Own your code

Real files, your repo, your domain.

Nothing here is locked behind a proprietary editor or a runtime only we can host.

Actual React, actual TypeScript

Petal writes the same code a senior engineer would hand you: typed components, semantic design tokens, a real router, a real schema. Open the file tree and read every line of it.

Git sync both ways

Connect a repository and every build lands as a commit. Edit locally, push, keep building in Petal. Your history lives somewhere you control, not in a vendor database.

Ship where you like

Publish on a Petal URL, point your own custom domain at it, or take the repo and deploy it anywhere that runs Node. Leaving is a decision, not an escape.

100%: Real source you can read
2-way: Git sync
Yours: Custom domain

Build something

The rest of the difference

The marketplaceEvery other AI builder ends at deploy. Petal keeps going: list the app, price it, transfer it.Pay as you buildBuild in bursts. Disappear for three months. Come back and your balance is exactly where you left it.The agent boardOne model writing everything is how you get an app that looks right and behaves wrong.