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Hostinger is a pretty well-known name in the web hosting industry, and it has recently ventured into the no-code space. Hostinger’s no-code platform, Horizons, taps into the demand for web app builders, and uses AI extensively to allow anyone to spin up web apps without writing a single line of code.
In this review, we’ll examine its features, interface, ease of use, target use cases, and how it stands against competitors in the booming no-code space.
Hostinger Horizons: Features
Horizons operates through a simple AI chat interface. You just describe your app idea using natural language, and the platform’s AI will translate it into a working web app. Very helpfully, Horizons supports over 80 languages, which allows even non-English users to build apps using the platform’s AI.
In addition to written prompts, you can also converse with the platform using voice prompts, which again help make Horizons more accessible. You can also upload user interface sketches, and designs to the AI to ensure it understands your requirements.
Like most platforms, Hostinger allows you to publish your apps on a custom domain as well. In fact, Horizons also takes advantage of Hostinger’s infrastructure to offer web hosting, domain services, professional email, and other tools. This helps Horizons pitch itself as an all-in-one solution, which you don’t get with most other no-code platforms.
Web apps created with Hostinger Horizons are responsive, and mobile-friendly, which means they’ll work and look good on desktops, as well as on smartphones. That said, remember that web apps created with the platform can’t be published as native mobile apps on the Google Play Store, or the Apple App Store.
Hostinger Horizons: Interface and Ease of Use
Horizons has a straightforward interface, with an AI text box in the middle of the screen. Enter your prompt, or select from one of the listed example prompts, and let it tip.
It’ll analyze the prompt, break it down into tasks, tell you how it’ll approach the build, before it spins it up. When it’s done, it’ll show you a preview of what it will build. You can then make modifications, or just ask it to build the app as per the preview.
Horizons will also helpfully suggest ideas to help extend the app. For instance, when I asked it to create an ecommerce web app, it suggested I improve it by connecting it to a database for real product data storage, add a shopping cart, and checkout functionality, implement user authentication, and more.
And you can roll these features simply by asking the AI.
Whenever you use the AI to add new functionality, Horizons will also tell you how to test it. Some processes like adding social logins (Google, Facebook, and such) require some running around, but the platform does its best to guide you through the process with clear step-by-step instructions.
Hostinger Horizons: Integration and Extensibility
Horizons builds web apps in Node.js, and creates the necessary HTML, CSS, and JSS files.
You can use Horizons to fuse your app with third-party tools, for things like database management, and user authentication. However, at the moment, these integrations require some effort outside the Horizons tool itself. But, like we said, the platform does its best to lay out the steps for you.
Hostinger Horizons is compatible with the open source Supabase cloud-based database. You’ll need to pass your Supabase details to Hostinger to get them to work together.
You can also add a payment gateway, for instance with Stripe, or Paypal. But again, you’ll need to step out of the Horizons, and share certain details like the Paypal Client ID, or the Stripe Publishable Key with the platform.
Horizons says you’ll be able to integrate any backend services to your app built on the platform, as long as the service has an API, and you provide the integration information Horizons asks for. That said, adding certain backend functionality might be easier than others, for the time being, as the platform is still under active development.
Hostinger Horizons: Deployment and Maintenance
After your prompt is entered and the web app is ready, you need to deploy it to make it live. Simply click on the Publish button. As with other no-code platforms, Horizons will publish the app with a random URL to a hostinger subdomain, by default.
But, as usual, you can publish the app to your own custom domain as well. Also, you can unpublish your web app, and can also always come back to it to tune it further, and republish it.
If you’d like to look at the code for your web app, you can use the Export function on the platform to download it. This will roll all the HTML, CSS, and other files into a zip file that it’ll then save on your computer.
Horizons can’t import your code to code sharing websites like GitHub, which is something you can do with Lovable. Also, while you can edit the code offline, there is no way to import it back to Horizons, and continue refining it with its AI.
You can also ask the Horizons AI to help you add your web app to your existing website. It’ll recommend adding the app as an embedded component, but will also offer the option to include the app as an iFrame. As usual, it’ll generate the necessary code for both approaches, along with instructions on how to go about both procedures.
Horizons also has a version control system, and you can undo a change, or revert to a previous version with a single click. Just like with Lovable, you can also use the Horizons AI to help fix any errors.
If it encounters an error while building the app, the platform will usually give you the Ask to fix button. When pressed, the platform will analyze the error, and try to mend it on its own. You can also copy or describe the error to the AI, and ask it to help you solve it.
Hostinger Horizons: Pricing and Documentation
Hostinger Horizons was rolled out to a limited audience in February, 2025, before its general availability on March 4, 2025.
All existing users with a Hostinger hosting subscription can use Horizons for free with a five messages/day limit.
You will need to have a Horizons subscription plan besides having a hosting plan in order to have a complete experience with building your projects under the tool.
The Starter plan costs $19.99/month, and comes with 100 AI prompts/month. Then there’s the $49.99/month Hobbyist plan with 250 messages, the $99.99/month Hustler plan with 500 messages, and the $199.99 Pro plan with 1000 messages.
You can publish 50 web apps with all the paid plans, and they all also include one month of free hosting, unlimited bandwidth, and 50 mailboxes with 1GB of storage each.
In terms of documentation, Horizons has several official guides that’ll handhold you from building your first app, to integrating it with other services such as Google AdSense. Besides illustrated text tutorials, Hostinger also has a bunch of instructional videos on YouTube. You also get 24/7 customer support with all the paid plans.
Hostinger Horizons: The competition
Hostinger Horizons is the newest entrant in the no-code web app builder market, and faces stiff competition from several well-established platforms.
For starters, there’s Bubble. While Horizons uses AI to generate web apps based on natural language descriptions, Bubble requires users to manually design and configure their apps. Although Bubble has a steeper learning curve than Horizons, it provides more flexibility for building custom web applications.
Then there’s Adalo, which can build both web, and mobile apps. It has a drag-and-drop UI, as well as a plethora of pre-built components to help you put together your apps. While Adalo does offer some AI capabilities, its strength is its mobile app-building capabilities.
Horizons closest competition is with Lovable. Both platforms make extensive use of AI to create, edit, and debug web apps. However, Horizons is still very new to the markets, and doesn’t yet offer all the features you get with Lovable, such as the two-way sync with a GitHub repo.
Hostinger Horizons: Final Verdict
Horizons’ use of AI to cover all aspects of app development, from creation, to editing, makes the platform truly democratic for everyone, including those with no coding experience.
The platform’s support for multilingual, and audio prompts makes it a good option for non-English developers. Also, unlike other platforms it takes advantage of Hostinger’s infrastructure to offer an all-in-one solution to create and deploy your web apps.
However, it’s important to remember that the platform has just debuted, and is constantly being worked on. It doesn’t yet offer the features and conveniences you get with its peers.
But even in its early stage, we’ll definitely suggest all existing Hostinger users to take Horizons for a spin. The platform is evolving rapidly, but since it doesn’t offer a free tier, it might be a good idea to give it some time to refine itself before you jump in to sign up.
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