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Jet Admin
✓ verifiedFreemium

No-code and AI builder for internal tools, admin panels, CRMs and customer portals on top of your existing databases.

44K visits/mo
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Instachart
✓ verifiedFree

Turns a photo, sketch or text prompt of a dashboard into a generated interactive dashboard with demo data.

5.2K saves
Retool logo
Retool
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-assisted low-code platform for building governed internal tools and workflows that connect directly to production data.

1.7K saves
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.

35M visits/mo69K saves
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Pipedream
✓ verifiedFreemium

Low-code integration platform for connecting thousands of APIs into workflows and AI agents, including an MCP tool server.

498K visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (up to 5 users, 500 workflow runs/month)
Team: $10/mo per builder + $5/mo per internal user (5,000 workflow runs/month)
Business: $50/mo per builder + $15/mo per internal user (audit logging, unlimited resource environments)

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No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • Drag-and-drop visual app builder
  • Auto-generated admin panels from databases
  • External data sync into a single source of truth
  • Workflow automation with 5,000+ integrations
  • Granular permissions and sharing
  • AI apps and AI agent builder
  • Self-hosted option
  • Generate dashboards from a photo or sketch
  • Upload a mock-up to build a dashboard
  • Text-prompt dashboard generation
  • Auto-populated demo data
  • Public or private output option
  • AI prompt-to-app builder for production-ready internal tools
  • MCP server for building apps from external AI coding agents
  • Import of apps built in other platforms via ZIP or GitHub sync
  • Direct, permission-governed connections to production data sources
  • Workflow automation and orchestration across systems
  • Mobile app support alongside web apps
  • Enterprise access controls, SSO and audit logging
  • Self-hosting option for regulated environments
  • Chat-to-app and website generation
  • Real-time prototype building
  • One-click deploy and hosting
  • Templates to start projects
  • Credit-based building with shared workspaces
  • You own your code and data
  • Visual and code-based workflow builder
  • Prebuilt AI agent builder and deployment
  • Managed authentication across thousands of apps
  • MCP server exposing integrations as agent tools
  • Scheduled and event-triggered workflows
  • Connect SDK for embedding integrations into other products
Use cases
  • Internal tools for support, ops and sales
  • Custom CRMs and admin panels
  • Customer and partner portals
  • Approval and dashboard apps
  • Prototyping dashboards quickly
  • Turning a sketch into a working dashboard mockup
  • Demoing dashboard ideas
  • Engineering and ops teams building internal admin tools fast
  • IT centralizing governance over AI-generated business apps
  • Enterprises building embedded portals for external users
  • Teams automating multi-step operational workflows
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • Building AI agents that call external APIs and tools
  • Automating cross-app workflows such as Slack, Gmail, or Sheets notifications
  • Embedding third-party integrations into a SaaS product
  • Prototyping event-driven automations without heavy infrastructure
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