Best Web App Development Platforms for Startups

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.

8 Ratings

Starting Price: $0

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DHTMLX

DHTMLX is a JavaScript UI library that provides a set of highly customizable and flexible components for building modern and responsive web applications. The library includes more than 30 UI components, such as Gantt, Scheduler, Kanban, diagrams, charts, grids, spreadsheets, calendars, trees, forms, and more. DHTMLX helps to advance web development and build feature-rich data-intensive applications of any complexity. One of the key advantages of DHTMLX is its compatibility with different web frameworks, including React, Angular, and Vue.js, which makes it a great choice for developers who are already working with these frameworks. DHTMLX is also designed with performance in mind. Its components are optimized for fast rendering. A comprehensive and rich API provides a straightforward way to manipulate JavaScript/HTML5 UI widgets. The library has detailed API documentation, tutorials, and examples that help developers quickly get up to speed and start building their apps.

Starting Price: $79

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Flutter

Google

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Paint your app to life in milliseconds with Stateful Hot Reload. Use a rich set of fully-customizable widgets to build native interfaces in minutes. Quickly ship features with a focus on native end-user experiences. Layered architecture allows for full customization, which results in incredibly fast rendering and expressive and flexible designs. Flutter’s widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons and fonts, and your Flutter code is compiled to native ARM machine code using Dart's native compilers. Flutter's hot reload helps you quickly and easily experiment, build UIs, add features, and fix bugs faster. Experience sub-second reload times without losing state on emulators, simulators, and hardware.

9 Ratings

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CaptainCasa Enterprise Client

CaptainCasa

Rapid development and cost-effective maintenance of web applications with server-side Java. The developer uses only this most widely used development language; no html, css or javascript knowledge is required for frontend programming. Unique clear separation of UI design and logical processing. Integration of Java business logic into the design through expression language and event control. Numerous and exceptional components serve a unique overall look; unlimited use of additional CSS or JavaScript on design side. Of course, the developed applications can also be hosted on Microsoft Azure or AWS (Amazon Web Services); the developed applications can also be used in-house with simple deployment. CaptainCasa Enterprise Client protects against hidden costs and provides long-term protection of your software development investment.

7 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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Oracle APEX

Oracle

APEX is Oracle’s world’s most popular low-code application platform that enables you to build scalable, secure cloud, mobile or desktop apps, with world-class features, that can be deployed anywhere – whether in the cloud or on-premises. Using APEX, developers can quickly develop and deploy compelling apps that solve real problems and provide immediate value. You don’t need to be an expert in a vast array of technologies to deliver sophisticated solutions. Focus on solving the problem and let APEX take care of the rest.

3 Ratings

Starting Price: $0

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ServBay

ServBay is an integrated platform that includes the tools and components needed for developers' daily development. It can configure a web development environment and programming languages in one click within 3 minutes, without any third-party dependencies. ServBay natively supports HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, as well as the latest PHP 8.4. ServBay is equipped with a powerful management interface (GUI), allowing developers to quickly install, upgrade, and switch between different versions of services. With modular combinations, developers can stack and replace various services like building Lego blocks, simulating diverse development environments to meet rapid development needs. For team managers, ServBay can quickly align the team's development environment, ensuring team members work in a unified environment and share and collaborate on work results in real-time. Finally, ServBay is a green software that won't clutter your system. All software packages and data are placed under /Appli

3 Ratings

Starting Price: $0

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Kissflow

Kissflow is an easy-to-use, low-code platform for custom application development tailored to business operations. Kissflow empowers process owners and IT developers to automate and build processes and applications for internal business operations. We help solve two main challenges in the enterprise: The first is the custom application backlog. Enterprise IT teams say “not now” to most custom application requests from business teams. While important to a department, they aren’t vital enough to engage limited IT bandwidth. Kissflow gives internal developers a hyper-fast platform to build various applications quickly. The second is starting a citizen development program. Process owners are scattered throughout the organization and need a standard, approved, and governed way to build automated applications that are a step up from spreadsheets. With its simple no-code design, patented rules engine, and comprehensive governance module,

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $1500 per month

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AppSheet

Google

A trusted and scalable platform for mobile apps. Here's the reality: too many apps need to be built and there are not enough IT resources to create them. Enter AppSheet, a no code development platform that anyone can use to build and deploy apps. Empower your business users, and anyone else in your company to build apps. But ensure that those apps remain under centralized management and control with AppSheet for the Enterprise. AppSheet for the Enterprise is a trusted platform for building, publishing and managing mobile apps. It promotes innovation, agility, and flexibility throughout your organization while enabling security and governance. Connect data and software to a unified platform that’s fully integrated with Google Workspace. Integrate with Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Sheets, and Spaces. Connect to third-party apps such as Office 365, Dropbox, and Salesforce.com. Integrate with SQL databases, Apigee, REST APIs, and OData.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $5 per user per month

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SpreadsheetWeb

Pagos

SpreadsheetWeb is a no-code platform developed for business users working with Microsoft Excel. It helps businesses translate their collective Excel expertise into robust web applications with limited reliance on IT resources. The SpreadsheetWeb platform empowers ordinary Excel users to create secure, responsive, database-driven applications directly from their Excel spreadsheets. By transforming the data collection mechanism from individual file-based spreadsheets into structured databases while maintaining the formula structure, the system provides a higher level of governance for critical information. Combined with built-in workflow and reporting capabilities, SpreadsheetWeb offers an end-to-end platform for business users seeking to create and manage their own web applications.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $30.00/month

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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.

2 Ratings

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Tabidoo

Simple and user-friendly low-code platform. Design your business applications the way you need them. Quickly, intuitively and without compromises. Don't waste time developing a business application from scratch. Instead, use Tabidoo to create a solution in a fraction of the time, just the way you need it. With features like dashboards, data views, imports, exports or integrations, you get a unique tool for managing your business. Working with your data will become easy and fun. App templates offers ready-made solutions that you can customize to your needs. Digital company, CRM, e-shop solutions and task management are the most popular. The heart of Tabidoo is the data available in clear and simple tables. Tabidoo helps you manage this data in an easy and intuitive way.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: €60 per month

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Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft

Now everyone can quickly build and share low-code apps with Microsoft Power Apps. Increase agility across your organization by rapidly building low-code apps that modernize processes and solve tough challenges. Empower your team to start building and launching apps right away using pre-built templates, drag-and-drop simplicity, and quick deployment—then roll out continuous improvements as needed. Give everyone the power to build the apps they need with advanced functionality previously only available to professional developers—including pre-built AI components. Provide professional developers the tools to seamlessly extend app capabilities with Azure Functions and custom connectors to proprietary or on-premises systems. Connect your apps to hundreds of data sources using a library of more than 260 connectors and Common Data Service —bringing your data together for a single source of truth while you modernize processes as well as customize and extend Office 365, Dynamics 365 etc.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $20 per user per app per month

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Amazon Honeycode

Amazon

You need to manage your tasks, your projects, and your team. Now you can build an app to achieve your goals with Amazon Honeycode. No programming required. As your business changes, you can adapt your custom app built with Honeycode. Any updates made to your app or its data are instantly shared to your team. You can configure your custom Honeycode app so that each team member sees only the data they need to see and nothing more. You can build your custom Honeycode app for web browsers and mobile devices so your team can work from anywhere. Set up your custom Honeycode app to automatically notify the team when there's an update or remind people when it's their turn to take action.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $19.99 per month

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Thunkable

Web-based solution that helps businesses develop applications through component library, live tests, event blocks, and more. Design beautiful and powerful native apps on Thunkable without coding. Publish your app on Android, iOS, and the Web. Incubated at Google and MIT, backed by YCombinator. One project, three cross-platform apps, no coding. Add motion and smooth transitions to your app with lottie animations. On Thunkable, every app project is automatically created as a native Android app, native iOS app and mobile web app (on any platform), it's pretty magical. Start with a new project, or customize an existing sample app from our growing gallery of open sourced projects. Thunkable has an amazingly active and engaged community to help you with all your app building questions. We also offer live-chat support. Build your own apps by dragging and dropping your favorite components and connecting them together with blocks.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $15/mo

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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.

1 Rating

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Webflow

Break the code barrier. Build better business websites, faster. Without coding. Build production-ready experiences without coding. Bring your design vision to life in clean, semantic HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript — with the Webflow Designer. Build completely custom databases for dynamic content types, including online stores. Easily create immersive interactions and animations. Go live on a fast, reliable, and hassle-free hosting network that scales with your business — with a click. Built to scale — on the same network as Netflix, Pinterest, Airbnb, Slack, and Adobe. So you don’t have to worry about your site going down. No updates to run, packages to install, or headaches to deal with. Create, launch, and iterate on new marketing campaigns without distracting your product team. Metadata controls, automatic XML sitemaps, easy 301 redirects, and canonical tags. Connect your marketing tools with built-in integrations and the flexibility of custom code.

3 Ratings

Starting Price: $12 per month

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UI Bakery

A low-code platform for creating internal tools visually. Allows people with basic web app development understanding to build beautiful UIs, connect data sources to it, publish & share apps securely. Have a customizable Design System under the hood. Have a variety of predefined widgets, UI components, free app templates and dashboards. Features: - Autogenerate UI components - Connect, read, write data - Create workflows & business logic - Add custom JavaScript code - Debug and test apps - Publish your web app

Starting Price: $10/user/month

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VIKTOR

Build and distribute any web application you can imagine. VIKTOR is the development platform for the engineering and construction industry. Empower your organisation to build and distribute scalable applications. Enter into a new era in engineering. Use our digital building blocks to rapidly create professional web-based applications and share them with everyone you want. VIKTOR is the most used application development platform in the engineering and construction industry. It enables engineers to quickly build their own software solutions and share them with everyone. Engineers and other domain experts know your business best. Create an agile organization by empowering them to adopt new technologies and rapidly create, test, distribute, and scale new software solutions according to their needs. This results in better solutions, high adoption rates, and lower development costs.

Starting Price: 0/per month/user

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Uno Platform

Build pixel-perfect, single-codebase applications for Mobile, Web and Desktop using C#, XAML and .NET. The first C# & XAML, free and open-source platform for creating true single-source, multi-platform applications. Reuse 99% of the business logic and UI layer across native mobile, web, and desktop. Maintain pixel-perfect control over where pixels go while having a choice of developing platform-specific or custom look and feel of your application. Familiarity and richness of C# and XAML combined with productivity boosts of hot reload, hot restart, edit and continue and more. Use familiar editors like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Rider. Free and paid support is available by both community and our team. Chats, tickets or even screen sharing!

Starting Price: Free

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Deskree

The first low-code cloud. Unleash your app's potential with Deskree, the no-code backend platform that simplifies and accelerates the infrastructure development process. Effortlessly create and deploy your backend in minutes, regardless of your experience in backend or devops. No more struggling with infrastructure provisioning, architecture planning, and complex CI/CD pipelines! Deskree offers a comprehensive suite of features, including database management, authentication, user roles and permissions, REST and GraphQL API, and more. Transform your app development journey with the power of Deskree's user-friendly, intuitive platform.

Starting Price: $19.99 per month

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Bubble

Create and launch fully-functional, data-driven web applications in a fraction of the time necessary to code it from scratch using Bubble! Bubble is powered by a robust point-and-click editor that allows users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows ranging from simple prototypes to complex marketplaces, SaaS products, and more. Over 1 million users have found success building and launching businesses on Bubble - many have gone on to participate in top accelerator programs, such as Y Combinator, and one company even raised $365M in venture funding. Bubble is more than just a product. It has created a strong community of builders and entrepreneurs that are united by the belief that everyone should be able to create technology. Traditional web applications require you to manage your code and set up a deployment process to a web server. Bubble handles deployment and hosting for you. There are no hard limits on the number of users, volume of traffic, or data storage.

Starting Price: $25 per app per month

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MintData

From prototypes to full applications, use the app creator to express your ideas in high fidelity. All with a breakthrough, no-code app builder approach, create your own apps with a unique spreadsheet that’s linked to a UI canvas. As a unique design tool, it’s your ultimate canvas for creative ideas. Leverage the prototyping tool features to create your own apps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and no-code web applications. Create full-featured mobile and web applications with a unique no-code development platform. Use the design tool and prototyping tool features to rapidly develop your ideas. Leverage the spreadsheet to define application logic and interact directly with company & external data to create your own apps. Move over Excel and Google sheets, the MintData spreadsheet lets you create advanced prototypes and full-featured web applications. With a spreadsheet interface and design tool functionality you already know how to use.

Starting Price: $19 per month

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Glide

Transform Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable into software your users will love. Pick a spreadsheet and Glide instantly generates a real, working app or website to get you started. There's an app for everything. Browse our template store and make a copy to get started. Most of your app is based on the data you already have, whether it lives in Airtable, Excel, Google Sheets, or other data sources. After connecting your data, add rich visual components to display your data and make it interactive. Glide makes updating your app as easy as editing a document, changes instantly go live for your users, so you can iterate quickly. Connect a Google Sheet or start from a template. Customize how your data is displayed, then tweak styles & layouts. Publish your app to the web and share the link with anyone. Pick a spreadsheet or Airtable base, and Glide generates a basic app or website to get you started.

Starting Price: $25 per month

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Hope UI

Iqonic Design

As the name suggests, Hope UI is the revolutionary admin dashboard built with the developer's aspirations and needs in the first place. Hope UI Laravel Admin Dashboard Template and UI component set is designed with a modular component structure to help design and launch web applications in the fastest way possible. Being able to develop lightweight web applications and admin panels, Hope UI Admin Template comes with a Live Customizer to cut down on development time and coding hours. The Hope UI Bootstrap Admin Dashboard brings the future of admin UI to power your present and future development. Hope UI is available in 8 different technologies which are Bootstrap, Vue JS, React JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Figma, XD and Sketch UI Kit and more versions like Tailwind, Angular, React Native, etc are in the roadmap.

Starting Price: $99 per year

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KnowledgeKube

KnowledgeKube is the low-code platform for creating truly scalable enterprise applications for greater success. Painlessly migrate from legacy systems at a pace to suit you, with a true enterprise-grade, low-code solution. Digitize user journeys and empower people to better self-serve, whilst easily publishing natively across all devices. Our powerful workflow engine enables you to simplify, digitize and automate complex processes with ease. Future-proof by building for the cloud, start small to scale with confidence on a truly headless elastic cloud architecture. KnowledgeKube helps organizations around the globe to create scalable applications faster. Business users, seasoned developers, and designers alike are empowered across your organization to work more collaboratively and effectively to rapidly build applications of any size. KnowledgeKube is the low-code platform that enables you to produce enterprise web and mobile apps faster and more cost-effectively.

Starting Price: $271.73 per month

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Avalonia UI

Avalonia UI enables developers to create multi-platform apps with .NET. Write once, and run everywhere. Save time and focus on your product. Considered a spiritual successor to WPF, Avalonia UI provides a familiar developer experience, allowing you to leverage years of pre-existing knowledge and investments. rusted by JetBrains as the best framework for modernizing their WPF-based tools, used by >170,000 companies, including 431 on the Fortune 500 list. Our developer community has grown enormously as Avalonia UI has grown in popularity. Join us and be welcomed into our supportive and vibrant community.

Starting Price: Free

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Vaadin

Vaadin is a web app development platform for Java. It helps you build reliable web apps with great UX faster than before. Building an enterprise web app involves a lot of moving pieces. Vaadin simplifies the process with an integrated web app development platform for Java backends. Vaadin comes with all the components, frameworks, and tools you need to build a reliable, secure, app with great UX. Research shows that good user experience (UX) increases employee engagement, helps digital transformations to succeed, and avoids costly mistakes. The Vaadin Design System provides UI components and UX patterns that help you build consistently good user experiences in every app. Better yet, you can use it to build a custom design system for your organization. Vaadin comes with 45+ UI components that help you build consistent UIs fast. The theme can be customized to match your brand. Vaadin components work with screen readers and assistive devices.

Starting Price: $139 per month

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ToolJet

Build complicated frontends without any experience in React, CSS, or even HTML. Drag and drop 35+ in-built UI components to build even complicated frontends. Adding new components, resizing them, adjusting position, changing colors, etc can be done using the visual app editor. Customize the component with in-built properties and styles without using a single line of code. Viewer for verifying current properties of components, queries, and global states of applications. ToolJet ships with its built-in database called ToolJet DB (built on top of PostgreSQL). You can also connect to external data sources such as databases ( PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc ), API/GraphQL endpoints, SaaS tools ( Airtable, Stripe, Google Sheets, etc ), and cloud object storage services ( AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage and Minio ).

Starting Price: Free

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Interval

Interval generates full web apps just from backend Node.js or Python code. If you love writing code but hate building UIs, you'll love building with Interval. Interval introduces a new programming model for building UIs. Simply make Interval SDK calls alongside your business logic, and Interval automatically produces UIs in your browser. Interval's component library compresses the tedious work of building and wiring up UIs for your tools into simple async method calls placed within your business logic. Interval automatically validates input in the UI and on the backend. The method call doesn't resolve until the user enters valid input. Interval renders a responsive, accessible UI in the user's browser. Interval returns the user-submitted value to your backend. All the network communication is handled for you—no need to write APIs for your internal tools.

Starting Price: $10 per user per month

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Five

Five is a low-code development environment that helps software developers build and deploy bespoke business software. Rapidly build release-ready software using Five’s prebuilt features, such as a hosted SQL database, authentication, or access control. Connect to multiple data sources and query (almost) any data source, such as external databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server & more) or REST API endpoints. Add full code almost anywhere through its native support for SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTML, Five never limits developers by what’s available out of the box. Five offers a free download that comes with no time limits. You can download it on your desktop and start building for free. Once you have developed a production-worthy application, you can deploy it to the cloud by subscribing to one of our hosting plans for as low as US$29.99/month. Five takes care of all the complicated deployment processes, allowing you to focus on what matters the most - your applications

Starting Price: $29.99/month

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Compare the Top Web App Development Platforms for Startups as of April 2025

What are Web App Development Platforms for Startups?

Alpha Anywhere

DHTMLX

Flutter

CaptainCasa Enterprise Client

Oracle APEX

ServBay

Kissflow

AppSheet

SpreadsheetWeb

Neptune DXP

Tabidoo

Microsoft Power Apps

Amazon Honeycode

Thunkable

OutSystems

Webflow

UI Bakery

VIKTOR

Uno Platform

Deskree

Bubble

MintData

Glide

Hope UI

KnowledgeKube

Avalonia UI

Vaadin

ToolJet

Interval

Five

Best Web App Development Platforms for Startups

Compare the Top Web App Development Platforms for Startups as of April 2025

What are Web App Development Platforms for Startups?

Alpha Anywhere

DHTMLX

Flutter

CaptainCasa Enterprise Client

Oracle APEX

ServBay

Kissflow

AppSheet

SpreadsheetWeb

Neptune DXP

Tabidoo

Microsoft Power Apps

Amazon Honeycode

Thunkable

OutSystems

Webflow

UI Bakery

VIKTOR

Uno Platform

Deskree

Bubble

MintData

Glide

Hope UI

KnowledgeKube

Avalonia UI

Vaadin

ToolJet

Interval

Five

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