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Best AI app security check

Matt Turley, Continuum. Updated 5 November 2026.

The short answer

Best AI app security check

No single check covers an AI-built app, so start with the scan your builder ships, add the Supabase Security Advisor if you use Supabase, turn on secret scanning for your repository, and read your live app from the outside. Add a human code review when the app takes payments or holds private data.

How we compared them

We make Continuum, which sells an outside-in Leak Check and a human-reviewed Ship Check, so we say where the other checks do a better job.

A security check is only useful if it looks at the place where your app is actually weak. Each option was weighed on:

  • What it looks at: your code, your database settings, your secrets or your live app.
  • Which kinds of problem it misses.
  • What it costs and how long it takes.
  • Whether a person who is not an engineer can act on the result.

The options

Options are listed in the order you meet them while building, which is not a ranking. Facts about other products come from the sources at the bottom.

Your builder’s own scan (Lovable shown)

Built into the tool that made the app

Lovable documents a Project security view and a quick scan that runs when you publish. Its Supabase guidance tells you to confirm every table has policies that restrict row reads and writes before going live.

Good at
It sits right where you build, so there is nothing extra to set up.
Fits
A Lovable user who wants a first pass before publishing. Other builders differ, so check what yours documents.
Drawbacks
Publishing is not blocked by findings unless a workspace admin turns that on. Lovable’s own guidance also says to verify policies in the Supabase dashboard, so the scan is a starting point.

Sources: [1]

Supabase Security Advisor

A linter for your Supabase project

The advisors are checks that ship with Supabase. You can open them in the dashboard, run them through the CLI with supabase db advisors, or call them from the MCP server. The Security Advisor flags tables that have row level security switched off.

Good at
It reads your real project settings, which no code scanner can see.
Fits
Any app on Supabase, whichever builder made it.
Drawbacks
Supabase says some findings may be intentional, for example when you only reach the database from a web server, so each one needs a decision. It does not look at your front end or your secrets.

Sources: [2]

GitHub secret scanning and push protection

Catches keys before and after they land in a repository

GitHub scans for known secret formats. Push protection blocks a push that contains a credential from a supported provider before it reaches the repository.

Good at
It stops the most common leak, a real key committed by accident, at the moment it happens.
Fits
Anyone whose code lives on GitHub.
Drawbacks
GitHub’s docs say older and legacy token formats may not be covered. It reads the repository, not the JavaScript your live site actually serves.

Sources: [3]

OWASP ZAP baseline scan

A passive scan of a running web app

The ZAP baseline scan runs a spider against your site for one minute by default, then analyses the responses without sending attack payloads.

Good at
It finds common web faults such as missing security headers, and it suits frequent automated runs.
Fits
A developer or a technical friend who can run it and read the alerts.
Drawbacks
Reports lean technical. In our view a passive scan will not catch logic flaws such as broken access control, which is how one user reaches another user’s data.

Sources: [4]

Continuum Leak Check and Ship Check

An outside read, then a human review

The Leak Check is free and runs seven checks on your live URL in about a minute: reachability and SSL, auth routes, payment path, secrets in the client bundle, Supabase exposure, broken links and speed. The Ship Check costs $299. A senior engineer reads the codebase and reviews every finding by hand.

Good at
The Leak Check needs only a URL, and the Ship Check explains each finding in plain words.
Fits
A non-technical founder who wants a plain-language answer, or an app with payments and private data.
Drawbacks
The Leak Check is a surface scan that Continuum itself calls not a full security audit. The Ship Check needs access to your repository and costs money, while the tools above are free.

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Which one fits which need

Pick by what you are worried about. This is not a ranking.

Which option fits which need, for: best ai app security check.
Which option fits which need, for: best ai app security check.
If you need toLook at
Strangers reading my databaseSupabase Security Advisor, then an outside read of the live app.
A key I pasted into the codeGitHub secret scanning and push protection.
Common web faults on the live siteOWASP ZAP baseline scan, or the Leak Check if you prefer a plain-language report.
One user reaching another user’s dataA human code review, because scanners rarely catch access control logic.
A quick first pass before I publishYour builder’s own scan.

Why the database check comes first

Continuum’s own scan of live AI-built apps asked one question: does the database answer a request that carries no login?

Continuum scanned 500 live apps built with Lovable, Bolt and base44 in October 2026. 177 of them ran on Supabase, and 31 of those 177 (17.5%) had at least one table that returned a row to a request with no login. 8 of the 177 (4.5%) had a table holding clearly non-public records. [5] Method and data.

A scanner that reads the repository cannot answer that, which is why a database check and an outside read belong in the set.

Start with the outside view

The free Leak Check shows what a stranger can see of your live app. If one of the free tools above fits your stack better, use that one. Run the free Leak Check →
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FAQ

Straight answers

Is one security scanner enough for an AI-built app?
No. Code scanners read your repository, database linters read your project settings, and outside scans read what a stranger sees. Each misses what the others catch, so use one of each kind that fits your stack.
Is there a free security check for an AI-built app?
Continuum’s Leak Check is free and needs only a URL. For the other tools, plans and limits change often, so read the vendor pages in the sources before you rely on them. A human review is the paid step.
What does a human security review add?
A person can follow how data moves through the app, which is where access control mistakes hide. Scanners match patterns, so a missing ownership check on an order or a profile often goes unflagged.
How often should I run these checks?
Run them before launch and after any change to login, payments or the database. Secret scanning and the Supabase advisors can run continuously, and the outside read is worth repeating after each release.
Keep reading
Eight scan tools comparedSemgrep, Snyk, GitHub code scanning and others, with what each catches and misses.Best Supabase RLS checkerThe database check in detail, with the options for testing policies.Best secret scanner for an AI-built appRepository scanners and a live-bundle read, compared.Ship CheckThe human-reviewed version, with what it covers and what it costs.
Sources
  1. 1. Security overview and Connect to Supabase, Lovable Documentation, Lovable, checked 2026-11-05: The Project security view, the publish scan, and the instruction to confirm table policies before going live (see also docs.lovable.dev/integrations/supabase).
  2. 2. Performance and Security Advisors, Supabase Docs, Supabase, checked 2026-11-05: Where the advisors run (Studio, CLI, MCP), the RLS-disabled finding, and the note that some findings may be intentional.
  3. 3. Push protection, GitHub Docs, GitHub, checked 2026-11-05: What push protection blocks and for which providers. Coverage limits are in the secret scanning detection scope page.
  4. 4. ZAP Docker: baseline scan, ZAP, checked 2026-11-05: The baseline scan spiders for one minute by default and analyses responses passively, with no attack payloads.
  5. 5. AI-Built App Database Exposure Scan, October 2026, Continuum, published 2026-10-10: Continuum’s own study: sample size, method, denominators and the downloadable data.
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