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Retool
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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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rowy.io
✓ verifiedFreemium
Low-code backend builder giving teams a spreadsheet UI over Firebase/Google Cloud data plus scalable custom cloud functions.
31K visits/mo
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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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BlackBox AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding platform routing many agents and models through one encrypted, usage-based endpoint with CLI, IDE and multi-agent execution.
3.9M visits/mo
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)
Free trial available
Base: $0/month (1 project, unlimited cloud functions and team members)
Team/Pro: $12/seat/month (unlimited projects, full-text search, one-month free trial)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Spreadsheet-style UI over a Firestore database
- ✦Unlimited custom cloud functions written in-browser
- ✦30+ supported field types for structured data
- ✦Webhooks and extensions (Slack, SendGrid, WhatsApp, etc.)
- ✦Field-level access control and row auditing
- ✦Open-source codebase with self-hosting option
- ✦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
- ✦Unified encrypted inference endpoint
- ✦Multi-agent parallel execution
- ✦CLI, IDE, and API access
- ✦App builder and remote coding agents
- ✦Chairman LLM output evaluation
- ✦35+ IDE integrations
Use cases
- →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
- →Startups building an app backend without heavy custom development
- →Non-developers collaborating on structured data alongside engineers
- →Automating workflows that trigger on data changes
- →Connecting external forms or APIs into a shared Firestore database
- →Build web apps without coding
- →Prototype product ideas quickly
- →Create landing pages and sites
- →Ship internal tools
- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
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