Buyer's Guide
If you built your app with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit or v0, a security scanner catches the exposed keys and missing database rules those tools tend to ship. Here's an honest, side-by-side look at the main options — including where they beat us.
Last updated: July 2026 · Maintained by the VibeSafe team
| Scanner | VibeSafe | Vibe App Scanner | CheckVibe | Snyk | Semgrep | AuditYourApp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scans source code | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Config |
| Scans deployed URL | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Exposed secrets / API keys | Yes | Yes | Yes | Add-on | Yes | Yes |
| Supabase RLS checks | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes |
| Plain-English fixes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Dev-focused | Dev-focused | Partial |
| IDE extension | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| CI/CD (GitHub Action) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Paid scan | Yes | OSS only | Yes | Limited |
| Built for | Founders | Founders | Founders | Dev teams | Dev teams | Builders |
Features and pricing change often — check each tool's site for the latest. This table reflects our best understanding as of July 2026.
VibeSafe is built for the person who used an AI tool to build their product and doesn't have a security engineer. It scans both your source code and your deployed URL, then explains every finding in plain language with a specific fix — no CVE IDs or CVSS scores to decode. It also ships a VS Code / Cursor extension and a GitHub Action.
Vibe App Scanner runs against your live URL, auto-detects your stack, and probes for exposed secrets, missing security headers, auth issues and database misconfigurations that Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and Replit tend to introduce. A solid choice if you only want to test the deployed app and don't need code-level scanning or an IDE workflow.
CheckVibe scans a deployed URL against a large set of checks in parallel — exposed keys, injection, XSS and more — with no install or config. Good as a free starting point, though like other URL-only tools it can't see your source code or run inside your editor.
Snyk is the industry standard for software composition analysis and has an unmatched vulnerability database. If you have a developer and a real pipeline, it's excellent. For a solo non-technical founder, the output — CVE IDs, CVSS scores, dependency trees — is hard to act on, and it won't know what Supabase RLS is.
Semgrep is a powerful, developer-focused static-analysis tool with AI-assisted rules to cut false positives. Great if you write code and want fine-grained control. Like Snyk, it assumes a developer audience rather than a founder who needs to know "is my app safe to launch?"
AuditYourApp focuses on the backend layer where vibe-coded apps most often leak: exposed RLS rules, unprotected RPCs and leaked API keys in Supabase and Firebase. A good complement if your main worry is database access control specifically.
Start with what you can give the scanner. If you only have a deployed URL and no code, a URL scanner (VibeSafe, Vibe App Scanner, CheckVibe) is your path. If you have the source, code-aware tools (VibeSafe, Snyk, Semgrep) go deeper.
Then match it to who's reading the report. If a developer will act on the findings, Snyk or Semgrep give the most depth. If you — a founder — need to understand and fix things yourself, pick a tool that explains issues in plain English and covers both code and the live app.
Don't over-buy. Most solo founders launching an AI-built app need three things covered well: no exposed secrets, Supabase RLS actually enabled, and no obvious auth holes. Any tool above handles the basics — the difference is how much interpretation it asks of you.
We build VibeSafe, so treat this with appropriate salt — but we wrote this guide to be genuinely useful even if you pick someone else. Snyk and Semgrep are outstanding if you're an engineering team. URL-only scanners are great for a fast pre-launch check. We built VibeSafe for the middle: the founder who has the code and the deployed app, isn't a security engineer, and wants one tool that checks both and tells them plainly what to fix.
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