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When you delete a project, Lovable removes it from your workspace and takes its published app offline. Lovable keeps the project for 60 days, so you can restore it from workspace settings if you deleted it by mistake or need it again. After 60 days, Lovable deletes the project permanently. You can delete and restore projects on all plans.
This page is about deleting a project, which removes the whole project from your workspace. Looking for a way to take the app offline while you keep building? See Unpublish your project. The two are different actions.

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Before you delete

Deletion is reversible for 60 days and permanent after that, so check whether one of these fits better:

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How to delete a project

You can delete the projects you own. Workspace owners can delete any project in the workspace. Delete a project from any of these places: When you delete one project, type its name as shown to confirm and click Delete project. When you delete several projects at once, type the confirmation text the dialog shows and click Delete. If Lovable is still working on a request or a revert in the project, wait for it to finish and delete the project afterwards. After you delete one project, Lovable confirms the deletion. Click Undo or Restore project, whichever Lovable shows, to put the project back immediately. To restore a project later, or after you delete several projects at once, follow Restore a deleted project.

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What happens when you delete a project

When you confirm the deletion:
  • Lovable removes the project from your dashboard, its folder, and search results.
  • The published app and preview links stop working within about a minute.
  • If the project uses Lovable Cloud, Lovable pauses its backend. The data in it stays.
For 60 days, Lovable keeps the code, version history, project chat, settings, and knowledge. During that time the project is listed under Recently deleted projects in workspace settings. The 60 days count from the first deletion. If you restore the project and delete it again, the deadline does not change.
After 60 days, Lovable permanently deletes the project, its version history, and its project chat. Nobody can bring it back after that, including Lovable support.

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Restore a deleted project

You can restore the projects you own. Workspace owners can restore any deleted project in the workspace, so ask one of them to restore a project that someone else owns.
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Open Recently deleted projects

Open Workspace settings → Workspace and find Recently deleted projects. The section appears only while you have a deleted project you can restore. Each row shows when the project was deleted and how many days are left before permanent deletion.
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Find the project

Find the project in the list. The section lists up to 5 projects. When you can restore more than 5, the section shows the total and a View all link to the full list, where you can search by name and sort the table.
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Restore the project

Click Restore next to the project and confirm. The project is back on your dashboard, and the published app and preview links work again within about a minute. If Lovable paused the Cloud backend when you deleted the project, the backend resumes. A backend that you paused yourself, or that is paused because the workspace ran out of credits, stays paused.
Two cases need an extra step:
  • Another project now uses the URL subdomain. Lovable cannot restore the project until the address is free. See This project’s name was taken while it was deleted.
  • The project was deleted together with its workspace. Lovable does not list it under Recently deleted projects, and you cannot restore it on its own. Restore the workspace, and its projects come back with it.
Projects that Lovable deleted automatically as abandoned appear in the same list, and you restore them the same way.

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Limitations

Two limits apply to deleting and restoring a project:

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Troubleshooting

These are the cases that surprise people most often, so you can tell intended behavior from a real problem.
Intended behavior. A lovable.app address belongs to one project at a time. When you deleted the project, its URL subdomain became available, and another project has since chosen it. A deleted project has no settings you can open, so the restore cannot give it a new address. Free the address first: change the URL subdomain of the project that uses it now, in that project’s settings, then click Restore again. After the restore, you can give either project any free subdomain. If the project that uses the address is not one you can edit, contact Lovable support. The message refers to the URL subdomain, not the project’s display name.
Intended behavior. The 60 days have ended, or permanent deletion has already started. Nobody can bring the project back, including Lovable support. Recently deleted projects shows how many days are left for each project.
Intended behavior, in most cases. You see only the deleted projects you own, so ask a workspace owner, who sees every deleted project in the workspace. The project is also missing when more than 60 days have passed, or when it was deleted together with its workspace. If the workspace was deleted, restore the workspace instead.
Intended behavior. Delete and restore requests on the same project count toward one limit of 10 per hour per person. Lovable tells you how many minutes to wait. Wait that long, then try again.
Intended behavior. Lovable has placed the project under review, and deleting and restoring stay closed until the review ends. If you need the project deleted or restored before then, contact Lovable support.