Board report18 Aug 2026

The app builder board grows from 11 to 45 tracked tools

Every AI app builder we could run the standard brief on now has a row. Nothing about the original 11 got worse this week, several of them just have new company.

By Nadia Brandt

The app builder board went from 11 tracked tools to 45 this week, the biggest single change since launch. Every new entry got the same treatment as the originals: the ten axis brief, a panel test, and a full profile with strengths, weaknesses and pricing rather than a placeholder row.

Lovable, Totalum and Bolt.new hold the top three exactly where they were. Two of the new entries land in S tier alongside them: Framer at 4th on a design led site generator built around the prompt from day one, and Firebase Studio at 6th on a full cloud IDE with Firebase and Genkit wired in from the first prompt.

Why some familiar names moved down

v0, Replit, Base44, Emergent, Rocket.new, Zite, Mocha and Trickle all show a rank change on the movers page this week, and none of it is a vote decline. Each of them got passed by one or more of the 34 new entries that scored ahead of them on the published weights. Base44 lost three places to Figma Make and Wix, for instance, not because its own integrations and value votes fell, but because two tools that score higher on those exact axes now have rows.

What did not change

The weights did not change, the scoring formula did not change, and no existing tool's community score moved because of this. A wider board just means more of the field is visible at once, which is the point of tracking 45 tools instead of 11.

Full profiles for every new entry are live now, along with four new head to head duels between them. The weekly rank deltas, including which of the 34 new entries passed which original tool, are on the movers page.

Check the numbers yourself

Every figure quoted here comes from the live board. The full dataset is public under a CC-BY licence, so you can verify a claim, disagree with it, or reweight the axes and get a different answer.

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