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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
HQ Location
Sunnyvale, CA
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@back4app
3,552 Twitter followers
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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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Great documentation. Easy to use Quick an easy response time on the support Willing to help students.
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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.

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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.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

I used back4app parse platform as a backend for a react prototype (for UX design). Very nice tool, to easy and quick create a backend for your prototype. And great support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

Be aware of the limits of requests (per month). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating backend for a UX prototype in a university project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

The open source Parse Server and managed scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

The pricing model, I would prefer price per usage, then anyone even people with no money could start using it whilst their app gets of the ground. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The whole backend, database, server infrastructure, scalability, API with full RESTful implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

Ease of use, developers do not have to work that much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

There are limited number of options of low use development environments, so overall it is likely to be somewhat expensive to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

providing backend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

Back4App is very easy to use and offloads much of the complexity that comes with setting up a backend service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

The pricing options could be more gradual. It might be the business model but it seems like they could do better with providing more intermediate options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being unfamiliar with MongoBD, I was able to set up my application on Back4App and familiarize myself with the Android SDK within 30 mins. They provide very effective documentation that enables quick development and use with few obstacles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Back4app?

Easy set up and good price tiers for shared and dedicated hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Back4app?

Support is slow and usually responds several hours later. Not ideal for production issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Managed database hosting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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