Articles
Straight answers for Base44 app owners.
How exports, data, ownership, compliance, search and mobile really work on Base44 — checked against Base44’s own documentation and terms, with links so you can check them too.
Leaving Base44
Exports, rebuilds, other builders and the order to do things in.
Leaving Base44
How to export your code from Base44, and what the export leaves out
ZIP download, GitHub sync, the CLI and CSV: every official way to get code and data out of Base44, what each includes, and what stays behind.
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Leaving Base44
Base44’s backend and database, explained for app owners
Where a Base44 app’s data lives, how entities, security rules and functions work, and the practical limits on getting at your own records.
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Leaving Base44
Can you self-host a Base44 app? The complete answer
Base44 has no self-hosted edition. What you can run yourself today, what still needs Base44, and what a complete self-hosted setup looks like.
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Leaving Base44
Moving a Base44 app to Supabase: what it really takes
A Base44-to-Supabase move rewrites the data layer. The full mapping, the traps (IDs, queries, security rules, passwords) and a realistic plan.
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Leaving Base44
Moving from Base44 to Lovable, Bolt or Replit
What moves when you switch AI app builders, what has to be rebuilt, and how to choose between switching tools and owning the app you already have.
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Leaving Base44
Cancelling Base44: end the subscription and keep your app running
Step-by-step cancellation, what stops working on the Free plan, refunds and yearly plans, and the order to do things in if you are moving your app first.
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Ownership and compliance
What you own, where data lives, and what regulated apps need.
Ownership and compliance
Do you own your Base44 app? What the terms actually say
Base44’s terms give you rights to the generated code, and give Base44 a broad license too. A plain-English reading, and what ownership means in practice.
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Ownership and compliance
Base44 and HIPAA: can you build a health app on it?
What HIPAA requires of the platforms that touch patient data, what Base44’s terms say about health information, and your options if your app needs PHI.
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Ownership and compliance
Base44, GDPR and data residency: where your app’s data lives
Base44 stores app data in the US by default. What its EU and UK residency option covers, what it doesn’t, and how to run your app in the region you choose.
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Running in production
Limits, search, workflows and mobile, once real users arrive.
Running in production
Base44 SEO: what’s handled for you, and where the ceiling is
How Base44 serves pages to search engines, what you can configure, the custom-domain requirement, and what changes when you run the server yourself.
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Running in production
Is Base44 production-ready? The limits to know before you scale
The documented Base44 limits that matter in production: records per request, function and automation timeouts, integration credits, backups and rate limits.
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Running in production
Base44 to the App Store: how mobile builds work and where they stop
Base44 wraps your web app for iOS and Android. What the wrapper supports, what it doesn’t (in-app purchases, for one), and your options once you own the code.
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Running in production
Migrating Base44 workflows: how multi-step automations move
Base44 workflows replaced automations in 2026. How they are defined, what moving them involves, and how to check they behave the same afterwards.
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