"A low-code development platform provides a development environment used to create application software through a graphical user interface instead of traditional hand-coded computer programming. A low-coded platform may produce entirely operational applications, or require additional coding for specific situations." --Wikipedia

"Low-code is a software development approach that requires little to no coding in order to build applications and processes. A low-code development platform uses visual interfaces with simple logic and drag-and-drop features instead of extensive coding languages. These intuitive tools allow users with no formal knowledge of coding or software development to create applications for many purposes like mobile apps and business apps.

"These platforms have become increasingly popular as a fast and easy alternative to traditional software development. Both professional developers and “citizen developers” (non-professional developers) can use a low-code platform to create apps of varying complexity to meet business demands for development, automate processes, and accelerate digital transformation." --Creatio

• Awesome no-code low-code

Overview

(partly from The Low-Code/No-Code Ecosystem)

Forrester: “application development platforms that enable rapid application delivery with minimal hand-coding, and quick setup and deployment.”

The term generally refers to any class of software and tools that provide:

• Interactive visual programming environment
• Drag-and-drop capabilities
• Visual modeling tools
• Prebuilt templates
• (usually) Easy ability to integrate with third-party tools and solutions

Ecosystem graphic:

Categories:

• Business Intelligence: Tools that serve to transform information into knowledge, with the aim of improving the decision-making process in a company. Notable examples of these types of tools are Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio, and SAP Business Objects — all of which give users the ability to manipulate, analyze, visualize business data.

• Customer Service / CRM: Platforms that manage all the communications, opportunities and documentation relating to customers, along with those that help them in all stages of the buying and selling process. Salesforce is the giant in this space, but other tools such as Zoho, Bitrix24, and Creatio are all platforms that enable companies to automate their business processes to create and manage customer relationships.

• Enterprise Application Development: These visual development platforms enable developers, of varying skills, to build out entire enterprise wide applications — building and managing custom databases and tools to run entire business processes. This is a large and lucrative space with a number of large players including ServiceNow, Appian, Mendix, and newer entrant Unqork.

• IoT / Industrial automation: This category includes both IoT (internet of things) platforms, that serve to connect hardware to the Internet and Industrial automation platforms, that enable automatic operation of industrial processes and machinery without the need for human operators. Akenza.io for example, is a self-service IoT platform that connects, controls, and manages IoT devices allowing users to build IoT products and services.

• Machine Learning: With the growth of AI and machine learning there has also been a surge of tools that have sought to make ML models available to non-data scientist users. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all have powerful such platforms but dedicated no-code companies such as Data Robot are also providing an increasing amount of AutoML-type tools.

• Marketing / E-Commerce / Design Tools: Marketing-technology (or martech) has been a category of its own for quite some time — with large companies such as Mailchimp, Hubspot, and Marketo empowering marketers to build powerful management of campaigns and customer relationship management. We have also included e-commerce tools — including giants like Shopify — that enable businesses of all sizes to conduct commerce online while managing their products and services and their entire virtual storefront. Additionally, in this category, we added design platforms such as Canva and Figma where you can create and share designs and templates easily without having the trained skillset for it.

• Software Development Tools: These tools are similar to enterprise application development but geared towards technologists. Virtuoso is an example of such tools, it offers QA automation and web application code generators, which allows for faster and easier website creation.

• Web App Development: This is a large category that has been evolving over time, it includes long-standing tools such as WordPress and newer entrants such as Bubble, Adalo, Webflow, and even AirTable, which bills itself as an application development environment. These tools often contain a content management system (CMS) and a user-friendly set of capabilities. Individuals with little to no technical knowledge are able to create attractive websites and smaller applications very quickly with no HTML, CSS, Javascript or other esoteric web technology knowledge required.

• Workflow Automation: A workflow may be defined as a set of related activities, which are completed in a certain order to achieve a specific organizational goal. Whereas automation enables these activities to be controlled by a system that will ensure their completeness, correctness and repeatability. Zapier, Kissflow, and Pipefy are all examples of tools that provide integration and/or facilitate business processes workflows, enabling LCNC business users to describe and run full end-to-end business processes.

List of LCNC platforms and funding (not sure as of when)

Features

• Visual modeling tools: form builders, GUI builders, etc. Use built-in components to represent information in a form that is readable; data entry/input; validate that input

• Flow/workflow: ((Definition))

• Automation: ((Definition))

• Drag-and-drop functionality:

• Database/storage:

• Reusability: Use of pre-configured modules/components/plug-ins

• Cross-platform/multi-device:

• Security

• Scalability

• Reporting and monitoring

• App lifecyle management (debugging, testing, deployment, etc)

Vendors/projects/platforms/etc

• Accern: Accelerate AI Workflows for Financial Services.
• ActionDesk: The spreadsheet that lets you gather and control all your data in one place.
• Adalo: Create an app without code.
• Airtable: Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible, teams use Airtable to organize their work, their way.
• AND CO: Invoicing, Proposals & Expense Tracking
• Angel Point NX: AgilePoint NX is the leading Low-to-no-code Application Development platform that empowers businesses to easily build responsive business applications.
• APIFY: Extract data from any website
• Appbase.io: Elasticsearch supercharged.
• Appery: a cloud program that makes it simple to build hybrid and mobile web applications. It is one of the Low-code development platforms that enables you to design apps for Android and iOS devices.
• AppFlow: Securely integrate apps and automate data flows at any scale, without code.
• Appian: Discover the power of low-code automation.
• AppMaker (Google): a low-code solution for RAD. Google App Maker is a recent entry into the top low-code solutions. It came out of beta in 2018, and offers access to 40 additional Google services.
• AppOnboard Studio: Where app ideas come to life. No code required.
• AppSheet: The intelligent no-code app development platform.
• appsmith_: Frontend as a Service to build internal apps
• Appspotr: Create epic apps without coding
• Appstylo: Mobile App builder maker
• AppSumo: Discover, buy, & sell the products you need to grow your business.
• Autocode: New user notifications. Purchase alerts. Scheduled jobs. SQL queries.
• Automate.io: Put your business on autopilot. Connect 100+ business apps.
• Axiom: Browser automation. Quickly, without code.
• Bannerbear: Auto-generate social media visuals, ecommerce banners, dynamic email images and more with our API and integrations.
• Betty Blocks: The only no-code platform for full empowerment, innovation and agility. Create mobile, business and web applications at lightning speed with Betty Blocks.
• Big Cartel: Easy online stores for artists & makers
• Blockspring: Supercharge your list building, reporting, and landing pages.
• Bloggi: A simple blogging platform
• Bookmark: Create a Website with AI
• Botnation: Create chatbots, landbots, voicebots, callbots on Messenger, Web, Google Home, Phone device.
• Botsify: Create your own automated chatbots online.
• Boundless: Create dynamic, multisided web applications without code.
• Boundlesslabs: Boundless lets you build the web site of your dreams. No code required.
• Bplogix: a no-code software that helps develop quick application solutions. It helps you to manage business workflow. You can use this tool to design a product without writing code.
• Bravo Studio: Where your designs become real native apps
• Chatamo: Create intelligent voice and chat bots for marketing, sales and support in minutes.
• Chatfuel: Create chatbots to engage with your audience on messengers
• Clay: Build tools & workflows to supercharge your team
• Cloud Canal: Static Sites -> Web Apps
• Coda: All-in-one doc.
• Community.lawyer: No-code App Builder designed specifically for legal service professionals
• Construct: Game Making Software
• Contractbook: Efficient Contract Management
• Convertigo: a mix between low-code and no-code, aiming for citizen developers and professional developers. Mobile builder tool, visual drag-and-drop UI, low-code backend, REST/XML converter, REST/JSON converter, admin console.
• Corvid: Build advanced web applications, hassle-free.
• Creatio: BPM CRM system for marketing, sales and service to manage business processes across the entire customer journey on a single low code platform.
• Destack: Visual page builder for developers
• Diagram: Nocode backend API builder with MongoDB and Firestore.
• Digdag: an open-source tool that helps you to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines of tasks. It handles dependency resolution so that tasks run in series or in parallel. Digdag replaces cron, facilitates IT operations automation, orchestrates data engineering tasks, coordinates machine learning pipelines, and more.
• Dislack: Form creation for the modern maker.
• draftbit: Create, customize, and launch mobile apps all from your browser. Source code included.
• Dronahq: Build business apps without coding.
• DWKit: a BPM software that also functions as a low-code app development platform. It is relatively new and little-known, but it offers a number of use cases.
• Eyelet: Create interactive guidance for your product without code
• Fibery: Build your own workspace.
• Figma: The first interface design tool with real-time collaboration
• flatfile: The elegant import button for your web app
• FlexyForm: Contact Forms Backend as Service
• Fliplet: The smart way to create custom apps
• Flow XO: Create a chatbot with zero coding skills required
• Fomo: Social Proof Marketing Platform
• Forest Admin: The admin panel framework
• FORTVISION: Create interactive experiences that lead to higher conversions.
• Frappe: Low Code Open Source Framework in Python and JS.
• Funnel: All your marketing and advertising data where you want it.
• Generative Objects: low-code platform focusing on better control of the application life-cycle, collaboration among developers.
• Genexus: A unique platform that captures the needs of users and generates applications for present and future technologies, without the need to learn new technology. Allows pragmatic developers to evolve quickly, responding to market and technological changes in an agile way.
• Glide: Create an app from a Google Sheet in five minutes, for free.
• Go: Low-Code for Enterprise Databases
• Grapedrop: Free and custom websites and landing pages
• graphqleditor: A Better Way to GraphQL
• Gumroad: Sell anything directly to anyone.
• Hasura: Get realtime GraphQL APIs instantly
• Heyflow: Build interactive flows.
• Hingeto: Start your own Amazon-style marketplace.
• Honeycode: Build a better way to work.
• Hotjar: See how your visitors are really using your site.
• Hubspot: A full platform of marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software.
• Hunter: Find email addresses in seconds.
• IFTTT ("If This, Then That"): Helps your apps and devices work together in new ways.
• IM Creator: Free Website Builder
• Instabot: A Conversion Chatbot for Your Website
• Instapage: Landing pages, up to 6x more conversions.
• Instavr: Make your VR apps in minutes
• Integromat: The most advanced online automation platform.
• InteractiveCalculator: Make calculators with no code and add them on your site
• Internal: Console-as-a-service, better tools for customer-facing teams
• Involve.Me: Build customizable widgets like quizzes, forms & calculators
• It's Alive: Create a Facebook bot in minutes
• Jimdo: Your Website Builder
• JMix (formerly known as CUBA Platform): An open-source RAD system for enterprise. Comes with dozens of tools and extensible infrastructure.
• Jotform: Online Form Builder & Form Creator.
• JUDO: low-code platform aiming for enterprise use. Offers more flexibility in terms of data modeling, UI design and development.
• K2: K2's process automation platform helps your company grow and take automation to a new level. Tackle any business problem—large or small—and create an app to solve it, without writing lines of code.
• Kartra: Online Business Made Easy
• Kingtone: Kintone is an all-in-one workplace platform that allows highly collaborative teams to build, share, and automate custom workflows and processes for data-driven results
• Kissflow: a visually-pleasing drag-and-drop interface for RAD.
• Knack: Online database
• Kony Quantum: Quantum is the industry leading application development platform for building unified digital experiences across all channels with consumer grade UX for mission critical applications. It combines the speed and ease of low-code development with a comprehensive set of enterprise backend services and integration capabilities.
• Landbot: Lead generation landing page as chatbot.
• Landen: The website builder for startups.
• LANSA:
• Launchaco: Simple landing pages for your startup
• Leadpages: Landing page builder & lead gen software.
• Linx: a development tool for the rapid development and deployment of back-end applications like APIs, integrations and automations.
• Logic Apps: Connect your business-critical apps and services with Azure Logic Apps, automating your workflows without writing a single line of code.
• Loom: Seamless screen, mic, and camera recording for Chrome
• Lowdefy
• Makerpad: Build tools & automate at work without code.
• Manychat: Create a Messenger bot to engage your audience. No coding!
• Mendix
• Metabase source: data-oriented customizable dashboard, providing a laywer for managing database records, manipulating data, visual approach to manipulated records, supports joins, multiple aggregations, advanced filtering, full-text search.
• Microsoft Flow: Automate tasks by integrating your favorite apps.
• miniAppMaker: Make mobile apps using Airtable!
• Mintdata: Use the full power of a spreadsheet to create application logic.
• Monto: Product Reviews for Webflow (and Foxy).
• n8n.io: Extendable workflow automation.
• Nanonets Airtable Models: Build a no-code AI image organizer with Airtable
• Ninox: Create Business Apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
• Node-RED: A programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
• Notion: The all-in-one workspace: notes, tasks, wikis, & databases.
• nuBuilder: Self-hosted RAD low-code with highly-customizable backend.
• Nuclino: Part knowledge base, part collaboration space 🧠
• Octoparse: Easy Web Scraping for Anyone
• Odoo Studio: Become the developer with Odoo Studio and build your own customized applications.
• OpenCatapult: low-code DevOps automation platform. Windows-only.
• Oplim: Custom Tasks on Your Website with Zero Code
• Oracle APEX: Oracle APEX provides you with all the tools you need to build apps in a single, extensible platform, which runs as a part of Oracle Database.
• OS.bee: combines both low-code and no-code with a model-driven app development strategy.
• PageXL: One-page website and store builder
• Paperform: Beautiful Forms That Feel Like Yours
• Parabola: Hand off your routine data tasks by describing them in Parabola. Build once, reuse infinitely.
• Parsehub: Free web scraping.
• Pega Platform: The best-in-class, rapid no-code Pega Platform is unified for building BPM, CRM, case management, and real-time decisioning apps.
• Phantombuster: Code free automations and data extraction.
• pipedream: The integration platform built for developers
• placeid: Generate your social share images automatically.
• Plant An App: The Secret Weapon of Software Development
• PMG: a low-code development platform that helps you to automate the digital process. It is one of the best free low code platform that enables you to update your product as its requirement change quickly. This tool provides a dashboard to personalized work.
• Podia: Easily sell memberships, online courses & digital downloads.
• PostGraphile: Extensible high-performance automatic GraphQL API for PostgreSQL
• Posthog: Open source product analytics.
• Potion: Create custom websitesin minutes. All on Notion.
• ProntoForms: ProntoForms offers the leading field-focused low-code development platform for mobile forms for businesses.
• Quick Base: The best way to manage data and automate processes, so you can accomplish more.
• Quip: One place for all your team’s work.
• Refinery: Write a feature in less than the time it takes to have a meeting about it.
• Reflect: Automated regression tests without a line of code.
• ResponseVault: Use a grid-based form builder in your custom app.
• Retool: Build custom internal tools in minutes.
• Rewardful: Instant Affiliate & Referral Programs for Stripe
• RIVYT: Websites for Video Creators
• Rota.rocks: Convert your Wordpress posts to an iOS app.
• rulai: AI Chatbot to Deliver Scalable Self Service
• SaaS Blocks: Ready-to-use building blocks and APIs to take your SaaS application to the next level
• Salesflare: Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B.
• Salesforce Platform: The Salesforce Platform empowers developers to quickly build and deploy trusted cloud applications that are rock solid, secure, and scalable without worrying about hardware provisioning or application stacks.
• Saltcorn: an open-source platform for building database web applications without writing a single line of code. Use the intuitive point-and-click, drag-and-drop user interface to build the whole application.
• Screenshot: Programmatic Screenshots of Any Website in Seconds.
• Screenzy: Screenshot beautifier
• ServiceNow Platform: Get native platform intelligence, so you can predict, prioritize, and proactively manage the work that matters most with the Now Platform from ServiceNow.
• Sheet2Site: Turn your Google Sheets into professional websites
• Ship: A toolkit to ship awesome products, by Product Hunt
• Simple Analytics: Simple, clean, and friendly analytics.
• Simple scraper: The web is your API
• Simplifier: a web-based configuration framework for the creation of IoT (Internet of Things) application. It is one of the Low-code development platforms which provides a real time update of changes.
• Skyve source: an open-source software-building low-code/no-code platform for business.
• Smooch: Instantly deploy your bots wherever users are.
• Softr: From zero to a website in 5 minutes, using building blocks.
• Spider: Turn websites into organized data without code.
• SpreadsheetWeb: A NoCode platform for Excel users
• Stacker: Turn your spreadsheets into applications.
• Stackstorm: (Open-source) StackStorm connects all your apps, services, and workflows. From simple if/then rules to complicated workflows, StackStorm lets you automate DevOps your way. No need to change your existing processes or workflows, StackStorm connects what you already have.
• stdlib: An online IDE for connecting APIs together
• Steedos Platform: Steedos Platform is an open source management software development tool designed to help enterprises innovate, expand, and integrate business systems through its powerful agility, flexibility, and openness. Based on this platform, you can quickly create intelligent and mobile enterprise applications.
• Stream Language: Taking the next step in programming
• Storybook: Build component driven UIs faster.
• Storyscript Prelaunch: Magical coding notebook for tomorrow’s developer.
• Strikingly: Make a website in minutes
• STUDIO: Design to live website in one click.
• Super: Build websites with the simplicity of Notion.
• Tabbli: Manage your business data and automate processes.
• Tadabase: No Code Database Web App Builder
• Thunkable: The No-Code App Builder
• Tilda: Create beautiful websites without any code.
• Tiller Money: Your financial life in a spreadsheet, automatically updated each day.
• TrackVia: Transform your business by creating the exact app you need to track and automate your work.
• Tray: Advanced integration platform for connecting up the tools you use every day.
• Trevor: Query your live data, without code.
• Trolley: Get paid with no code
• Tymly source: a business-first low-code platform for creating a scalable server application. Introduced a blueprint concept that encapsulates business processes, functions, and workflows into a blueprint. Blueprints are saved in JSON schamas, data in Postres.
• Typeform: Create forms and surveys that people enjoy answering
• Udesly: Use Webflow to create WordPress and Shopify Themes
• Uipath: We make robots so people don’t have to be robots.
• Unbounce: Landing Pages: More Powerful Customization
• unDraw: Free, open-source illustrations for every project.
• Universe: Make an awesome website from your phone.
• Versoly: The Easiest Way to Build Your SaaS Website
• VisualSitemaps: Autogenerate Visual Sitemaps & Screenshots in Seconds
• Voiceflow: Design, prototype and build voice apps.
• Volusion: Ecommerce Website Store & Shopping Cart Software
• Vuix: Design voice apps in minutes.
• Wayscript: A rapid scripting platform for developers.
• Webcon: a rapid application development software for digital transformation. It is one of the best low code development platforms for free that enables you to create a product without help of a software developer.
• Webflow: Break the code barrier, Build better business websites, faster. Without coding.
• Webmerge: Document automation software
• Webnode: Easy & Free Website Maker
• Weebly: Build a Free Website or Online Store
• Weld: Be creative without code – Interactive content tool
• Without Code: Code Free Website Builder
• Widgetic: A marketplace for website building blocks.
• Xplenty: a low-code and no-code ETL (extract, transfer and load) data integration platform. It is made for both small, non-technical businesses and for deeply technical developers and engineers.
• Xpoda: a low code development tool that helps you to manage backoffice operations. You can integrate this app with all platforms and devices.
• Yoyo Games: It has everything you need to take your idea from concept to finished game.
• Zapier: Connect your apps and automate workflows.
• Zendesk: Build the best customer experiences.
• Zoho Creator: Zoho Creator is a low-code app development platform that lets you launch custom, mobile-ready apps in minutes. Create your own applications to automate workflows, internal processes, and manage databases.

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