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Retool
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-assisted low-code platform for building governed internal tools and workflows that connect directly to production data.
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Angular.dev
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Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
1.1M visits/mo
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Builder.io
✓ verifiedFreemium
Visual development platform with AI design-to-code, a visual editor and headless CMS so teams and agents ship UI in real code.
806K 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
No public pricing
Free: $0 per user/mo (60 agent credits)
Pro: $24/user/mo (500 credits)
Team: $40/user/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
- ✦Signals-based fine-grained reactivity
- ✦Built-in control flow and deferrable views
- ✦Server-side rendering and hydration
- ✦First-party routing, forms and dependency injection
- ✦AI-forward tooling and MCP resources
- ✦In-browser tutorials and playground
- ✦AI design-to-code (Figma to code)
- ✦Visual editor tied to your components
- ✦Headless/visual CMS
- ✦AI agents (Builder-Agent) that open PRs
- ✦Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Figma, VS Code
- ✦Roles, reviews and collaboration
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
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development
- →Convert designs to production code
- →Let non-developers edit pages visually
- →Manage content with a headless CMS
- →Collaborate across design, PM and engineering
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