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Retool is the fast way to build internal tools. Drag-and-drop our building blocks and connect them to your databases and APIs to build your own tools, instantly.
What can developer do with Retool
All internal tools are made up of the building blocks: Tables, Lists, Charts, Forms, Wizards, Maps and so on
Connect to most databases or anything with a REST, GraphQL or gRPC API. Retool empowers you to work with all of your data sources seamlessly in one app.
No need to worry about storing isFetching in Redux or handling errors from your backend. Retool manages all the hard stuff
Retool is highly hackable, so you’re never limited by what's available out of the box. If you can write it with JavaScript and an API, you can build it in Retool.
If you can build it in React, you can use it in Retool. Define your custom component via JS and use it in any Retool app.
Import JS libraries via a URL and use them anywhere. Retool ships with Lodash, Moment, and Numbro already installed.
View all available query, component, and environment properties like current_user, as well as query dependencies.
How much does Retool cost?
Available for Self hosted too
Build dashboards, admin panels, and other internal tools fast. Connect to any datasource. Create UI with pre-built widgets. Code freely with inbuilt JS editor.
What can developer do with Appsmith
Building an interface for your app couldn’t get any quicker. Use pre-made widgets to easily layout an app, and move them around to experiment with usability.
Integrate all your datasources in minutes. Appsmith has plug-and-play support for most databases, Rest APIs and GraphQL, so you can seamlessly import your data.
Modify data, adjust widget properties or call an API with JavaScript. Event listeners within Appsmith can trigger updates automatically. Use vanilla JS or bring your favourite library.
Fork a branch to split the work or drop a comment to ask for help! Loop in a designer to refine the UI or ping a user to get their feedback. Appsmith was made from the ground up to be a collaborative development tool.
You have full control over who can use or edit your apps. Select a role for each team member and invite them to the apps they need. Or build privately—it's your call.
Deploy apps with the click of a button or simply Integrate with your CI/CD. Create git branches for different environments to safely develop, test and deploy your applications.
How much does Appsmith cost?
Free for self-hosted or Cloud version
Starting at $250/month Everything from Community, plus:
Ship your perfect admin panel in a few minutes. Forget the UI frameworks, technical knowledge, and dev time it takes to build and support internal admin panels.
What can developer do with Basedash
You don't have to write code to get a full featured internal app that can read, write, query, edit, and delete data. Connect your data and Basedash does the heavy lifting for you.
Create dedicated apps for departments, individual teams, or projects. They don't require dev resources to make, and all apps in your workspace can share actions, databases, and enpoints.
Make data look better with page layouts. Showcase images and make the records you're looking for easier to identify or keep things in a table layout for highest density and power user control.
View your database and act on the records by creating actions with any 3rd party REST or GraphQL API. Send emails, refunds, alerts, Slack messages... there's almost no limit to what you can do with your data.
Edit and view all database records with an easy-to-use spreadsheet interface. Understand and reference your schema, edit values, and share access without sharing credentials.
Write SQL queries together and share them with your entire team. Non-SQL savvy teammates can use the insights and reports you create. Visualize the results in line or bar charts.
How much does Basedash cost?
Best for new companies with occasional internal app needs. Free Up to 5 app pages
Best for growing companies with regular internal app needs. $25/user per month Up to 100 app pages
Best for scaling companies with heavy internal app needs. $50/user per month Up to 1000 app pages
Custom Best for companies with strict security needs.
No-code Internal tools and workflows. The fastest way to build internal applications on top of your existing business systems, APIs, and databases - without code.
What can developer do with Internal
Create a multi-step workflow, chaining together database queries, API calls, and custom logic. Internal makes it fast and easy to automate work – like a weekly job to update your database or a complex sequence of tasks to onboard customers every hour.
Just because you’re building tools that touch your databases and APIs doesn’t mean developers have to do it all. Internal is designed with no-code builders in mind, making it possible to contribute without code or SQL. More people can contribute = internal tools get built faster.
From databases and APIs to business apps, Internal is made for building internal tools that are deeply integrated with your existing systems. Your data isn’t stored or cached in Internal, it stays where it belongs and is queried on-demand when it’s needed.
Add Javascript almost anywhere to manipulate data and add custom logic to your internal tools. Or write SQL to create custom views, execute stored procedures, and more. While Internal is designed with no-code builders in mind, it’s also made for developers who want to dive deep.
When you build with Internal, you’ll get granular permissions, audit logs, SSO, two-step-authentication, and more from the get-go. Secure your internal tools from the start without added development time.
How much does Internal cost?
$0/user/month
$5/user/month paid annually.
$19/user/month paid annually.
Airplane is a developer-centric approach to building internal UIs and workflows.
What can developer do with Airplane
Airplane Views are built with React—the good parts. We've taken the popular framework and included libraries to make building internal tools fast.
Select from Airplane's library of tables, forms, charts, and more. Design system and UX best practices out of the box.
Actually built for developers. Integrate with APIs, add custom components, and import existing libraries. Write unit tests, version control with GitHub, and release with CI/CD.
Airplane supports popular databases, warehouses, APIs, and messaging platforms out of the box.
How much does Airplane cost?
$0/user/month
$10/user/month
Custom Pricing
AdminKit is a developer friendly, highly customizable & free Bootstrap 5 admin template, featuring hundreds of UI components, forms, tables, charts and icons.
What can developer do with AdminKit
Built on top of the latest version of Bootstrap 5 and HTML5, which means - robust, responsive and easy to customize.
With mobile, tablet & desktop support it doesn't matter what device you're using. AdminKit is responsive in all browsers.
AdminKit PRO contains over 500+ UI Components ranging from forms and inputs to advanced table and calendar components.
AdminKit is built using the latest tools and provides an easy way to customize the color schemes, layout, fonts, etc.
Our themes are supported by specialists who provide quick and effective support. Usually an email reply takes <24h.
From time to time you'll receive an update containing new components, improvements and bugfixes.
How much does AdminKit cost?
$799 One-time payment Suitable for large companies with multiple teams
$399 One-time payment Ideal for small companies and developer teams
$59 One-time payment Perfect for personal websites or side-projects
Easy setup, without any hassle. Save time and money with the internal tool that fits all your needs.
What can developer do with Forest Admin
The basics of all database manipulation: creating, reading, updating, and deleting. Forest Admin isn’t only a tool to showcase your data, but to change it, interact with it, and use it however you want to.
Don’t get lost in your own data — filter and segment all groups of records in your database to match exactly what you have in mind at all times.
Monitor what really matters in your application by keeping track of performance indicators, user activity, and even customer needs.
Tap into your app’s data to showcase the metrics that matter, and customise what your operations teams see by leveraging a powerful dashboard.
Have the data you need ready to go at all times, filtered and in the right format.
Manage your application in different environments, whether it’s for development, staging, or production.
How much does Forest Admin cost?
$0 with unlimited users
$12/user/month
$48/user/month
Flexible pricing for your business Additional custom options:
Budibase is an open source low-code platform and the easiest way to build, automate, and ship internal tools. Check it out.
What can developer do with Budibase
Connect to an external database, pull data from a Rest API, import a CSV, or start from scratch with Budibase's built-in database.
Generate powerful CRUD apps and forms from your data with just a few clicks. No coding required!
Build apps people enjoy using with Budibase's premade blocks. From tables to charts, Budibase has everything you need to build apps in minutes.
Create beautiful apps that work perfectly across mobile, tablet, and desktop. With Budibase's design features, design has never been easier!
With just a few clicks, automate manual processes and streamline operations within your app and business.
With our open source platform, application data never has to leave your infrastructure. Deploy via Kubernetes, Docker, Digital Ocean. Or choose the Budibase Cloud and let Budibase manage everything for you.
How much does Budibase cost?
For individuals and small teams getting started with Budibase. $0 Free forever No credit card required
More power and functionality for users and small teams. $30 per month, billed annually or $36 billed monthly
For teams and small businesses who want to move faster. $70 per month, billed annually or $84 billed monthly
For businesses who need to securely scale development. $400 per month, billed annually or $480 billed monthly
For organizations who need additional control and support. Custom Starting at $20k per annum. Multi-year contracts available.
A frontend Framework for building B2B applications running in the browser on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using ES6, React and Material Design
What can developer do with React Admin
Developer time is expensive, so react-admin focuses on productivity and maintainability. See what you can build in a week.
Build API-based applications using modern React and Material Design. Your first admin only needs 13 lines of code
Focus on business logic and let react-admin handle common features. The vast library of hooks and components covers most use cases.
Find adapters for most REST and GraphQL dialects, or write your own in minutes. React-admin is backend agnostic.
How much does React Admin cost?
Free
Starts from 135€/month
Interval supercharges your backend code with UIs, auth, audit logs, and more, leaving more time to focus on writing the code that matters.
What can developer do with Interval
No-code tools trap you inside brittle workflows that cost you time and make it difficult to follow best engineering practices. Interval apps are code-first, with simple primitives that integrate seamlessly with your business logic and produce full web apps in no time.
Love your ORM? Interval is just a regular Node module. When you add Interval to your existing app, you can use the same shared functions, environment variables, and 3rd party libraries as the rest of your app.
Interval is designed for 100% compatibility with your existing codebase. Actions are just functions that you run in your Node.js backend, and our library of I/O methods are just async functions.
Interval apps are deployed on your infra, not ours. And because Interval is only collecting input and displaying output, we receive only the data you choose to send to us - and that data is never stored or logged on our servers.
Interval is a batteries-included approach to building internal tools within your codebase. Just write business logic to power your tools in your backend, Interval handles the rest. Included:
How much does Interval cost?
Most popular Bootstrap admin dashboard template in the world with 5M users.
What can developer do with AdminLTE
Verified HTML5 and CSS3 syntax by W3C services.
Mobile first design. Fits many resolutions, from large desktops to small mobile devices.
Featuring Font Awesome, Ion Icons, and Glyphicons.
Choose a skin that matches your branding or edit the LESS variables to create your own.
Support for printing any page. The invoice page makes a perfect example.
Although AdminLTE is full of features, it was designed to be fast and lightweight.
Support for most major browsers including Safari, IE9+, Chrome, FF, and Opera.
Over 18 plugins and an aditional 3 custom made plugins just for AdminLTE.
Have a suggestion or an issue? Visit our Github repository to get help.
How much does AdminLTE cost?
Free and Premium Templates
Mendix is the fastest & easiest low-code platform used by businesses to develop mobile & web apps at scale.
What can developer do with Mendix
Accelerate all phases of the app development lifecycle.
Deliver compelling experiences across all digital touchpoints.
Balance priorities and streamline digital initiatives.
Build cross-platform apps for all users, devices, and operating systems.
Extend, migrate, or replace your core systems.
Digitalize processes with end-to-end automation.
How much does Mendix cost?
Free
Create an admin panel, dashboards and user portals using the UI Bakery internal tools builder. Connect and visualize data, integrate with third-party API.
What can developer do with UI Bakery
We’ve created & support the best Open Source products for admin panels & internal tools: ngx-admin, Nebular, and UI Kitten. Our expertise is proven by 50,000+ Github stars, and thousands of downloads.
Your comfort is our top priority. You can arrange end-user tools into a perfectly structured workspace to keep everything at hand. Allow your users to seamlessly access and navigate through several internal tools.
Being developers ourselves, we hate repetitive work. We reckon that a system must work great out-of-the-box. Our team invests lots of time and effort in ensuring the most pleasant developer experience for you.
Execute a complex SQL query, call a custom HTTP API, perform ETLs, send an alert, process data from Webhook, and many more.
How much does UI Bakery cost?
Inngest is an open source platform that enables developers to build amazing products by ensuring serverless functions are reliable, schedulable and event-driven.
What can developer do with Inngest
Ensure your API is fast by running your code, asynchronously, in the background.
Serverless background jobs mean you don’t need to set up queues or long-running workers.
Run your function on a schedule to repeat hourly, daily, weekly or whatever you need.
Tell Inngest when to run it and we'll take care of the rest.
Inngest acts as a layer which can handle webhook events and that run your functions automatically.
The Inngest Cloud dashboard gives your complete observability into what event payloads were received and how your functions ran.
Easily run necessary scripts on-demand triggered from tools like Retool or your own internal admin.
Slack or Stripe webhook events can trigger your code to run based off things like refunds or Slackbot interactions.
Build out user-behavior driven flows for your product that are triggered by events sent from your app or third party integrations like drip email campaigns, re-activation campaigns, or reminders.
Add delays, connect multiple events, and build multi-step workflows to create amazing personalized experiences for your users.
Developers can send and subscribe to a variety of internal and external events, creating complex event-driven architectures without worrying about infrastructure and boilerplate.
Events are parsed and schemas are generated and versioned automatically as you send events giving more oversight to the events that power your application.
How much does Inngest cost?
ILLA is an open-source low-code Platform for Developers. We want to accelerate developers’ internal tools development. ILLA is driven by open-source. Therefore, We will stand with the Developers through open source forever.
What can developer do with illacloud.com
How much does illacloud.com cost?
FREE for unlimited viewers Unlimited members
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What can developer do with Illa Cloud
We offer developers a high degree of freedom to implement richer functionality through JavaScript, wrapping JS statements with {{Template Syntax}} to place at any string type variable spaces for more variety in the output.
With the SQL Generate feature, you can input natural language and get SQL statements that can be run directly. This works in databases like MySQL, Postgre, Supabase, etc.
ILLA can connect to the mainstream databases or any data connected through APIs and add actions to chain to user events. It tightly integrates the data obtained from the back-end with the front-end components, allowing developers to write simple data calls to achieve massive information interaction.
How much does Illa Cloud cost?
Self-host version is free. Cloud version price you can visit here: https://www.illacloud.com/pricing
Superblocks is the fast, easy and secure way for developers to build custom internal tools fast. Connect your databases & APIs.
What can developer do with Superblocks
Quickly build apps, workflows & jobs connected to your data. Secure with Granular Permissions (RBAC), SSO, Audit Logs and Secrets Management in seconds. Deploy with Git and monitor production. Extend anything with code.
No need to learn React, HTML or CSS. Drag and drop components, connect them to data and make your app dynamic by triggering APIs.
Integrate data from databases, SaaS applications, internal APIs and add business logic in code. Trigger Workflows by issuing API calls or schedule jobs every minute, hour, day or week.
Superblocks is built ground-up to be extensible with code on both the frontend UI components and backend APIs, providing you with endless customizability.
Every Superblocks Component field can be extended by writing JS. Import any React component.
Import any library such as Pandas and Plotly in Python or Lodash and Moment in JavaScript.
View logs and errors inline as you build and integrate with Datadog, New Relic and Splunk for production observability.
Create versions, review code diffs, rollback and deploy to environments in 1-click. Integrate with Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket.
Superblocks is as secure and flexible as building your own internal tools from scratch, designed to meet complex compliance requirements.
How much does Superblocks cost?
Bubble introduces a new way to build software. It’s a no-code tool that lets you build SaaS platforms, marketplaces and CRMs without code.
What can developer do with Bubble
Bubble lets you create interactive, multi-user apps for desktop and mobile web browsers and includes all the tools you need to build a site like Facebook or Airbnb.
Create mobile-friendly layouts and dynamic content to add the final layer of polish for a product you'll be proud to show off to your prospects, users or investors.
Never worry about server maintenance, infrastructure, or operations. Bubble securely handles deployment and hosting for you. There are no hard limits on the number of users, volume of traffic, or data storage.
Develop an engaged customer base with features like email and SEO that integrate with tools you’re already using. Measure and track behaviors to make better decisions as your product and business evolve.
Bubble works for individuals and teams. Keep dozens of collaborators in the loop in real time and empower anyone on your team to make changes and provide feedback as you iterate.
How much does Bubble cost?
Annually
Monthly
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An internal tool is a software application developed to help employees within an organization be more efficient. These tools can make it easier to access and use internal databases. Internal tools can also offer better insights into company data and workflows Internal tools are often custom-built to address specific needs within an organization.
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