Adalo vs. Quickbase

At a glance

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

Quickbase

Best for

Best for operations teams whose departmental processes have outgrown spreadsheets and whose IT department wants governance around whatever replaces them.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion	Adalo	Quickbase
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.	lower value From $35 / user / month Team is $35 and Business $55 per user per month, priced annually. Neither figure includes the platform minimum, a base charge on top of the per-user price. All users in an account must be on the same plan. Enterprise is quoted by Quickbase.
Free trial	Free plan with unlimited test apps, 500 records per app and no publishing	30-day free trial with the Business plan features
Output	Native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web app from one project	Custom operational applications with tables, forms, reports, dashboards, roles and workflow automation
API	Yes, a Collections API and a Notifications API, plus custom actions against any REST API	Yes, JSON REST APIs; the platform analytics API and solutions API are Enterprise only
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	Custom operational applications: tables and forms for the data, more than 13 report types and personalised dashboards, roles and permissions, and pipelines for workflow automation. Pave, the AI builder, takes a description of how the work happens today and constructs the application, including data structures with linked records, user roles and permissions, automation and hosting
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	There is no framework or language to choose. An application is assembled in Quickbase's own builder and runs on Quickbase's platform, and it is widened rather than swapped: more than 40 pre-built Pipelines integration channels connect it to other systems, and Quickbase Extensions, a paid package, adds document generation, e-signatures, SMS, email notifications and mapping to the same app
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	Quickbase's own tables and linked records, with role-based permissions, encryption, audit logs and data classification. Single sign-on and SCIM provisioning arrive with the Business plan; restricting user creation to realm admins and managing token permissions is Enterprise
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	Hosted by Quickbase, with the application ready to use once built. On-premise connectivity and data warehouse integrations are Enterprise features
Payments	Yes, Stripe payments collected inside the app	No payment collection or checkout of its own, and none is documented for the apps built on it: these are internal operational applications rather than customer-facing products. Money stays in the systems Quickbase connects to, through the financial software category among the 40+ pre-built Pipelines channels or through the JSON REST APIs
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	Code pages let a builder add custom HTML, CSS or JavaScript to an app and surface it through a button, a hyperlink, a formula URL field or an iframe; JSON REST APIs cover programmatic access
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Email helpdesk, Community forum	Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Live online demos and webinars
Company size	more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise	Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations	more entries Stripe, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Google Maps, Xano, Airtable	Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, Procore

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Adalo Free plan; paid from $36 / month Quickbase From $35 / user / month
Free trial Adalo Free plan with unlimited test apps, 500 records per app and no publishing Quickbase 30-day free trial with the Business plan features
Company size Adalo Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Quickbase Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Output Adalo Native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web app from one project Quickbase Custom operational applications with tables, forms, reports, dashboards, roles and workflow automation
API Adalo Yes, a Collections API and a Notifications API, plus custom actions against any REST API Quickbase Yes, JSON REST APIs; the platform analytics API and solutions API are Enterprise only

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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

Quickbase

Strengths

Pave builds a working app, data model and permissions included, from a description of the existing process
Governance is part of the platform: roles and permissions, encryption, audit logs and data classification
No-code connectors to Salesforce, Jira and ServiceNow, plus JSON REST APIs
Code pages allow custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript where the no-code builder stops
Quickbase states that customer data is not used to train the AI

Limitations

The published per-user price excludes a platform minimum that is not published, so the real cost needs a quote
AI capability beyond Pave, namely the AI agent, Data Analyzer and AI Actions, is a paid Intelligence Package add-on
Single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, a sandbox and FDA and HIPAA compliance require the Business plan
All users in an account must be on the same plan, so one requirement can lift the whole account a tier
Platform analytics and solutions APIs are restricted to Enterprise

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.

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Quickbase

Free trial $0 30 days with the Business plan features.
Team $35 Per user per month, priced annually, on top of a platform minimum. Personalised dashboards, 13+ report types, workflow automation, user and data security, encryption and audit logs. The AI Intelligence Package is an optional add-on.
Business $55 Per user per month, priced annually, on top of a platform minimum. Everything in Team plus single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, Gantt charts, a sandbox and FDA and HIPAA compliance. Quickbase Extensions and the AI Intelligence Package are optional add-ons.
Enterprise Custom Quoted by Quickbase. Everything in Team and Business plus advanced performance tools, advanced encryption, on-premise connectivity, data warehouse integrations, the platform analytics and solutions APIs, and the extensions and AI add-ons.

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What users say

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Where this comes from

Adalo https://www.adalo.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12

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