Best Free Application Development Software

Compare the Top Free Application Development Software as of July 2025

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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    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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    Qorus Integration Engine

    Qorus Integration Engine

    Qore Technologies

    Qorus Integration Engine® is the only No-Code for Coders solution, enabling software engineers to rapidly create and maintain enterprise apps through a combination of building block construction, configuration, and custom coding in a highly flexible, open-source platform. Qorus includes AI automation, fault tolerant workflows, native Python - Java language integration, and a data provider API that automatically introspects and interfaces with any system independently of the underlying API or integration technology. Qorus is available as a paid enterprise edition, and a FREE, fully functional community edition.
    Starting Price: $250 per month
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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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    Rayven

    Rayven

    Rayven

    Rayven's a full-stack, no/low-code platform that lets anyone build powerful apps, AI tools, and automations - fast. It's simple, scalable, and works with your existing technologies. Start building on our free-forever plan using AI prompts, drag-and-drop tools, templates, or code (when you want) to: - Build apps + automations in minutes using templates or from scratch - Connect systems, unify data, and integrate AI into your workflows - Modernise processes without replacing legacy tech or adding risk - Enable IT, Developers, DevOps, Ops, and Product teams to work from the same platform Rayven is designed for developers and non-technical users alike; giving you the all-in-one, low-cost tool to get from idea to outcome, fast. Start for free at rayven.io
    Starting Price: $0
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    1C:Enterprise

    1C:Enterprise

    1C Company

    1C:Enterprise is a universal rapid application development platform for building and delivering business management and accounting solutions in HORECA, Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance, and other industries. It has the breadth of capability to address the diverse needs of today’s business through building solutions in a low-code environment. The 1C:Enterprise platform enables developers to rapidly build business applications of any complexity, from the most straightforward single-developer products to advanced ERP systems. 1C:Enterprise applications run on desktop, mobile, and web. The platform automatically adapts applications to the required OS, browser, and DBMS. Due to the support of multiple open standards (ODBC, REST API, OData, XML, JSON, COM, SOAP, HTTP, etc.), 1C:Enterprise applications easily integrate with any software and hardware, including equipment from various vendors.
    Starting Price: $200
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    Quixxi

    Quixxi

    Quixxi Security

    Quixxi is a leading provider of mobile app security solutions that empowers enterprises and security professionals to secure their mobile applications. Quixxi is proud to be the only provider of a patented and proprietary mobile app security solution. Our services includes SCAN, SHIELD, and SUPERVISE. SCAN (SAST/DAST/WebAPI) is a comprehensive application vulnerability assessment tool that automates and integrates with the development process, providing full explanations and recommendations to identify and fix vulnerabilities. SHIELD (RASP), on the other hand, is an application shielding tool that provides baseline security controls to protect the intellectual property in mobile apps and shield them against malicious attacks by third parties with one click. SUPERVISE is a runtime application monitoring tool that enables remote disabling, messaging, security logs, and customer analytics for better app management.
    Starting Price: $29 for One-Off plan
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    Neptune DXP

    Neptune DXP

    Neptune Software

    Neptune Software's leading low-code app development platform - Neptune DXP – digitizes and optimizes business processes and user interfaces – at scale and with ease. Neptune DXP offers enterprise mobility, as well as the best low-code app development for SAP customers with the choice of no-code/low-code app development. The platform gives IT departments the right tools to build the apps they need. Neptune DXP provides a fast, cost-effective, and future-proof way to industrialize the development of custom applications (especially SAP Fiori, SAP mobile applications), turning your IT organization into an app factory, saving time and money on enterprise app development, app integration, and enterprise app operations.
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience
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    JFrog Artifactory
    The Industry Standard Universal Binary Repository Manager. Supports all major package types (over 27 and growing) such as Maven, npm, Python, NuGet, Gradle, Go, and Helm including Kubernetes and Docker as well as integration with leading CI servers and DevOps tools that you already use. Additional functionalities include: - High Availability that scales to infinity with active/active clustering of your DevOps environment and scales as business grows - On-Prem, Cloud, Hybrid, or Multi-Cloud Solution - De Facto Kubernetes Registry managing application packages, operating system’s component dependencies, open source libraries, Docker containers, and Helm charts with full visibility of all dependencies. Compatible with a growing list of Kubernetes cluster providers.
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    Rollbar

    Rollbar

    Rollbar

    Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.
    Starting Price: $19.00/month
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    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ is a low-code platform to build internal tools and custom apps for the web and mobile. Developers and engineering teams use this platform to create admin panels, CRUD apps, GUI for Databases or APIs, forms, dashboards & operational apps. Key features include: - Customizable UI components - Mobile + Web app output - 10x faster app development - Seamless integration to any existing tech stack - Scalable cloud-based architecture - Over 50 Engineering Support Hours (UVP) - Free forever developer plans With 3000+ Apps built and 1 million+ users supported, DronaHQ is a platform trusted by global companies.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    PubNub

    PubNub

    PubNub

    Innovate with Realtime Features: We take care of realtime communication infrastructure so you can focus on your app. Our Platform for Realtime Communication: A platform to build and operate real-time interactivity for web, mobile, AI/ML, IoT, and Edge computing applications Faster & Easier Deployments: SDK support for 50+ mobile, web, server, and IoT environments (PubNub and community supported) and more than 65 pre-built integrations with external and third-party APIs to give developers the features they need regardless of programming language or tech stack. Scalability: The industry’s most scalable platform capable of supporting millions of concurrent users and allows for rapid growth with low latency, high uptime, and without financial penalties. Security & Compliance: Enterprise-grade security and compliance with the most stringent regulations worldwide, including GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and CCPA.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Backendless

    Backendless

    Backendless

    Backendless is a Visual App Development Platform (VADP) that combines API, user, and database management functionality with a user-friendly, web-based interface and UI Builder. Backendless offers the ability to send emails and push notifications and supports real-time chat and geolocation-based functionality. A Backendless application can be customized with manually written code or using our Codeless logic builder. The platform can be hosted on our cloud servers or installed and managed on your own private servers. The Backendless UI Builder allows you to build fully functional web and mobile apps. You can use the UI Builder, or Backendless works seamlessly with virtually any client-side environment, automatically morphing data to the proper format for the frontend operating system. A Backendless database can also be connected to external databases, allowing you to maintain existing data sources while also being able to manage those databases using Backendless' intuitive interface.
    Starting Price: $15.00/month
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    Applivery

    Applivery

    Applivery

    Applivery is the most powerful Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) platform that provides full control over App Distribution and Device Management for Android, Windows, and Apple. Its easy-to-use, cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution enables efficient remote management with top-notch security. It seamlessly integrates into organizations of all sizes, requiring only a few minutes to set up.
    Starting Price: €2/device
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    Appsmith

    Appsmith

    Appsmith

    Appsmith is an open-source low-code platform designed to help businesses rapidly build custom internal tools and applications. With a drag-and-drop interface and extensive integration capabilities, Appsmith simplifies the development of dashboards, admin panels, and CRUD applications. Developers can also customize functionality using JavaScript, while seamless integration with databases and APIs makes it highly versatile. It supports self-hosting and enterprise-grade security features such as role-based access controls, audit logging, and SOC 2 compliance, making it suitable for organizations of all sizes. Appsmith's AI-powered agent platform enables businesses to build custom conversational agents tailored to their specific needs. These agents can be embedded into various business workflows, enhancing support, sales, and customer success teams. By leveraging data-driven AI, the platform automates tasks and scales operations efficiently.
    Starting Price: $0.4/hour/user
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle

    Treblle is a federated API Intelligence platform built for enterprises that need full visibility, control, and security over their APIs. With a single integration, Treblle provides real-time API Discovery, Observability, Analytics, Governance, Runtime Security, and Developer Portals. It supports on-prem and private cloud deployments to meet strict compliance and data privacy requirements. Treblle helps teams shift left by surfacing API issues early in development and ensuring consistency across environments. Its AI-powered Integration Assistant simplifies onboarding and reduces manual effort. Trusted by global enterprises and recognized over 15 times by Gartner, Treblle accelerates innovation while giving you complete control over your API landscape.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    Simplifier

    Simplifier

    Simplifier AG

    Simplifier helps companies with SAP modernization by providing a leading low-code platform for enterprise application development. They specialize in rapid app creation, integrating SAP and non-SAP systems, and optimizing business processes. Their platform offers intuitive UI design, pre-built interfaces, and comprehensive training for cost-effective, efficient solutions. Modern User Experiences: Replaces traditional SAP GUI with modern interfaces across all devices, enhancing usability. Streamlined ERP Cores: Transforms SAP systems into streamlined, upgradeable ERP cores without custom code. Seamless Integration: Connects SAP On-Premise systems through Simplifier On-Premise or Simplifier in the AWS Cloud, ensuring quick responses to customer demands and emerging trends. Try Simplifier for free
    Starting Price: €16.90 / month / user
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    Jmix

    Jmix

    Haulmont Technology

    Discover a rapid application development platform that supercharges your digital initiatives without low-code limitations, vendor dependency, and usage-based fees. Jmix general purpose open architecture based on a future-proof technology stack is capable to support various digital initiatives across the organization. Jmix applications are indeed yours and can be supported independently thanks to open-source runtime utilizing mainstream technologies. Your data is secure with a server-side frontend development model and fine-grained access control. Any Java or Kotlin developer is a full-stack Jmix developer - you don’t need separate backend and frontend teams. Visual tools help onboard developers who have little experience or move from an obsolete stack. Jmix’s data-centric approach and single development language make it a natural fit to migrate legacy applications. Jmix supercharges your team with high-productivity tools and ready-to-use components.
    Starting Price: $45 per month
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    Mendix

    Mendix

    Mendix

    Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in enterprise low-code, is fundamentally reinventing the way applications are delivered in the digital enterprise. With the Mendix platform, enterprises can ‘Make with More,’ by broadening their development capability to conquer the software development bottleneck; ‘Make it Smart,’ by making apps with rich native experiences that are intelligent, proactive, and contextual; and ‘Make at Scale,’ to modernize core systems and build large app portfolios. The Mendix platform is built to promote intense collaboration between business and IT teams and dramatically accelerate application development cycles while maintaining the highest security, quality, and governance, in short, to help enterprises leap into their digital futures. The Mendix platform has been adopted by more than 4,000 leading companies around the world including Conoco Phillips, Business Development Bank of Canada, Post NL, Continental, Zurich Insurance, and
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    Backtrace

    Backtrace

    Backtrace

    Don’t let app, device, or game crashes get in the way of a great experience. Backtrace takes all the manual labor out of cross-platform crash and exception management so you can focus on shipping. Cross-platform callstack and event aggregation and monitoring. Process errors from panics, core dumps, minidumps, and during runtime across your stack with a single system. Backtrace generates structured, searchable error reports from your data. Automated analysis cuts down on time to resolution by surfacing important signals that lead engineers to crash root cause. Never worry about missing a clue with rich integrations into dashboards, notification, and workflow systems. Answer the questions that matter to you with Backtrace’s rich query engine. View a high-level overview of error frequency, prioritization, and trends across all your projects. Search through key data points and your own custom data across all your errors.
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    Ozone

    Ozone

    Ozone

    Ozone platform helps enterprises to ship modern applications quickly, securely and reliably. Ozone removes the unwanted headache of managing too many DevOps tools and makes it super easy for anyone to deploy applications on Kubernetes clusters. Just integrate all your existing DevOps tools and automate your application delivery process end-to-end. Accelerate deployments with automated pipeline workflows and on demand infrastructure management with zero downtime. Prevent business losses by enforcing governance and compliance policy for app deployments at scale. Single pane of glass where engineering, DevOps and Security teams can collaborate on application releases in realtime.
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