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Alternatives to Kintone
24 no-code tools sit alongside Kintone in this directory. Below is what separates each from Kintone on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 16
- Cheaper to start
- 4
- Kintone starts at
- $24/month
Why people look past Kintone
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Kintone entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Kintone carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 16 of the 24 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Kintone publishes a single plan, Standard at $24/month. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
The open-source low-code framework
- Can be used without paying; Kintone cannot.
- Starts $24 a month cheaper, at Free.
- 3 tiers to Kintone's 1.
Build Anything & Publish Everywhere. With Scale.
- Can be used without paying; Kintone cannot.
- Starts $24 a month cheaper, at Free.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than subscription.
- 4 tiers to Kintone's 1.
Start building and testing apps
- Can be used without paying; Kintone cannot.
- Starts $19 a month cheaper, at $5/month.
- 5 tiers to Kintone's 1.
AI software development platform for building internal business apps from a spreadsheet, a prompt…
- Can be used without paying; Kintone cannot.
- Starts $24 a month cheaper, at Free.
- 4 tiers to Kintone's 1.
AI website and app builder on a shared credit balance
- Can be used without paying; Kintone cannot.
- Starts $9.049999999999997 a month dearer, at 33.05/month.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than subscription.
- 4 tiers to Kintone's 1.
Low-code app builder priced per user per month, bundled into the wider Zoho ecosystem
- Can be used without paying; Kintone cannot.
- Sold on a Per user per month, billed annually model rather than subscription.
- 4 tiers to Kintone's 1.
Every Kintone alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kintone (this page) | $24/month | Subscription | 1 | |
| AppsmithThe open-source low-code framework | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs Kintone |
| AdaloBuild Anything & Publish Everywhere. With Scale | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Kintone |
| AppSheetStart building and testing apps | Free, then $5/month | Subscription | 5 | vs Kintone |
| GlideAI software development platform for building internal business apps from a spreadsheet, a prompt… | Free | Subscription | 4 | vs Kintone |
| Volnyn | Free, then 33.05/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Kintone |
| Zoho Creator | Free | Per user per month, billed annually | 4 | vs Kintone |
| Mendix | Free | Per application tier (One App vs Unlimited Apps), cloud infrastructure billed separately | 4 | vs Kintone |
| Thunkable | Free | Per month, tiered by AI token allowance and project count | 4 | vs Kintone |
| Directual | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Kintone |
| Corteza | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Kintone |
| FlutterFlow | Free, then $30/month | Per user per month | 5 | vs Kintone |
| Momen | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Kintone |
| WeWeb | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Kintone |
| Draftbit | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Kintone |
| Softr | Free, then $25/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Kintone |
| ToolJet | Free, then $79/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Kintone |
| Quickbase | On request | Per user per month, billed annually, with an enforced minimum seat count per tier | 3 | vs Kintone |
| OutSystems | On request | Application Object consumption plus internal and external user packs | 2 | vs Kintone |
| Appian | On request | Per user, per app, per month, escalating across Standard, Advanced and Premium tiers | 3 | vs Kintone |
| Caspio | On request | Flat monthly fee by data record volume and DataPage count, unlimited users included | 3 | vs Kintone |
| Whalesync | $40/month | Per month by records in sync | 3 | vs Kintone |
| Noloco | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Kintone |
| Stacker | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Kintone |
| Superblocks | $100/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Kintone |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Kintone badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Kintone is most often brought in for low-code business application development, workflow automation, team collaboration and project management. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Kintone is broadly right and the question is cost, the Kintone pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the No-Code category lists everything the directory holds, and best no-code tools ranks them.
Kintone runs on not recorded. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Kintone alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Kintone?
- 24 other no-code tools are listed in this directory, led by Appsmith, Adalo, AppSheet, Glide. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Kintone?
- 16 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Appsmith, Adalo, AppSheet, Glide, Volnyn.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Kintone?
- Yes. 4 of the alternatives below start under Kintone's $24/month: Appsmith at Free, Adalo at Free, AppSheet at Free, then $5/month, Glide at Free.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Kintone?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Kintone?
- Kintone is most often brought in for low-code business application development, workflow automation, team collaboration and project management. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Kintone?
- None of the no-code tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Kintone alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, No-Code, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Kintone against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Kintone covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every no-code tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the No-Code category, 24 tools beside Kintone. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.