NovaNova vs Cursor
AI code editor
Cursor is an AI editor for engineers who live in code. Nova is for shipping a finished, deployed website from chat — no editor, no setup, no deploy step to figure out.
Prompt → live, deployed site
From one sentence to a public URL
No IDE or terminal needed
Build entirely from chat
Full-stack — auth, database, payments
Not just the front-end
Multilingual UI + RTL
7 languages incl. Arabic & Urdu
Built for global & emerging markets
Pricing and locales beyond the US
One-click custom domains
Your name, not a subdomain
Self-healing builds
Catches and fixes its own errors
Connectors out of the box
Supabase, Stripe, GitHub, Vercel…
Free to start
No card to try it
full · partial · not the product's focus
Why builders pick Nova
No setup, ever
No install, no terminal, no local environment. Open a tab, describe it, get a live site.
It deploys for you
Cursor stops at code. Nova plans, builds, reviews and ships to a public URL with a domain.
For builders, not just devs
You don't need to read or write code to ship something real with Nova.
What Cursor is great at
Cursor is excellent if you're a developer. It's a fast, AI-native fork of VS Code with great autocomplete, codebase-aware chat, and agent edits. For working inside an existing codebase, it's one of the best tools out there.
Where Nova is different
Nova isn't an editor — it's the whole pipeline. You describe what you want and Nova plans it, writes it, reviews it, and deploys it to a live URL with a custom domain. No local setup, no terminal, no figuring out hosting. Cursor hands you code; Nova hands you a running website.
See it for yourself
Describe a site in a sentence and watch Nova plan, build, review and deploy it — live, in your language. No card required.