The no-code landscape: 100+ platforms to try

The no-code landscape

The no-code landscape

Why create this no-code industry map?

At Baserow, we’re passionate about the no-code movement. We understand that the visual development landscape is always changing and evolving, with new players, products, features, and requests popping up all the time. This brings both excitement and questions, especially for those new to the space.

We’re excited to share this landscape as a compass to the community, so that everyone—at all levels—can learn, understand, and contribute to the ever-growing no-code landscape.

The industry map isn’t a static document. In true open source spirit, we invite the community to help us keep the map relevant, accurate, and useful. While we’re hosting the map, we welcome additions, suggestions, and any other sort of contribution!

The companies in the landscape

With over 100 companies in the no-code landscape (and counting), our main challenge was selecting the right criteria to showcase a subset of companies on the graphic. Given the limited space available, we knew that our efforts had to be a combination of art and science.

One of our key considerations was the product maturity level. While there are many exciting new products being launched and improved every day, we believe it’s important to feature companies with products that are ready for production deployment, capable of serving critical business use cases, and enterprise-ready to a large extent. Although we appreciate cutting-edge technology, we’ve excluded products that are still in the experimental or very early stages of development.

However, we didn’t want the landscape to only represent the “big” or “bigger” players in the field. As an emerging company ourselves, we wanted to include a healthy mix of established, rising, and early-stage players who are eager to empower everyone through visual development.

This leads us to another consideration, which focuses on developing in an open-source manner and avoiding vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in is consistently mentioned as one of the biggest concerns when it comes to adopting no-code tools and platforms.

To address this concern, we felt it would be beneficial to highlight the open-source platforms. Vendor lock-in is a valid concern, and showcasing platforms that are tackling this issue encourages lively and constructive discussions in the visual development spectrum. It also shows that a few entities are actively addressing this problem.

The categories and groupings

Determining the categories was a challenging task. Ultimately, each category represents the core service provided by the platform. We chose to focus on the core service because there can be overlap across features and functionalities.

For example, Bubble is a full-stack visual development platform primarily focused on web apps. While it’s possible to build mobile apps using Bubble, there are other platforms that are more specialized in (or entirely dedicated to) mobile app development. Draftbit is a good example of such a platform, as it solely focuses on native mobile apps rather than web apps.

Another example is Baserow. Although we plan to incorporate native automations in the future, our main focus remains on being an open-source, extensible, and flexible database for your no-code stack. In other words, while automation functionality may exist within Baserow, platforms like n8n or Zapier are better suited for the Automation & integrations category, as they primarily specialize in automating and integrating various apps and services.

The goal of categorizing all the different platforms is to showcase their respective core services and functionalities.

The future of the no-code landscape

Since the landscape is constantly evolving, it’s only natural that this image evolves as well. We encourage everyone in the community to help us shape and refine it together. Open source is at the heart of what we do, including projects like this one. We always value your feedback, input, and contributions in everything we do.

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