Base44 Reviews 582

30+ days of work locked because of a workspace trap. Extremely frustrating................

I honestly don’t even know where to start.

I spent over 30 days building an app on this platform. Real users. Real data. Real work. I paid €50 to continue working on it, thinking everything was straightforward.

Then I moved the app to a shared workspace.

At NO point was it made crystal clear that this action was irreversible. No proper warning. No “this cannot be undone” in a way that actually makes you stop and think. And now I’m being told it can’t be moved back.

What exactly is the logic behind that?

So now my app... which I’ve invested serious time into..... is stuck in a workspace I don’t want it in, and apparently that’s just “how it works.”

That’s not a minor UX issue. That’s a fundamental trust issue.

If you are positioning yourself as a serious platform for builders and companies, irreversible structural actions should be OBVIOUS and clearly flagged. Not buried. Not subtle.

When you’ve spent 30+ days building something and then realize one click permanently changes its ownership context with no way back, it feels like a trap.

I’m beyond frustrated at this point.

I expected flexibility. I expected transparency. I expected control over my own app.

Right now, this experience feels careless toward users who are actually investing time and money into building on the platform.

Great app, support can be better. 2-3 day wait time to get a simple answer. trying to get my app live between waiting for DNS verification, asking for support its 6 days and now waiting again 2-3 days for the link to connect. Strongly suggest to implement life support to resolve cases immediately.

Base44 is an amazing product. It really helped me take my ideas to the next level and achieve my goals. If you have a dream you want to reach, this is the way to do it.

Freaky annoyance YouTube ads disguise as anything but app builder. If it is so great it should honestly keep itself tagged under app builder (right category) not faking as medical, learning or all other unrelated categories. A company that promote its product dishonestly don't deserve to buy, I'm not recommend this to anyone.

Base44 is complete garbage. It looks cool for the first 5 minutes, and then it becomes a nightmare. It’s basically a scam to make you buy "credits." The AI makes a mistake, you pay a credit to ask it to fix it, and it just breaks something else.....so you pay another credit. It’s a never-ending loop of paying for buggy code. Since Wix took over, the support is non-existent. You’re better off burning your money than spending it here. Total waste.

This company has been such a game changer. To be part of the vibe coding process and be able to provide teaching material so quickly has made the use of the tool so easy. The discord channel is full of people just like me learning, building, and Base44 guiding us to make the best apps. It’s just been top notch.

I have built multiple applications using Base44 across different functionalities, and the platform has consistently failed to meet its advertised capabilities. The system regularly generates buggy output, produces LLM code with fundamental errors, and delivers applications that have little to no practical or meaningful usability.

Developing even a partially functional application requires an unreasonable number of prompts and corrective interactions. Despite this effort, critical features frequently remain broken or non-functional. This level of performance is unacceptable for a product positioned as a reliable app-building platform.

As an annual subscriber, I made a significant upfront commitment based on the expectations set by Base44. The ongoing technical failures, lack of reliability, and wasted development time have severely damaged my confidence in the product. At this point, the platform does not justify its cost, and my trust in the service has been materially undermined.

Orchestrated stupidty in the wake of the wix deal.

Seems like alot of the rinsing practices from wix have extended to base 44. I look forward to exporting my app to Cursor and hopefully fixing it.

In December 2025, I kept seeing Base44 pop up on my TV, and I thought, why not give it a try? I already had a product idea in mind. With the right prompts, the product eventually came to life—but at a significant cost. While the AI sometimes got things right, other times it wasted a lot of time, which quickly added up financially.

I was limited in how I could top up credits and eventually had to move to a higher plan, which stretched my budget. Even after the app was completed a month ago, with no new features to develop, I was still paying fees and receiving tokens that weren’t useful to me. That cycle would have continued unless I took action.

So I did what any developer would do—I rebuilt the app myself, using what I learned from Base44. Now I have full control over my application and my data, without worrying about ongoing monthly payments.

I think it’s time to move on from Base44, and I’m grateful for the opportunity it gave me and also the heart break when the service when down some days ago and it looks like all my data gone. If you find yourself in a similar position and need help making the move, feel free to reach out.

Absolute shit. I think the free version works better than paid one. very disapointed. this is not artificial inteligence, it is artificial stupidity at its best. paid for premium hoping that it would do a better job than free version and regret it deeply. Thankfully I only paid one month, not full year.

Well . You can pay but there s no way to unsubscribe . If you dont like the app then you have to keep paying even if you dont use it :) The only way to stop the subscription is to block the payment via your bank . I still get notifications that the payment was cancelled . imagine i cancelled it 3 months ago and they still trying to charge me . I have also send them an email to cancel my subscription but obviously i never got a reply . The only nice thing that this app has is the advertise . ONLY THAT . DONT GET SCAMMED BY IT

I hate this website,app like i made app and its like "Plus to make people NOT edit your OWN app"
like wtf worst app ever 0 stars actually and its soo bad

No wonder why they have a bad review rate.

I'm an AI fun and love exploring new offerings around this area. At first I didn't understand how it could serve my needs, but by playing with it I could create a book tracker app, a cooking book and an online wardrobe! It's really simple to build anything with AI, you just need to figure out how to communicate with it properly. I found Base44 docs with some guidelines which helped me a lot. And they move sooo fast, there are new feature releases every week, they have been improving a lot recently. I was also lucky with the support requests - I submitted a few over the last month and received prompt and helpful responses. In a nutshell, I truly recommend giving it a try!

Former enterprise developer and software architect here, about 25 years in the field.

Base44 does a few things reasonably well, as long as expectations are kept in check.

It’s decent for relatively simple websites. If your needs are non-complex, mostly static, or only lightly data-driven, it can get you moving quickly. Responsive layouts are handled well, and it’s very fast at generating boilerplate UI that looks polished enough out of the box. Forms generally look good, spacing and styling are fine, and for quick prototypes or simple marketing-style sites, it can feel productive at first.

Where Base44 really struggles is anywhere beyond that surface layer.

The biggest issue is architecture. There’s no meaningful concept of separation of concerns, and no apparent understanding of how architecture affects long-term complexity, reuse, or maintainability. Everything tends toward monolithic blobs. That bloat inevitably turns into bugs, and bugs turn into painful maintenance.

Performance and interactivity are especially bad. Base44 leans on React, but without applying even basic architectural discipline. A concrete example: clicking into a text area, a very normal form interaction, can cause the browser to hang for 20–30 seconds while it repeatedly re-renders the DOM and captures keyboard input. I’ve burned easily a hundred iterations and prompts trying to fix issues like this. Hand-coding the same feature is dramatically faster and more reliable.

Source control is another major red flag. The GitHub “integration” feels like a throwback to the earliest days of Subversion, and not a good version of it. Everything commits straight to main. There’s no real branching model, no safe way to work on features in isolation, and no meaningful separation between development and production. In practice, you’re working directly on live production code and publishing changes straight to prod. That’s… not great.

There’s also no support for unit testing or end-to-end testing. Combined with the system’s high confidence and low competence, this becomes a real problem. Base44 will confidently claim that something is fixed or working when there is literally no change in behavior at all.

On top of that, you pay for every prompt with credits, even when Base44 makes unsolicited changes or introduces new problems you didn’t ask for. When those mistakes burn credits, support’s response is basically “sorry, that’s how it works.” There’s no meaningful recourse.

At this point, the most reliable way I’ve found to use Base44 is ironically to not use it for thinking. I use other AI tools to reason through architecture and debugging, then feed Base44 extremely explicit, defensive instructions. Even then, it’s fragile.

Overall, Base44 feels like the modern AI equivalent of working with very junior or offshore developers who produce large, tangled codebases and repeatedly say, “It works now, I promise,” followed almost immediately by, “Oh… I guess it doesn’t.” If you don’t mind dozens of rounds of trial and error, and if those rounds weren’t actively costing credits, it might be tolerable.

If your needs are simple and your tolerance for rework is high, it can be useful. If you care about architecture, performance, scalability, or professional development workflows, it becomes frustrating very quickly.

Update: Even worse, the bot...
1. Constantly suggests features of the Base44 dashboard that don't exist (burning credits)
2. Constantly suggests actions that are not possible (burning credits)
3. Loses references to uploaded files, and provides no way to evaluate all uploaded files (burning credits)
4. Reverts code without notice or explanation.
5. Is not aware of the Base44 APIs, and will spend many cycles trying something its own APIs forbid, never telling you (burning credits). I literally have to use ChatGPT to tell me how to technically inform Base44 of how its own API calls work.

If you don't mind this kind of AI, fabricate-things-and-never-expose-weakness way of doing things, and you're prepared to have the Elite subscription to get work done, it is a cool tool. I'm not unhappy with what is possible WHEN it works properly, but that their lack of engineering more correctness into the tool results in users financing it with their credits. That is the part I think Base44 needs to take some ownership in.

Ironically, I received an invite into an Ambassador program. Clearly, they don't read these reviews, lol.

I don´t think this service is really useful for creating apps, more if you want to sketch something. but this could be easily done elsewhere.

I’m tired of seeing your ads base 44

The app has too many errors. Not able to solve basic issues. Burns through your credits in troubleshooting. The issues are so bad that I am starting to think they have created them on purpose to drain your credits.

I will look for alternatives. I dont think anything sophisticated can be built with this tool right now considering the horrible state it's in.

The best way to make an idea come to life!
It's so easy to use, the company keeps updating with new features and capabilities. I'm loving the experience

Base44 is amazing! I couldn’t believe what app I built all by myself without knowing to code! I think everyone can build apps now cause it so simple and quick