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Open-source in-browser AI app builder
bolt.diy is the MIT-licensed, bring-your-own-model way to prompt a web app into a browser tab and push it to Netlify, Vercel, GitHub or GitLab. Ever Works is open source and self-hostable too — and adds the research, the written content, scheduled Agents with budgets, and content plus code in your Git.
bolt.diy is the community fork of Bolt.new that keeps the chat-to-app loop but lets you bring any model: 22 LLM provider integrations, switchable per prompt, including local Ollama and LM Studio, all running in a StackBlitz WebContainer with a code editor, a terminal and a live preview in one browser tab. It is free and MIT-licensed, runs locally, on Docker, on Cloudflare Pages or as a desktop app, and pushes the result to Netlify, Vercel, GitHub or GitLab — which makes it the closest project in this category to Ever Works on openness, so open source and self-hosting are parity here, not a difference. What separates the two is everything that happens outside the prompt: bolt.diy makes one model call per chat turn and writes no content, while Ever Works researches the topic, writes the publishable content, generates the site from a template, deploys it, and keeps re-running that loop on a schedule, with named Agents that carry their own budgets doing the ongoing work, and with content, code and the Knowledge Base committed to your Git. bolt.diy leads clearly on the in-browser IDE and live preview, provider breadth, GitLab push and a shipped desktop app. Two facts to weigh as of September 2026: its upstream repository has had no commits since February 2026 and no release since v1.0.0 in May 2025, and the WebContainer runtime it depends on needs a commercial licence from StackBlitz for for-profit production use.
bolt.diy turns a prompt into files and shell commands; the closest it comes to research is a URL fetcher that pastes up to 8,000 characters of a page into the chat, and every word on the site is yours to write or prompt. Ever Works treats the research as the job: its pipeline discovers, validates and classifies real entries with a source per item, writes the pages and SEO metadata, generates A-vs-B comparison pages, and then generates the code to present it all from a Next.js or Astro template. That pipeline is deepest today for directory-style content; Blog, Website and Landing Page Works are wired end to end but ride the same items pipeline while dedicated post and landing-copy generators catch up.
bolt.diy is strictly per prompt — one model call per chat turn, no scheduler, no background loop; an agent architecture sits on its roadmap. Ever Works makes the schedule the default: scheduled updates re-run the generation pipeline on seven cadences from hourly to monthly with retries and auto-pause, Missions keep proposing Ideas, and named Agents wake on a cron heartbeat, pick their next action, and work in a branch-per-Task checkout behind quality gates and a merge policy that starts with people merging. Each Agent carries its own spend cap, enforced before the call runs — bolt.diy shows token counts per message and has no budgets.
Both runtimes are open source and self-hostable, and bolt.diy’s MIT licence is the more permissive of the two for anyone embedding it — though its WebContainer dependency needs a commercial StackBlitz licence for for-profit production use, and its upstream has been quiet since February 2026. Ever Works is AGPLv3 with no feature gated behind a paid tier, runs on Docker or Kubernetes, and takes 11 AI providers including Ollama, LM Studio and vLLM. The bigger difference is Git: bolt.diy pushes generated source to GitHub or GitLab and keeps chats and snapshots in the browser’s IndexedDB; Ever Works commits the structured data, the rendered content, the site and the per-Work Knowledge Base to repositories you own, so every scheduled change is a reviewable commit.
In bolt.diy a project is a chat: single user, single tab, one app at a time, with the model and your prompts doing all the planning. Ever Works is a business model: a Mission keeps proposing Ideas, accepted Ideas become Works from prebuilt templates, and a standing team of Agents with skills, budgets and schedules keeps every Work moving — with Work-level roles for the people you invite, Teams inside an organization, a Knowledge Base every run reads from, an MCP server for your own assistants and an MCP client for your Agents, a CLI, and 100+ plugins. One goal can grow into many self-maintaining sites (and, on the roadmap, stores and whole companies).
Ever Works vs bolt.diy, head to head.
| Feature | Ever Works | bolt.diy |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt → working app/site | ✓ | ✓ |
| Researches the topic for you | ✓ | URL fetch only |
| Writes the content (copy, posts, SEO) | Directory data today; posts rolling out | You prompt it |
| Generated code from a template base | ✓ | 14 framework starters |
| Ongoing autonomous maintenance | Scheduled | Prompt-driven |
| Content version-controlled in Git | ✓ | – |
| Code in your Git | GitHub | GitHub or GitLab push |
| Open source | AGPLv3 | MIT + WebContainer licence |
| Self-hostable runtime | ✓ | ✓ |
| No vendor lock-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live preview before deploy | – | In-browser IDE + terminal |
| AI providers, including local models | 11 | 22, per-prompt switch |
| Desktop app | Coming soon | ✓ |
| Teams, roles and shared workspaces | ✓ | Single user |
Choose bolt.diy when you are a developer who wants a free, self-hosted Bolt-style cockpit with the model of your choice — including a local one — and you will supply the content yourself: it gives you an editor, a terminal and a live preview in one tab, a diff view and file locks to keep the AI in bounds, and a push to Netlify, Vercel, GitHub or GitLab when you are done. It is also the pick when you need a desktop app today, GitLab as your Git host, or a starter for Vue, Svelte, Angular or Expo rather than a content site. Go in knowing that results track the model you bring, that the upstream repository has been dormant since February 2026 (last release v1.0.0, May 2025), and that shipping a bolt.diy-based product commercially requires a WebContainer licence.
Visit bolt.diy ↗AI builders generate an app from a prompt. Ever Works researches the topic, writes the content, generates the code, deploys it, and keeps improving it on a schedule — all in your own Git.