Platforms for Building Custom Business Apps

Sev­er­al plat­forms are designed for build­ing inter­nal tools, client por­tals, and oth­er busi­ness appli­ca­tions.

• Softr Softr allows you to build cus­tom busi­ness apps and por­tals. You can cre­ate appli­ca­tions for both desk­top and mobile devices. It inte­grates with var­i­ous data sources, includ­ing Airtable and Google Sheets, to build your app's front-end. For instance, a design agency can use Softr to build a client por­tal for shar­ing project updates and files. The plat­form has an AI app builder that can gen­er­ate a tem­plate based on a text prompt.

• Glide Glide turns spread­sheets from sources like Google Sheets or SQL into apps. It has a user-friend­­ly inter­face for build­ing appli­ca­tions for dif­fer­ent busi­ness needs, such as inven­to­ry or logis­tics man­age­ment. You can design the app, con­nect it to your data, and pub­lish it as a web-based appli­ca­tion.

• Bub­ble This is a pow­er­ful no-code plat­form for cre­at­ing full-stack web and mobile appli­ca­tions. You can use its visu­al edi­tor to design your app's inter­face and define its log­ic. Bubble's API con­nec­tor lets you inte­grate with AI ser­vices like Ope­nAI, Google AI, and oth­ers. This means you can add fea­tures such as chat­bots, text gen­er­a­tion, and image recog­ni­tion to your app.

Platforms for Workflow Automation

Some no-code plat­forms focus on automat­ing busi­ness process­es and work­flows.

• Zapi­er Zapi­er is a tool that con­nects dif­fer­ent apps and ser­vices to auto­mate tasks. It allows you to cre­ate "Zaps," which are auto­mat­ed work­flows between appli­ca­tions. For exam­ple, you can cre­ate a Zap that auto­mat­i­cal­ly saves email attach­ments to a cloud stor­age ser­vice. Zapi­er has inte­grat­ed AI fea­tures, allow­ing you to build AI-pow­ered work­flows, agents, and chat­bots. You can cre­ate a Zap using a sim­ple text prompt.

• n8n This is a work­flow automa­tion plat­form that gives you the flex­i­bil­i­ty to use both no-code and code. You can build mul­ti-step AI agents and inte­grate them with var­i­ous appli­ca­tions. It can be self-host­ed, which pro­vides more con­trol over your data and AI mod­els.

Platforms with Integrated AI Features

Many no-code builders have start­ed to incor­po­rate AI func­tion­al­i­ties direct­ly into their plat­forms.

• Ada­lo Ada­lo is a no-code plat­form for build­ing mobile and web appli­ca­tions. It has AI-pow­ered fea­tures like "Mag­ic Start" and "Mag­ic Add" that help you gen­er­ate your app's data­base struc­ture by describ­ing your app's pur­pose. Ada­lo also allows for inte­gra­tion with OpenAI's Chat­G­PT to add fea­tures like auto­mat­ic text gen­er­a­tion and sen­ti­ment analy­sis.

• Zoho Cre­ator This is a low-code plat­form that includes a no-code AI builder. It enables you to add AI capa­bil­i­ties like pre­dic­tion, sen­ti­ment analy­sis, opti­cal char­ac­ter recog­ni­tion (OCR), and key­word extrac­tion to your appli­ca­tions with just a few clicks. For exam­ple, you can use OCR to scan doc­u­ments and dig­i­tize data auto­mat­i­cal­ly.