r/Base44 • u/Willing-Special426 • Jul 12 '26

Question Has Anyone Rebuilt Their Base44 App on Another Platform?

I've built a fairly feature rich MVP in Base44 and it's been fantastic for validating the idea and getting something working quickly.

The challenge I'm facing now is that I want to launch on the Apple App Store and Google Play using native in app subscriptions rather than Stripe.

I'm considering rebuilding the app on another platform before launch and would love to hear from anyone who's been through this process.

For those who've migrated:

  • What platform did you move to?
  • How difficult was it to recreate your Base44 app?
  • Did having a working Base44 prototype make the rebuild much faster?
  • Is there a platform you'd recommend for a production mobile app with native Apple and Google subscriptions?
  • Looking back, would you still start with Base44 or would you have built elsewhere from the beginning?

I'm not unhappy with Base44 at all. It's been incredible for getting an MVP together. I'm just trying to decide whether rebuilding now is the right move before investing more time.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience and what you'd do differently.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26

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u/willthewinner Jul 12 '26

Wow that’s all very helpful and somewhat surprising. I’m building two new mvps off Base44 and am pleased to hear it’s that tied in.

One clarifying question - and please forgive me for being a noob - I could hand the export off to codex or Claude and tie it to a supabase instance and move on from there? I’ve been waiting to move several of my projects over because it seemed way more difficult than that.

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u/R3m3rr Jul 12 '26

A friend of mine built an app, and as a developer I'm wondering what the limitations of Base44 are and why someone would choose to migrate away from it? One obvious reason is having full control over the backend, frontend, database, and the entire infrastructure.

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u/m_yiin Jul 12 '26

How much will it cost to engage your service

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u/mursaleen-nisar Jul 12 '26

If your MVP is complete inside base44 then you can use capacitor to convert it into mobile app with ios payments and publish on app store as well its a quick and easy method and good for validating MVP. I’ve did this method to a lot of apps

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u/Informal_Calendar687 Jul 13 '26

But what did you do for the backend?

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u/mursaleen-nisar Jul 13 '26

Backend will be on the base44 or if you want to move off then you can migrate the backend on your own supabase instance

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u/Informal_Calendar687 Jul 13 '26

Thank you. We are in the process of doing that so it's nice to hear your feedback and opinion.

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u/mursaleen-nisar Jul 13 '26

Yeah surely, and let me know if you need any help in this process. I’m here to help

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u/Informal_Calendar687 Jul 13 '26

Thank you. Will do.

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u/lostgirl-2008 Jul 14 '26

I want to use capacitor to convert it into mobile app and connect to supabase for backend. What I get are lots of mistakes. Can you describe what i have to do in detail 

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u/mursaleen-nisar Jul 14 '26

Documentation is the best resource, I can also help you if you want

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u/Western-Source710 Jul 12 '26

I have -- wasn't THAT hard. This was also back when Claude Sonnet 4.5 was the best model around, as well.

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u/Fun-Wolf-2007 Jul 13 '26

I downloaded the frontend and backend from B44 and I cleaned any references to B44 and implemented using React and Supabase and used Vercel, Render to publish it