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Which AI prototyping tool should I pick: v0, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, or Figma Make?

They overlap heavily but have clear sweet spots: Lovable for a polished first version a non-coder can ship, v0 when the result has to become a codebase a developer takes over, Bolt for quick experiments on a generous free allowance, Replit when the app needs a real backend and you want building, hosting and fixing in one place, Figma Make when you live in Figma, and Google AI Studio's Build mode to try an app with Gemini built in for free. Switching costs at prototype stage are near zero, so run the same idea through two tools for an hour each and keep whichever got further. India has credible homegrown options too, in Emergent and Rocket.new.

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