Lovable lost my work. Now what?

A prompt went wrong and your app is broken, or parts of it are gone. Work through these in order; most people get their project back at step 1 or 2.

1. Use Lovable's revert

Every Lovable edit can be reverted from the project's history: open the version list and restore the last version that worked. The catch, and it matters: Lovable's revert is all-or-nothing. Rolling back to Tuesday also removes everything good you added after Tuesday. If the damage is recent, that trade is fine. If good work landed since, keep reading before you revert.

2. Check whether GitHub sync was on

If you ever connected your Lovable project to GitHub, there's a full copy of every version there, and you can recover selectively instead of all-or-nothing. You don't need to read code to use it: open the GitHub website, find the project, and either download the whole project as a zip from an earlier point in the history, or hand the link to someone technical for ten minutes.

3. Mine the chat for what the code said

Lovable's chat history often contains large pieces of your app as it existed earlier, inside the AI's own responses. Scroll back to before the damage and paste this:

4. Rebuild the smallest possible piece

Only when 1–3 come up empty. Describe the one broken screen precisely (what it did, what it looked like, what it connected to) rather than asking the AI to "fix everything", which tends to break more.

So it never happens again

Two habits close this hole for good:

• Turn on GitHub sync now. It's in your Lovable project settings, takes a minute, and turns every future edit into a recoverable version.
• Give the project a home outside any one tool. Lovable's history lives inside Lovable, and everyone eventually uses more than one tool. Plyo imports your Lovable project through that same GitHub sync and keeps a timeline of every version with one-click restore: selective, not all-or-nothing. It still works the day you start editing in Cursor or Claude Code too.