"Backends" are typically platforms without UI, such as a headless CMS system or API middleware platform. Often includes storage, though not always.
"What is BaaS?": "you will outsource the responsibilities of running and maintaining servers to a third party and focus on the frontend or client-side development. On top of that, a BaaS will provide tools to help you create a backend code and speed up the development process. It has ready to use features like scalable databases, APIs, cloud code functions, social media integrations, file storage, and push notifications." "A backend as a service will provide you with features that can be deployed across all types of applications:
"What is BaaS?": "Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) allows developers to focus on the frontend of their applications and leverage backend services without building or maintaining them. BaaS and serverless computing share some similarities, and many providers offer both, but the two models have several differences." ... "Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) is a cloud service model in which developers outsource all the behind-the-scenes aspects of a web or mobile application so that they only have to write and maintain the frontend. BaaS vendors provide pre-written software for activities that take place on servers, such as user authentication, database management, remote updating, and push notifications (for mobile apps), as well as cloud storage and hosting." ... "BaaS providers offer a number of server-side capabilities. For instance:
"10 GitHub repositories to Master Backend Development":
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Apstrata: Apstrata is a powerful back-end as a Service that provides multiple APIs covering: orchestration (JavaScript server-side scripting), No-SQL persistence, messaging (push notifications, email), social networks integration (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.), Identity and authorizations Management. You can expose your own business logic as REST APIs in a snap. Apstrata can scale as much as your application requires it. Last but not least, it is simple to use, provides an extensive documentation and the support and forum teams are very reactive.
Telerik: Telerik Backend Services is equipped with a robust set of security measures to encrypt and securely transport data from all communications. As your business needs grow, you can be sure that Telerik Backend Services will scale to meet your requirements.
Amplitude: Simply the best analytics for mobile and web. Track everything. Store everything. Never worry about scale!
Answers.io: Finally a mobile app analytics you don’t need to analyze.
Amazon Mobile Analytics: With Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can measure app usage and app revenue. By tracking key trends such as new vs. returning users, app revenue, user retention, and custom in-app behavior events, you can make data-driven decisions to increase engagement and monetization for your app. You can view key charts in the Mobile Analytics console and automatically export your app event data to Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift to run custom analysis. Amazon Mobile Analytics is free up to 100 million events per month and just $1 per million events thereafter.
AppAnalytics: Real-time mobile app analytics for the entire customer lifecycle with event-based analytics, crash analytics, heat map analytics and gesture recognition!
Appsee: Appsee's mobile analytics platform provides in-depth analysis of your users' behavior, allowing you to deliver the ultimate app experience.
CleverTap: CleverTap lets you do app analytics at incredible speeds, and engage with your users via push notifications, in-app messages, emails or web notifications. You can use it to personalize all your interactions with users, across all channels. It does automatic uninstall tracking - with an ability to reach out to the users who've uninstalled the app for product feedback. Parse users can migrate to CleverTap in two simple steps with zero downtime.
Countly: Countly is world's leading open source, enterprise mobile and web analytics & marketing platform. Countly is provided in several editions, including Community Edition with a free-to-use non-commercial license, Cloud (SaaS) Edition and self-hosted or Enterprise Edition with SLA coverage.
Dynatrace: Dynatrace is the leading enterprise APM solution according to Gartner. Dynatrace covers full stack monitoring of technology stacks, real user monitoring of mobile apps and web, monitoring of backend services and infrastructure.
Twitter Fabric: Helps developers track crashes or user behavior within the apps and keeps all these critical data in a single, intuitive dashboard. Furthermore a fully fledged SDK that allows integrating major cross cutting concern providers (e.g. payment - Stripe, integration - Amazon Cognito etc.).
Flurry Analytics: Measure, track and analyze app performance, user acquisition and activity with Flurry Analytics.
Google Analytics for Mobile Apps: Google Analytics for Mobile Apps lets you measure the full value of your app across all key stages, from first discovery and download to in-app conversions. See what keeps your users engaged and learn how you can make them happier – and your app more successful.
Heap Analytics: Heap automatically captures every user action in your web or iOS app and lets you measure it all after the fact. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views. You're no longer limited by events you thought to log upfront.
Liquid: Liquid is one stop shop analytics with Push notifications and In-App messages. Can segment users by attributes and behaviors and action upon them in real time.
Localytics: Our Mobile Engagement Platform brings together User Insights, Smart Targeting & Marketing Automation to power great user engagement.
Mixpanel: Make your product better by measuring actions, instead of page views. Mixpanel gives you the ability to easily measure what people are doing in your app on iOS, Android, and web.
Taplytics: Taplytics is a fully integrated mobile A/B testing, push notification, and analytics platform providing the tools you need to optimize your mobile app. Taplytics supports transactional, geo, event and behavioral triggered push notifications, all of which can be a/b tested and optimized for success.
WebEngage: Multi-channel User Engagement Platform. Communicate via In-App Messages, Push Notifications, Web Messages, Emails, Text Messages in real-time. Understand your users across all channels. Real-time event analytics across all channels and platforms. Identify trends & patterns based on User Interests, Lifecycle, Behavior, Geo-location and much more.
Crashlytics: The most powerful, yet lightest weight crash reporting solution.
Crittercism: Crashes are never welcome, but Crittercism can help you identify them as soon as they happen. Crash Reporting monitors both fatal and non-fatal errors so that you can fix issues before they impact users. Pinpoint where and why crashes are happening, who’s affected, and how to fix it.
FlightRecorder: With our detailed crash reports you get a great start for crushing those crashes. With our higher packages you can even do more.
Hockeyapp: You don't want your app to crash, but it happens. And when it does, you'd better have fast and precise info about what went wrong and why. With HockeyApp, you'll get meaningful crash reports. Best of all, we regularly assess that HockeyApp has the most reliable crash reporting on the market.
Instabug: We provide you with a powerful realtime crash reporter, with minimum footprint. With the exact level of detail, we provide you with a full report about the running environment and the app log. We also do further server-side processing on crashes to provide you with the meaningful stack trace, and hence make it easier for you to solve the problem.
AuthRocket: Versatile authentication API that allows you to integrate logins, social sign in, and user management into your app.
Digits: Twitter's mobile-first sign in solution. Allows users to easily sign in and sign up using their phone number, manages the user graph, and free for unlimited users.
Tapglue: Tapglue provides a social layer including user-management for app developers. You can signup and login users, create social graphs (friend & follower model) and build feeds on top of it.
AeroGear: We make cross-platform enterprise mobile development easy. Aerogear provides flexible, extensible libraries and server side components that will simplify your mobile development and infrastructure setup across platforms.
BaasBox: BaasBox provides a web administrative console, user management API and signup with Facebook and Google+, content management with grant/revoke permissions on documents on user and roles, geospatial queries, store big file, file custom metadata and file links, integrated friendship APIs based on "following" concept, push notification for iOS and Android, Server scripting for extending the features via plugins.
DreamFactory: DreamFactory is an open source REST API automation platform for mobile, IoT, and web applications. Built on the Laravel framework, DreamFactory automatically creates REST APIs for SQL, NoSQL, file storage, email, and push notifications. Connect to your data sources, script business logic with Javascript or PHP, secure your APIs with built-in access control, JWT, OAuth, and AD/LDAP, and get started with sample apps for Objective-C, Swift, Android, Angular 1 and 2, React, Javascript, Titanium, and .NET.
GUN: GUN is a highly modular, open-source, real-time, offline-first, distributed cache storage engine. By default gun uses localStorage for data storage, but with gun-level there are many more data storage engines just a module away. GUN defaults to pushing all data. The gun team is regularly releasing new modules, new and improved functionality, and improving performance.
hook: hook is a backend as a service written in PHP. It was designed by real needs of a digital agency. It provides a powerful REST API, which allows developers to create many applications in the same backend endpoint. It has client implementations to many languages like JavaScript, C#, Corona SDK, iOS, Java, etc.
Marlin: Marlin is a fast (2000+ requests per second) REST API library built on top of redis server. Its has no specific clients like Android or iOS. But it has got developer API for custom APIs which can be written in Python. (docs)
Parse Server: On the same day that Facebook announced they were shutting down Parse, they also released an open-source replacement called Parse Server. Jobs, Analytics are notably not implemented.
Piwik: Piwik is the leading open-source analytics platform that gives you more than just powerful analytics.
Serverless Framework: The application framework for building web, mobile and IoT backends exclusively on Amazon Web Services' Lambda and API Gateway.
Last modified 23 August 2025