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.

Update: May 2024

As the no-code landscape evolves, so does this article and database. We’ve got exciting new platforms that were added, some that were modified, and others that were removed because they were acquired or shut down.

Here’s a quick rundown of what’s changed:

• Company logos are updated. Many platforms (including Baserow) underwent a rebrand or a refresh, so logos are now up to date as of this writing.
• Logos are standardized. When The No-Code Landscape image and database were created, we used raw brand assets in SVG and PNG formats. However, not all companies make these files publicly accessible, so the logos looked inconsistent, especially in Gallery View. Now, all logo images in the database follow the same padding and spacing parameters.
• The Category field is now Categories. Even though we had to be a little stricter with categories for the sake of the image due to limited space, the database doesn’t have these constraints. Thus, the Category field is now a multiple select field instead of a single select field. This allows no-code platforms to fit in more than one category. It also allows everyone to filter based on multiple categories, rather than just one.
• The Website field is now a button. Rather than seeing the raw URL, you get a nice clean button to click when you want to visit the platform. All buttons lead to the platform’s homepage. There’s also a referral string so that those platforms can where the traffic is coming from and update their listing in the database.
• New categories and tags. Platforms evolve, so the categories and tags on the database should evolve as well. While it’s not a perfect system, since everyone has different opinions when there are grey areas, they’ve been adjusted to reflect suggestions from the no-code and open source community.

One more thing: Even though the database is embedded in this article, we thought it’d be useful to provide direct links to the existing and new shared views so you can access them in full screen.

• Grid: All platforms
• Gallery: All platforms
• Kanban: All platforms by maturity level

Note: Regardless of which view you’re on, you’re still free to add filters and sort as you’d like.