WebTwizz

Visual + AI builder

Shipper.now

AI app builder

The honest comparison

WebTwizz vs Shipper.nowHands-on builder vs AI co-founder

Both turn a plain-English prompt into a working full-stack app with hosting. The real split is how much you want your hands on the result. WebTwizz is built for staying hands-on: a visual editor with style panels and separate phone and desktop layouts, an in-app code editor, and AI, all editing the same code. Shipper is built for delegating: it targets completely non-technical founders, its Advisor AI proactively suggests pricing, marketing, and UX moves like a co-founder, and it can even find local businesses and pitch them sites on your behalf. If you want to shape every screen yourself, pick the builder. If you want software and business advice to appear while you watch, pick the co-founder.

TL;DR

Both generate full-stack apps from a prompt, host them, and let you keep the code.
WebTwizz is for staying hands-on: visual editor with drag, style panels, and separate phone and desktop layouts, plus an in-app code editor working on the same code.
Shipper is for delegating: aimed at non-technical founders, with a proactive Advisor AI for pricing/marketing/UX advice, and it also builds mobile apps, Chrome extensions, and chat bots.
Shipper's pricing page lists removing 'the Lovable badge' as a paid feature, so parts of it appear to be built on Lovable.
WebTwizz's free plan is larger: 10 credits a day up to 50 a month plus a 100-credit signup bonus, against 5 a day capped at 10 a month on Shipper.

01 / Side by side

What's inside each.

What the two products actually look like, and what they include out of the box.

WebTwizz

An AI app builder where AI generation, a real visual editor, and a code editor all change the same project. Generate with a prompt, drag elements to refine, drop into code when you need to, without losing your changes between modes. Output is standard code you can download.

What you get

Visual editor with click-to-edit on any element
Style panels and separate phone and desktop editing
AI chat for big moves and first drafts
Code editor for fine-grained control (paid plans)
Pre-wired Supabase, Stripe, Resend, OpenAI, Anthropic
Two-way GitHub sync, push and pull in plain language
One-click publish to webtwizz.app or custom domain

Shipper.nowshipper.now ↗

A chat-first AI builder pitched as "build companies, not just apps," aimed squarely at non-technical founders. One conversation produces a complete product: frontend, backend, database, auth, and Shipper hosting. Around the builder sits an Advisor AI that acts like a co-founder, proactively suggesting pricing, marketing, and UX improvements, and a Local Business mode that finds real businesses, generates sample sites, and drafts pitch emails from your Gmail. It also builds mobile apps, e-commerce stores, Chrome extensions and WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord bots, and can turn an existing site into an app.

What you get

Complete app from one chat: frontend, backend, database, auth
Advisor AI with proactive business and product advice
Mobile apps, Chrome extensions, and chat bots
Local Business mode: find clients, generate sites, pitch by email
Connectors, advanced design options and unlimited teammates on Pro
Shipper hosting included on every plan, public projects on Free

The visual editor

Pixel-perfect control over every detail.

The AI builds your app first. Then you fine-tune typography, colors, spacing, and layouts with precision, and see every change instantly as you design.

02 / Feature comparison

Side by side, no fluff.

Built from the public docs and changelog of both products.

Feature	WebTwizz	Shipper.now
AI app generation	Yes	Yes
Visual editor	Yes, click-to-edit styles and layout	Advanced design options on Pro
Private projects	Paid plans	Paid plans; Free projects are public
Edit code in the product	Yes (paid plans)	Its pricing page says you can write code if you prefer
How it is built	Standard code in a widely used format	Not documented on its site
Proactive business advice (AI Advisor)	No	Yes
Mobile apps, extensions & bots	No (web apps only)	Yes
Find & pitch local-business clients	No	Yes (Local Business mode)
Code you get	Full project, export on paid plans	Not documented on its site
Database and logins	Your own Supabase project or database	Included, per its site
Payments	Your own Stripe account	Not documented on its pricing page
Custom domain	Standard plan	Paid plan
Free plan	10 credits a day, up to 50 a month	5 a day, up to 10 a month, public projects
GitHub sync	Two-way: push, pull, restore	Not documented on its site
Best for	Builders who want control	Founders who want to delegate

03 / The honest call

Which one should you actually use?

Pick WebTwizz if…

You care how every screen looks
Shipper's pricing page lists advanced design options as a Pro feature and does not document a style editor in detail. In WebTwizz the visual editor is the product: select any element to change text, spacing, typography and colour, drag sections to reorder them, with no prompt round-trip for design fixes.
You want to know what you are getting
WebTwizz is open about what it builds: standard code in a widely used format, editable in the code editor and syncable to your GitHub account on paid plans. Shipper's public pages do not document how apps are built, the code export or GitHub sync, so you would need to confirm that with them before committing a project.
SEO matters for what you ship
WebTwizz pages arrive fully built, which helps search engines read them, and the settings panel has sitemap and page title and description controls, so a marketing page can be found in search as soon as it is published.
You want a real free runway
WebTwizz gives 10 credits a day, up to 50 a month, plus a 100-credit signup bonus, with no card, and one published site. Shipper's free plan is 5 credits a day capped at 10 a month, and its projects are public.

Pick Shipper.now if…

You're non-technical and want to stay that way
Shipper is built end-to-end for people who never want to see code or a design panel: describe the business, review what comes back, publish. If touching a style panel sounds like work, its delegation model fits better.
You want a co-founder, not just a builder
Shipper's Advisor AI reviews your project and volunteers advice on pricing, marketing, UX, and growth without being asked. WebTwizz has nothing like it, its AI builds what you ask and stops there.
You want mobile apps, extensions, or bots too
Shipper builds iOS/Android apps, Chrome extensions, and WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Discord bots from the same chat. WebTwizz only builds web apps.
You're selling websites to local businesses
Local Business mode finds real businesses near you, generates a sample site for each, and drafts the pitch email from your Gmail. If your business is selling sites rather than building your own product, nothing in WebTwizz does that.

We're not pretending WebTwizz wins everything. Shipper.now is a real tool with real strengths, and the wrong tool for the wrong job is worse than no tool at all.

04 / Pricing

Pricing, side by side.

Both start free. Past that, here's what each tier looks like.

WebTwizz pricing

Free

No card required

›10 daily + 100 signup credits
›1 published site
›Full builder + AI
›Visual editor

Shipper.now pricing

Free

Public projects

›5 credits a day, 10 a month
›Web apps and landing pages
›Shipper hosting
›Public projects, unlimited collaborators

WebTwizz vs Shipper.now, answered.

The questions people ask before switching. Anything else, our team is one email away.

For apps, yes. Both generate a full-stack app from a prompt and host it. The difference is philosophy: WebTwizz keeps you hands-on with a real visual editor and an in-app code editor on the same project, while Shipper is built for delegating, non-technical founders describe what they want and its Advisor AI even volunteers business advice.

WebTwizz does, on paid plans: a full export of your code, plus two-way GitHub sync and a code editor showing the same source the visual editor changes. Shipper's public pages say you can write code if you prefer, but they do not document a code export or GitHub sync, so ask them before you rely on it.

Both start at $25 a month, but the units differ: WebTwizz Standard includes 1,500 credits a month, while Shipper Pro starts at 100 credits with a slider up to 20,000. Credits are not comparable between products, so the practical test is to build the same small app on both free plans.

No. WebTwizz is deliberately focused on full-stack web apps, that focus is why the visual editor and code editor can go as deep as they do. If iOS/Android apps, Chrome extensions, or chat bots are core to your plan, Shipper covers them.

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