Turn your Lovable, Claude or Bolt web app into a real native mobile app

Path A · 8–12 weeks

Web app with a working backend, database and APIs

You built a real web product on Lovable, Claude, Bolt, v0 or AI Studio. There's a Supabase / Firebase / Postgres / MySQL database, an auth layer, API endpoints that already serve the web app, and probably a billing integration. We reuse all of it.

• Same database, same APIs, same auth — no duplication
• Shared types, validation schemas and API client across web and native
• React Native picks up business logic from the React web app cleanly
• Light backend hardening: rate limits, RLS audit, mobile-specific endpoints

Path B · 12–18 weeks

Web app is UI-only — backend, database and APIs don't exist yet

The vibe-coded version got you a beautiful frontend and a clear product idea — but the data lives in fake state, the login is fake, and the payments never went live. We take the UI as the product reference and build the backend, the database and the API surface properly, then build the native app on top.

• Data model, schema and migrations designed from scratch — not retrofitted
• Production API in Node, Supabase or Laravel — shared by web and native
• Auth, billing, file uploads, search and notifications wired up properly
• Web frontend wired into the real backend in parallel with the native build

React Native — default for AI-built web apps

Same language as your existing React web app, same component model, same type definitions. The validation schemas, the API client and a meaningful chunk of business logic move across the boundary without rewriting. Expo's bare workflow gives us EAS for builds and OTA plus full access to native modules when we need them.

Flutter — when the case for Dart is real

Flutter wins when you already have Dart expertise, when pixel-identical rendering across platforms is a hard requirement, or when the design language depends on highly custom canvas-style UI. We've shipped Flutter when it was the right call. Most AI-built web products are not in that category — React Native carries more of the work across.

Shared backend — the same API for web and native

Both clients hit the same endpoints. The mobile app does not get its own duplicate API surface that drifts from the web one over six months. We add mobile-specific endpoints only where the payload genuinely needs to differ (lighter list responses, push token registration, app-version gates).

Auth, billing and storage — reused as-is

Supabase Auth, Firebase Auth, Clerk, Auth0 — whatever the web app uses, the native app uses too. Stripe billing reused via the same customer IDs. File uploads reuse the same buckets. Users don't get a second account because they downloaded the app — they sign in and pick up where they left off.

State, storage, offline — boring on purpose

Zustand or Redux Toolkit for state. React Query for server state. SQLite via WatermelonDB for anything that needs to be readable offline. We avoid clever sync-by-magic libraries — the conflict logic always becomes a debugging tax later. Explicit sync that the next engineer can read and reason about ages well.

Builds, OTA, distribution — Expo EAS or CodePush

EAS for builds, signing and submission to both stores from a single config. EAS Update or CodePush for OTA updates of the JavaScript bundle so a typo fix ships the same day instead of waiting on store review. Native module changes still need a real store update — we are deliberate about which change goes which path.

One week. We read the existing Lovable / Claude / Bolt / v0 / AI Studio codebase end to end, document the data model, the API surface, the auth, the billing and the third-party integrations. Output: a written architecture, what we can reuse, and what needs hardening.

If the backend exists and is healthy, we go straight to mobile architecture. If the backend is UI-only state, we plan the backend build in parallel. Either way, the decision is documented before we start writing production code.

Shared TypeScript package for types and validation. Shared API client. Shared design tokens. The native app does not duplicate logic that already exists on the web — it imports it. Mobile-specific endpoints get added to the same API, not a parallel one.

Two-week sprints. Internal builds shared via TestFlight and Firebase App Distribution after every sprint. Scope changes get re-baselined at sprint boundaries, not mid-sprint. The web app and the native app stay in lockstep on shared business logic.

Performance pass on real low-end Android devices, offline scenarios tested deliberately, push notification flows verified end to end, store listing copy and screenshots prepared, privacy declarations filled in, App Tracking Transparency wired up where needed. Crash reporting and analytics live before submission.

We submit to both stores, handle reviewer back-and-forth, and stay on full availability for the first month after launch. Real users surface issues no internal test catches. Then we move into a standard maintenance and feature retainer covering web and native together.