Tools

Each tool leaves a different set of keys to find

The tools differ a good deal in where your data lives, who can take over, and how hard it is to leave. Here's what we found in each one's documentation and in published reporting.

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All of these are serious products, and they share one thing: every one says, in its own words, that your app’s security and access are your responsibility. These aren’t reviews of which tool is best. They’re what you should know if your business already depends on one.

The same question, “who holds the keys?”, has a different answer for each kind of tool.

Choose your tool

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Lovable

What Lovable says is your job, who holds the keys, and what you can check today.

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Replit

Why accounts can't be transferred, who's responsible for what, and what to check.

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Bolt

Why a personal plan means one owner, what a rollback won't restore, and what to check.

Cursor

The code may be on one laptop, with GitHub, hosting and the database all held separately.

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Base44

Why the account owner matters so much, what you can and can't take away, and what to check.

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v0

A v0 app is really a Vercel app, so one Owner may hold hosting, secrets and the database.

How they compare on ownership

This is what we found in each vendor’s public documentation on 6 November 2026. Products change quickly, and some answers depend on your plan, so check the current position on each tool’s page and at the source.

Tool	Can a second person take over?	If the owner has gone	Getting out
Lovable	Workspaces can have several owners, though the plan may affect how. One is the primary owner.	Only the primary owner can transfer it. We found no documented route if they’ve gone.	Code and data can both be exported, separately. Moving the backend is developer work.
Replit	A personal workspace has one admin. Core and Pro have a single account admin.	“Accounts can’t be transferred directly.” Contact support for a business handoff.	Standard code and PostgreSQL, but a manual job. Check that you’re backing up the right database.
Bolt	No Co-owner on a personal plan. Teams have more options.	We found nothing documented for an owner who has gone.	Code downloads easily. We found no documented full backup of a Bolt database.
Cursor	Depends on each account: GitHub, hosting and database. Cursor teams can have several admins.	Contact Cursor support for admin access. GitHub’s policy covers a death, not someone who has left.	Very open for code. Everything else depends on what the builder chose.
Base44	The Admin role needs an Enterprise plan. Each workspace has one owner.	Base44 says it won’t grant access against the creator’s will. Its terms let Wix decide or suspend.	No self-hosting. To leave, you’d rebuild the backend, and customers would sign up again.
v0	Vercel teams can have several Owners, and Vercel recommends two. Not on the free plan.	Transfers need an Owner. We found no documented process if they’ve gone.	Code exports. A one-click database can be harder to move.

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