Google AI Studio just KILLED Lovable! Most INSANE AI app builder ever
By Alex Finn
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Google AI Studio: The New Standard in AI App Building**: Google AI Studio offers the easiest way to build AI-powered apps, integrating seamlessly with Google's tech stack and allowing for app launches in seconds, all completely free. [00:01], [00:15] - **Effortless App Creation with Integrated Google AI**: Build apps powered by Google's AI products like Nano Banana for image generation or Gemini for chatbots in one click, without managing any API keys. [01:00], [01:16] - **Overcoming Idea Block with AI Studio Playbooks**: Google AI Studio eliminates the challenge of idea generation with a vast library of 'playbooks' and a 'feeling lucky' feature that can start building an app for you. [01:44], [02:21] - **Rapid Prototyping and Deployment**: Deploy your app to the web in one click via Google Cloud or to GitHub, enabling quick sharing and iteration, making it the fastest way to get feedback. [05:36], [09:33] - **Google AI Studio vs. Lovable and Other Tools**: Google AI Studio is positioned as a superior alternative to Lovable, offering free usage, deep Google service integration, and easier code export, making it ideal for rapid prototyping. [10:19], [10:33]
Topics Covered
- Google's AI Studio: Build Apps Instantly, No API Keys.
- Stuck for AI App Ideas? Google AI Studio Solves It.
- The Fastest Way to Launch an AI Business Prototype?
- Does Google AI Studio Replace Existing Prototyping Tools?
- Google AI Studio: Unlocking Free AI App Development.
Full Transcript
Google did it. They released the easiest
way to build apps with AI ever. Google
AI Studio is Google's new vibe coding
platform they just released that I think
destroys Lovable. It's quick, easy,
integrated with Google's entire tech
stack, lets you launch apps in literally
seconds, and the best part of all,
completely free. So, there is no reason
at all you shouldn't be vibe coding as
we speak. I'm going to show you how it
works, how you can deploy a fully
working app on the web in seconds, and
let you know if this is the final vibe
coding platform you'll ever need. Let's
get into it. So, this was just released
moments ago. This is huge. This is
Google AI Studio Build. You can access
it at a.studio/build
right now. It is completely free. I'm
going to give you the full guide on how
to use it now, but here is the best
reason you need to be using Google AI
Studio. It is fully integrated with
every single Google AI product that's
ever been released. So in one click you
can build an app powered by Nano Banana.
So you can build just an image genen app
in one click. If you want you can build
a video gen app in one click using VO.
If you want you can build a a your own
AI chatbot powered by Gemini. And all of
this is done without having to manage
any sort of API keys. Right? That's the
advantage of Google building on top of
their own tech stack here is you can
just start making these incredible apps
with Google search, Google maps,
videogen, all that. And you're not
juggling API keys, signing up for a 100
different developer accounts anymore.
You're building these superpowered AI
apps in just one click, which you really
haven't been able to do with any other
vibe coding platform out there. That's
the best part. The second best part is
they have like a million different
playbooks you can use to build apps. So,
you don't have to come in here with any
sort of ideas. You can just go and say,
"Oh, interesting. I want to make a
Google Maps app or I want to make a
video gen app or I can even go into the
gallery mode and see a whole bunch of
examples of apps I can build off of."
They've eliminated what I think is the
most challenging part of vibe coding now
for 99% of people, which is the need to
come up with ideas. I think a lot of
people just can't come up with ideas for
apps. That challenge has been solved
because they have hundreds of these
cookbooks of ideas of what to build
around with. Or even if you want, you
can click I'm feeling lucky and it will
just start building an app for you and
come up with an idea. Okay, let's see
what he came up with. Let's create a
multimodal dream journal. I want to be
able to voice record my own dream
immediately upon walk waking while it's
fresh. The AI should transcribe it, then
generate a surrealist image. I didn't
even have to come with an idea. I just
click I'm feeling lucky and it's there.
There are a ton of other advantages I'm
about to show you once we get into
actually building the app that act that
make this probably the easiest way to
launch an app ever. But let's start
building our first app. Let me show you
how the prompting works and how you can
start building your first image genen
app. Here what I want to do is build an
image genen app where I can upload the
pictures of me and my friends and then
the Google nano banana will create
awesome pictures of us doing fun things
out in the world. I've been using Sora
the last couple weeks and all I've been
doing with it is just making videos of
me and my friends doing funny things.
So, let's do that but with photos and
I'll show you how you can build this and
launch this in like minutes. So, I'm
going to go here. I'm going to click on
Nano Banana powered app. So, this is
going to use the Nano Banana cookbook
here where it's now going to easily
build me an app that's powered by Nano
Banana, which if you don't know is the
best image gen model on planet Earth
right now. So, we we chose the Nano
Banana Cookbook, and now we just prompt
it like we would prompt any other app.
And again, this is why I think it's
better than Lovable is the integrations
here with Google's entire tech stack.
Lovable does have some integrations, I
think, with Superbase and Shopify and a
few others, but the fact that you can
get all these AI powered features built
in without having to manage API keys is
a game changer. So, if you want to
follow along with me, you can do that.
But let's prompt this and build our app.
So, here's the prompt I'm going to use.
I want to make an app where I can upload
the photos of me and friends and the app
creates realistic photos of us doing
cool things. It should be able to accept
multiple photos I can upload. Each photo
will be of an individual person. It will
then take all the faces of the people
from those individual photos and
generate a new image of them doing
something creative and fun. I'll put
that prompt down below if you just want
to follow along with me and copy.
Totally up to you. Some other cool
things here as well is they have speech
to text. So, if you just want to talk
this in as well, you can do that too.
But let's build this out. Let's hit hit
build here and Google will start
building out. And this screen should
look familiar to a lot of you if you use
more of the prototyping tools out there,
the lovables, the vzeros, the bolt. New
this is basically the same interface,
but with some cool things I'm about to
show you in a second that differentiates
this from those other platforms. But as
you can see, it is building it out and
it is going to put in its own API key
for a lot of these AI products. So we
don't have to go hunting around for a
nano banana key and a VO key and all
these other keys. It manages it for us
and if we want later we can put our own
API key so we don't hit limit. So as
this is building this does it pretty
fast actually. I am very impressed with
the speed of it. Let me quickly go over
what are the advantages of Google AI
Studio and the differences between AI
Studio and Lovable and Bolt and all
those. One, free to use. You can't even
pay for it. There's no place to put in
payments. It is completely free to use.
You can go right now and as long as you
have a Google account, which I imagine
everyone does, you can just start
building and launching and deploying
apps, which I'll show you the deployment
side in a second. It's integrated with
all the Google services as I showed you.
Oneclick deploy to web. This is really
cool. I can in one click get a link,
send it to all my friends, and
everyone's using my live app. Oneclick
deploy to GitHub, which is really sick.
This will make it very easy. So if you
start building your app in Google
studio, you get it on GitHub, then you
can start editing with cloud code in
like 10 seconds flat. So that is really
really convenient for editing with
claude code if you want to take it to
cursor, claude code, codeex, whatever
you're using. Tons of the cookbooks
available so you never have to come up
with ideas ever again. You can just
click I'm feeling lucky and apps will
just start appearing in front of you.
Uh, and it's the I in my opinion, as
you'll see in a second, the fastest way
to go from zero to one uh on the
internet building apps of vibe coding
and it just happens to be for the best
price. Let's go back in here and boom,
we have our app. Okay, so let's test it
out here. Gemini Fusion Photos. Let's
upload friends. So, I'm going to upload
a couple images of me and my friends.
So, let me choose a couple photos to use
here. I'm going to choose this excellent
image of me at a wedding. Boom. There we
go. Let's upload another photo here. And
I'm going to choose this image of my
friend Sam Altman. Okay, we hit put it
in. We have two images of people. Now,
let's see how good this is. Okay, so we
can describe a scene what we're going to
be in. Uh let's say that we are
exploring the moon together. All right,
now let's generate the photo. And now
let's see what we do this. So this is
again I showed you every part of this
creation process. I literally just put
in a couple sentence prompt. Build me an
image generation app where I can upload
photos and it makes us do cool things. I
didn't hook up any image generation
models or API keys or anything like
that. And boom, there's us. It didn't
use our faces. So, let's let's try a
different prompt here. Let's say uh
hiking up a mountain together. And I'm
going to say generate a photo. And let's
see what Nano Banana can come up with.
But again, this was just one prompt.
This was a oneshot prompt. I didn't have
to manage the API keys for Nano Banana.
I didn't have to hook this up with a
hundred different things. I didn't need
to know code. And here we are. Uh
there's three of us hiking up the
mountain. Uh I wouldn't say this looks
like us because uh neither of us have
facial hair. I don't know if neither me
or Sam Alman are capable of uh having of
growing facial hair. But there's an
image of three of us hiking up a
mountain. Let's see what this is bigger.
Let me check this out. Okay, maybe Nano
Banana can use a little work here
because this does not look like any of
us. They all have facial hair. But the
point being is this is you can build an
app that's hooked up to image generation
models, any of Google's products, and it
just works without having to manage
keys. Let's talk about a few of the
other amazing features here in Studio
Build, which I think this makes
spectacularly easy to use. If I click
right here, deploy app, it will just
deploy this to Google cloud. So I can do
create a new project. I can call this
photo app. I can create the project and
it is going to deploy this app to the
Google cloud. So I can in just a few
minutes have an app live on the web. For
Google Cloud, you have to have a credit
card plugged in, but I think there's a
pretty generous free tier where you can
just launch it and it's not going to
cost you any money. So that is really
easy. That's just a click to do. You can
host it on GitHub. So, if I want to real
quick save this to GitHub, I can select
my account and this will upload the code
to GitHub and I can just pull this down
into whatever AI coding tool I'm using,
like Claude Code for instance, like
cursor, like Codeex. And now I can
continue this everywhere else. You can
share the app. So, this is probably the
quickest way to have other people using
your app if you don't want to sign up
for Google Cloud and host it on the
cloud. But you can just click share and
then it just gives you a link and you
can take this link, you can tweet it
out. I think this is one of the best
ways to start an AI business. Start a
prototype like this. Get the link, tweet
it out on X, put it out on YouTube,
wherever you are, send it out, get
people using it, collect feedback, and
start iterating. This is a really good
way to start iterating on your app.
improving it and actually turning your
app into a business. If we want to
download the app, we can download all
the code really easily. This is one of
the limitations of a lot of the other
prototyping tools out there is they make
it fairly difficult to get the code for
your app so that you can do whatever you
want with it. They want you staying in
their ecosystem. So, being able to
one-click download the app is really
awesome. And then on top of a lot of
cool other features here, too. If we
want to check out the the app on mobile,
we can do that. If we want to check out
the app on tablet, we can do that. We
can do this in any sort of orientation
we want. So really easy to test out the
app. And then if I want to continue
iterating from here, I can go in here
and start asking for new features that
we can add onto the app. So the question
becomes this. When do you use Google AI
studio? Does it replace claude code?
Does it replace cursor? Does it replace
lovable? All those. Here I'll give you
the answer. For me, this is replacing
lovable. Right? This is the best way in
my opinion to get quick prototypes,
especially if you're going to be using
other Google services, right? Like if
you're planning on using Nano Banana,
which I think there's a million
different opportunities for building
image gen apps right now using Nano
Banana. If you want to do video gen
apps, that's a huge huge opportunity at
the moment. You can do that. If you want
to build your own chatbot, right, if
you're using any of Google's AI
services, which are becoming better and
better every single day, I'm probably
going to use Google AI Studio to get
those up and running because it will
know how to use those integrations
really well and just get them working,
right, without a lot of technical work.
This is also, I think, the fastest way
on planet Earth to get feedback from
users, right? If you have an idea for an
app and you want to start getting
feedback from people, you go into Google
AI Studio, you put in your idea, you
spin it up, right? You get a link, and
literally in four minutes, you can go
from idea to people using your
application and giving you feedback.
That is the fastest feedback loop you'll
ever have in the history technology in
your life. And that can only be done
through Google AI Studio. So, this is a
great opportunity if you need quick
feedback from users. And here's a really
important underrated one, right? Is if
you just want to have fun and find new
ideas. A lot of people, they think, "Oh,
I'm not going to vibe code. I don't have
the perfect idea yet." And they wait
around for the perfect idea and it
literally never comes. And they never
build anything. This is the best way to
come up with ideas. The best way to come
up with ideas is just to cook, right?
It's just to go in there, start playing
around, building things out, and as you
build things out, ideas will flow to
you. and you'll be able to build them
out and iterate and build out better
ideas. So, this is really good if you
just have a little extra time. You want
to play around, experiment with
different ideas and see what you come up
with. You need to be building that
creativity muscle in your head. And then
lastly, the last one's just tight on
money, right? This is free. You can't
get much cheaper than free. It's
completely free. You go into any of
these other prototyping tools and you
hit a payw wall in about 5 seconds. With
Google, like they don't even ask you for
a credit card here. You just start
coding. You just start vibe coding and
you have apps in minutes. That's pretty
amazing. If you are newer to vibe coding
or you just want a better prototyping
tool, I think it's going to be very hard
to beat Google's AI Studio at the
moment. They're only going to be adding
more features. There's going to be so
much more coming to this, especially
with what a little birdie tells me with
Gemini 3 coming out very soon. This is
only going to improve and get better. So
check it out. It's free. I think it's
cool. link down below for you to try it
out. Start playing around with the
different cookbooks and galleries and
try things out there. If you learned
anything at all, make sure to leave a
like. Let me know down in the comments
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