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Nova vs Bolt

In-browser AI builder

Bolt builds and runs full-stack apps in the browser. Nova does too — and adds a self-healing review loop, custom domains, and a product that works in 7 languages out of the box.

Capability
Nova
Bolt

Prompt → live, deployed site

From one sentence to a public URL

Built, reviewed and deployed for you
Deploys to Netlify

No IDE or terminal needed

Build entirely from chat

Just describe it
In-browser editor

Full-stack — auth, database, payments

Not just the front-end

Nova Cloud database + Stripe + auth, wired in
Full-stack in browser

Multilingual UI + RTL

7 languages incl. Arabic & Urdu

Whole product, not just output
English UI

Built for global & emerging markets

Pricing and locales beyond the US

6 regions, low-cost by design
English-first

One-click custom domains

Your name, not a subdomain

Connect a domain in a click
Custom domains

Self-healing builds

Catches and fixes its own errors

Multi-agent review loop
Error prompts

Database set up for you

Provisions the database + writes your schema

Nova Cloud: a real Postgres database per project, created automatically — no signup, no keys, nothing to turn on
Supabase integration you connect yourself

Sign-in for your app's users

Your visitors get accounts, not just you

nova.auth.signUp / signIn built in — no second service to wire up
Via the Supabase integration you connect

Each user sees only their own data

Per-row isolation, not just per-table

Automatic: a table with a user_id column is private to its owner, enforced server-side — no policies to write
Supabase RLS, written by hand

Take your database with you

Leave without a migration project

Plain Postgres — export it or point your app elsewhere, any time
Your own Supabase account

Deploy to your OWN Vercel

Your account, your control — not ours

One click to your own Vercel account
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Connectors out of the box

Supabase, Stripe, GitHub, Vercel…

Working on first build
Some integrations

Builds AI agents & chatbots for you

LLM chatbots + task-doing, tool-using agents

Chatbots and task agents that call tools — API keys stay server-side, live once you add a key
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Edits your own local code

Open a folder on your machine, Nova edits it in place

Nova Desktop reads a local project and writes the changes back
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Native desktop app

Installable app, not just a browser tab

Mac + Windows (32 & 64-bit)
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Free to start

No card to try it

Free tier, ~1¢ per build after
Token-limited free

full  · partial  · not the product's focus

Why builders pick Nova

Finished, not just running

Nova ships a reviewed, deployed product — not an in-browser IDE you keep tinkering in.

Self-healing builds

A multi-agent loop catches and fixes errors before the build reaches you.

Works in 7 languages

The entire experience speaks 7 languages with RTL — built for the whole world.

What Bolt is great at

Bolt (by StackBlitz) is impressive engineering — a full dev environment running in your browser via WebContainers, with AI building full-stack apps you can preview instantly. For fast in-browser prototyping, it's great.

Where Nova is different

Nova is less about handing you an in-browser IDE and more about handing you a finished, deployed product. Every build runs through a multi-agent review loop that fixes its own errors, deploys to a live URL with a custom domain, and the whole experience — builder included — works in 7 languages with full right-to-left support and pricing made for emerging markets.

Nova

See it for yourself

Describe a site in a sentence and watch Nova plan, build, review and deploy it — live, in your language. No card required.