Shortlist · Rocket.new alternatives
Rocket.new bundles three jobs: building apps, research reports and tracking other companies’ pages. To sell from a web app, DoAny Free and Lovable Free cost $0 a year; Rocket Pro costs $240 billed yearly, before any Supabase bill.
Fee calculator
Pick the part of Rocket you want to replace. Each option that does it is priced on its cheapest plan for that job.
To sell from a web app, DoAny Free and Lovable Free tie for the lowest cost: $0 each over 12 months. DoAny’s checkout is built in; Lovable Free sells through a Stripe account you connect yourself. Rocket Pro costs $240 billed yearly, before any Supabase bill.
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| What you pay | DoAny Free | Lovable Free | Emergent Standard | Replit Core | Rocket Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan for this job | Free, $0 | Free, $0 | Standard, $204 a year | Core, $216 a year | Pro, $240 a year |
| Why this plan | Takes real card payments | Connect your own Stripe account | Free is for non-commercial use | Stripe needs Core; free apps stop after 30 days | Production needs a custom domain, on Pro |
| Running costs to add | None: hosting and backend included | Cloud draws on credits after a 20-credit monthly grant | 50 credits a month per deployed app | Publishing billed as usage past Core’s allowances | Your Supabase project: free tier, or from $25 a month |
| Plan, 12 months | $0 | $0 | $204 | $216 | $240 |
Prices and fees checked September 25, 2026; Emergent’s help pages October 9, 2026
Sources, checked September 25, 2026; Emergent’s help pages October 9, 2026
The documented reasons
Each of these comes from Rocket’s own pricing page, docs or Terms.
A Rocket app’s data lives in Supabase, the hosted database and login service Rocket apps run on, in a project you connect and own; payments run on Stripe keys you paste in, and Supabase Pro costs from $25 a month once you outgrow its free tier.
The App Store route is a paid code download, then Xcode on a Mac (Apple’s Mac-only build tool) and a $99-a-year Apple account, and Rocket’s Rocket FAQ says IPA download, the app file the App Store accepts, is “coming soon”.
All unused subscription and purchased credits expire at the end of the billing cycle, though every pricing card says “Credits never expire”.
Free is 20 one-time credits, and Free Build tasks are always public and may be used to improve Rocket’s AI.
Rocket’s docs read “We’re temporarily pausing new Intelligence sessions” (checked September 25, 2026).
Rocket is moving apps off builtwithrocket.new. The old link stops working in about 7 days, and relaunching gives you a new link to share again.
On Rocket’s Trustpilot page (checked September 25, 2026), a common complaint in low-star reviews is credits running out fast, while many reviewers praise fast support. Self-selected reviews, not our test results. Rocket’s own wording on credits, free projects, Intelligence and old links is quoted in the DoAny vs Rocket.new fine print.
Start here
Exact entry prices, with Rocket as the baseline. “Replaces” names the part of Rocket each one stands in for; “Best for” is our fit judgment from each product’s published scope, not a score.
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| Product | Entry price | Replaces | Best for | Key limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DoAny (ours) | DoAny $0 Free (5 credits a day, up to 30 a month); Pro $25 a month (100 credits plus 5 a day). Free can go live and take real card payments | Build, plus the work after launch | Non-technical founders who want a web business with checkout, hosting included | Web only; no visual editor; checkout on the sites it builds is Stripe only |
| Lovable | Lovable $0 Free (5 credits a day, up to 30 a month); Pro $25 a month (100 credits plus 5 a day) | Build, for web apps | A web app with the backend built in | Can’t import your Rocket code |
| Emergent | Emergent $0 Free (10 credits a month; no store builds); Standard $20 a month (100 credits) | Build, for phone apps | iPhone and Android apps without Xcode | Each published app uses 50 credits a month or more |
| Replit | Core $20 a month ($18 billed yearly) | Build, keeping your code | Continuing your Rocket code in a full dev workspace | A developer’s tool: you maintain the code |
| Visualping | Visualping $0 Free (150 checks, 5 pages); Personal from $14 a month; 10,000 checks across 40 pages is $70 a month or $600 a year | Intelligence, in part | Alerts when another company’s page changes | Watches pages you pick; no research or building |
| Rocket.new (baseline) | Free (20 one-time credits); Pro $25 ($20 yearly), Rocket $50 ($40), Booster $250 ($200) | Build, Solve and Intelligence | Flutter apps, research reports, developer handoff | Own Supabase backend; credits expire on cancel |
Worked example
Arithmetic on published prices for one year on each builder’s cheapest paid plan, plus DoAny Free, which can already take real card payments. Visualping does a different job, so it isn’t here. Credits aren’t equal units across products, so compare the running costs in the last column.
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| Product | Plan | 12 months, billed monthly | 12 months, billed yearly | Running costs to add |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DoAny Free | Free: 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month; can go live and take real card payments | 12 × $0 = $0 | $0 | None for hosting and backend; your own domain needs Pro |
| DoAny Pro | Pro: 100 credits a month plus 5 a day | $300 | No annual plan | None for hosting and backend; AI features your customers use draw on credits |
| Lovable | Pro: 100 credits a month plus 5 a day | $300 | $250 | Cloud hosting draws on credits after a 20-credit monthly grant |
| Emergent | Standard: 100 credits a month | $240 | $204 | 50 credits a month per published app on Starter |
| Replit | Core: $20 a month toward its most powerful AI models | $240 | $216 | Publishing is metered (data transfer, compute, requests); usage past Core’s monthly allowances is billed |
| Rocket.new | Pro: 100 credits a month | $300 | $240 | Supabase: free tier, or from $25 a month on Pro |
How much less Emergent Standard billed yearly ($204) costs than a year of DoAny Pro ($300), on subscription price alone: DoAny Pro isn’t the cheapest paid plan here. Buy back the 50 credits one live app uses each month and Emergent comes to $324 a year (see DoAny vs Emergent).
Credits an Emergent Standard plan spends each month to keep one app deployed, leaving 50 for building.
What DoAny charges to keep your site, database, files and functions online. Hosting never uses credits, so the site stays up at zero, and nothing recharges automatically.
You don’t need a paid plan to sell on DoAny. On Free you press Go live, complete Stripe’s verification and take real card payments, with 0% of your sales (Stripe’s fees apply): 12 × $0 = $0 a year, if 30 credits a month covers your work. Pro, 12 × $25 = $300, is for your own domain or more credits. Among the others:
One by one
DoAny is listed first because it is ours, and it gets the same format as the rest: who it suits, what to watch out for, the exact price and how you’d move from Rocket.
Best for: non-technical founders who want a working web business, not just an app.
Watch out for: web only, no native apps. The checkout on the sites DoAny builds is Stripe only at the moment, with no coupons or free trials. Those sites can’t connect an existing Stripe account yet. No visual editor and no one-click rollback. Monthly credits don’t roll over and there is no annual plan.
Price: Free is $0 with no card: 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month, shared by unlimited companies with no per-company fee, and it can go live and take real card payments. Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 monthly credits plus 5 a day, with unlimited team members and no per-seat fee, and adds custom domains. Top-ups (Pro only) cost $15 per 50 credits and last 12 months.
Moving from Rocket: bring the code you download from Rocket and the Supabase tables you export; DoAny imports them, so you don’t start over. Customer logins don’t move across by themselves, and Go live opens a new Stripe Express account for your business, because the sites DoAny builds can’t connect an existing one yet. The DoAny vs Rocket.new page has the side-by-side, a 12-month cost example and the switching steps, and the guide to building without code shows the product side.
Best for: founders who want Rocket’s kind of app builder without the separate backend. Lovable Cloud gives a database, sign-in, storage and functions “without needing to set up Supabase separately”. Pro adds custom domains, and GitHub sync runs both ways.
Watch out for:
Price: Free with 5 build credits a day (up to 30 a month). Pro is $25 a month for 100 credits plus 5 a day, or $250 a year, and unused credits roll over for 1 month on monthly plans.
Moving from Rocket: rebuild from a description of the product. The Lovable alternatives page covers it in depth.
Best for: iOS and Android apps built with Expo, the toolkit for iPhone and Android apps. Store builds run on Expo’s cloud service, with “no Xcode or Android Studio required on your machine”.
Watch out for:
Price: Free with 10 credits a month and no store builds. Standard is $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, for 100 credits; Pro is $200 for 750 (Emergent pricing).
Moving from Rocket: Emergent builds with Expo, not Flutter, so plan to rebuild the app rather than move the code. See DoAny vs Emergent for how it compares with DoAny.
Best for: someone who will keep developing the code Rocket wrote, in a full workspace with an AI agent. Replit imports public and private GitHub repositories and ZIP files, and its Launch feature builds, signs and uploads Expo apps to App Store Connect.
Watch out for: it is a developer’s tool. You, or a developer, maintain the code, backend and deploys, and Launch is built around Expo, not Rocket’s Flutter. Publishing and production databases are billed as usage once Core’s monthly allowances run out.
Price: Core is $20 a month, or $18 billed yearly, and includes $20 a month toward its most powerful AI models. Pro is $100 a month, or $90 billed yearly (Replit pricing).
Moving from Rocket: on Rocket Pro, push to GitHub or download the zip, then import it. Your Supabase project lives in your own account, not Rocket’s.
Best for: an alert when another company’s pricing, features or other pages change, which covers part of what Rocket Intelligence does.
Watch out for: it watches the pages you pick; it doesn’t research a market, rank signals across sources or build anything. AI change summaries, webhooks and the API come on every plan; Slack, Teams and Google Sheets alerts, upgraded AI analysis and advanced reports are Business-only.
Price: Free covers 5 pages and 150 checks a month. Personal starts at $14 a month for 1,000 checks across 10 pages; Personal 10K is $70 a month, or $600 a year, for 10,000 checks across 40 pages. Business starts at $140 a month, or $1,200 a year, for 20,000 checks, 200 pages and 5 users, with a 14-day trial and no card.
Moving from Rocket: nothing to migrate; list the pages you were tracking and add them one by one.
Only used Rocket for research? Light Solve is on every Rocket plan, Free included, and can return a PDF, PPT, HTML page or a PRD, a product requirements document; Full Solve (about 45 minutes, 150+ sources) is on the $50 Rocket plan. You may not need to leave at all.
Decision rules
Start from the part of Rocket that stopped working for you, then read across.
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| If you need | Pick | Because |
|---|---|---|
| A web business with checkout, without touching a backend | DoAny | Checkout, accounts and hosting built in; 0% of sales, as on Rocket (Stripe’s fees apply) |
| Someone to keep working after launch | DoAny | Daily posting, outreach, CRM and customer answers, with the big calls waiting for your approval |
| A web app with a built-in backend, marketing handled yourself | Lovable | Lovable Cloud includes database, sign-in, storage and functions without a Supabase account; Pro is $25 |
| iPhone and Android apps without a Mac | Emergent | Expo cloud builds with no Xcode; Replit’s Launch if you’ll maintain Expo code yourself |
| To keep your Rocket code and keep developing it | Replit | Imports GitHub repositories and ZIP files into a full workspace |
| Alerts when another company changes a page | Visualping | Page-change alerts, free for 5 pages, paid from $14 a month; Intelligence is paused |
| Flutter apps, Full Solve reports or two-way GitHub pull requests | Stay on Rocket | Rocket documents all three; see below |
Credit where it’s due
Stay on Rocket if one of these is your main need.
Privacy on Free. Free projects are public, and the Rocket Terms let Rocket train on free users’ apps. Upgrade before you build an idea you haven’t announced.
Your Supabase tier. Its free tier allows 2 active projects and pauses a project after a week of inactivity; Pro is from $25 a month.
Old links. Replace any builtwithrocket.new link you’ve shared, printed or put in a QR code.
Switching
The same steps apply whichever alternative you choose. Do them in order, before you cancel.
Keep Rocket running until the replacement works. Rocket’s Rocket help FAQ says projects stay accessible after you cancel, but the Rocket Terms say that after termination you have no further access to your content. Don’t rely on the gentler reading.
On Pro, the Code tab downloads a zip in a web browser, not the mobile app. The zip is a snapshot and doesn’t update with later changes, so download it last.
GitHub push also needs Pro. Flutter and JavaScript-only projects are push-only, so press Push after your final change in Rocket.
Solve reports export as PDF, PPT, HTML or a PRD. Save any you’ll want later before the account closes.
Your Supabase project and Stripe account are yours and stay where they are. If the new builder runs its own database, export the tables you need first, because customer logins and records don’t move across by themselves. Point your domain’s DNS at the new host and remove Rocket’s Vercel records.
Every credit, purchased add-ons included, expires when the cycle ends, and the Rocket Terms make fees non-refundable. Use what you’ve paid for, then cancel.
Moving to DoAny specifically? The DoAny vs Rocket.new page covers importing your code and data, the payments go-live and the exact DNS records to replace.
Questions founders ask
For a non-technical founder who wants a web business with checkout and help after launch: DoAny (ours; its $0 Free plan can take real card payments, and Pro is $25 a month). For a web app with a built-in backend: Lovable (Pro $25 a month). For iPhone and Android apps without a Mac: Emergent (Standard $20 a month). To keep developing Rocket’s code: Replit (Core $20 a month). For page-change alerts: Visualping (free for 5 pages, paid from $14 a month).
Emergent builds iOS and Android apps with Expo and runs store builds in its own cloud from the Publish panel, so its docs say no Mac, Xcode or Android Studio is needed; store builds need a paid plan from $20 a month. Replit’s Launch feature builds, signs and uploads Expo apps to App Store Connect. On Rocket, the App Store release means Xcode on a Mac. DoAny makes web apps only.
Only from a paid plan: Rocket’s code download and GitHub push both need Pro. Replit imports GitHub repositories and ZIP files, so it can take your Rocket code as it is. Lovable can’t import a repository, so moving there means a rebuild. DoAny imports your exported code and database records, so you don’t start over. Your Supabase project and Stripe account stay yours, but DoAny runs its own database and opens a new Stripe account, so export your tables first; customer logins don’t transfer automatically.
For watching specific pages, Visualping. Its Free plan covers 5 pages; Personal starts at $14 a month, and 40 pages with 10,000 checks costs $70 a month or $600 a year. It alerts you when a page changes; it doesn’t research a market or build anything. Rocket’s docs said new Intelligence sessions were paused when we checked on September 25, 2026, and its plan guide puts “competitive intelligence” on the $50 Rocket plan and above.
To sell, DoAny starts at $0: its Free plan can go live and take real card payments, with 0% of your sales (Stripe’s fees apply). Emergent’s Free plan is for personal, non-commercial use only, and Lovable’s built-in payments need a paid plan. Among paid plans, Emergent Standard and Replit Core are $20 a month; DoAny Pro, Lovable Pro and Rocket Pro are $25. Yearly billing lowers every price but DoAny’s; see the 12-month table for totals and running costs.
Yes. DoAny Free gives 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month, with no card, can take real card payments once you go live with Stripe, and isn’t used to train AI models. Lovable Free gives 5 credits a day too, but may train on them unless you opt out, and its built-in payments need a paid plan. Emergent Free gives 10 credits a month, without the Mobile Agent, for personal, non-commercial use only. Visualping Free watches 5 pages.
Source record
We build DoAny, so its entry is first-hand. Every other product is described from its own pricing page, docs and terms; we did not buy paid plans or run the same task on each. The Trustpilot figures are a third-party signal, dated and attributed, not our test results.
Prices are in US dollars, exclude tax and payment processing, and were checked on September 25, 2026. The 12-month table is arithmetic on published prices, not a measured bill.
The cards say “Credits never expire”; Rocket’s credits guide expires credits on cancellation and resets yearly balances at renewal.
Showed the notice pausing new Intelligence sessions when checked.
Self-selected reviewers; Trustpilot notes Rocket hasn’t replied to negative reviews.
Training on Free and Pro content began September 9, 2026; Business and Enterprise data is excluded by default.
The yearly price appears under the page’s annual toggle.
Says each publishing tier is a fixed monthly credit fee and that your data isn’t used to train AI models.
Says Starter’s one free published app goes down after 30 days and that Stripe and other connectors need Core.
Monthly prices from the page’s plan table; the default view shows annual-billed prices ($50 a month for Personal 10K means $600 a year).
Put the evidence to work
Build your first version on the Free plan: 5 credits a day, no card. It goes live on its own address the same day, you can test checkout with Stripe test cards while Rocket keeps running, and taking real payments doesn’t need an upgrade. Compare the two in DoAny vs Rocket.new or browse every comparison.