so you can still implement the functionality but with a lot less time and skill requirement.

• Vibe coding today is still a bit of a mess: it adds layers, removes them, bugs them out. Sometimes everything is working, then you send a prompt, and you’re back in the token burn hell.

The future could be a combination of both code and no-code approaches: isolating the parts that make an entire app and vibe code within them, with safe connections between these modules. This approach is more contained, less risky, and easier to test: if an API you vibe coded isn’t working as it should, take it out and replace it. Changing it with prompts won’t break your beautiful landing page.

So, no, it’s not a fad. Hold on to your hats, and keep practicing. Don’t worry, engineers aren’t going anywhere: vibe code and production-ready code are two very different things. But now we can join the party too, at least. Let’s keep vibing.

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