Best for
Best for founders and freelancers who want one project published as a native iOS app, a native Android app and a web app without writing code.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI App Builders Comparison
Adalo vs. Bolt.new
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for quickly validating an idea with a working full-stack prototype.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Adalo | Bolt.new |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; paid from $36 / month Annual billing is the rate shown by default; monthly billing costs 20 percent more. Plans differ mainly in published apps (1 on Starter, 2 on Professional, 5 on Team), editors and storage. Publishing to the stores also needs an Apple Developer account ($99 / year) and a Google Play developer account ($25 one-time), both charged by Apple and Google directly. | Free tier; paid credits above The free limits are reached quickly. |
| Free trial | Free plan with unlimited test apps, 500 records per app and no publishing | Free tier |
| Commercial use | Not stated | Yes |
| Output | Native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web app from one project | Full-stack app in the browser, with automatic hosting |
| API | Yes, a Collections API and a Notifications API, plus custom actions against any REST API | Not stated |
| What it generates | Native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web app from one project, assembled on a multi-screen canvas or built and edited by prompting the Ada assistant | Full-stack app, built and run in the browser through StackBlitz WebContainers |
| Stack and frameworks | Visual no-code editor with more than 200 drag-and-drop components; a developer mode allows private custom components, and a marketplace adds third-party ones | Multi-framework |
| Auth and database | Built-in hosted Postgres database with relational collections; outside data through external collections over REST, Google Sheets and Xano, which can also supply external users | Not out of the box, needs external services |
| Hosting and deploy | Published to an Adalo-hosted domain or a custom domain, and from paid plans to the Apple App Store and Google Play | Yes, automatic hosting, prompt to deploy |
| Payments | Yes, Stripe payments collected inside the app | Yes, Stripe for one-time payments and subscriptions, via Supabase or Bolt Database |
| Access to the code | Custom components rather than an exportable codebase. A component is bootstrapped outside Adalo with the create-adalo-component tool, which needs Node 10.2 or newer and developer mode enabled on the account, and is published with npx adalo publish, either publicly or privately. Code otherwise reaches an app from the outside: custom actions call any external REST API, and the Adalo API, documented for the Team and Business plans at up to 5 requests per second, reads and writes the app's collections and triggers push notifications. The developer documentation covers building and publishing components and does not document exporting an app's own source | Yes, download the project as a zip or push it to GitHub |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Email helpdesk, Community forum | Not stated |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials | Not stated |
| Company size | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized |
| Integrations | Stripe, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Google Maps, Xano, Airtable | Not stated |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Adalo Free plan; paid from $36 / month Bolt.new Free tier; paid credits above
- Free trial Adalo Free plan with unlimited test apps, 500 records per app and no publishing Bolt.new Free tier
- Company size Adalo Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Bolt.new Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
- Output Adalo Native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web app from one project Bolt.new Full-stack app in the browser, with automatic hosting
- What it generates Adalo Native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web app from one project, assembled on a multi-screen canvas or built and edited by prompting the Ada assistant Bolt.new Full-stack app, built and run in the browser through StackBlitz WebContainers
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Adalo
Strengths
- One project publishes as a native iOS app, a native Android app and a web app
- Ada, the AI assistant, is included on every plan with no token or usage charges
- Built-in relational Postgres database, so no external backend is required to start
- Flat monthly price with no usage-based or per-action charges
Limitations
- The free plan can build and test but cannot publish an app
- Published apps are capped per plan, so shipping several apps means moving up tiers
- App store publishing needs paid Apple and Google developer accounts on top
- Email support runs on a response-time SLA of three, two or one business days depending on the plan
Bolt.new
Strengths
- No setup, seamless prompt to deploy
- Multi-framework flexibility
- Great for quick idea validation
Limitations
- Database and auth are not out of the box, they need external services
- Costs rise with larger codebases
- Free limits are reached quickly
Plans
Pricing
Adalo
- Free $0 Unlimited test apps and screens, 500 records per app, 1 editor, Ada AI assistant. No publishing.
- Starter $36 Per month, billed annually. 1 published app, 1 editor, 5 GB storage, web and app store publishing, custom domain.
- Professional $52 Per month, billed annually. 2 published apps, 5 editors, 25 GB storage.
- Team $160 Per month, billed annually. 5 published apps, 10 editors, 125 GB storage.
- Adalo Blue Not stated Enterprise offering with dedicated infrastructure, custom monitoring, on-premise deployment and connections to data sources without an API. Priced on request.
Bolt.new
- Free $0 Limits are reached quickly.
- Credits Not stated
What users say
Review Scores · opens after launch
Adalo
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
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- Onboarding
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- Support and service
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- Value for money
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Bolt.new
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
- Not rated yet
- Features
- Not rated yet
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Adalo https://www.adalo.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12
Bolt.new https://bolt.new · no check date recorded yet
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