ILLA Cloud alternatives

ToolJet is a game-changer for anyone trying to get into web app development or prototyping! I was amazed by how simple it was to use. Even with limited experience with similar softwares, I could quickly build prototypes that felt super complex at first. It’s intuitive, beginner-friendly, and honestly just fun to work with. What I love most is how approachable the community is—they’re always ready to help, no matter how basic or tricky your question is. It’s like having a team of supportive friends who genuinely want you to succeed.

I kept hitting platform limitations with other no/low-code solutions until I found Appsmith! It's the perfect balance of a no-code UI editor, and low-code (JavaScript) to transform data and add business logic.

I love Directus! I've been working with it for nearly a year and a half now, and I don't plan to use anything else anytime soon. I actively contribute to the system because I love what they're doing, I love that it's free, and I love the community. Directus cloud takes the amazing product the team has built and pushes it one step further. It's probably the least restrictive web-based data management system you'll find, and being able to run up an instance in a matter of minutes makes things so much easier when you just need to test something small. Of course, no software is perfect. Directus has its flaws, its bugs, but the team works swift and diligently to fix what's broken and keep everything running smoothly. It's a growing product, adding new features, fixes, and improvements every week. They listen to the needs of their community and cater the app to the people who actually use it. But you don't need to take my word for it. You can literally sign up for Directus Cloud and test it out in less than 5 minutes, without any payment information at all. Maybe it's not for you, that's okay. What's great is they give you the tools to quickly figure that out for yourself. So why not give it a shot?

Basedash is exactly what I didn't know our team needed. Also, their free plan is perfect for teams who are just getting started.

I completely generated an MVP in 2 days without writing a line of code based on an existing database and polished a final solution in less than 2 quarters working with the customer following the principles of the No Handoff Manifesto

Surprisingly it provides features that give you a huge amount of flexibility and allow your apps to be as complex as they need to be, but somehow still allows you to keep things simple and give you a sense of control and simplicity. I've tested several other no-code tools that either give you a lot of features but make it really hard to maintain or deploy; or give you almost no flexibility and would only work for very simple things. Jetadmin proves a great tool for power users... Something I'd improve, however, is support. It is a bit slow although they seem attentive. Pricing may be another concern. If you want to take advantage of everything that Jetadmin offers (and what truly makes it shine, such as custom SQL queries), be prepared to pay a little more. In my case this is not an issue, but just so you know. To be honest: compared to other no-code platforms, it isn't really that expensive. I've read other reviews and I think some people miss the point of no-code tools. They belive that no-code means like ChatGPT prompting: just do this and that, etc... The truth is that you're still better off learning a bit about what is expected from X/Y software so based on a plan you're able to outline with precision and certainty. Don't 'build an app' if you don't really know what you want and what you need. For example, do you really need a no-code platform? ... With Jet Admin we had basically zero issues to deploy our app and in less than one week we were already in production, and our community has over 150K users that will soon start using our Jet Admin app; some of them already are.

I work for a startup called Fernish. We used Internal to rebuild our internal admin tools, which were originally built with the Administrate gem for rails. Our version of administrate was deprecated so we took the opportunity to rebuild our admin tools with Internal. The killer feature for us was role-based permissions. Internal makes it super easy to configure permissions for our admin users. This was a feature we didn't have with our previous Administrate solution. Internal is now part of our entire development lifecycle. Internal communicates with our system via API (or an HTTP Source in Internal). We're also able to connect our review apps, staging, and production environments to internal. As a frontend engineer that has built multiple admin tools in the past, I originally thought Internal was not necessary, but I have since changed my mind. Internal is a lot less work than hand-rolling a solution on our own.