Codev
Codev turns a plain-English description into a working full-stack web app on Next.js and Supabase, then deploys it to your own domain with SSL. Founders and developers alike download the full source code and own it outright.
What is Codev?
Codev (co.dev) is a text-to-app platform: you describe the application you want in plain language and it returns a working full-stack web app. It is published by Wisp Labs, Inc., a Delaware company, and describes itself as an AI-powered platform that converts text descriptions into full-stack Next.js web applications.
The stack is fixed rather than chosen. Every app comes out as a Next.js front end backed by Supabase, meaning PostgreSQL with real-time sync, and the packages it needs are installed for you. What you do choose is the model doing the generation: Claude 4 Sonnet, OpenAI GPT 4.1 or Gemini 2.5 Pro, with more promised, a GPT 5 banner on the pricing page, and a bring-your-own-API-key option announced on the blog.
Four claims anchor the homepage: model choice, tools developers already like, ownership of the code, and deployment to your own domain. That last point is where the platform goes furthest: connect a custom domain in one click and the SSL certificate is provisioned automatically, with Domain Connected and SSL Active indicators to confirm it. Ownership is equally concrete: you can download the complete source code, and the FAQ says you can take it with you when you leave. The company claims 40,000+ builders and more than 45,000 apps built.
A second use case runs alongside the public-app story. The /tools page pitches internal software — admin panels, analytics dashboards, data visualization, connections to APIs and databases you already run — and adjacent pages extend the offer: /enterprise for tailored AI-assisted development, /developer to hire dedicated developer support, /agencies for a partner program, /early-access for internal tools on request. Documentation covers prompt engineering, Supabase configuration (email templates, URL settings, Resend) and authentication, including Google sign-in.
Codev is unusually frank about its ceiling. The FAQ confirms CRUD and database integration, then rules out crawlers and anything needing high traffic or scaling, and puts mobile apps and Chrome extensions out of scope. It also recommends a developer review before production. Product cadence is visible: twelve blog posts between December 2024 and August 2025 covering image upload, Broadcast, element selection, GitHub integration, prompt editing, theming, forking, style editing and a Vercel migration guide.
What it does
- Turn a natural-language description into a full-stack Next.js web application.
- Generate the database and data layer on Supabase (PostgreSQL with real-time sync), with packages installed automatically.
- Deploy to a custom domain in one click, with the SSL certificate provisioned for you.
- Pick the generation model: Claude 4 Sonnet, GPT 4.1 or Gemini 2.5 Pro, with GPT 5 announced on the pricing page.
- Download the complete source code and sync it through the GitHub integration on the Plus tier.
- Rework an existing app without starting over: element selection, prompt editing, style editing and forking.
- Build internal tools — admin panels, dashboards, data visualization — connected to APIs or databases you already run.
When to use Codev / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Codev is the right fit.
When to use Codev
- Non-technical founders who want a working product rather than a mockup — Codev states that coding experience helps but is not required.
- Solo builders and side-project makers who need a public app live on their own domain without assembling a deployment pipeline.
- Developers who want a Next.js and Supabase skeleton generated in minutes, then downloaded or pushed to GitHub and finished by hand.
- Internal teams building admin panels, dashboards and data visualizations wired to APIs or databases they already run.
- Agencies looking for a delivery accelerator, with a selective partner program for referring and serving clients.
When not to use Codev
- Anyone who needs an iOS or Android app: Codev supports web apps only, and mobile is explicitly out of scope.
- Teams shipping high-traffic products, since the FAQ states that heavy traffic and scaling are not currently supported.
- Builders of web crawlers or Chrome extensions, both named as outside what the generator handles.
- Organizations working under HIPAA, FISMA or Gramm-Leach-Bliley obligations, which the terms of service exclude.
- Developers committed to a different stack: every app is generated on Next.js and Supabase, with no alternative offered.
How to use Codev
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open co.dev and start from Generate App on the homepage; the free Hobby tier means no payment is needed to begin.
- Describe the app you want in natural language, as the FAQ puts it: simply describe your app idea.
- Choose the generation model among Claude 4 Sonnet, GPT 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- Let the platform build the Next.js application, its components, its styling and its Supabase database; packages install themselves.
- Iterate without starting over: select an element to target a component, edit the prompt, or edit the style directly.
- Configure Supabase by following the docs: email templates, URL settings and Resend.
- Add authentication, starting with the basics and then Google sign-in.
- Wire in your own APIs or databases if what you are building is an internal tool.
- Connect a custom domain in one click; the SSL certificate is provisioned automatically.
- Download the source code or push it through the GitHub integration on the Plus tier, then have a developer review the app before production, as the FAQ recommends.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- You own the code and can take it away: complete source-code download, GitHub integration, full ownership rights.
- Deployment is included end to end — custom domain in one click, SSL certificate provisioned automatically.
- A permanent free tier, Hobby, with USD 3 of one-time credit, so a first look costs nothing.
- Explicit model choice across three providers, plus a bring-your-own-API-key option announced on the blog.
- A mainstream, well-documented stack in Next.js and Supabase rather than a proprietary format.
- Genuinely open to non-developers: the FAQ states coding experience is helpful but not required.
- Visible, sustained shipping — twelve product posts between December 2024 and August 2025 — and Y Combinator backing noted on the site.
Cons
- Web only: no mobile app, no Chrome extension, and crawlers, heavy traffic and scaling are stated as unsupported.
- A developer review before production is explicitly recommended, and section 31 disclaims any liability for security holes or bugs in the generated software.
- All purchases are final under section 28, so there is no refund if the generated code does not behave as expected.
- The free tier allows one public project only, with no code download and no GitHub integration.
- Model credits are not included in the Plus subscription; the pricing page notes it in a footnote.
- No mention of the GDPR anywhere, no EU representative, no DPA, and hosting in the United States only.
- Sections 3 to 9 of the privacy policy are announced in its own table of contents but missing from the published page, and the /support page it cites returns HTTP 404.
Pricing & Plans
Codev offers a permanent free plan. The Hobby tier is free of charge and comes with a one-time credit balance of USD 3. The cheapest paid entry point is the Plus tier at USD 19 per month, which also grants 25% off model usage but does not include model credits. An Enterprise tier is priced on request. All payments are made in US dollars, by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express or PayPal, with sales tax added where applicable, and card details are held by Stripe. Note one discrepancy: section 6 of the terms of service states that a 14-day free trial is offered to new users, while the pricing page advertises no trial at all.
- one public project
- choice of generation model
- community support on Discord.
- everything in the free tier
- unlimited private projects
- unlimited custom domains
- source-code download
- GitHub integration and early access to new features
- model credits are not included.
- everything in Plus
- white-glove onboarding
- a dedicated support team and priority support
- through a Contact Us form.
- A Lite plan appears in a blog post of 13 March 2025 but is no longer listed on the pricing page as of 10 August 2026.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Codev handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no GDPR implementation to report. Across every page collected, the words GDPR, General Data Protection, Article 27, DPO and data protection officer do not appear once; no EU representative is designated. The privacy policy, dated 28 May 2025, rests entirely on United States state law — CCPA, CPA, CTDPA, UCPA and VCDPA — and its only non-US reference points Swiss residents to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. Sections 3 to 9 of that policy, which its own table of contents announces as covering legal bases, third-party sharing, cookies, retention, security and individual rights, are absent from the published page. The terms state the service is hosted in the United States and treat continued use from elsewhere as express consent to transfer data there. Requests go to support@co.dev; the /support page cited six times in the policy returns HTTP 404.
Who owns the data?
The code Codev generates is yours: the homepage advertises a full source-code download and full ownership rights, and section 10 of the terms confirms Wisp Labs asserts no ownership over your Contributions. Two clauses temper that. Any question, comment, suggestion, idea or feedback you send the company is a Submission, and its intellectual property is assigned to Wisp Labs outright, without compensation or credit. Contributions carry a license to the company that is unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free and sublicensable, extending to your name, likeness and voice for any commercial or advertising purpose. Section 24 adds that the company retains some data you transmit and accepts no liability if it is lost or corrupted.
Reuse rights
What you generate is yours to reuse without asking. The FAQ says the code is yours to modify and customize and that you can take it with you when you leave Codev, and the homepage promises a complete source-code download with full ownership rights. Two practical limits apply. Code download and GitHub integration sit on the paid Plus tier, so the free Hobby tier gives you no way to export what you built. And the license on Codev's own material — site, design, logos, marks — stays personal, non-commercial, non-transferable and revocable, so the platform's own content is not yours to reuse. Section 29 bars pornography, gambling, illegal drugs, weapons and violence in the apps you produce, on pain of closure without notice or refund, and section 31 leaves review, testing, security and regulatory compliance of the generated software entirely to you.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Jurisdiction is the United States, and the terms say so directly: section 15 states the services are hosted in the United States, and using them from another region counts as express consent to have your data transferred there and processed there. The publisher, Wisp Labs, Inc., is a Delaware company. On 10 August 2026 the domain resolved to 104.21.39.63, an AS13335 Cloudflare address geolocated to San Francisco — that is an anycast edge node, a delivery point rather than a place where data is stored, and it should not be read as a hosting location. Payment details are held by Stripe, whose own privacy policy the site links to. The applications you generate run on Supabase (PostgreSQL), but no Supabase hosting region is specified anywhere on the site. No certification is claimed: SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS appear nowhere in the collected pages, and HIPAA appears only as an exclusion. No subprocessor list is published and no DPA is mentioned. The privacy policy's table of contents announces a section on how information is kept safe, but the body of that section is missing from the published page.
Where Codev works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Codev.
- All purchases are final under section 28: if the generated code does not work as you expected, there is no refund.
- Section 31 puts review, testing, security and compliance of the generated software entirely on you, and the vendor disclaims liability for its security holes and bugs — its own FAQ advises a developer review before production.
- Anything you send as a question, suggestion, idea or piece of feedback is assigned to Wisp Labs outright, with no compensation; Contributions carry a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable license extending to your name, likeness and voice, alongside a clause stating you keep full ownership of them.
- Sections 2 and 8 reserve the services for personal, non-commercial use and prohibit any revenue-generating endeavor — squarely at odds with a product sold to put applications live on your own domain.
- Liability is capped at what you paid over the previous six months; disputes go to binding arbitration in Orange County, California, with a class-action waiver and a one-year filing deadline.
- A project can be shut down without notice or refund if its content is judged prohibited, at the vendor's sole discretion; the minimum age is 13, young for a tool that publishes code online.
- Hosting is in the United States only, with express consent to transfer required of anyone outside it, and the privacy policy is incomplete: sections 3 to 9 are missing and the /support page it cites six times returns HTTP 404.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Getting started is genuinely easy: describe the app in plain language, install nothing, and let the platform pull in the packages. The FAQ says coding experience is helpful but not required, and deployment is a one-click custom domain with SSL handled for you. The technical work starts afterwards. Configuring Supabase — email templates, URL settings, Resend — and adding authentication, including Google sign-in, follow documented but real steps. Connecting your own APIs or databases assumes you know your own systems. Code download and GitHub sit on the paid tier, so version control needs a subscription.
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Frequently asked questions
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What does it cost?
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What support is available, and is there a minimum age?
Should you pick Codev?
Codev occupies a clear position: a prompt-driven app builder on a single opinionated stack, Next.js plus Supabase, with deployment and domain included rather than left as homework. Its strongest card is ownership. You download the complete source code, push it to GitHub on the paid tier, and the FAQ says plainly that you can take it with you when you leave — a real hedge against lock-in. Trying it costs nothing: the Hobby tier is permanently free with USD 3 of credit, and the first paid step is USD 19 a month.
The reservations are worth reading before you build anything load-bearing. The scope is web only, the vendor itself rules out crawlers, heavy traffic and scaling, and it recommends a developer review before production. The terms go further: no refund if the generated code disappoints, and no liability for security holes or bugs in what the platform produced. Two clauses sit oddly beside the product promise — the service is reserved for personal, non-commercial use, and any revenue-generating endeavor is prohibited, which reads like unadapted boilerplate but remains enforceable as written.
Compliance is the thinnest part of the file. The GDPR is never mentioned, no EU representative is designated, no DPA is offered, hosting is in the United States only, and sections 3 to 9 of the privacy policy — legal bases, third-party sharing, cookies, retention, security, rights — are announced in its own table of contents yet absent from the page.
Signs of life are real: twelve product posts between December 2024 and August 2025, a GPT 5 banner on pricing, Y Combinator backing noted on the site, and 40,000+ builders claimed. Worth a free afternoon; read the terms before it carries your business.
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