AppGyver Review, Community Edition (2025) 📱🌟
How Does Adalo Compare to AppGyver?
While AppGyver offers a free tier, its uncertain future and SAP-centric ecosystem make it a risky choice for long-term projects. Adalo is a no-code app builder for database-driven web apps and native iOS and Android apps—one version across all three platforms. AI-assisted building and streamlined publishing enable launch to the Apple App Store and Google Play in days rather than months. Adalo provides a more sustainable alternative with several key advantages:
Active Development vs. Dying Platform: Adalo's 3.0 infrastructure overhaul (launched late 2025) delivered 3-4x faster performance and modular architecture that scales with app needs. AppGyver, by contrast, has seen minimal updates since the SAP acquisition.
Ada, Adalo's AI builder, lets you describe what you want and generates your app. Magic Start creates complete app foundations from a description, while Magic Add adds features through natural language.
AI-Assisted Building: Adalo's Magic Start generates complete app foundations from simple descriptions—tell it you need a booking app for a dog grooming business, and it creates your database structure, screens, and user flows automatically. AppGyver offers no comparable AI assistance.
Templates and Speed: Adalo provides templates to accelerate development, while AppGyver requires building everything from scratch. Adalo's visual builder has been described as "easy as PowerPoint," with the ability to display up to 400 screens at once on a single canvas.
Scalability: Adalo's purpose-built architecture scales to serve apps with over 1 million monthly active users, with no upper ceiling. Over 3 million apps have been created on Adalo, demonstrating production-ready reliability.
Third-Party Integrations: Unlike AppGyver's SAP-centric approach, Adalo connects with popular tools through its marketplace and Sheetbridge feature, which turns Google Sheets into an actual database for the easiest control without database-related learning curves.
What is AppGyver?
AppGyver is a no-code app-building platform that lets you create native mobile apps and publish them on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. It also lets you publish web apps that your users can access using their browsers.
In 2021, AppGyver was acquired by SAP, a German-based tech company that provides enterprise-grade software applications. Because of this acquisition, AppGyver is not the same building platform it was before 2021.
The AppGyver Community Edition has more or less become a "stepping stone" for SAP's own app-building platform, SAP Build Apps.
Getting started with the AppGyver Community Version is simple. Just sign up with your email, pop in a password, and you're set. After you find yourself on AppGyver's building interface, click on the purple bar at the bottom of your screen. Doing this will pull up 5 quick tutorial videos.
Unfortunately, AppGyver doesn't offer any templates—you'll have to start building your app purely from scratch.
Even though the building interface is not the most difficult to understand, I highly recommend watching these tutorials. Doing so won't take any longer than 10 minutes and they'll give you an excellent feel for how all the building interface's components fit together.
The building canvas is at the center of your screen, and you can adjust it to fit the screen sizes of several mobile devices. For instance, you can see how your app will look on an iPhone 15, a Samsung Galaxy S22, and various tablets. This ensures all your elements fit perfectly for optimal user experience.
AppGyver's drag-and-drop interface is quite straightforward. On the right-hand side, you'll see your component dashboard. Drag elements like images, text boxes, buttons, and more to your canvas in the center of the screen.
To edit each element, just click on it and make the needed adjustments using the drop-down dashboard on the right-hand side of your screen.
Adding logic and commands is also incredibly simple. Pull up the logic canvas at the bottom of your screen and drag over the commands you need. Connect them to corresponding elements by clicking on each one on the editor to your left.
AppGyver's Highlights
- The entire AppGyver Community Version is free—who doesn't like free?
- After just watching a few highlights, you'll get the hang of the building interface, which should let you create a startup app super quickly.
- If you're in the SAP ecosystem, you'll be able to connect to quite a few APIs, like ERP systems, the SAP Cloud API, and more. AppGyver also offers a REST API that enables you to connect with most other APIs on the internet.
AppGyver's Hang Ups
- If you want more features, including those available on the SAP ecosystem, you'll have to contact SAP directly.
- While building the interface is easy, AppGyver doesn't provide any templates to get you started, so you'll have to start from scratch.
- After you build out each part of your app, you'll need to remember to save it manually because AppGyver doesn't have an autosave function. Doing this over and over can get annoying, and forgetting to save after adding several elements might result in losing your work.
- Although you'll have many APIs from the SAP ecosystem at your fingertips, you won't be able to access the thousands of other third-party integrations, like Zapier, Google Sheets, and more, that are essential for most app-building platforms.
- AppGyver is a dying platform. It might not exist in a few years.
Is AppGyver Right For You?
AppGyver is a great, easy-to-use app builder, but it has a limited audience. Select AppGyver if:
- You want to build a simple start-up app.
- You want to build an app that doesn't require many integrations.
- You're familiar with the SAP ecosystem.
However, you should take a look at other app builders if:
- You don't want to build an app on a dying platform.
- The app you want to build will require a few integrations with third-party apps.
- You want to release your app to several users.
What Kinds of Apps Can I Build With AppGyver?
AppGyver is limited to the core components of its building interface and the SAP ecosystem. Because AppGyver is tied into the SAP ecosystem, which is full of software and tools for business operations, creating internal business apps is AppGyver's main purpose.
AppGyver also works for creating apps with really simple features that you can publish as native mobile apps on the app stores or as web apps that users can access with their browsers.
For instance, you can create simple workflow apps, CRM boards, and websites.
AppGyver Pricing: Is it worth it?
The AppGyver Community Edition is free for everyone. But if you want to unleash SAP's functions and tools, you'll need to look into SAP Build Apps, a platform that looks and feels identical to the AppGyver Community Edition but allows you to implement SAP.
If you're interested in SAP Build Apps, you'll need to pay $13,116—a significant enterprise investment that puts it out of reach for most independent developers and small businesses.
AppGyver Alternatives: What other tools should you try?
Given AppGyver's uncertain future and limited feature set outside the SAP ecosystem, several alternatives offer more robust, actively-developed platforms:
- Adalo, an AI-powered app builder for database-driven web apps and native iOS and Android apps—one version across all three platforms. Magic Start generates complete app foundations from descriptions, while Magic Add lets you add features through natural language requests. Starting at $36/month with unlimited usage and no record caps on paid plans, Adalo's streamlined publishing enables launch to the Apple App Store and Google Play in days rather than months.
- Glide, if you want to select from templates to build a spreadsheet-based app quickly. However, Glide's format-focused approach creates generic apps with limited creative freedom. Pricing starts at $60/month for custom domain capability, but remains limited by app updates and data record rows. Glide does not support Apple App Store or Google Play Store publishing.
- Softr, if you want to build an app quickly from a pre-existing database. Pricing starts from $167/month to publish a Progressive Web App, which is still restricted by records per app. Softr does not support native iOS and Android app creation or app store publishing.
Verdict
So, how do I feel about AppGyver? Should you get it now, shortlist it, or avoid it?
Get it now if—and only if—you're fanatical about SAP and you're looking for an app-building platform for creating and scaling an enterprise app on the SAP ecosystem.
Otherwise, look elsewhere to a platform that is currently in-support and works well outside of the SAP ecosystem. And don't worry, that's most of them!
If you want a powerful app-building platform that's easier to use and learn than AppGyver and comes with templates to get you started building fast, consider Adalo. It lets you build a native mobile app that you can transform into a web app with the simple push of a button.
After you finish building your app, publish it in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Adalo gives you the flexibility and design freedom to create almost any app that meets your exact needs and tastes—with no data caps on paid plans and no usage-based charges to worry about.
FAQ
Why choose Adalo over other app building solutions?
Adalo is an AI-powered app builder that creates true native iOS and Android apps. Unlike web wrappers, it compiles to native code and publishes directly to both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store from a single codebase—the hardest part of launching an app handled automatically. With unlimited database records on paid plans and no usage-based charges, you won't face surprise bills as your app grows.
What's the fastest way to build and publish an app to the App Store?
Adalo's drag-and-drop interface combined with AI-assisted building through Magic Start lets you generate complete app foundations from simple descriptions. The platform handles the App Store submission process, enabling launch to both Apple App Store and Google Play in days rather than months.
What happened to AppGyver after the SAP acquisition?
In 2021, AppGyver was acquired by SAP, and the platform has significantly changed since then. The AppGyver Community Edition has essentially become a stepping stone for SAP Build Apps, and many consider AppGyver a dying platform that may not exist in a few years.
Is AppGyver completely free to use?
The AppGyver Community Edition is free for everyone. However, if you want access to SAP's full ecosystem of functions and tools through SAP Build Apps, you'll need to pay $13,116, making it a significant investment for enterprise features.
Which is more affordable, Adalo or AppGyver?
AppGyver's Community Edition is free but limited. For full SAP features, you'll pay $13,116. Adalo starts at $36/month with unlimited usage, no record caps on paid plans, and full app store publishing—making it far more affordable for serious app development.
Which is easier for beginners, Adalo or AppGyver?
Adalo is easier for beginners because it offers templates to get started quickly and AI-assisted building through Magic Start. AppGyver requires building from scratch with no templates, and lacks autosave functionality—meaning you can lose work if you forget to save manually.
Is Adalo better than AppGyver for mobile apps?
Yes. Adalo creates true native iOS and Android apps from a single codebase with direct app store publishing. AppGyver's future is uncertain, and its integration ecosystem is limited to SAP. Adalo's modular infrastructure scales to over 1 million monthly active users with no upper ceiling.
What are the main limitations of AppGyver?
AppGyver has several notable limitations including no templates to help you get started, no autosave function requiring manual saves, and limited third-party integrations outside the SAP ecosystem. It lacks connections to popular tools like Zapier and Google Sheets that are essential for most modern apps.
Can I migrate from AppGyver to Adalo?
While there's no direct migration tool, Adalo's Magic Start can generate complete app foundations from descriptions of your existing app. This lets you recreate your AppGyver app's functionality quickly, often with improved performance and access to broader integrations.
What types of apps is AppGyver best suited for?
AppGyver is primarily designed for creating internal business apps within the SAP ecosystem. It can also handle apps with simple features that you want to publish as native mobile apps or web apps, such as workflow apps, CRM boards, and basic websites.