Best Application Development Software for Startups - Page 3

Compare the Top Application Development Software for Startups as of July 2025 - Page 3

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    Zend Server

    Zend Server

    Zend by Perforce

    Zend Server is a PHP application server trusted by global innovators, including Fortune 100 companies, with easy-to-use tools and comprehensive services that: • Improve Debugging • Streamline Deployments • Speed Performance • Boost Security • Unleash Scale • Simplify Integrations Zend Server includes a certified PHP stack. Based on the Zend Server edition you choose, you can take advantage of: • ZendPHP versions 5.6 and newer. • PHP support including 5-year code support and 24x7x365 options. • Zend Server support including 24x7x365 options. • Automated PHP updates and patches, included with Zend Server updates. In addition to running Zend Server on Linux and Windows, you can also run Zend Server on IBM i and take advantage of ready-to-go Zend Server cloud instances.
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    Tosca

    Tosca

    Tricentis

    No-code, Automated Continuous Testing. Tricentis Tosca, the #1 Continuous Testing platform, accelerates testing with a script-less, no-code approach for end-to-end test automation. With support for over 160+ technologies and enterprise applications, Tosca provides resilient test automation for any use case. Learn how Tricentis Tosca can help you: - Deliver fast feedback for Agile and DevOps - Reduce regression testing time to minutes - Maximize reuse and maintainability - Gain clear insight into business risk - Integrate and extend existing test assets (HPE UFT, Selenium, SoapUI…)
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    RAD Studio

    RAD Studio

    Embarcadero

    The Ultimate RAD environment loved by developers for quickly building high-performance native cross-platform applications in modern C++ and Delphi using powerful visual design tools and integrated toolchains. Smarter code navigation when refactoring. Auto code completion with Tab key. LSP awareness of Include files. Auto restart of LSP server. Class helper support. Array suggestions when assigning arrays. Inactive code highlighting in Code Editor. High-DPI support in the IDE, with full support for the latest 4k+ monitors, and cleaner and sharper fonts and icons throughout. Improved FMX High-DPI support for Windows and Desktop with a visibly superior desktop UI. Reduces the complexities of rapidly building and deploying a multi-tier turn-key enterprise REST API application server with Swagger support.
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    Delphi

    Delphi

    Embarcadero

    Delphi is the ultimate IDE for creating cross-platform, natively compiled apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience.
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    C++Builder

    C++Builder

    Embarcadero

    C++Builder is a fast, integrated design and development suite for modern apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience.
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    Alphinat SmartGuide
    Our aim with SmartGuide is to make application development accessible to everyone, enabling organizations of all sizes to quickly build web or mobile apps, portals, chatbots, or breathe new life into legacy systems–even with limited technical resources. Drag-and-drop your way to great-looking applications. Easily position elements where you want, resize them and vary their appearance per device type. Apply advanced business rules using a powerful, yet simple, visual editor. Hit the ground running with accessible and responsive production-ready templates. Auto-create app components from PDF forms, XML schemas and web services. Benefit from a slew of built-in server and client-side functions and add your own when needed. Kickstart your development projects with prebuilt apps and components. Customize them to fit your needs to a T or build your own and reuse them across multiple applications. Every thing you build with SmartGuide has the potential for reuse!
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    Scriptcase

    Scriptcase

    Netmake

    An efficient web development low-code platform. It helps you to create complete web systems and Business Intelligence solutions fast and easy! Scriptcase enables you to design, develop and elegant, responsive, database-driven applications using only your web browser. A powerful PHP generator for you to develop fast, simple, secure at a low cost. Connect with your database (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase, SQL Azure, Amazon Aurora, Firebird, Access, Oracle, MS SQLServer, DB2, SyBase, Informix or ODBC layer) and generate web applications based on your tables, simply and safely. Make the data access and maintenance an uncomplicated step! Scriptcase offers an XLS, CSV and ACCESS spreadsheet import and conversion features for the databases supported by Scriptcase. With this import tool you can easily transform your spreadsheets into system applications.
    Starting Price: $349
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    CircleCI

    CircleCI

    CircleCI

    Automate your development process with CI hosted in the cloud or on a private server. Take control of your code and manage every source of change. CircleCI means change validation, at every step. Trust that you can release updates right when your customers need them, with the certainty they’ll work every time. The power to create without limits. Code in every language and across multiple execution environments. If you can write it, we can build, test, and deploy it. With flexible environments and thousands of pre-built integrations, your pipelines never limit the possibility of what you can deliver. We’re the only CI/CD platform that’s FedRAMP certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Built-in features like audit logs, OpenID Connect, third-party secrets management, and LDAP give you complete control of your code.
    Starting Price: $50 per month
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    Rollbar

    Rollbar

    Rollbar

    Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.
    Starting Price: $19.00/month
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    Airbrake

    Airbrake

    Airbrake

    Capture and track application exceptions in minutes with Airbrake, an error monitoring and detection solution. Fast and effective, Airbrake enables users to quickly identify, asses and resolve errors such as parameters, stacktraces, affected users, and more. Airbrake features detailed dashboards that tracks and manages errors with ease. Airbrake is also accessible via mobile devices with its mobile optimized web application.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ is a low-code platform to build internal tools and custom apps for the web and mobile. Developers and engineering teams use this platform to create admin panels, CRUD apps, GUI for Databases or APIs, forms, dashboards & operational apps. Key features include: - Customizable UI components - Mobile + Web app output - 10x faster app development - Seamless integration to any existing tech stack - Scalable cloud-based architecture - Over 50 Engineering Support Hours (UVP) - Free forever developer plans With 3000+ Apps built and 1 million+ users supported, DronaHQ is a platform trusted by global companies.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Appsmakerstore

    Appsmakerstore

    Appsmakerstore Holding AS

    Appsmakerstore founded in early 2010, is a leader in innovative, AI-driven mobile app development services targeted at the general public. With its 100% No-Code SaaS service, Appsmakerstore assists businesses and organizations, supporting entrepreneurship and economic growth (Goal 8), promoting industrial innovation (Goal 9), and contributing to reducing inequality (Goal 10) in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. This is achieved by offering modern technology to a wide range of users worldwide, regardless of their technical background. From appsmakerstore.com you can upgrade your App using the Admin Panel or the management App with instant live auto update to any of your Apps already published to e.g. Apple App Store or Google Play marketplaces included WebApp in our service. We can build the App for you, or do it yourself. There are no hidden costs as we cover all technical upgrades and hosting, you just maintain your App.
    Starting Price: $89 per month
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    Guidebook

    Guidebook

    Guidebook

    Guidebook is an event app platform that allows you to create mobile apps for in-person events, virtual events, or hybrid events. Spend less time creating an app and more time connecting with your community. Easily build an app with our intuitive drag-and-drop platform and reach your audience where they are – whether on mobile or web. Guidebook is simple, powerful, and intuitive. Build a native iOS or Android app and interactive web page in four easy steps with our world-class CMS. No technical skills required. Manage your content from wherever you are, whether that’s on your couch or in your office. Guidebook offers a full range of branding and customization options. From your own branded, standalone app to a customized Space in our container app, we’ve got you covered. Need more than mobile? Guidebook Web is the perfect complement for your mobile app.
    Starting Price: $5/device (first 5 are free)
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    SecureStack

    SecureStack

    SecureStack

    With triggers in your CI/CD pipeline, SecureStack can check for common security issues and stop those issues from getting into your applications. SecureStack embeds security automatically with every git push. We built our technology to test every facet of your application security looking for things like missing security controls, are you using encryption correctly; we test the efficacy of your WAF and are your cloud-native components secure and more than 250 other data points. All of that was delivered in less than 60 seconds. See what a hacker can see when they view your applications. Test and compare your development, staging and production environments to quickly find critical differences and understand ways to fix high-priority defects. We help you decompose your web application so you are aware of all the resources your app is using behind the scenes.
    Starting Price: $500/mo
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    Backendless

    Backendless

    Backendless

    Backendless is a Visual App Development Platform (VADP) that combines API, user, and database management functionality with a user-friendly, web-based interface and UI Builder. Backendless offers the ability to send emails and push notifications and supports real-time chat and geolocation-based functionality. A Backendless application can be customized with manually written code or using our Codeless logic builder. The platform can be hosted on our cloud servers or installed and managed on your own private servers. The Backendless UI Builder allows you to build fully functional web and mobile apps. You can use the UI Builder, or Backendless works seamlessly with virtually any client-side environment, automatically morphing data to the proper format for the frontend operating system. A Backendless database can also be connected to external databases, allowing you to maintain existing data sources while also being able to manage those databases using Backendless' intuitive interface.
    Starting Price: $15.00/month
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    IOpipe

    IOpipe

    IOpipe

    Deliver with confidence. The only serverless tooling offering real-time visibility into the most granular behaviors of your application. Develop faster. Get a detailed look at what your code is doing, while it runs, for lightning fast debugging and iterating. Operate with confidence. Discover issues before your users notice. Fix problems without having to dig through log files ever again. Powerful alerts give you peace of mind that your serverless applications are running smoothly. With IOpipe, you gain several ways to customize your alerts to make sure you’re reaching the people who need to see, in the way that fits your workflow. Traditional metrics services rely on aggregate data with resolutions in the minutes. This low-resolution view may be fine for traditional applications, but in an event-driven application that may fire off millions of events per minute, aggregates are simply not enough.
    Starting Price: Free or $299 per month
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    Kianda

    Kianda

    Kianda Technologies

    Kianda is a no-code development platform empowering citizen developers, business users and knowledge workers to take control of digital transformation. You don’t have to wait months or years to implement a new system any more. Build and deliver applications, end-to-end business processes faster and more cost-effectively without coding. You can turn any idea into real-life solutions with no-code development, and create intuitive forms, processes and reporting dashboards integrated with your existing IT systems at ease and fast. What is No-Code Development? The demand to simplify and shorten software development cycles has led to the exponential growth of low-code and no-code development. No-code platforms allow users to focus on creating business applications by using a toolset of prebuilt components, rules and actions, rather than developing everything from scratch.
    Starting Price: €9 user/month
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    Appsmith

    Appsmith

    Appsmith

    Appsmith is an open-source low-code platform designed to help businesses rapidly build custom internal tools and applications. With a drag-and-drop interface and extensive integration capabilities, Appsmith simplifies the development of dashboards, admin panels, and CRUD applications. Developers can also customize functionality using JavaScript, while seamless integration with databases and APIs makes it highly versatile. It supports self-hosting and enterprise-grade security features such as role-based access controls, audit logging, and SOC 2 compliance, making it suitable for organizations of all sizes. Appsmith's AI-powered agent platform enables businesses to build custom conversational agents tailored to their specific needs. These agents can be embedded into various business workflows, enhancing support, sales, and customer success teams. By leveraging data-driven AI, the platform automates tasks and scales operations efficiently.
    Starting Price: $0.4/hour/user
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    Knack

    Knack

    Knack

    Knack is the most easy-to-use Application builder, designed for the non-developer business owner leader. Using the drag-and-drop feature, users can create intuitive apps for CRM/Lead Manager, Membership Directory, Project Manager, Inventory Manager, Quote/Order Manager or HIPAA compliant app. Existing users rave about how easy it was to take their entire app on the go, using an iOS or Android device. Larger teams with multiple admin users can also work more efficiently with the use of the collaboration function, which includes whiteboards, and tag & search tools. Finally, use the automated analytics report dashboard to monitor application usage and how your customers or staff interacts with it.
    Starting Price: $39.00/month
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    iRise

    iRise

    iRise

    Quickly build responsive website and mobile prototypes with iRise, an innovative prototyping and wireframing platform. iRise features a unique combination of prototyping and requirements management tools that enables users to create and review high-fidelity prototypes of apps. Top features include backlog and story management, online reviews and discussions, instant documentation, interactive diagrams, and more.
    Starting Price: $19.00/month
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    VisionFlow

    VisionFlow

    Visionera

    Streamline internal processes with VisionFlow by Visionera. VisionFlow is a powerful unified platform for the development lifecycle of your business applications, software, and products. It is modular and covers key areas such as Helpdesk & Customer Support, IT Service Management (ITSM), Application Lifecycle Management, Project Management, Product Development, CRM and more.
    Starting Price: $20.00/month/user
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    Bizness Apps

    Bizness Apps

    Bizness Apps

    Bizness Apps is the leading app builder for small business. With its drag-and-drop interface, Bizness Apps enables businesses across any industry to build their own apps and create beautiful mobile experiences for their end users without needing any developer. Some of the features businesses can incorporate in their apps are mobile ordering, loyalty programs, reviews, integrations, and more.
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    GeneXus

    GeneXus

    Globant

    Simplify and Automate Software Development with GeneXus GeneXus is a Low-Code Platform powered by AI that simplifies and automates software creation. By modeling instead of coding, it generates complete solutions—from user interfaces to backends—faster and with less complexity. With 35+ years of experience, GeneXus helps enterprises build scalable, AI-driven systems, modernize legacy software, and adapt to new technologies without rework. It supports development across web, mobile, and desktop platforms, seamlessly integrating databases, APIs, and enterprise systems. Trusted in over 50 countries, GeneXus is a leader in the low-code market.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Back4App

    Back4App

    Back4App

    Store and query relational data on the cloud. Make it accessible over GraphQL and REST with a scalable, open-source backend. Store and query relational data through GraphQL, REST, or Parse SDKs. Add business logic using cloud functions. Make apps faster without managing infrastructure. Build relational data models in minutes, and perform complex relational queries in a truly serverless platform. Our engineer team is ready to guide you on each step of the process. From database to cloud functions we help you to migrate in the smoothest way. Keep costs in check even when you scale your apps with affordable, predictable pricing. Scaling happens automatically and, we guide the process to ensure that nothing goes wrong. Build your app exactly the way you'd like, without getting bogged down in the backend. Of course, you do. Keeping data safe is more important than ever.
    Starting Price: $4.99 per month
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    CloudBoost

    CloudBoost

    HackerBay

    You can install CloudBoost anywhere you like. We have a Docker Compose file that can help you get started with CloudBoost in few minutes and with just one command. You can use this compose file to install the service locally on your local dev machine, or you can install the service to Azure, AWS, DigitalOcean, Softlayer, Packet and more. Create a config folder in project root if it does not exist. You need to create a new file cloudboost.json under config folder and save that file with MongoDB and Redis configuration. Once the server is running. You'll see the ClusterKey and SecureKey on the console which means you've successfully started CloudBoost. If you don't see any of these keys, please raise a GitHub issue and let us know.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Enterprise Universal ERP API
    Enterprise Universal ERP API is a complete HTTP REST API with hundreds of accounting & ERP functions that you can use to add accounting and ERP functionality to your own applications! All basic Accounting and ERP functionality is included and made available via API calls! GL, AR, AP, OE, Inv, Warehousing, CRM, MRP, and ECommerce calls included. Since the Enterprise ERP API is implemented in stored procedures, and can be called either directly or via HTTP REST, ANY LANGUAGE or PLATFORM can be used to access the ERP business logic! IF the language / development environment / software platform can access MySQL or SQL Server, then it can use the ERP business logic directly! One of the BEST new features of this API, is that it will allow your company to hire outside developers to build sub-systems and add-ons to your software product WITHOUT having to SHARE THE SOURCE CODE WITH THEM! You can simply send your new outside developers the API Call List & API Documentation!
    Starting Price: $999.99 One Time
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    Conholdate.Total For .NET
    Conholdate.Total for .NET is the complete package of all .NET APIs as offered by Aspose and GroupDocs. It empowers the developers to perform a wide range of document processing tasks from within their own .NET based applications. This .NET package is an all-in-one solution for all types of document managements systems because it offers the ability to create, edit, print, view, annotate, compare, sign, automate, search and convert between a wide range of popular document formats. Process a Multitude of File Formats - Conholdate.Total for .NET empowers you to build an incredibly versatile file processing system capable of handling many popular file formats. You can easily open, create, modify and convert file formats. Conholdate.Total for .NET currently supports following file types: Microsoft Word documents Microsoft Excel spreadsheets Microsoft PowerPoint presentations Adobe PDF documents Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Project files and more than 100 other file formats
    Starting Price: $4,999
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    Kinvey

    Kinvey

    Progress Software

    Build better mobile apps, faster and with lower total cost of ownership with Progress Kinvey. Kinvey, a mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) running on a serverless cloud platform, is purpose-built to accelerate creation of better enterprise-grade multichannel experiences, breaking the mold of traditional methods to innovation. Accelerate creation and delivery of multi-channel user experiences. Kinvey enables your team to deliver amazing user experiences across web, native mobile and chat faster than ever using modern best-of-breed technologies. Easy integration with any mobile, web or chat front-end framework with client-side SDKs and a REST API. Kinvey accelerates implementations by enabling front-end development and backend integrations to proceed in parallel and through use of no-code and low-code integration accelerators. Meet the urgent demand for enterprise-grade multi-channel applications with our modern, patented serverless backend.
    Starting Price: $200 per month
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    Justinmind

    Justinmind

    Justinmind

    All-in-one prototyping tool to design web and mobile app prototypes that behaves like the real thing. UX Designers can create high-fidelity prototypes for websites and apps for Web, iOS, and Android with our intuitive drag-and-drop interface. No code is involved. Get free access to thousands of components in our UI kits and bring to life your ideas and concepts. Justinmind is a freemium prototyping tool. So you can get started with our free version and upgrade later when you need more prototyping features. Create prototypes for websites and web apps that adapt to multiple screen resolutions for desktop and mobile. The UI elements in your screens will also adapt automatically. One free prototyping tool to rule all devices! Design, prototype and simulate fully-functional forms and data grids-lists, and test them instantly without writing a single line of code.
    Starting Price: $19 per user per month
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    GoCD

    GoCD

    ThoughtWorks

    Easily model and visualize complex workflows with GoCD. GoCD’s value stream map shows your entire path to production in a single view. Easily navigate across jobs, spot inefficiencies, and optimize your process. No plugin required, out of box CD. GoCD streamlines your CD workflow on popular cloud environments such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and more. GoCD excels at modeling complex CD workflows for fast feedback with its modeling constructs, parallel execution and dependency management. GoCD helps you troubleshoot a broken pipeline by tracking every change from commit to deploy in real time. Compare content - both files and commit messages - across any two arbitrary builds. GoCD integrates with many popular external tools and services via its extensible plugin architecture. We have put a lot of thought into making sure GoCD upgrades are painless and non-breaking even when you are using plugins. There are numerous high-quality, curated plugins currently available.
    Starting Price: Free