Thirty-seven builders, each run through six fixed briefs three times, each scored on the same ten weighted axes. Ordered by overall rating. The verdict lines below are the panel consensus; each review also carries the dissenting view.

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  Totalum Review (2026)

  Buy for operational software, skip for brochures. Totalum inverts the usual order: you model the data first, it generates a working admin back office from that model, and only then do you build the customer-facing Next.js app against a typed SDK. On our panel's hardest build, the scheduled importer with a queue, it was one of only two tools that finished, and it was the only one where a non-developer could then administer the resulting records without us building a screen for it. The API and MCP surface is the second best in the index, behind Replit alone. Its weakness is aesthetic: front-end output is competent rather than striking.

  Best for operational apps with real data behind them: bookings, inventory, client portals, anything that needs staff to administer records · From 25 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.6 / 560 ratings
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  Cursor Review (2026)

  The highest agent performance we have measured, and the only entry with a perfect code ownership score, because the code was always yours. Cursor takes 4.8 on agent performance and 4.8 on scalability for the simple reason that it has no ceiling: whatever your stack can do, it can do. It is also not an app builder. There is no hosting, no database, no deploy button, and a non-developer will be stuck at the first failing test. Include it in your shortlist only if somebody involved can read a stack trace.

  Best for anyone who can read code, or is willing to learn, and wants no ceiling on what they can build · From 19 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.4 / 5296 ratings
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  Lovable Review (2026)

  Buy, with one eye on the meter. Lovable is the most complete of the chat-first builders: the generated interfaces are the best looking in this index by a clear margin, the Supabase integration means auth and a real relational database arrive in the first ten minutes rather than the third week, and the GitHub sync is honest two-way sync rather than a zip download. Our panel built the same booking app on all eleven tools; Lovable was one of only four that produced something we would have been willing to put in front of a paying customer without a rewrite. What you are buying is the first eighty percent, delivered faster and prettier than anywhere else.

  Best for founders and product teams who want a good-looking, genuinely deployable saas front end in an afternoon · From 23 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.2 / 5410 ratings
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  v0 Review (2026)

  Buy if you have a developer, skip if you do not. v0 produces the cleanest code of anything in this index: idiomatic Next.js App Router, Tailwind utility classes that a human would have written, shadcn/ui primitives rather than a bespoke component zoo. Our testers pasted v0 output into three real production repositories with no reformatting and no dependency arguments. It also understands the accessibility basics better than its rivals, which is rarer than it should be. The scoring reflects a narrower job done extremely well: v0 is a front-end generator that happens to deploy, not a full-stack builder.

  Best for teams that already have engineers and an api, and want interface code that matches their existing next.js conventions · From 18 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.2 / 5214 ratings
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  Plasmic Review (2026)

  The best engineering fit of any visual tool here. Plasmic renders into your own React or Next.js app, so pages stay fast and indexable, scoring 4.4 on speed and 4.3 on SEO, and code ownership at 4.3 is near the top because your repository never stops being yours. AI features are minor and the initial integration needs a developer for a day. If you have engineers and a marketing team who keep filing page-edit tickets, this pays for itself immediately.

  Best for product and marketing teams who want visual editing inside a codebase engineers already own · From 35 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.1 / 538 ratings
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  WeWeb Review (2026)

  The professional choice in this bracket. WeWeb takes 4.4 on integrations and 4.1 on SEO because it treats a web application as something that has to be fast, indexable and connected to real data, which is not the norm here. The AI assistance is deliberately minor, so if you were hoping to describe an app and receive one, this is the wrong tool. Paired with Xano or Supabase it produces work an agency can hand over without embarrassment.

  Best for agencies and product teams building a real front end over xano, supabase or an existing api · From 39 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.1 / 546 ratings
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  Replit Review (2026)

  Buy, if your app has a back of house. Replit is the only tool in this index where the agent is standing on a real computer: it can run migrations, read logs, install a system package, retry a failing test and tell you what broke. That is why it scored highest of all eleven on scalability, and why our panel's most complicated build, a scheduled importer with a queue and a webhook receiver, only finished on Replit and Totalum. The trade is aesthetic and cognitive: the default interfaces are plain, and the product assumes you are comfortable seeing a shell.

  Best for technical founders and internal tooling teams whose apps need scripts, cron jobs, queues and a real filesystem · From 23 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.0 / 5328 ratings
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  FlutterFlow Review (2026)

  The best mobile tool in this index by a clear margin. FlutterFlow generates genuine Flutter projects, exports the source on paid plans, and produces interfaces that look designed rather than generated, taking 4.3 on both design and integrations. The catch is that you inherit Flutter: web output is heavy and scores 2.8 on SEO, and debugging eventually means reading Dart. For an app that has to live in both stores from one codebase, nothing else here is close.

  Best for teams that need one codebase for ios, android and web with a real exit path to flutter source · From 30 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  4.0 / 596 ratings
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  Retool Review (2026)

  The most professionally engineered product in this index, and priced accordingly. Retool takes the top marks on integrations at 4.7 and reliability at 4.6 because it connects to real databases with real credentials, has genuine source control and can be self-hosted when compliance demands it. The AI features are useful rather than transformative. Per-user pricing gets expensive fast and the learning curve assumes you know SQL. If you have engineers and internal tooling debt, this is the answer.

  Best for engineering teams building admin panels and operational tooling over production data · From 10 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.9 / 5104 ratings
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  Nordcraft Review (2026)

  The most principled tool in the index and one of the smallest. Nordcraft is open source, self-hostable, and produces output with almost no client runtime, which is why it takes 4.6 on speed and 4.4 on SEO, both near the top. Code ownership at 4.5 is honest rather than marketing. The trade is community size and AI capability: documentation is thin, the assistant is the weakest thing here at 2.9, and you will be solving problems alone. Superb value if that suits you.

  Best for developers who want visual building without accepting a proprietary runtime or lock-in · From 19 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.9 / 58 ratings
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  Base44 Review (2026)

  Buy for internal tools, think hard for anything customer-facing. Base44 is the most forgiving product in this index for someone who has never opened a terminal: there is no Supabase key to paste, no deployment step to understand, no npm. Database, auth, email and hosting are simply there. Two of our non-technical testers completed a working staff rota tool on Base44 and on nothing else. It also gives you the best value on the entry tier of any full-stack builder here. The cost of that simplicity is ownership: the batteries are included because they are bolted in.

  Best for operations and business teams building internal tools without engineering support · From 18 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.9 / 5168 ratings
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  Bolt.new Review (2026)

  Buy as a sketchpad, not as a factory. Bolt is the fastest tool in this index at getting from a sentence to something running in a browser tab, and the WebContainer trick means there is no cold start and no cloud build queue to wait on. For a pitch on Thursday, nothing here beats it. The problems begin on day three. Token consumption is the least predictable of any builder we tested, error recovery is the weakest of the well-funded tools, and our panel hit two dead ends where the agent could not repair a broken dependency tree and starting again was cheaper than continuing.

  Best for rapid prototypes, pitch demos, and validating an idea before anyone commits budget to it · From 18 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.9 / 5261 ratings
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  Xano Review (2026)

  The most useful half-a-product in the index. Xano gives you a genuine Postgres database, a designed REST API and background jobs, all built visually, and it scores 4.6 on API access and 4.4 on scalability because it is engineered for the job rather than bolted on. It has no front end at all, so design scores 3.0 and that is fair. Pair it with Readdy, WeWeb or v0 and you have something better than most all-in-one builders produce.

  Best for teams pairing a no-code or generated front end with a backend that will survive real traffic · From 55 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.8 / 558 ratings
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  Readdy Review (2026)

  Judge it as a design tool and it is very good. Readdy scored 4.6 on design, the second-highest mark anywhere in this index, and the markup it emits is genuinely clean, which is why it also takes 4.0 on SEO and GEO without any tuning. It is not an app builder. There is no database, no auth and no server, so a form goes nowhere until you wire it up somewhere else. Pair it with a real backend, or with a developer, and it earns its price. Buy it expecting an application and you will be annoyed within an hour.

  Best for marketing pages, landing pages and front-end work that has to look designed rather than generated · From 15 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.8 / 517 ratings
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  Macaly Review (2026)

  A quietly competent small tool. Macaly produced a working brief on the first attempt in four of our six tests, which is a better first-pass rate than several tools ten times its size, and the interfaces it generates need less restyling than most. Where it falls short is breadth: the integration catalogue is thin, there is no MCP surface, and once a project grows past a handful of models the agent starts losing track of what it has already built. Buy it for version one. Plan on exporting before version three.

  Best for founders who want a good-looking first version fast and are comfortable exporting it to an engineer later · From 20 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.8 / 514 ratings
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  Airtable Review (2026)

  Buy it as a database, use the app features as a bonus. Airtable is the most reliable data layer in this index at 4.5 with a first-class API at 4.5, and Interfaces are now good enough that many teams never need a separate tool. It is not an app builder in the sense the rest of this list is: no public pages worth having, record limits that force plan upgrades, and per-user pricing that adds up. As the backend under Softr or Glide, it is close to unbeatable.

  Best for teams that need shared operational data first and an interface over it second · From 20 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.8 / 588 ratings
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  Momen Review (2026)

  The most capable tool in this cohort for anything with roles and relationships, and the least forgiving. Momen gives you a real relational model, a generated GraphQL API and row-level permissions that actually work, which is rare here. The cost is a learning curve closer to a framework than a builder, an AI assistant that is the weakest part of the product at 3.3, and no code export at all. Strong choice for a marketplace. Poor choice for a weekend.

  Best for marketplaces, booking products and multi-role applications that need real permissions · From 25 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.7 / 521 ratings
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  Softr Review (2026)

  Excellent at one job and honest about it. If your data is already in Airtable and you need a gated portal your clients can log into, Softr gets you there faster than anything else in the index, with permissions that behave. It is a front end, not a platform: the record limits and page-load behaviour bite as data grows, there is no code export, and the AI assistant is cosmetic. Rent it for a portal. Do not build a product on it.

  Best for client portals, membership directories and internal views over data that already lives in airtable · From 49 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.7 / 571 ratings
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  Glide Review (2026)

  The best tool here for a specific and very common job. Glide takes a spreadsheet full of operational mess and produces a fast, good-looking app your warehouse staff will actually use, and it is more reliable doing it than most of the index at 4.3. It is not for public sites: 2.4 on SEO and GEO is the lowest mark we have given, deservedly, and there is no code export. Judge it as an internal tools platform and it is a genuine buy.

  Best for field teams, inspections, inventory and any internal process currently living in a shared spreadsheet · From 60 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 564 ratings
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  Bubble Review (2026)

  Still the most capable platform here, still the hardest to leave. Bubble wins the integrations axis outright at 4.5 because thirteen years of plugins and a large contractor market genuinely solve problems the AI-native tools cannot. The costs are real: no code export at all, the weakest performance profile in the index at 3.0 on speed, workload pricing that surprises people in month three, and an AI assistant that is the least convincing part of the product. Choose it deliberately, with an exit you have accepted you do not have.

  Best for complex operational products where the plugin ecosystem and the contractor pool matter more than speed · From 29 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 5118 ratings
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  Tempo Review (2026)

  A good answer to a narrow problem. Tempo puts a canvas on top of an actual React repository rather than a proprietary document, so a designer can move a component and an engineer sees a normal diff. Code ownership at 4.4 reflects that honestly. It is not trying to build your backend, the agent is average, and if nobody on your team writes React the premise collapses. Buy it for the handoff problem, not for the building problem.

  Best for mixed teams where a designer and an engineer need to edit the same front end without fighting · From 24 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 513 ratings
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  Rork Review (2026)

  The fastest route from an idea to something running on your own phone. Rork scored 4.1 on agent performance and 4.5 on speed, both strong, and the React Native output looks current rather than templated. It is young: complex state handling breaks down, scalability at 3.1 reflects that, and credit pricing means an expensive week if you iterate hard. As a prototyping tool for mobile it is the most exciting thing in this cohort. Treat production claims cautiously.

  Best for founders who want a credible native app prototype on a real device the same afternoon · From 22 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 55 ratings
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  Zite Review (2026)

  Buy for a website, skip for an application. Zite is the best value in this index if what you actually need is a handsome, fast, well-marked-up site with a form on it: publishing takes minutes, the on-page SEO defaults are better than most full-stack builders manage, and the entry price is the lowest here at around 14 EUR. It scored 3.8 on our SEO and GEO axis, ahead of Replit and Base44, which tells you where its engineering attention has gone. The ceiling arrives fast though. Once you need user roles or a relational model, Zite is not the tool.

  Best for marketing sites, landing pages and simple lead-capture apps that need to look good and rank · From 14 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 534 ratings
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  AppMaster Review (2026)

  The most unusual proposition in the index, and one of the most defensible. AppMaster does not interpret your project at runtime, it compiles it into Go source you can download, host and read, which is why code ownership takes 4.6 and scalability 4.3. The interface is dense and dated, design output is plain, the AI layer is thin, and the entry paid tier at 80 EUR is the highest here. If lock-in is your primary fear, this is the answer to it.

  Best for technically minded teams who want no-code speed with a real compiled codebase at the end of it · From 80 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 56 ratings
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  Emergent Review (2026)

  Interesting, not yet dependable. Emergent has the most ambitious agent architecture in this index: give it a real brief and it produces a task decomposition that reads like something a competent tech lead would write, then works through it across many files without asking permission every thirty seconds. When it lands, it lands big. Our panel gave it 4.2 on agent performance, joint third highest alongside v0. The trouble is variance. The same brief run twice produced materially different quality, and the failure mode is quiet: plausible code that does not work, discovered later than you would like.

  Best for developers who want to hand off a well-specified multi-file change and review the result rather than watch it happen · From 18 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 554 ratings
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  Marblism Review (2026)

  Not really an app builder, and better for it. Marblism scaffolds a conventional Next.js and Prisma repository with auth and billing already in place, hands you the whole thing, and expects you to run it. Code ownership at 4.7 is the highest mark in the index. Everything downstream of generation is on you: our test builds needed manual fixes in five of six briefs, and there is no iterative agent to lean on. Excellent time saver for a developer. Useless without one.

  Best for developers who want a conventional next.js codebase scaffolded in minutes instead of days · From 29 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 512 ratings
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  Manus Review (2026)

  Impressive, expensive and not really a builder. Manus plans and executes long chains of work in its own sandbox, and it scored 4.3 on agent performance because it genuinely completes tasks that stump single-purpose tools. As an app platform it is weak: no project structure to return to, scalability at 3.0, and credit consumption that made it the least predictable cost in our tests. Use it for a one-off build or a task that spans research, data and code. Do not use it as your product surface.

  Best for one-off builds, research-plus-build tasks and automations that span more than one tool · From 39 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 549 ratings
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  Mocha Review (2026)

  Buy for small things and mean it. Mocha does not pretend to be a platform. It builds small web apps quickly, the editor is the least intimidating in this index after Base44, and the pricing is honest enough that our testers never worried about the meter, which is a rarer virtue here than it should be. It earned 4.1 on value, third highest overall. What it will not do is grow with you: scalability at 3.1 and API access at 2.7 both sit in the bottom three of the index, and both are structural rather than a roadmap gap.

  Best for side projects, small internal utilities and single-purpose tools where cost discipline matters more than ambition · From 15 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.6 / 529 ratings
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  Trickle Review (2026)

  Buy on looks, and know what you are buying. Trickle produces the most tasteful output of the lightweight group and scored 4.3 on design, third highest in the whole index, above every full-stack builder except Lovable and v0. If your job is a microsite, a campaign page or an interactive form that has to look considered, this is a genuinely good tool at a genuinely low price. It is also, by our measurements, the least capable backend here: scalability 2.9, API and MCP 2.5, both bottom of the index. Nothing about that is a bug; it is the product.

  Best for designers and marketers building visually distinctive pages, microsites and interactive forms · From 15 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.5 / 522 ratings
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  a0.dev Review (2026)

  The tightest iteration loop in the index. a0.dev applies a small change and shows it on your phone faster than anything else we tested, taking 4.6 on speed and 4.2 on agent performance. It is also the thinnest product here: integrations at 3.0, no meaningful API, scalability at 2.9, and a feature set that assumes you are one person prototyping. Excellent for the first two days of an idea. Plan to move somewhere else by week three.

  Best for rapid mobile prototyping where the loop between an idea and seeing it matters more than anything else · From 18 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.5 / 54 ratings
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  Rocket.new Review (2026)

  Buy only if mobile is the point. Rocket.new is the clearest answer in this index to a specific question: what if the output needs to be an app store app rather than a website? It generates Flutter and React Native targets from the same brief, the screens look genuinely native rather than a web page in a shell, and for a team with no mobile engineers that is a real shortcut. Everything else is mid-table or below. Reliability is shaky, the SEO axis score of 3.0 is the weakest here, and the credit model prices exploration higher than it should.

  Best for teams who need a credible mobile app prototype and do not have mobile engineers · From 16 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.5 / 519 ratings
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  Stacker Review (2026)

  A narrow, competent product with an awkward price. Stacker does per-client permissions over an existing data source better than most, and the portals look respectable without design work. But it starts at 59 EUR with no free tier, the AI layer is thin, and Softr now does a broadly similar job for less. Worth a look if the permission model is genuinely the hard part of your problem. Otherwise there are cheaper routes to the same portal.

  Best for consultancies and service businesses that need a per-client portal over data they already hold · From 59 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.3 / 59 ratings
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  Knack Review (2026)

  Unfashionable and quietly dependable. Knack has been building database applications for fifteen years and it shows in both directions: the data modelling and role handling are solid and it stayed up through every one of our tests, but the interfaces look like 2016 and the AI assistance is the weakest in this cohort at 2.8. There is no free tier, which is unusual here. Good fit for a charity or association replacing a spreadsheet. Poor fit for anything a customer sees.

  Best for membership registers, applications and case management for organisations without engineers · From 39 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.3 / 524 ratings
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  Bravo Studio Review (2026)

  A specialist that does one thing beautifully. If you have a finished Figma file and an API, Bravo turns them into a native app that looks exactly like the design, and design at 4.4 reflects that fairly. Everything else is missing on purpose: no visual editor, no backend, almost no AI at 2.6, and scalability at 2.6 to match. It is a bridge, not a platform. Very effective if you are standing on both banks already.

  Best for designers with a finished figma prototype and an api to plug into it · From 19 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.2 / 55 ratings
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  Draftbit Review (2026)

  A decent tool with a worrying pulse. Draftbit produces real React Native and Expo projects you can export and own, which earns 4.2 on code ownership, and the visual editor is pleasant. Product momentum is the problem: the changelog has been thin, the AI assistance is the weakest in the mobile category at 2.7, and support responses in our testing were slow. If you already write React Native and want a head start, it works. Do not build a roadmap on it.

  Best for react native developers who want a visual head start and then to leave with the project · From 39 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.2 / 511 ratings
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  Adalo Review (2026)

  The kindest on-ramp in the index and no longer the right answer for most people. Adalo remains easy to learn and will genuinely get an app into the stores, but performance is poor at 3.0, scalability at 2.8 is among the lowest here, there is no code export, and FlutterFlow now does more for less commitment. It is still worth considering if a beginner needs to ship one small app and never touch it again. Everyone else should look at FlutterFlow or Rork first.

  Best for first-time builders who want a phone app in the stores without learning a framework · From 45 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.1 / 541 ratings
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  Thunkable Review (2026)

  A teaching tool that happens to publish to app stores. Thunkable is forgiving, well documented and reliable enough at 3.7, and for a classroom or a first project it does exactly what it should. As a commercial platform it is not competitive: scalability at 2.7, no code export, thin integrations and almost no AI capability. Judge it on its actual audience and it is good value at 25 EUR. Judge it against FlutterFlow and it loses on every axis that matters to a business.

  Best for education, prototypes and simple utility apps built by people learning to build at all · From 25 EUR · Last verified 14 August 2026 · Español

  3.1 / 527 ratings