lowcoder

Note
Lowcoder continues from the abandoned Openblocks project. For more information read our manifesto.

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🎥 Lowcoder Intro Video

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📢 Use Lowcoder in 3 steps

1. Connect to any data sources or APIs.
2. Build flexible and responsive UI with 120+ components and free layout / design possibilities.
3. Share with colleagues and customers.

💡 Why Lowcoder

One platform for everything instead so many different softwares. (like Website Builders, CMS, CRM, POS, ERP, Dashboards & Data Story Visualization, Collaboration Tools).

It’s cumbersome to create a single app. You had to design user interfaces, write code in multiple languages and frameworks, and understand how all of that code works together.

NewGen Lowcode Platforms like Retool and others are great for their simplicity and flexibility - like Lowcoder too, but they can also be limited in different ways, especially when it comes to “external” applications for everyone - because their pricing focusses to internal apps and “pay per User”.

With Lowcoder we did a step forward. More specifically, Lowcoder is:

• An all-in-one IDE to create internal or customer-facing (external) apps.
• A place to create, build and share building blocks of web applications and whole websites.
• The tool and community to support your business, and lower the cost and time to develop interactive applications.
• The only platform to embed Lowcode Apps natively in Websites (no iFrame!)
• The only platform where you can build your own Meeting Tool - like Teams, Zoom or Google Meets, - just in the Lowcode way.
• The only platform which has extensibility plugin architecture Check Community Contributions

🪄 Features

• Visual UI builder with 120+ built-in components. Save 90% of time to build apps.

• Modules for reusable (!) embedable component sets in the UI builder.

• Embed Lowcoder Apps as native parts of any Website instead of iFrame (!). Demo, Docu

• Video Meeting Components to create your own individual Web-Meeting tool.

• Query Library for reusable data queries of your data sources.

• Custom components to develop own components and use them in the UI builder.

• Native Data connections to PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, REST API, SMTP, etc.

• Stream Data connections to Websockets for realtime data updates & collaboration! Docu

• JavaScript supported everywhere to transform data, control components, etc.

• Role-based access control (RBAC) for granular permission management. Docu

• Auto-saved and restorable history for release and version control.

• App Themes and Theme Editor to precisely align with your company’s brand guidelines.

• Self Hosting to use Lowcoder in your internal company network, even behind the firewall. Docu

• Free Community Cloud to start within a minute and build your first Apps. Start here

🏆 Comparisons

Lowcoder vs Teams, Google Meets, Zoom

• build a Meeting tool with peace in mind. Blue buttons - ok. Red corners or circle Videostream - ok too.
• embedd applications in your Video-Meetings, so attendees can enjoy collaborative “anything”. From shopping to working and gaming…

Lowcoder vs Powerapps

• build a apps way faster than in Power Apps. Save up to 50& of the time and costs at least.
• Use self-hosting to keep all apps and data under your control for example at the own baremetals.

Lowcoder vs Retool

• Lowcoder is open-source. You don’t need to worry about vendor lock-in or being stuck with an outdated version of the software.
• In Lowcoder, developers can build truly responsive apps - not as cumbersome as the “Desktop / Mobile switch” in Retool
• Lowcoder is free and you can contribute!
• With Lowcoder you can design better Apps. More Layout & Design Components as also better support for powerful Data & Admin Dashboards.
• The EE Version of Lowcoder comes with a much better pricing model, so you have no “per-user costs”.

Lowcoder vs Appsmith, Tooljet

• Lowcoder has more components and richer configuration than Appsmith and Tooljet.
• In Lowcoder, you can choose auto-height or fixed-height mode for your components, while Appsmith supports fixed-height mode only.
• In Lowcoder, you can reuse common structures when building apps with modules and query library features.

Lowcoder vs Mendix, Outsystems, Pega

• Lowcoder is modern. The codebase is fresh and uses modern standards.
• Lowcoder Apps do not need a compile and deployment. Just publish and use. Within seconds!
• Lowcoder Apps can get embedded natively in websites and apps, even in mobile apps.

Lowcoder vs internal Tool platforms

• Lowcoder supports internal tools like admin panels perfectly, but also customer-facing apps can get developed and published.
• The Lowcoder UI builder is straightforward and better to use than Bubble.
• App release cycles and updates can be done nearly daily without service downtimes for customers and users.

👐 Support and Community

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us or share them with our community. Our team is here ready to help. And we mean it… Day by day!

📮 Best way is to chat with us on Discord

📑 Search for solutions in our Documentation

🔎 Submit an issue here on GitHub

💻 Deployment Options

You can access Lowcoder from cloud-hosted version at any time, or use the following resources for self-host Lowcoder on different platforms:

• Docker

💪 Contributing

• Language support: If you have experience with a language that isn’t currently supported by our product, send us a pull request.
• Create and share components or demos: If you’ve created something that might be useful to others, add the link here.
• Contributing guide

Special tanks goes to @sjhoeksma, @mousheng, @mat02, @jomedya and many other contributors!

🥇 Sponsors

Accelerate the growth of Lowcoder and unleash its potential with your Sponsorship – together, we’re shaping the future of Lowcode for everyone! Be a Sponsor

Like … @Darkjamin, @spacegoats-io, @Jomedya, @CHSchuepfer, Thank you very much!!