Last updated - September 21, 2022
When creating an online store or mobile app, entrepreneurs often apply at the idea and MVP creation stage. Based on the business objectives, you can help the business create an MVP design prototype and roadmap. Sometimes we recommend working through the prototype with zero- and low-code services.
These services provide you with development tools where you don’t need to write code. You have access to a visual environment where you select the functional elements you want and link them together. Of course, zero-code services do not solve all IT tasks, do not allow you to create projects with complex unique mechanics. However, they can be useful at the stage of hypothesis testing, to simplify manual operations and save time.
In this article, we would like to share a digest of services for creating websites, online stores, and mobile applications.
For Building Websites
To create websites, you can try the following:
WebFlow
WebFlow is a visual website development environment. Unlike analogues, the platform allows you to move significantly away from the design of basic templates. WebFlow integrates with many services – After Effects, Ecwid, Shopify. It allows you to code individual elements of the site, bolt on the backend, it is possible to unload the code of your site.
Terms of Use:
Three types of monthly subscriptions:
- Starter – free, two projects;
- Lite – $24, 10 projects, code export;
- Pro – $ 42, unlimited number of projects, code export, password protection.
Tilda
Tilda is a tool to create one-page web pages. With it, you can build your own site using a wide library of blocks. There is a Zero Block – interface for the manual creation of sections of the various elements. With its help, you can make your own unique blocks, without using templates.
Tilda has more than 450 ready-made templates, a built-in photo editor, a collection of free images, icons, and fonts, forms for managing the site navigation, customer database collection and maintenance, and much more. Google Analytics services can be connected to the Tilda site.
Terms of use:
Three monthly subscription options:
- Free – free, one site;
- Personal – 10 dollars, one site, a full collection of blocks, connecting your domain;
- Business – 15 dollars, five sites, the ability to export the source code.
Jotform Store Builder
With the Jotform Store Builder, create an online store. The best part is that no coding is necessary. Through one of our 25+ approved payment gateways, you may sell goods, services, and subscriptions; collect contributions, and much more.
With the free, simple, no-code app builder, you can design an online store by just dragging and dropping elements. With more than 80 ready-to-use widgets, spruce up your business. For each product, provide a variety of alternatives along with explanations and pictures. Utilize our ready-made product details page to find the finest product information to provide.
Jotform is a highly effective and adaptable tool. It includes several features that make setting up a store quite simple.
Terms of Use:
Five types of monthly subscription:
- Starter – The starter pack is free.
- Bronze – The bronze pack costs $34 per month.
- Silver – The silver pack costs $39 per month.
- Gold – The gold pack costs $99 per month.
- Enterprise – The enterprise pack depends upon the requirements of the customer.
WordPress
WordPress is a universal CMS for creating websites. WordPress has a large number of themes and plugins and a significant set of layout tools within the CMS. The platform is fast and easy to learn, just like Tilda.
Terms of Use:
Four monthly subscription plans:
- Personal – 7 dollars, a custom domain, and 24-hour support;
- Premium – 14 dollars, advanced design tools, customizable CSS-tables and services Google Analytics;
- Business – 25 dollars, customizable plugins and themes, 200 GB of disk space, and online chat support;
- E-commerce – 37 dollars, advanced functionality for online stores.
Brilliant Directories
Brilliant Directories is software to manage business directories & membership websites. It is the only platform you need to build your directory website. Brilliant Directories is reliable, complete, and most important, saves you time and money compared to traditional web development.
It includes website design, online payment processing, multi-level memberships, past due monitoring, premium member’s only content, and more. Over 30,000 websites are hosted and powered by the Brilliant Directories platform worldwide. Since 2010, millions of members have joined directory websites powered by Brilliant Directories.
Terms of Use:
There are 3 types of subscriptions:
Monthly: $145/ month
- Includes Premium Hosting
- Includes Friendly Email Support
- Manage 100,000 Members
- Over 1,000 Built-In Features
- Easy Payment Processing
- 100% Unbranded / White Labeled
- Unlimited Software Updates
Yearly: $950/year
- Includes Premium Hosting
- Includes Friendly Email Support
- Manage 100,000 Members
- Over 1,000 Built-In Features
- Easy Payment Processing
- 100% Unbranded / White Labeled
- Unlimited Software Updates
Lifetime: $1,450/one-time
- Includes LIFETIME Hosting
- Includes LIFETIME Email Support
- Manage 100,000 Members
- Over 1,000 Built-In Features
- Easy Payment Processing
- 100% Unbranded / White Labeled
- Unlimited Software Updates
For Creating Online Stores
If you are looking to create online stores, you can try the following:
Advantshop
Advantshop is a site management system focused on the creation of online stores. It offers a wide range of tools for storefront design, but there are also tools for store management, SEO to increase conversions, and CRM to maintain a customer base. You can use a task manager to organize employee work, integrate the store into social networks and adapt it for a mobile app.
Terms of use:
- Starter – 15 dollars, up to 500 products, one user, two domains;
- Pro – 30 dollars, up to 5 thousand items, three users, four domains;
- Team – 50 dollars, up to 25 thousand items, five users, six domains.
Insales
Insales is a great CMS for an online store. The platform offers the user complete content management (product catalog, menus, pages, blocks, banners, news, blogs), allows users to customize design themes and HTML/CSS/JS code editor, share access rights to back-office sections. Advanced catalog and product cards can be created.
Insales offers advanced shopping cart customization, order management tools and payment and shipping tools. The service also specializes in transferring projects from other CMS platforms.
Terms of Use:
There are four types of monthly subscriptions:
- Standard – 20 dollars, up to 1 thousand products, technical support 24/7, the system of discounts for customers;
- Promotion – 30 dollars, up to 10 thousand items, flexible price management, SEO-filters for site promotion, free SSL certificate;
- Business – 55 dollars, up to 20 thousand items, synchronization with 1C, auto distribution of goods by category, a bonus program for customers;
- Premium – 115 dollars, from 50 thousand items, premium support, unlimited free updates.
Shopify
Shopify is an online store-building platform that allows you to work on dropshipping – a model of selling goods directly from a supplier or manufacturer. Shopify has Oberlo or AliExpress plugins. They allow you to import products into your store. In doing so, you can change the product description.
Terms of use:
Three types of monthly subscriptions:
- Basic – $29;
- Shopify – $79;
- Shopify Advanced – $299.
For Mobile Apps
These platforms will help you create mobile apps:
Glide
Glide is a universal tool for creating mobile apps. The service uses “Google Tables” as a database for apps. You just need to structure the information in the “Table” and then Glide builds a new app. You can change the style, color design, text, add pictures, maps, links.
Terms of use:
You will need a Google account to work. The free Glide has limited functionality. There are subscription options:
- Basic – $12 per month;
- Pro – $32 per month.
They differ in storage size, the number of data lines provided in the table. In paid versions you can remove Glide brand from the application and choose your own domain for the URL. If you pay for one year at a time, there is a 25% discount.
There are also budget options for a paid subscription: Private Basic ($1 per month) and Private Pro ($2 per month), but they significantly limit the number of users of the application.
Thunkable
Thunkable is a visual development environment for mobile applications, based on MIT App Inventor 2. App development here consists of constructing visual logic blocks in a mosaic style. In Thunkable, you can set a unique style for each element of the app.
Terms of Use:
- Free – free, with a limit of up to 10 public projects and up to 200 MB of application memory.
- Pro – $25/month, app branding option + unlimited projects and up to 1GB of storage expansion.
Adalo
Adalo is a low-code mobile app development environment. Adalo is based on Drag&Drop technology which lets you add and move elements such as videos, text, maps, icons, images, and buttons around the page. With Adalo, you can customize apps, push notifications, graphics, user authorization and more. Adalo is suitable for creating MVP marketplace, social network, event registration apps.
Terms of Use:
Adalo has three subscription options: Free, Pro Plan ($50 per month) and Business Plan ($200 per month). Paid subscriptions let you choose your own brand and domain and greatly expand your workspace. You can publish apps to the App Store and Google Play.
