Adalo could be the easiest no-code app builder out there (as of 11-07-2022) which is the main reason why many people to start to use it.
There are some fundamental issues which makes me to suggest to check other builders. (I'm a paid user)
- Quite bad customer service
-There is the community but their forum is little neglected by the Adalo's team.
-Apps you will build will end up being very slow
I suggest you can invest time to learn another a little more complicated product (Draftbit, Appgyver for instance) since you will most likely end up rebuilding your app you developed with Adalo.
At the first time, I love Adalo but since they release the new unfair price structure with "App Action" limit, I call my friend in the real world to stop use this platform to run the business.
More than that the more people complaining in their forum is the more they close the topic and hidden it.
I'm not trust Adalo any more, everything is upon them, you cant have your code, you need to stick with them until you die , and they not listen to customer.
I give 2 star because its very user friendly.
Think wise and longterm , no one know when is the next bug change come and that time your voice to them is mean nothing.
After more than three years many feature requests still haven't been implemented nor responses provided for. FaceID has yet to be implemented as one example. I used to love Adalo in its early days, but it appears that something went sour and they completely came to a crawl with investments on the platform. So much potential was squandered.
Absolute trash. Doesn't even deserve one star. I've wasted countless hours. Extremely buggy and sometimes doesn't even work at all. Please save yourself the pain that I've gone through having to use this product.
I have spent the past two years learning to produce a number of apps using the platform. The learning curve is so steep that initially I found real joy in the process and the community is on the whole very helpful. It has been mentioned before that the real issues don't show up until you have invested your time (and money). After a year I had become sick of waiting for a subscription component to be released and repurposed my app. I launched on Google without any issue whatsoever but the iOS version crashed at launch. Despite over 50 Testflight versions over two months of customer support, nothing changed and I lost my momentum. The app became unviable and the investment of my time too risky. I have had to completely start again and in all honesty, I wish I had never discovered the product. I have not even mentioned the lack of GDPR support either which in effect makes producing apps in Europe almost impossible. Please make sure you understand the limits of the product and if you are going to use it, start small and evolve rather than trying to launch a fully rounded product to avoid disappointment. The only positive is that I now use the intuitive systems to quickly make small basic apps for fun and my own personal use which the free part is good for.
Adalo as a company has one of the worst customer service experiences and probably one of the most customer unfriendly organization, you could ever have. In the world were organizations do everything to be customer first, these guys are focused on customer last. They have a community who doesn't necessarily respond to questions. Their customer service team takes days to revert back and even then isn't helpful at all. After days of non-replying you would get a response, please look for it in adalo academy, hire an adalo expert etc and say this isn't in their purview to respond, but sadly they don't respond to questions which are in their purview too. They have plugins which are very expensive, for even very basic functionalities. All they want to do is for you spend and spend some more, Creating basic functionality like a forgot password functionality or adding multiple images is tedious. If you have any doubts go to their youtube channel and see for yourself, how you have to go through creating each of the functionality and decide for yourself. Their plans are expensive, but value delivered is extremely poor.
You have ideas that you want to see it come through, these guys make it so difficult, best to avoid them, else it will cost you your dream.
Congratulations with the launch and good luck!
I have some my slightly negative comments as one of your paid users.
DIRECT XANO INTEGRATION requires you to be on team plan which costs 200 USD/month.
Their most popular package is Professional plan -65 USD- (their claim on their pricing page) which does not have Xano integration.
Basically even if you have already access to Xano for your other projects you still need to to spend 3X to be able to use Xano for external users.
I wish they also had address some critical issues such as app wide variables, enums for dropdown choices etc.
