--- title: Appsmith Reviews meta_title: 'Appsmith Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 67 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Appsmith works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 67 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-13' parent_category: name: Rapid Application Development (RAD) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/rapid-application-development-rad --- # Appsmith Reviews **Vendor:** Appsmith **Category:** [Low-Code Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/low-code-development-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 67 ## About Appsmith Appsmith is an open-source low-code application platform that simplifies custom application development for businesses, allowing them to streamline operations, automate processes, quickly integrate multiple apps and data, and enhance legacy applications with new features. Full-stack and backend developers, systems administrators, and data teams use Appsmith to quickly build: - Customer 360 and other interactive dashboards that span multiple data sources - Functional and secure user interfaces on top of IT automations and scripts - AI-powered chat, data, and document analysis tools - Enterprise app extensions that reduce SaaS seat license costs Appsmith easily connects to a wide range of databases, APIs, and SaaS applications, and provides drag-and-drop UI building tools that are 10x faster than UI development using Angular or React frameworks. Appsmith is used by leading companies including Amazon, GSK, Allianz, ABB, Omron, and Twilio to build custom software for inventory management, IT operations, and customer support. ## Appsmith Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Appsmith, enjoying simple integration with databases and quick form creation. (10 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of Appsmith, enabling quick connections with SQL and various APIs effortlessly. (7 reviews) - Users benefit from **time-saving features** in Appsmith, allowing quick app creation and efficient navigation for business processes. (7 reviews) - Users love the **user-friendly and powerful interface** of Appsmith, which simplifies app development and integration. (7 reviews) - Users value the **easy integration** with various databases and APIs, streamlining app development significantly. (6 reviews) - Users love the **customization options** of Appsmith, enabling rapid and flexible app development with ease. (5 reviews) - Development Speed (5 reviews) - Users love the **incredible speed of development** with Appsmith, enabling quick navigation and efficient app creation. (5 reviews) - Drag and Drop (4 reviews) - Implementation Ease (4 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face a **big learning curve** with Appsmith, but find the benefits of quick app building worthwhile. (2 reviews) - Users find **limited features** in Appsmith, lacking extensive UI customization and needing backend queries for complex logic. (2 reviews) - Users note the **lack of branding features** in Appsmith, limiting customization options in both free and paid plans. (2 reviews) - Users experience **slow loading** times with Appsmith, especially during extensive usage, impacting overall performance. (2 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with Appsmith, especially during extensive use, impacting loading speeds and responsiveness. (2 reviews) - Users find **limited use cases** in Appsmith compared to other low code platforms, affecting their development flexibility. (1 reviews) - Users find **customization difficulty** in Appsmith due to limitations in UI and manual logic building requirements. (1 reviews) - Users find **functionality limitations** in Appsmith, specifically in its URL output capabilities compared to other platforms. (1 reviews) - Users note a **lack of features** in Appsmith, facing limitations that hinder functionality and usability. (1 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (1 reviews) ## Appsmith Reviews ### 1. Powerful and easy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hassan K. | Member Experience Associate, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** It's very easy to use, and works well. I like that it offers great functionality for free. You can create a dashboard and create forms in a short amount of time. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** Nothing at fault here! It works really well. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using AppSmith to create an easily accessible app for recording and managing our teams' QA records. It works as a library to view QA records within any set time period, and to be able to track individual performance. ### 2. Great product to quickly get things started! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tully S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** I like how easy it is to integrate into other data sources such as GraphQL etc., and then using that data is a breeze. I also like how you can copy widgets across multiple pages to avoid repetitive tasks. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** Sometimes when there are different-sized widgets on the page, getting them to align correctly can be a challenge. This particularly happens when some of the widgets contain text above them compared to ones that don't. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to create dashboard pages for our customer very quickly and efficiently. For example if they need a report created that does xyz, it doesn't take long to create a page/app that can achieve this ### 3. Easy and cost effective way to build internal software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kwabena A. B. | IT Professional, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** Appsmith helps you to quickly build internal tools. With appsmith, you don't need to be a master in HTML or CSS. With a knowledge in Javascript you can build any software that you can dream of. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** It's really difficult to pin point any downside of appsmith, however, I think the team can work on the responsiveness of apps designed with appsmith. Apps viewed with mobile devices becomes a bit of an issue **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using appsmith to develop a laboratory information management system as well as other internal tools. Presently, we provide lab services to our clients in the food industry, and we developing an application to digitize these processes. ### 4. Unlocking a faster execution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** The Appsmith templates got me started right away. Tool's super no-code friendly - it helped me get kickstarted on my internal sales performance monitoring dashboard. I was up and running by end of the day! **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** I think the UI can have a bit of jazz, but more than that, I think the tool kind of solves for everything. So none I can think off. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** So Appsmith gave me a headstart while creating my Sales performance tracking application - i was mostly maintaining the data as part of internal excel sheets, with respect to my product sales performance. With Appsmith, I was quickly able to put together a functional Sales performance dashboard, along with advanced controls such as email tracking and sales logging from tickets. ### 5. low code improved for free **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jihad k. | IT head of department, Glass, Ceramics & Concrete, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** it's avalible for free. ease of adding custom javascript. responsive. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** More in-depth tutorials. support mobile apps natively. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** connect it to backend and develop front end quickly ### 6. An Exceptional Tool for internal application(Low code and rapid development) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KAMLESH N. | SDE2 Javascript, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** Appsmith's user interface is incredibly intuitive and user-friendly. The drag-and-drop feature makes it a breeze to create complex UIs, and the extensive library of pre-built components saves a tremendous amount of time Appsmith truly shines when it comes to backend integrations. The platform seamlessly connects with various databases and APIs, allowing for seamless data retrieval and manipulation. The inbuilt support for popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, as well as APIs like REST and GraphQL, makes it a one-stop solution for all my backend needs. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** Good for small scale application but need improvement on layout and navigation for large and complex applications. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build quickly internal applications in less time with limited resource. ### 7. Very developer friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jitesh L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** I find Appsmith very customisable and it makes my life easy as i am focussing on building custom dashboards. Extensive documentation also makes life very easy. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** Hopefully some more UI elements in the future! **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building customer dashboards ### 8. Great platform for easy and fast build of internal tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrei C. | Business Intelligence Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** - Possibility to deploy it on-premise. - User-friendly dev interface. - Lots of data source connectors. - Variety of available interface widgets. - The team offers excellent and quick support. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** - There's no easy way to print labels; you must press a few buttons before sending something to the printer. - The table widget doesn't have a customizable number of rows. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Appsmith helps us build fully customized apps that perfectly correspond to the needs of the business. The platform makes it easy for the end-user to view and modify exactly the data that he needs to. ### 9. A great product with a dedicated and fast team! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** The Appsmith team is very communicative and is constantly shipping new features. They listen to their clients and make sure everybody feels heard. By being open-source, Appsmith empowers clients like us to build on top of it and have visibility of their code and internal process. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** It's been incredible to see the progress Appsmith made in the last six months, but like any new-ish product, a few core features are still missing, so I recommend researching and testing before committing to it. My use case is pretty complex but it still got it to work. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Appsmith is enabling my team to build a complex internal admin system with a low amount of code. We stopped being concerned about how a button will look or how to implement it, to think about the flow and the rules around it. ### 10. Great for marginally techy people! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul C. | Freelancer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** I was always a Microsoft Access guy, but I could never deploy that to the web. Enter Appsmith and my stuff is OUT THERE! And support is amazing! **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** The Git feature has been giving me issues. Also, not good for DRY development. I believe they are working on both of these areas. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an awesome platform for the development of Internal processes. I think the business addition will allow for the development of Client-facing Apps as well. ### 11. Good low-code framework to build simple web-apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** - really easy to use - learning curve increases very fast - good customer support - good documentations - Customizability is great and offers various options for unique look-and-feel **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** - it does have some bugs in the self-hosted version - the debugging of more complex code fragments is kind of hard, since no real debugger is given - limited due to limit of the different widgets (new ones are released tho!) **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Different data-domains are being maintained by different web-apps that are built by using AppSmith. ### 12. Fast learning curve and powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul P. | Directeur, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** Simple to install, Appsmith truly addresses the challenge of rapidly creating a business application on top of a database. It allows focusing on the critical business logic while taking care of the presentation. Appsmith reduces to days the time needed to produce an internal application. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** The platform would benefit from more in-depth documentation, allowing faster access to its full potential **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing business users to update, review, and enrich a data set in a secure manner, ### 13. Amazing time-to-value to create low-code apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** As a product manager, I wanted to use Appsmith first on a personal use case, to assess it against other low-code tools. The speed with which I was able to assemble a functional prototype leads me to want to use it on professional use cases. The team was also very responsive in helping me figure out how best to address my needs with the product. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** The process of addind a data source (specifically, a Google Sheet) and easily linking my data to my app could be more streamlined. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily building an app with limited access to coding skills ### 14. Appsmith for low-code apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** It was really easy to get started with Appsmith, and there are a ton of resources on their website to learn how to do different things. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** There are some limitations to what the platform can do, and you are limited to the widgets provided. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating internal applications without formal development experience ### 15. Building apps for clients **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier L. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** Appsmith is easy to onboard and use, it's constantly upgrading with new features and bug fixes it also has most of the commons data integrations **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** Improve or update documentation with more examples for the different features **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** It accelerates development time and lower budget for common internal tools for our clients ### 16. A cost-effective way to build internal tools in a fast and reliable way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ✨ Tarun M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** The open-source nature. Flexibility to build for different use cases and time required to develop and publish. The tool is so easy to use that event no-code builders can leverage it **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** The paid version competitors have many more advanced features, but I am sure Appsmith will catchup. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in building simple internal tools rapidly and efficiently. The open-source nature helps keep the cost down in the early days of the company. The basic system provides everything needed to scale, like controlled access and roles . Easy UI for connectors etc. ### 17. Torbjorn does Appsmith **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Torbjorn Z. | Digital Innovation Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Appsmith?** As a coder, I was a bit against using no-code/low-code services tills decided to test Appsmith for an internal project, and I fell in love with how easy I could build apps. **What do you dislike about Appsmith?** I have not found anything yet that I dislike, maybe the missing link that I see for me personally is to independently publish a web or mobile app. **Recommendations to others considering Appsmith:** As for any product evaluation, you need to have your business requirements defined before selecting a product. If you are looking for a no-code/low-code platform for your internal app, Appsmith is a very good choice, get the business requirements done and match them against what Appsmit delivered and you have a match. **What problems is Appsmith solving and how is that benefiting you?** My use case was to migrate an internal app to measure if we could save money, save time with fewer resources using a low-code/no-code platform. ## Appsmith Discussions - [What is Appsmith used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-appsmith-used-for) - 2 upvotes - [View Appsmith pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/appsmith/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-16+17%3A48%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=df3ddee5-fa03-4160-9e2c-88365f656199&secure%5Btoken%5D=f8f31f0ce825d72340c9abffc75072454bc2d9324fece77ef4d446760a0ff050&format=llm_user) ## Appsmith Features **Functionality** - Language Contingency - Component Library - Unlocked Components **Digital Workflows** - Logic and Conditions - No-Code Or Low-Code - Document Management **Functionality** - Code extensibility **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Application Design** - UI Code Extending - Programming Code Extending - Customized Branding - Application Templates - Workflows **Management** - Framework Integration - Repository Management - Support **Forms** - Data Mapping - Templates - Mobile-Friendly Forms **Governance** - Management - Role based access control - Security **Data Control** - Data Migration - Data Synchronization - Data Security **Automation** - Workflow Automation - Workflow Mapping - Real-Time Updates - Robotic Process Automation **Publishing** - Application Deployment - Platform Compatability - Lifecycle Management **Agentic AI - Low-Code Development Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Digital Process Automation (DPA)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Appsmith Alternatives - [Retool](https://www.g2.com/products/retool/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (355 reviews) - [Mendix](https://www.g2.com/products/mendix/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (317 reviews) - [OutSystems](https://www.g2.com/products/outsystems/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,622 reviews)