Draftbitvs
FlutterFlow
FlutterFlow: Pick FlutterFlow for the same code-export promise on Flutter rather than React Native, with a larger community and a built-in Firebase backend option.
Draftbit
Visual builder for React Native apps that exports the source code you keep
As of 31 August 2026, Draftbit is free to use. A drag and drop builder for mobile apps that generates real React Native and Expo source. Softwr lists it under No-Code. Draftbit is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Draftbit does
Draftbit is a visual development tool for building iOS and Android applications. You lay out screens from a component library, bind them to data from a REST API or a service such as Supabase, Airtable or Xano, and add navigation and logic through configuration rather than code. The output is a React Native project using Expo, and it can be previewed on a real device while you build. What separates it from the rest of the no-code mobile category is what you own when you leave. Adalo, Glide and most competitors run your application on their own runtime, so leaving means rebuilding from nothing. Draftbit exports the actual React Native source, which a developer can read, extend and ship independently, which turns the platform from a permanent dependency into an accelerator for the first version. The catch is directional: export is one way. Once a developer edits the exported code, those changes cannot be brought back into the visual builder, so you choose a moment to leave and then you stay left. Buyers are startups building a first mobile version quickly, agencies producing client apps where source is a contractual deliverable, and product teams with a designer but no mobile engineer. There is no bundled backend, so you supply one, and app store submission, signing and release management remain yours. That makes it a worse fit than Glide or Adalo for a team with no technical resource at all, and a better fit for one that has some.
What people use it for
- Shipping a first mobile version quickly with a deliberate plan to hand it to engineers later
- Agencies building client apps where the contract requires source code as a deliverable
- Teams that have a designer and a backend but no mobile engineer
- Prototyping a native app against a real API rather than building a clickable mockup
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Draftbit.
- Export is one way; once a developer edits the exported React Native project those changes cannot be returned to the visual builder, so the team must pick a handover moment and accept that the visual tooling stops applying from then on.
- There is no bundled backend or database, so the real stack is Draftbit plus a service such as Supabase or Xano, and the cost and operational burden of that second system falls on you.
- The output is mobile only with no web application target, so any product that also needs a browser version needs a second tool and a second build to maintain.
- It is built on Expo, so native modules outside what Expo supports require ejecting and native build tooling, which is exactly the expertise the tool was meant to remove the need for.
- App store submission, signing, review responses and release management are entirely yours, and that is where non-technical teams lose the time they saved in the builder.
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What people choose instead of Draftbit
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- DraftbitvsAdalo
Adalo: Pick Adalo if you want the app hosted for you and never intend to touch code, accepting that there is no source to take away.
- DraftbitvsGlide
Glide: Pick Glide if the app is really a front end over a spreadsheet or database for internal use, where speed matters more than owning source.
Pricing
What Draftbit costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Draftbit
On request
- Free tier for building and previewing
- Source export and publishing sit behind paid tiers
- Priced per project and per collaborator
Capabilities
Features
React Native source export
Produces a real React Native and Expo project you can continue in a code editor
Component library
Prebuilt screens, lists, forms and navigation patterns configured visually
Any REST API as a data source
Binds screens to your own backend rather than to a proprietary database
Live device preview
Runs the app on a phone through Expo while you are still editing
Custom code blocks
Drops JavaScript in at the points where the visual layer runs out
Theming
Central control of typography, colour and spacing across every screen
Service connectors
Supabase, Airtable, Xano and similar services as data backends
Team collaboration
Multiple editors on the same project on paid plans
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Do I own the code?
Yes. Paid plans export a React Native and Expo project you can keep, host and ship without Draftbit involved.
Can I import edited code back into the builder?
No. Export is one way, so plan the handover deliberately because after it the visual builder is no longer part of your workflow.
Does it include a database?
No. You connect your own backend, commonly Supabase, Xano, Airtable or a REST API you already run.
Can it build a web app as well?
No. The output is a React Native mobile application for iOS and Android only.
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