Best Application Development Software for Freelancers
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What is Application Development Software for Freelancers?
Application development software is a type of software used to create applications and software programs. It typically includes code editors, compilers, and debuggers that allow developers to write, compile, and debug code. It also includes libraries of pre-written code that developers can use to create more complex and powerful applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Application Development software for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Localazy
Localazy
Localazy is a localization automation platform and powerful CAT tool. Speak everyone's language and expand your user base. Manage translations and enjoy both standard & innovative localization features. Tailor-made for growing apps and established businesses alike. Integrate Localazy to your build chain (Github Actions, Bitrise, CI/CD) and forget about all the hassle. Never touch localizable files again 😏. 👨🏽💻 UX built around developer productivity ➡️ Instant&free translations available ➡️ Unlimited apps (public & private) ➡️ Unlimited localization features ➡️ Unlimited languages & translations ➡️ Unlimited machine translations ➡️ Save money with shared translations ➡️ All integrations & formats ➡️ One-time payment for source phrase quota availableStarting Price: $39 -
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Alpha Anywhere
Alpha Software Corporation
Alpha Anywhere is the only development platform with both low-code and no-code capabilities. Developers can rapidly create secure, cross-platform mobile and web business apps. Alpha leads in offline development, ensuring that data can be captured AND accessed (database lookups/media file retrieval) offline. A powerful bi-directional API can integrate with existing systems of record and workflows, tie into web services, and meet advanced security requirements. Offers: - pre-built templates - full-stack development - sophisticated analytics/dashboards - full-stack development - scale-able, secure, and reliable cloud deployment Professional developers and citizen developers can use the Alpha TransForm mobile forms builder to digitize paper forms in minutes. Offers offline operation, built-in analytics, and unmatched speed, power, and flexibility in the no-code segment.Starting Price: $0 -
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Intellimas
Singletree Technologies
Intellimas is a highly configurable, no code/low code solution with spreadsheet features. This allows you to build a variety of web applications that end users will love. Intellimas is built for fast data entry, analytics, exception management, and easy retrieval of live data from other systems, if required. The grid UI allows for an easy transition from spreadsheets. This comprehensive view, along with our new form view, provide you with the flexibility to handle unlimited end uses. Intellimas is deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Companies typically implement Intellimas for one business application and usually find several others for it in a short period of time. Reach out to us for a demo and ask us about our free trial!Starting Price: $38/Month -
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Convertigo
Convertigo SA
Convertigo is the first open source Enterprise Grade Low Code / No Code platform to accelerate your Enterprise digitalization for reasonable costs. Dream an App, Make an App! Imagine you can make any app you want. From simple handy workforce apps to Enterprise grade multi-device transactional applications helping companies to accelerate their business. Get live sooner! Convertigo Low Code platform application development makes your Enterprise to get business success more efficient, delivering complete applications, similar to Pro Code but faster and cheaper. Reduce by 90% time and money needed to build and deploy business applications running on all type of devices such as smartphones, tablets and PCs whatever operating systems they are running on. Enjoy Open Source! This means that you can use Convertigo Community Edition Free of Charge. Open Source also solves the Vendor Lock-in paradigm by allowing you to quit the platform and still enjoy running your appsStarting Price: $15 per month / user -
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Intrexx
United Planet GmbH
Low-code allows you to create a comprehensive, integrative solution that makes your work processes agile and adaptable at any time in the future. As a result, you save time and energy without having to do without tailored, coherent and seamless solutions. Therefore, low-code really is the best of both worlds because it harmonizes simple development and individuality. Your path to a successful digital future with low-code development. -
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MirrorFly
CONTUS TECH
MirrorFly is a CPaaS platform that empowers businesses and enterprises to add real-time chat features into their existing applications and websites. MirrorFly CPaaS offers text, voice, video, and broadcasting in an enterprise-grade infrastructure. Startups and large enterprises can build their own chat app with extensive customization and branding capabilities to add logos, brand color, and other brand elements. The self-hosted Chat APIs and SDKs offer 1000+ in-app messaging features with 100% customization. In addition, MirrorFly offers a dedicated developer team to support the end-to-end custom chat app development process. MirrorFly Readymade SDKs: 1. In-app Chat API 2. HD Video Call Solution 3. HQ Voice Call SDK 4. Self-hosted Chat Messaging Solution 5. SIP & VoIP Call Solution 6. Flutter Flow Software 7. Activity Feeds Solution 8. Call Broadcasting 9. Video Conferencing API 10. Video KYC Solution 11. Live Streaming SDKStarting Price: $299 per month -
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Jira
Atlassian
Jira is the only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team. Jira by Atlassian is the #1 software development tool for teams planning and building great products. Trusted by thousands of teams, Jira offers access to a wide range of tools for planning, tracking, and releasing world-class software, capturing and organizing issues, assigning work, and following team activity. It also integrates with leading developer tools for end-to-end traceability. From short projects, to large cross-functional programs, Jira helps break big ideas down into achievable steps. Organize work, create milestones, map dependencies and more. Link work to goals so everyone can see how their work contributes to company objectives and stay aligned to what’s important. Your next move, suggested by AI. Atlassian Intelligence takes your big ideas and automatically suggests the tasks to help get it done.Starting Price: Free -
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Buddy
Buddy
Buddy is a revolutionary build, test & deploy tool with dozens of integrations and over 100 ready-to-use actions. From website delivery to app deployments, from builds to test, Buddy turns the tedious part of every project into a breeze. Buddy is the most effective way to build better apps faster. Even the most complicated CI/CD workflows take minutes to create. Buddy is DevOps adoption winner. Smart changes detection, state-of-the-art caching, parallelism, and all-around optimizations make Buddy the fastest. Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless and Blockchain are always a click away from your stack. Buddy is minimal friction automation platform that makes DevOps easy for developers, designers and QA teams. With Buddy, your apps & websites are built, tested and deployed significantly faster after only minutes of setup.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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IntelliJ IDEA
JetBrains
IntelliJ IDEA is a JetBrains IDE for professional development in Java and Kotlin. It unlocks productive development and helps you write high-quality code with ease. Built to get the job done, it provides all of the essential tools and cutting-edge technology support you need. With a smooth, comfortable workflow and a strong focus on privacy and security, it lets you code with confidence and pleasure.Starting Price: $16.90 per user per month -
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Bitbucket
Atlassian
Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy. Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($3/user/mo) or Premium ($6/user/mo) plans. Keep your projects organized by creating Bitbucket branches right from Jira issues or Trello cards. Build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Approve code review more efficiently with pull requests. Create a merge checklist with designated approvers and hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments. Bitbucket Pipelines with Deployments lets you build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Know your code is secure in the Cloud with IP whitelisting and required 2-step verification. Restrict access to certain users, and control their actions with branch permissions and merge checks for quality code.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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Zoho Creator
Zoho
Zoho Creator is an all-in-one low-code application development software that is designed to help businesses digitize their operations without the hassle of traditional development. The platform lets businesses of all sizes 1. Manage their data and workflows, 2. Derive insights from their database, and 3. Link-up seamlessly with their existing software. We believe that each business is unique in its own way and our platform is built to address this uniqueness. More than 13,000 businesses with an excess of 7 million users around the world trust us to be their technology partner and you can also start your custom application journey today.Starting Price: $8/user/month/annually -
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Omnis Studio
Omnis Software Ltd
Omnis Studio is a cross platform application development environment. Omnis Studio allows application developers and programmers to write application code and business logic once, and deploy their applications on virtually any platform or device, including desktop PCs on Windows and macOS, as well as tablets and phones on iOS, Android and Windows. Support for a large range of client devices is enabled using the Omnis JavaScript Client, a unique JavaScript based technology for rendering the application UI and web forms in a standard web browser on desktops and mobile devices. The integration of data and services is available in Omnis Studio via REST based Web Services, and functionality can be extended within Omnis Studio by utilizing its powerful and flexible external components API. Omnis is headquartered in the UK and has subsidiaries in USA, France and Germany and distributors for many other parts of the world. -
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1C:Enterprise
1C Company
1C:Enterprise is a universal rapid application development platform for building and delivering business management and accounting solutions in HORECA, Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance, and other industries. It has the breadth of capability to address the diverse needs of today’s business through building solutions in a low-code environment. The 1C:Enterprise platform enables developers to rapidly build business applications of any complexity, from the most straightforward single-developer products to advanced ERP systems. 1C:Enterprise applications run on desktop, mobile, and web. The platform automatically adapts applications to the required OS, browser, and DBMS. Due to the support of multiple open standards (ODBC, REST API, OData, XML, JSON, COM, SOAP, HTTP, etc.), 1C:Enterprise applications easily integrate with any software and hardware, including equipment from various vendors.Starting Price: $200 -
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Neptune DXP
Neptune Software
Neptune Software's leading low-code app development platform - Neptune DXP – digitizes and optimizes business processes and user interfaces – at scale and with ease. Neptune DXP offers enterprise mobility, as well as the best low-code app development for SAP customers with the choice of no-code/low-code app development. The platform gives IT departments the right tools to build the apps they need. Neptune DXP provides a fast, cost-effective, and future-proof way to industrialize the development of custom applications (especially SAP Fiori, SAP mobile applications), turning your IT organization into an app factory, saving time and money on enterprise app development, app integration, and enterprise app operations. -
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Felgo
FELGO GmbH
Felgo is a cross-platform SDK for rapid, native app & game development for iOS, Android, Desktop & Embedded. Felgo’s biggest advantage is the big time savings and the easiness to learn compared to other development SDKs. You write less source code and make use of a single code base for all platforms. Less code means fewer bugs and faster releases of new updates from a single team for all platforms. Key Features for Mobile & Desktop: • Create stunning UIs and animations to wow your users and rank higher in the app stores. • Code & time savings up to 80% thanks to the reactive & declarative language and 200+ APIs. Key Features for Embedded: • Create high performance embedded system apps & second screen apps. • Native performance and rapid UI creation, powered by C++ & JavaScript. Felgo is an official Qt Technology Partner. Felgo is in use by over 50.000 developers worldwide and field-proven by Fortune 500 companies across all kinds of industries.Starting Price: Free for personal usage. -
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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment on your laptop. OpenShift Dev Spaces is included with your OpenShift subscription and is available in the Operator Hub. It provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. Get coding today with our free Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, which includes OpenShift Dev Spaces to try out at no cost. Developers can focus more on coding, with their application and development environment containerized and running on OpenShift - all without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes. Administrators can easily manage and monitor workspaces as any other Kubernetes resource.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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Ambassador
Ambassador Labs
Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience -
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JFrog Artifactory
JFrog
The Industry Standard Universal Binary Repository Manager. Supports all major package types (over 27 and growing) such as Maven, npm, Python, NuGet, Gradle, Go, and Helm including Kubernetes and Docker as well as integration with leading CI servers and DevOps tools that you already use. Additional functionalities include: - High Availability that scales to infinity with active/active clustering of your DevOps environment and scales as business grows - On-Prem, Cloud, Hybrid, or Multi-Cloud Solution - De Facto Kubernetes Registry managing application packages, operating system’s component dependencies, open source libraries, Docker containers, and Helm charts with full visibility of all dependencies. Compatible with a growing list of Kubernetes cluster providers. -
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Enterprise Architect
Sparx Systems
Enterprise Architect is an enterprise wide solution to visualize, analyze, model, test and maintain all of your systems, software, processes, and architectures. Enterprise Architect is the ideal platform to help you to stay in control of your workspace, support your colleagues and team, enable collaboration and build confidence within your most complex projects.Starting Price: $229 -
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Travis CI
Travis CI
The simplest way to test and deploy your projects in the cloud or on-prem. Easily sync your projects with Travis CI and you’ll be testing your code in minutes. Check out our features – now you can sign up for Travis CI using your Assembla, Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab account to connect your repositories! Testing your open-source projects is always 100% free! Log in with your cloud repository, tell Travis CI to test a project, and then push. Could it be any simpler? Many databases and services are pre-installed and can be enabled in your build configuration. Make sure every Pull Request to your project is tested before it’s merged. Updating staging or production as soon as your tests pass has never been easier! Builds on Travis CI are configured mostly through the build configuration stored in the file .travis.yml in your repository. This allows your configuration to be version controlled and flexible.Starting Price: $63 per month -
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OutSystems
OutSystems
OutSystems is the number one low-code platform that is specifically designed to help users build and deliver better apps faster. Combining the power of low-code development with advanced mobile and enterprise integration capabilities, OutSystems enables users to visually develop and manage their entire application portfolio, stage interdependent apps and components, seamlessly integrate with existing systems, and streamline DevOps processes. -
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MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
MuleSoft
Anypoint Platform by MuleSoft is a complete hybrid enterprise integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs. With AnyPoint, developers can access a wide range of tools that enables them to design, build, and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications and products. Anypoint Platform is built with open technologies, with Mule as its core runtime engine. -
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RAD Studio
Embarcadero
The Ultimate RAD environment loved by developers for quickly building high-performance native cross-platform applications in modern C++ and Delphi using powerful visual design tools and integrated toolchains. Smarter code navigation when refactoring. Auto code completion with Tab key. LSP awareness of Include files. Auto restart of LSP server. Class helper support. Array suggestions when assigning arrays. Inactive code highlighting in Code Editor. High-DPI support in the IDE, with full support for the latest 4k+ monitors, and cleaner and sharper fonts and icons throughout. Improved FMX High-DPI support for Windows and Desktop with a visibly superior desktop UI. Reduces the complexities of rapidly building and deploying a multi-tier turn-key enterprise REST API application server with Swagger support. -
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Delphi
Embarcadero
Delphi is the ultimate IDE for creating cross-platform, natively compiled apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience. -
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C++Builder
Embarcadero
C++Builder is a fast, integrated design and development suite for modern apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience. -
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Scriptcase
Netmake
An efficient web development low-code platform. It helps you to create complete web systems and Business Intelligence solutions fast and easy! Scriptcase enables you to design, develop and elegant, responsive, database-driven applications using only your web browser. A powerful PHP generator for you to develop fast, simple, secure at a low cost. Connect with your database (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase, SQL Azure, Amazon Aurora, Firebird, Access, Oracle, MS SQLServer, DB2, SyBase, Informix or ODBC layer) and generate web applications based on your tables, simply and safely. Make the data access and maintenance an uncomplicated step! Scriptcase offers an XLS, CSV and ACCESS spreadsheet import and conversion features for the databases supported by Scriptcase. With this import tool you can easily transform your spreadsheets into system applications.Starting Price: $349 -
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DronaHQ
DronaHQ
DronaHQ is a low-code platform to build internal tools and custom apps for the web and mobile. Developers and engineering teams use this platform to create admin panels, CRUD apps, GUI for Databases or APIs, forms, dashboards & operational apps. Key features include: - Customizable UI components - Mobile + Web app output - 10x faster app development - Seamless integration to any existing tech stack - Scalable cloud-based architecture - Over 50 Engineering Support Hours (UVP) - Free forever developer plans With 3000+ Apps built and 1 million+ users supported, DronaHQ is a platform trusted by global companies.Starting Price: $0/month -
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SecureStack
SecureStack
With triggers in your CI/CD pipeline, SecureStack can check for common security issues and stop those issues from getting into your applications. SecureStack embeds security automatically with every git push. We built our technology to test every facet of your application security looking for things like missing security controls, are you using encryption correctly; we test the efficacy of your WAF and are your cloud-native components secure and more than 250 other data points. All of that was delivered in less than 60 seconds. See what a hacker can see when they view your applications. Test and compare your development, staging and production environments to quickly find critical differences and understand ways to fix high-priority defects. We help you decompose your web application so you are aware of all the resources your app is using behind the scenes.Starting Price: $500/mo -
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Backendless
Backendless
Backendless is a Visual App Development Platform (VADP) that combines API, user, and database management functionality with a user-friendly, web-based interface and UI Builder. Backendless offers the ability to send emails and push notifications and supports real-time chat and geolocation-based functionality. A Backendless application can be customized with manually written code or using our Codeless logic builder. The platform can be hosted on our cloud servers or installed and managed on your own private servers. The Backendless UI Builder allows you to build fully functional web and mobile apps. You can use the UI Builder, or Backendless works seamlessly with virtually any client-side environment, automatically morphing data to the proper format for the frontend operating system. A Backendless database can also be connected to external databases, allowing you to maintain existing data sources while also being able to manage those databases using Backendless' intuitive interface.Starting Price: $15.00/month -
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Appsmith
Appsmith
Appsmith is a low code developer tool for quickly building UIs and connecting to a wide range of data sources. You can drag and drop pre-built components to build UI on the open grid-style canvas. When it comes to adding logic, transforming data, and defining workflows. Appsmith lets you insert plain Javascript right inside any widget, query, or almost any other setting. - Start by linking to an existing datasource such as a database or an API. Appsmith has plug-and-play support for most databases, Rest APIs, and GraphQL, so you can seamlessly import your data. - Next, you can use pre-made widgets to easily layout an app, and move them around to optimize usability - Get the app running by connecting the UI to the datasource. You can do this by writing queries or calling APIs. Remember, you can control everything with JavaScript! - Finally, deploy the app. You can also integrate with your CI/CD, create git branches for different environments to safely develop, test and deployStarting Price: $0.4/hour/user