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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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UI Bakery
✓ verifiedFreemium
Low-code platform that generates internal tools, admin panels and dashboards from a prompt, then lets teams edit visually.
321K visits/mo
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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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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
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
Free: $0/mo per developer
Builder: $20/mo per developer (billed annually)
Team: $35/mo per developer (billed annually)
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
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
- ✦Prompt-to-app generation for internal tools and admin panels
- ✦Visual drag-and-drop editor for post-generation refinement
- ✦Direct connections to real databases, REST APIs and third-party tools
- ✦80+ prebuilt UI components
- ✦Role-based access control and audit logging on paid tiers
- ✦Cloud or self-hosted deployment options
- ✦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
- ✦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
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 employee approval workflows or ops dashboards quickly
- →Generating admin panels with tables, filters and forms for a database
- →Creating CRUD interfaces on top of an existing data source
- →Teams needing self-hosted internal tools for compliance reasons
- →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
- →Internal tools for support, ops and sales
- →Custom CRMs and admin panels
- →Customer and partner portals
- →Approval and dashboard apps
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