Is your Base44 app production-ready?

Is Base44 production-ready?

Base44 is capable of producing production-ready apps, and it gives you more granular data controls than most builders aimed at non-engineers — you can restrict access record by record and field by field. Whether your app is ready depends on whether those rules match what your business actually intends, which is a question about your business, not the platform.

Does Base44's security scan run automatically?

No — and this is the single most useful thing to know about it. Base44's documentation describes running the scan as an action you take: you click Run Security Scan. It is not triggered for you when you publish, so an app can go live having never been scanned once.

Worth contrasting with a builder like Lovable, where the basic scan runs automatically during publishing. Neither approach is wrong — but with Base44 you have to remember to opt in, and "remember to" is where launch-day checklists fail.

When you do run it, it looks for six things: data permission gaps, exposed credentials, login verification gaps, package vulnerabilities, code vulnerabilities, and security headers. That is a genuinely useful list. Run it before every publish, not just the first one.

Is my Base44 app secure?

It's as secure as the rules you set, which is exactly what Base44 says. Its documentation states plainly: "You are responsible for your app's security settings. Base44 provides the tools, but always review your permissions and run a security scan before you publish." The tools are there and they're good. What no platform can decide is what your data is supposed to allow.

Base44 repeats the point elsewhere in its docs, and it's worth quoting because people assume the AI handled it: "The AI chat can help set things up, but always review your settings and run a security scan to make sure everything is configured the way you intended." Base44 also runs vulnerability scanning through Wiz, a serious security vendor — the platform side is taken seriously.

Can users see each other's data in a Base44 app?

Only if a rule permits it — but permitting it by accident is easy. Base44's rules take one of three forms for each action: allow everyone, block everyone, or a condition that compares the person asking against the record. The accidental version is the first one, left in place from when you were building and testing alone.

Base44 controls access at two levels: which records someone can create, read, update or delete, and which fields within a record they can read or write. Both need to be right. A correctly restricted record set with one over-shared field still leaks — that's usually where email addresses and phone numbers escape.

Test it in five minutes rather than reasoning about it: two accounts, two browsers, try to reach the first account's records from the second. Full method in why one user can see another user's data.

What are the default permissions on a new set of data?

Check yours rather than assume — Base44's public documentation doesn't state a default, and we're not going to guess at one on a security page. Open each type of data in your app and read the rules that are actually on it today. That takes a few minutes and replaces a guess with a fact.

This matters more than it sounds. The failure here is assuming a default that didn't apply to the way your data got created — the same trap exists in Supabase, where tables made in the dashboard and tables made in SQL behave differently. Assumption is the failure mode; looking is the fix.

I invited someone to help build my app — what did they get?

More than most people realise. Base44's documentation says collaborators are added to your app as an Admin in Users by default. That's a role in your live app, not just in the editor — so a freelancer or friend who helped for a weekend may still hold admin access to real customer data.

Base44 does separate the two concepts: someone can be given the Admin role in the live app without being made a collaborator in the editor. Which means you can grant the narrower one deliberately. Review your Users list before launch and after anyone finishes helping — it's a thirty-second job that nobody remembers to do.

Who can see my app once I publish it?

Whichever of three settings you chose: Private is invite only, Workspace is your team only, and Public means anyone with the link. Public is what it sounds like — there's no obscurity in a URL, and links get forwarded, logged and guessed.

You also choose separately whether signing in is required at all. The combination worth double-checking before launch is a public app with no sign-in requirement in front of data that assumed there'd be one.

Now that Wix owns Base44, what happens to my app?

Wix acquired Base44 in June 2025 and the product has continued to operate and grow since. The useful question isn't ownership though — it's portability, and that one is worth answering for any platform you build a business on, acquired or not.

What Base44's docs do confirm: there is a GitHub integration that syncs your app's code to a repository you own, and it "requires the Builder plan or higher". Sync is automatic in one direction — the docs note there's no option to manually push from Base44 to GitHub. Your data is exported separately, from the Dashboard.

One detail worth understanding before you treat that as a full exit: the local setup is configured with VITE_BASE44_APP_ID and VITE_BASE44_APP_BASE_URL, so the code you get is pointed at your Base44 backend. How independently it runs isn't something the docs spell out — which makes it exactly the question to ask support before you rely on the answer.

Those two values carry the VITE_ prefix, which per Vite's own documentation means they're bundled into the JavaScript sent to the browser. That's fine and by design — but it's the same principle as a Supabase publishable key: your data is protected by your rules, not by those values being secret.

What should I check before launching a Base44 app?

Three things, in this order. Run the security scan, because nothing runs it for you. Open every kind of data and confirm its rules name the owner rather than allowing everyone. Then check your Users list for anyone who helped build it and no longer needs admin. The seven layers below are the full pass.