Your First Step to Building with Lovable
✺ Credit Awareness

Use Plan Mode for anything risky

What Plan Mode is

A mode where Lovable writes a detailed plan and waits for your approval before touching code. No credits spent on building until you say go.

Use it for

  • Anything touching the database
  • Auth, payments, or anything users see immediately
  • Refactors ("reorganize this whole section")
  • Features you've never built before

Skip it for

  • Visual tweaks
  • Copy changes
  • Adding a single small component
operator note

Plan Mode feels slower because there's an extra step. It's actually faster because you skip the "oh no, undo" loop entirely.