Google has turned its Firebase backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform into a full-stack AI workspace called Firebase Studio that builds custom apps in a browser-based environment. Available to anyone with a Google account during its preview phase, Google says Firebase Studio will be useful to beginners and pros alike, with Gemini-powered AI agents that can be used to automate the process of building, launching and monitoring mobile and web apps and related infrastructure. Firebase Studio “includes everything developers need to create and publish production-quality AI apps quickly, all in one place,” the company announced at Google Cloud Next 2025.

“This could be a game changer for developers who want to quickly prototype and build production-ready applications with AI assistance,” VentureBeat quotes an enthusiastic YouTuber saying on a video tutorial that suggests Firebase Studio could be better than popular competing products Lovable and Bolt.

“Firebase Studio combines Google’s coding tools Genkit and Project IDX with specialized AI agents and Gemini assistance,” writes VentureBeat, adding that it’s “built on the popular Code OSS project, making it look and feel familiar to many.”

Firebase Studio “provides always-on AI assistance across the entire development workflow,” reports Maginative, noting “developers can generate full apps from natural language, images, or drawings.”

Users can initiate the development process by describing their idea in English, or via a sketch, “and the App Prototyping agent will spin up a functional Next.js web app, complete with frontend, backend, and AI components. From there, users can iterate with Gemini’s coding assistant or dive into the code directly using a VS Code-compatible IDE hosted in the cloud,” Maginative explains.

“Over the past year, we launched many new services, including Gemini in Firebase, Genkit, and Project IDX (a fork of Code OSS), to make building AI apps faster and easier,” writes Jeanine Banks, VP and GM of Google’s Developer X in a blog post. With the launch of Firebase Studio, it “fuses all of these capabilities together with Firebase services and the creative power of Gemini into a new, natively agentic experience.”

The appeal of Firebase Studio, writes Maginative, “is less about any single feature and more about the complete, integrated experience. Firebase Studio doesn’t just assist with code — it helps manage the full lifecycle: version control, testing, emulation, deployment, monitoring, and collaboration. It even lets teams share the entire development environment via URL.”

Essentially an “AI-enabled sandbox that scales from prototype to production,” Maginative suggests Firebase Studio should be welcome by developers who are “burned out” by the tedious demands of their practice.