# Google Antigravity + Lovable: Free Editing Setup Guide

Edit your Lovable project without spending Lovable credits — and without paying for Claude Code.
Google Antigravity is free, and it works. Full walkthrough: https://chadesheppard.com/google-antigravity-lovable

## Prerequisite: Lovable → GitHub two-way sync

This has to already be true before anything else works.

1. Open your Lovable project → **Settings → Git**.
2. Make sure two-way sync with GitHub is connected.
3. Copy the repository link — Antigravity will use it to pull your files.

(If this isn't set up yet, it's a two-minute toggle. See the companion guide:
https://chadesheppard.com/stop-burning-lovable-credits)

## Step 1 — Download and install Antigravity

1. Go to the Google Antigravity site.
2. Download **both** pieces: Antigravity 2.0 and the Antigravity IDE (the editor, similar to VS Code).
3. Install both, then log in with your Google account.

No Google Cloud setup. No paid AI plan. A regular Google account is enough.

## Step 2 — Clone your Lovable project

1. Open the Antigravity IDE and click **Clone Repository**.
2. Paste the GitHub link you copied from Lovable, press Enter.
3. Create a new folder for the project (e.g. `MyApp`) and select it.
4. Antigravity copies all your files from GitHub onto your local machine.
5. Open the folder. When it asks whether you trust the authors — that's you, so yes.

**Heads up:** the first session comes with a lot of permission popups (run commands,
edit files, launch servers). That's normal. Approve them and it settles down.

## Step 3 — Run it locally

Ask the agent:

```
Can you open this site up locally?
```

It launches a local dev server and gives you a localhost address (e.g. `localhost:8080`).
Open it in your browser — it's your Lovable site, running on your machine.

## Step 4 — Make an edit in plain English

Ask for your change, e.g.:

```
Can you add a very simple test graphic that is moving at the top of the page?
```

The agent plans, writes the code, and produces proof of what it did (diagrams, test recordings).
Check the result on your localhost copy — the live Lovable site won't change yet.

## Step 5 — Push back to Lovable

Tell the agent:

```
Push to GitHub.
```

Then reload your Lovable preview. Lovable syncs the change from GitHub automatically.
Your Lovable credit count stays exactly where it was — verified in the video: 170 before, 170 after.

## What's in the model picker

Antigravity isn't locked to one AI model. Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro,
Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and more — switch anytime at no extra cost.

## The honest caveat

I haven't found the free tier's limit yet. It might cap daily edits at some number — I don't know
if it's 5 or 50. Worst case, you hit a wall and you're back where you started. Best case, it covers
everything you need and you never touch a credit (or a Claude Code subscription) again. Worth ten
minutes to find out.

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