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Pablo L.
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What do you like best about Back4app?

You can forget about servers, networking, load balancers, upgrades, patching, cluster configurations, and database tuning. You manage your data and functions, and Back4App takes care of the rest. Their backend has fantastic performance and availability. We have been using them for 10 years without any single problem. In addition to hosting data in tables, we use cloud functions, triggers, batch jobs, and indexes. Highly recommended! Tip: you can ask them to connect a sink to your Papertrail account for much more detailed logging without additional charges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

Renaming collections or columns can lead to disruptions if your mobile app is directly sending queries to them. To navigate this challenge, consider implementing a cloud functions layer that acts as views (similar to stored procedures in older databases). By utilizing these functions and calling them instead of sending direct queries, you gain greater flexibility to make changes in your data model without affecting users who may still be on an older version of your mobile app. This approach allows for smoother transitions and easier management of changes over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

They allow us to forget about maintenance tasks of the tech stack and focus on our business and product instead. We never have to deal with any patch, upgrade, server resources, server monitoring, networking, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Back4app Overview

What is Back4app?

Your Application's Backend, Simplified. Launch your backend in minutes with no infrastructure hassles. Our low-code platform, ready-to-use components, and AI-powered tools will help you build faster and scale without limits.

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Product Description

Back4app helps you to expedite and scale application development without managing infrastructure. Our low-code platform is a great way to create apps faster and increase the productivity of development teams.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Back4app main differentials are the ease of use, the use of open-source technologies, relational data model, and amazing support.


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Back4app
Year Founded
2015
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Sunnyvale, CA
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14 employees on LinkedIn®

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User friendly platform and excellent support.
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Easy to connect to Applications and if Help is needed, the B4A-Support-Team is just great!
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What do you like best about Back4app?

The back4app library is great to access and create data in the database. Saves a lot of time and hassle required to make a backend for mobile apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

There are no downsides to using this app as you can configure and customize your implementation in any way you like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Development of mobile apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

Great documentation.

Easy to use

Quick an easy response time on the support

Willing to help students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

Could have more video documentation of basic implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used it for a student project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Back4app?

User friendly platform and excellent support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

I am missing the ability to edit columns in the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Learning to use a database in development with React. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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What do you like best about Back4app?

Back4app is easy to use with a team. You can easily create and edit tables, providing an good overview for a collaborative project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

I haven't noticed any downsides of Back4app yet, but I will come back to this review if I do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are easily able to create a database and fetch and store data in it. The coding portion for creating a backend is much easier when using back4app than traditional methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

Simple to use, complete and fast. Good documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

Free plan has too few request per month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplify the installation of infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants
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What do you like best about Back4app?

Easy to connect to Applications and if Help is needed, the B4A-Support-Team is just great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

The free plan is not enough for development. But the B4A-Support-Team helps out after contacting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

The tool allows you to evaluate solutions that require customer validation. Ideal for developing MVP and POC. Structuring tables is much easier. The documentation is vast and AI Agent helps us considerably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

I would like it to be possible to rename tables and columns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Permite testar e validar soluções rapidamente com baixa complexidade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santo L.
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What do you like best about Back4app?

The technology used, the support team, the learning curve, database speed and versatility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

It still miss some features that could improve the performance and usability.

For example managing mqtt connection and transactional operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Back4App as main backend infrastructure for our platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jon R.
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What do you like best about Back4app?

Good UI, very helpful support, feature packed, value for money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

There is nothing I can think of that I do not like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing a backend for my application(s). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gelu H.
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What do you like best about Back4app?

I've used back4app for last months and all I can say is that they are amazing in every aspect.

I would like to begin with their documenation on how to deploy your app. The documentation is well structured and organized, which makes the deploy an easy task even for a beginner like me.

The support and the people behind Back4app are just amazing. They answer fast to any questions and they provide the necessary help.

They also listen carefuly to your feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

To be completly honest with you, there aren't things I dislike about their product. They made it simple from the beginning but in same time complex enough to offer users all the features they need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Back4app solving and how is that benefiting you?

Well, the problem the Back4app is solving for me is that they let me host my API on their platform which is great, because I was looking for some time for a service like this but I couldn't find a reliable one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.