What happened

Replit shipped project imports from Lovable, Base44, and v0. After the import, Replit Agent can automatically build a mobile app and push it to the App Store. In parallel, Replit for iPhone/iPad got its first update in four months — Apple had review concerns to settle first.

If you built a prototype in Lovable and hit the ceiling, you no longer need to rewrite the whole thing in a new tool. Import, agent, store link.

Why this matters

For a long time, vibe-coding tools lived in closed gardens. Built in Bolt — stuck in Bolt. Built in v0 — stuck in v0. Want a mobile app? Rewrite from scratch.

This was a real pain point. The prototype came together, you showed it to friends, friends said "cool, ship it," and at that moment you realized that the path from prototype to App Store is three weeks of work. Most of that energy went into things it shouldn't have.

Replit breaks this wall from both ends at once: by accepting imports from other tools, and by automating store publishing. This is a new market shape — tools no longer compete over the whole chain. They compete over its parts.

What this means for you

You now have more degrees of freedom. Start on Lovable, where the UI assembles most beautifully. Move to v0 to nail down complex interactivity. Land in Replit for deployment and store publishing. Each step is optimized for its specific job.

This also kills one of the biggest fears for non-technical founders — "what if I picked the wrong tool." A wrong pick used to cost a month of rewriting. Now it costs one "Import" click.

But there is a catch. Migration freedom means tools will start competing on price and quality of each individual feature. Lock-in is going away — good for users, bad for the business models of the platforms themselves. One of them won't survive the next year.

What to do today

1. Take any prototype you built in Lovable, v0, or Base44 that got stuck in the "unfinished" stage.
2. Import it into Replit. A couple of clicks.
3. Give Replit Agent the task: "make it production-ready and prepare it for App Store publication."
4. See what it does. If the result works — keep going: TestFlight, Google Play, App Store Connect.
5. If it doesn't — iterate with text, not code.

The MVP that sat in a "someday" folder for three months could be in the store within a week. Don't miss this moment.