Best Free Application Development Software

Compare the Top Free Application Development Software as of January 2026

What is Free Application Development Software?

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 Free Application Development software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Interfacing Integrated Management System (IMS)

    Interfacing Integrated Management System (IMS)

    Interfacing Technologies Corporation

    Interfacing’s Integrated Management System (IMS) is an AI-powered platform that unifies BPM, QMS, Document Control, and GRC into one platform. Organizations use IMS to model and automate processes, control documents, manage risks, and maintain regulatory compliance with full traceability and audit readiness. Built for highly regulated sectors such as aerospace, life sciences, finance, and government, IMS provides real-time visibility, automated workflows, and AI-driven insights that improve quality and reduce operational risk. The platform is ISO 27001 certified and fully validated for 21 CFR Part 11, making it suitable for mission-critical environments requiring strong governance, security, and control. IMS also includes low-code automation, process mining, audit management, training tracking, CAPA workflows, and dashboards to help teams streamline operations and continuously improve. AI strengthens governance, improves accuracy, and reinforces regulatory control.
    Starting Price: $10/month/user
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    Site24x7

    Site24x7

    ManageEngine

    ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.
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    Starting Price: $9.00/month
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    Aikido Security

    Aikido Security

    Aikido Security

    Secure your code, cloud, and runtime in one central system. Aikido’s all-in-one security platform is loved by developers and security teams alike with full security visibility, insight in what matters most, and fast/automatic vulnerability fixes. Teams get security done with Aikido thanks to: - False-positive reduction - AI Autotriage & AI Autofix - Deep integration into the dev workflow (from IDEs and task managers to CI/CD gating) - AI Pentests - Automated Compliance Aikido covers the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including: static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), infrastructure-as-code (IaC), container scanning, secrets detection, open source license scanning (SCA), cloud posture management (CSPM), runtime protection, AI pentests, and more.
    Starting Price: Free
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    ZeroPath

    ZeroPath

    ZeroPath

    ZeroPath (YC S24) is an AI-native application security platform that delivers comprehensive code protection beyond traditional SAST. Founded by security engineers from Tesla and Google, ZeroPath combines large language models with advanced program analysis to find and automatically fix vulnerabilities. ZeroPath provides complete security coverage: 1. AI-powered SAST for business logic flaws & broken authentication 2. SCA with reachability analysis 3. Secrets detection and validation 4. Infrastructure as Code 5. Automated patch generation. any more... ZeroPath delivers 2x more real vulnerabilities with 75% fewer false positives. Our research team has been successful in finding vulns like critical account takeover in better-auth (CVE-2025-61928, 300k+ weekly downloads), identifying 170+ verified bugs in curl, and discovering 0-days in production systems at Netflix, Hulu, and Salesforce. Trusted by 750+ companies and performing 200k+ code scans monthly.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Thinfinity Workspace

    Thinfinity Workspace

    Cybele Software, Inc.

    Thinfinity® Workspace 7 is a comprehensive, secure platform that offers a zero-trust approach, enabling secure and contextual access to corporate virtual desktops, virtual applications, internal web apps, SaaS, and files, whether they are on Windows, Linux, or mainframes. It supports various deployment models, including cloud, on-premise, and hybrid settings, and can be deployed on any cloud provider of your choice. With its proprietary reverse gateway technology, Thinfinity® Remote Workspace 7 ensures secure reverse connections over SSL with TLS 1.3 encryption. This robust approach doesn't require client-side installations, firewall modifications, or the opening of inbound ports on your network, thereby enhancing the security infrastructure of your business. The platform ensures all browser-based connections are secured over HTTPS, offering a wide variety of authentication options, from straightforward User/Password to sophisticated Active Directory authentication.
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    Ditto

    Ditto

    Ditto

    Ditto is the only mobile database with built-in edge device connectivity and resiliency, enabling apps to synchronize without relying on a central server or constant cloud connectivity. Through the use of CRDTs and P2P mesh replication, Ditto's technology enables you to build collaborative, resilient applications where data is always available and up-to-date for every user, and can even be synced in completely offline situations. This allows you to keep mission-critical systems online when it matters most. Devices running Ditto apps can discover and communicate with each other directly, forming an ad-hoc mesh network rather than routing everything through a cloud server. The platform automatically handles the complexity of discovery and connectivity using both online and offline channels – Bluetooth, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, local LAN, WiFi, Cellular – to find nearby devices and sync data changes in real-time.
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    Innoslate

    Innoslate

    SPEC Innovations

    SPEC Innovations’ flagship model-based systems engineering solution can help your team reduce time-to-market, cost, and risk on even some of the most complex systems. This cloud or on-premise application uses a modern web browser, with an intuitive graphical user interface. Innoslate’s full lifecycle capabilities include: • Requirements Management • Documents Management • Modeling • Discrete Event Simulator • Monte Carlo Simulator • DoDAF Models and Views • Database Management • Test Management with full reports, status updates, results, and more. • Real Time Collaboration
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    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Technologies

    Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.
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    Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition
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    Cycloid

    Cycloid

    Cycloid

    Cycloid is the unified Internal Developer Portal and Platform, made for platform engineering done right. Accelerate your platform engineering adoption from years to weeks, optimize the developer experience and operational efficiency by accelerating the delivery of a developer portal and platform, lighten the cognitive load on IT teams, and advocate for FinOps & Green IT practices. With a GitOps first approach, Cycloid is the single source of truth for your organization. Sovereign by design, we help you take control of your cloud choices and data, ensuring security, compliance, flexibility, and freedom from vendor lock-in at every step. And with GreenIT practices at our core, you'll build an efficient, responsible, and future-proof reality. We are the editor of OSS projects TerraCognita: reverse Terraform; InfraMap: infra diagram; and Terracost: cost estimation. We work with global organizations, US and European public institutions and 6 of the top 10 SI service providers.
    Starting Price: $32
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    Boozang

    Boozang

    Boozang

    Build. Test. Automate. Empower your whole team to build and maintain automated tests, not just developers. Meet your testing demands fast. Get full test coverage in days, not months. Our natural-language tests are extremely stable to code changes. When tests break our AI will repair it in minutes. Go Agile/DevOps by setting up Continuous Testing. Push features in production the same day. Boozang supports the following test approaches: - Codeless Record/Replay interface - BDD / Cucumber - API testing - Model-based testing - HTML Canvas testing The following features makes your testing a breeze - In-browser console debugging - Screenshots to show where test fails - Integrate to any CI server - Test with unlimited parallel workers to speed up tests - Root-cause analysis reports - Trend reports to track failures and performance over time - Test management integration (Xray / Jira)
    Starting Price: $249 USD / month / user
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    Rayven

    Rayven

    Rayven

    Rayven designs and delivers operational systems for industrial and asset-intensive businesses. We connect fragmented data from IT, OT, IoT, files, and existing systems - anything - without rip-and-replace, then turn it into automation and made-to-fit operational solutions that run in a single environment. Rayven is built for real operational conditions - sites, assets, field teams, production, logistics, and infrastructure. Teams get real-time visibility and automated workflows that reduce manual work, close gaps between systems, and improve coordination across operations. Everything is delivered end-to-end. Rayven designs the solution, provides the underlying technology, deploys it, and supports it over time - without requiring internal development teams or large implementation projects. Rayven works directly with customers and via partners through white-label and co-branded solutions. Based in Australia and New Zealand, supporting industrial organisations globally.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    People Data Labs

    People Data Labs

    People Data Labs

    We build workforce data, so you don't have to. People Data Labs provides comprehensive workforce profiles built with quality, coverage, and depth in mind. We collect, standardize, and refresh data, so you can build innovative products.
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    Starting Price: $0 for 100 API Calls
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    Pdftools

    Pdftools

    PDF Tools

    Whether you have thousands of documents or millions, Pdftools has the products and services to help make processing a breeze. Designed for document-heavy industries, Pdftools’ suite of SDKs and APIs are here to make your document workflows easier, faster, and stress-free. Built on SDKs and APIs, the Pdftools products integrate seamlessly into your existing (or new) systems and applications. Process thousands of documents every minute. Our tools are precision-engineered to be efficient and run at blazing speeds. We’re engineers at heart, so we’re only satisfied with the most reliable, orderly, and usable, and well-documented platforms. Shrink file sizes down, but keep the quality and interactivity. Your documents will always be compliant for long-term archiving. We’ve obsessed over every detail in our products, and documented everything so it’s easy to get started.
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    Starting Price: $0/month/user
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    Alpha TransForm

    Alpha TransForm

    Alpha Software Corporation

    The Alpha TransForm no-code app builder lets anyone create cross-platform mobile apps. The software offers unmatched speed, power, and flexibility in the no-code segment, and doesn’t require programming knowledge. Apps can leverage smartphone features (GPS, photos, bar code scanning, audio, digital ink, etc.), and integrate with existing databases and software. Whether you’re looking to collect more accurate data or streamline workflows, Alpha TransForm lets you design, build, and deploy mobile apps with ease: - pre-built app templates you can customize - powerful analytics engine with dashboards you can customize - built-in offline operation - a programming language for adding advanced capabilities - scale-able, secure and reliable cloud deployment. Developers can use Alpha Software's complimentary low-code platform (Alpha Anywhere) which integrates with Alpha TransForm, to build more advanced mobile apps and web apps.
    Starting Price: $30/User/Month
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    Alpha Anywhere

    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.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Peekdata

    Peekdata

    Peekdata

    Consume data from any database, organize it into consistent metrics, and use it with every app. Build your Data and Reporting APIs faster with automated SQL generation, query optimization, access control, consistent metrics definitions, and API design. It takes only days to wrap any data source with a single reference Data API and simplify access to reporting and analytics data across your teams. Make it easy for data engineers and application developers to access the data from any source in a streamlined manner. - The single schema-less Data API endpoint - Review and configure metrics and dimensions in one place via UI - Data model visualization to make faster decisions - Data Export management scheduling AP Ready-to-use Report Builder and JavaScript components for charting libraries (Highcharts, BizCharts, Chart.js, etc.) makes it easy to embed data-rich functionality into your products. And you will not have to make custom report queries anymore!
    Starting Price: $349 per month
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    Aware IM

    Aware IM

    AwareSoft Pty Ltd

    AwareIM is a low code web application builder, designed for rapid, robust and scalable development. It comes pre-packed with most, if not all, of what you’ll need to build enterprise-level business management applications, uses a non-procedural, rule-based approach, which makes development as simple and intuitive as it gets, is based on Java, so you get to “build once, run anywhere”, and is fully customizable, so nothing will hinder your creativity. AwareIM innately takes care of the full stack and includes all key components of a full fledged app, so you get to begin as close as possible to the finish line, right from the start. AwareIM uses a non-procedural, rule-based approach to development, which means, simply put, that you only need to specify what you want, the how is taken care of automatically. Development doesn’t get much simpler than that. AwareIM consists of Java code under the hood, so it will run in exactly the same way on any popular operating system.
    Starting Price: $150/month
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    Zebrunner

    Zebrunner

    Zebrunner Inc.

    Zebrunner is an AI-powered platform that unifies manual & automated testing, empowering QA teams to collaborate effortlessly. By leveraging AI, Zebrunner Testing Platform optimizes and speeds up the entire testing process, from generating & autocompleting test cases to prioritizing failures and providing real-time insights. Zebrunner Test Case Management offers a complete solution for managing manual test cases. With features like split-screen navigation, drag-and-drop editing, and customizable layouts, it simplifies test organization. Testers gain real-time insights, quickly addressing blockers or failures. Customizable fields and filters ensure testing aligns with specific project needs. Zebrunner Automation Reporting provides advanced reporting & analysis for automated testing. Teams can monitor progress, analyze failures, and access logs and videos. By visualizing trends and metrics, Zebrunner helps teams identify areas for improvement and optimize their testing processes.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Appcircle

    Appcircle

    Appcircle

    Automated Mobile DevOps platform for continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous testing of mobile apps. Enterprise-Grade Control and Flexibility. Appcircle is a NoOps Platform. No need for dedicated DevOps resources and know-how. Reduce your operational costs by up to 20%. Automate and streamline your continuous integration and continous delivery processes for mobile app development. Automation Done Right. No need for manual coding and constant monitoring for build automation and no need for a Mac or any other specific environment for builds. With different types of triggers, you have extensive control over when to get a build after a git push. Hassle-free Setup. Customize your build settings with a streamlined user interface with one-click access to all commonly used settings. Easy to setup, easy to use.
    Starting Price: $39 per month
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    DoveRunner

    DoveRunner

    DoveRunner

    DoveRunner - the AI-powered next-gen AppShielding solution crafted to enable organizations to prevent mobile app attacks and deal with sophisticated threat landscapes with perfect precision in just 3 simple steps. DoveRunner brings the benefits of DevSecOps to Mobile Apps with a ZERO-FRICTION, ZERO-CODING Approach. Get the best of Defense-in-depth security and regulatory compliance in a single solution for mobile apps DoveRunner is trusted by industries like Fintech/Banking, O2O, Movie Apps, Gaming, Healthcare, Public apps, E-commerce, and others globally.
    Starting Price: $129/app/month
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    Docsie

    Docsie

    Docsie

    Docsie is an award-winning digital documentation and knowledge management platform based in Ontario, Canada. You can access Docsie through a SaaS web application to create & edit documentation from any location. Then, you can publish content to a dynamic knowledge portal that users can access whenever they need information! Docsie offers powerful business-grade features to write & manage product documentation: - Docsie Pilot onboarding - Custom portal design & optional training for paid plans - Internal & external portal for employees & end-users - Workspaces - Knowledge base analytics & user feedback collection - Free custom domain - Markdown import & export - WYSIWYG Editor - iFrame embed - SwaggerAPI import - Snippet, fragment, document & topic templates - Help center & in-app help interface - Guided tour builder - Version & language management - Webhooks - AI translation & content generation - Project management - RBAC/JWT/SSO for security
    Starting Price: $39 per month (annual)
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    Convertigo

    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 apps
    Starting Price: $15 per month / user
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    DHTMLX

    DHTMLX

    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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    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian is an end-to-end NHI security platform that empowers software-driven organizations to enhance their Non-Human Identity (NHI) security and comply with industry standards. With attackers increasingly targeting NHIs, such as service accounts and applications, GitGuardian integrates Secrets Security and NHI Governance. This dual approach enables the detection of compromised secrets across your dev environments while also managing non human identities and their secrets lifecycle. The platform supports over 450+ types of secrets, offers public monitoring for leaked data, and deploys honeytokens for added defense. Trusted by over 600,000 developers, GitGuardian is the choice of leading organizations like Snowflake, ING, BASF and Bouygues Telecom for robust secrets protection.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    TestGrid

    TestGrid

    TestGrid.io

    TestGrid has deployed Automated Testing Clouds in multiple locations around the world. Our Testing cloud can also be hosted on-premise. This will ensure the provision of a High Availability Service Network, configured with load balancing and mirroring so that software team members can enjoy close proximity access to the 24/7 on-demand service and receive their reporting in a timely fashion. By utilizing the TestGrid platform, customers will not only accelerate their turn-around time for product deployments and/or updates, but will also tremendously cut down their costs on product development and product testing. TestGrid is the only Truly Robust platform that is built with open source software technologies designed with every team member in mind: from the head of engineering to the product tester.
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    Starting Price: $39/month
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    FAB Builder

    FAB Builder

    FAB Builder

    FAB Builder is a powerful Code Generation/Low Code platform that accelerates web and mobile app development. It seamlessly integrates with MERN stack, MEAN stack, React, Node.js, Java, Flutter, and iOS, enabling rapid front-end, back-end, and mobile app creation. Leveraging AI and pre-built templates, it optimizes workflows, reducing costs and increasing productivity. Features include automated code generation, customizable templates, error-free code, integration-ready tools, collaborative features, rapid prototyping, and cross-platform support. FAB Builder is ideal for developers, teams, and startups, allowing them to automate repetitive tasks, boost collaboration, and prototype quickly without sacrificing code quality. It enhances project efficiency, speeds up time-to-market, and empowers developers to focus on complex tasks. Try FAB Builder Code Generator today and streamline your development process!
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    AppMaster

    AppMaster

    AppMaster Inc

    AppMaster is a no-code platform that works with frontend, backend, and native applications. The platform lets its users build applications through a visual drag and drop interface, allowing anyone to create any kind of project. The differentiation point of AppMaster from other existing no-code platforms is the ability to build a product beyond MVP. The applications built on the platform are indistinguishable from the applications implemented natively, since they have the platform-generated source code and API documentation, they are also suitable for any operating system and can be published to both the Google Play Market and Apple App Store. Find a client, help make a decision with AppMaster and receive benefits from every client's payment. As you grow, additional benefits come your way. AppMaster AI will carefully work out every part of the project: data structures, business logic, back-end, web and mobile applications, API.
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    Starting Price: 165/month
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    CaptainCasa Enterprise Client
    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.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Unleash

    Unleash

    Bricks Software AS

    Unleash is an open-source feature management software, built with large enterprises in mind. It's private, secure, scalable, and ready for the most complex setups out-of-the-box. Move from all-or-nothing releases to safe and frequent deployments Instead of perfecting a merge and fixing bugs when a set of features go live, you can release individual changes to your users, then immediately roll them back if something goes wrong. Scale your software and infrastructure at your own pace Reduce the complexity of feature flag management and tracking through a simple, user-friendly dashboard. Keep your user data to yourself. Full stop. Unleash offers private instances as part of its SaaS package. With assets like its proxy and Edge offerings, SaaS Unleash user data remains entirely with the customer. Significantly cut costs and reduce the drain on resources Reduce a significant amount of administrative costs, technical debt and helps you focus on the feature flags' benefits.
    Starting Price: $0
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