Best Web App Development Platforms

Compare the Top Web App Development Platforms as of May 2025

What are Web App Development Platforms?

Web app development platforms provide the tools and frameworks needed to design, develop, test, and deploy web applications. These platforms often include integrated development environments (IDEs), pre-built templates, code libraries, and drag-and-drop components that simplify the development process. Web app development platforms support various programming languages, databases, and APIs, allowing developers to build scalable, secure, and interactive web applications. By using these platforms, developers can streamline the app development lifecycle, enhance productivity, and reduce time-to-market for web-based applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Web App Development platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Ionic

    Ionic

    Drifty

    The Ionic Platform allows you to bring your apps to market faster with an integrated app platform built on the leading cross-platform mobile SDK. Build, secure, and deliver new mobile apps—and transform existing ones—across iOS, Android, and Web platforms from a single codebase. Full scalability—Grow from prototype to production to enterprise-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance. Better apps, everywhere—Slash your development time and costs with a platform that lets you write once and deploy anywhere—iOS, Android, and Web. The core of the Ionic development experience is Ionic Capacitor, a cross platform native runtime that runs equally well on native iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as any web browser. The big difference is that, unlike traditional native development or cross-platform approaches, the UI of a Capacitor app runs primarily in the browser.
    Starting Price: Free
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    platformOS

    platformOS

    platformOS

    platformOS works with brands like Intel, Arab Bank, NEOM.com, Hallmark, UiPath, Spark Digital (NZ), and funded startups, delivering 100% business rule flexibility for web applications, with a strong pedigree in multi-sided marketplaces. Whether Progressive Web Apps, IoT integration, native Mobile or any Web Browser supported frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js etc, platformOS meets the Enterprise scaling needs to build and run any and every business application scenario. As an APIs-for-Everything 'low code' application development platform’, platformOS offers an advanced developer / web agency supported ecosystem supporting Channel Partners and Enterprise Clients building powerful, zero limits, API centric solutions; with a much shortened time to market (lower cost) that what is typical, especially for multi-sided marketplaces. In addition, platformOS provides multi-cloud devops infrastructure support “out of the box” which saves many thousands in operational costs.
    Starting Price: $50.00
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    Kissflow

    Kissflow

    Kissflow

    Kissflow is an easy-to-use, low-code platform for custom application development tailored to business operations. Kissflow empowers process owners and IT developers to automate and build processes and applications for internal business operations. We help solve two main challenges in the enterprise: The first is the custom application backlog. Enterprise IT teams say “not now” to most custom application requests from business teams. While important to a department, they aren’t vital enough to engage limited IT bandwidth. Kissflow gives internal developers a hyper-fast platform to build various applications quickly. The second is starting a citizen development program. Process owners are scattered throughout the organization and need a standard, approved, and governed way to build automated applications that are a step up from spreadsheets. With its simple no-code design, patented rules engine, and comprehensive governance module,
    Starting Price: $1500 per month
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    Five

    Five

    Five

    Five is a low-code development environment that helps software developers build and deploy bespoke business software. Rapidly build release-ready software using Five’s prebuilt features, such as a hosted SQL database, authentication, or access control. Connect to multiple data sources and query (almost) any data source, such as external databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server & more) or REST API endpoints. Add full code almost anywhere through its native support for SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTML, Five never limits developers by what’s available out of the box. Five offers a free download that comes with no time limits. You can download it on your desktop and start building for free. Once you have developed a production-worthy application, you can deploy it to the cloud by subscribing to one of our hosting plans for as low as US$29.99/month. Five takes care of all the complicated deployment processes, allowing you to focus on what matters the most - your applications
    Starting Price: $29.99/month
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    JHipster

    JHipster

    JHipster

    JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, and deploy modern web applications and microservice architectures. We support many frontend technologies, including Angular, React, and Vue. We even have mobile app support for Ionic and React Native! On the backend, we support Spring Boot (with Java or Kotlin), Micronaut, Quarkus, Node.js, and . NET. For deployment, we embrace cloud-native principles with Docker and Kubernetes. Deployment support exists for AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, and OpenShift. Our goal is to generate a complete and modern web app or microservice architecture. A high-performance and robust server-side stack with excellent test coverage. A sleek, modern, mobile-first UI with Angular, React, or Vue + Bootstrap for CSS. A powerful workflow to build your application with Webpack and Maven or Gradle. Resilient microservice architecture with cloud-native principles in mind.
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