Meno vs Cursor vs v0 vs Lovable — Which AI Website Tool Actually Owns the Code?

There's a new generation of AI tools for building websites: Cursor, v0, Lovable, Bolt, Meno. They all use AI in some form. They produce very different outputs. If you're picking one, the right question isn't "which has the best AI" — it's "what do I have at the end, and where does it live?"

Cursor — AI editor for code

Cursor is the AI text editor for code. You write code, Cursor's AI helps you write more of it. Output: source files in your repo. Best for: application code, scripts, services. Visual feedback: a diff in the editor pane. Designer-friendly: not really.

v0 — React component snippets

v0 generates a React component from a text prompt. You copy it into your codebase and edit as code. Output: JSX snippets. Best for: scaffolding components inside an existing React app. Visual editing: minimal. Owning the code: yes (it's just React in your repo).

Lovable — AI app builder hosted on their platform

Lovable generates a React app from a prompt and hosts it on their platform. Output: a running app. Best for: prototyping apps with AI. Owning the code: limited — your app lives on Lovable. Visual editing: prompt-based, not canvas-based.

Meno — visual AI editor for whole websites

Meno generates and edits websites visually with AI. Output: a real website (pages, components, CMS) as JSON files in your Git repo. Best for: marketing sites, landing pages, blogs, docs. Visual editing: yes, native canvas. Owning the code: yes — files in your repo, deploy anywhere, open-source runtime.

How to pick

If you're shipping a marketing site or a content website, Meno is the obvious pick. If you're scaffolding components inside an existing React app, v0. If you're prototyping a new app and don't care where it lives, Lovable. If you're writing application code, Cursor. They're not all the same tool — they don't try to be.