5 Best Low Code Platforms for 2025 The Definitive Guide

Managing and leveraging your business’s data can be challenging. There’s a lot of complexity involved in handling data and creating automated workflows, and it’s easy to get bogged down in digital transformation projects that fail to deliver.

Low code development platforms simplify this process, making it easy to build the custom workflows your business needs without hiring a team of professional developers.

In this guide, we highlight 5 of the best low code platforms you can use to achieve digital transformation in 2025.     

Short on Time? Here Are Our Top 5 Low code Platforms

1. Mendix - Overall Best Low code Platform for Custom Apps and Workflows
2. Appian - Best for Enterprise-Scale Data Management
3. Quickbase - Best for Rapid Application Development
4. Microsoft Power Apps - Best for Advanced Workflows and Integrations
5. Zoho Creator - Value Pick for Small Businesses
   
   

How We Researched This Topic

At CLEVR, we specialize in building end-to-end digital solutions for manufacturing, financial services, energy and utilities, and retail businesses. Many custom projects we build rely on low code platforms to help customers accelerate development, streamline workflows, and enhance operational efficiency.

Based on our decades of experience and award-winning service, we know that low code platform features like integrations, scalability, security, and collaboration tools make a significant difference in the outcome of digital transformation projects. We ranked each platform we tested based on these criteria, as well as overall customizability and security.

Deeper Dive: CLEVR’s Top Picks

We explored a wide range of low-code tools to identify the best options for businesses aiming for digital transformation in 2025. Here are our top 5 low-code platform recommendations.

 1. Mendix – Overall Best Low code Platform for Custom Apps and Workflows

• Ease of integration: 4.5/5
• Scalability and performance: 5/5
• Security and compliance: 5/5
• User experience and collaboration: 4.5/5
• Customizability and flexibility: 4.5/5

The Bottom Line

Mendix is our top-rated, low code platform for businesses. This platform has a steeper learning curve than some other low code platforms, but you get a powerful suite of development, testing, and deployment tools to ensure your projects achieve all your aims. The software works equally well for retail businesses building customer-facing apps, manufacturing businesses developing product lifecycle management solutions, and energy businesses creating grid management systems.

We especially like Mendix’s low code collaboration tools, which include project management features and an emphasis on agile development processes to keep your projects moving forward. It also offers built-in governance procedures and quality assurance checks to ensure workflows are fully validated and error-free.

Mendix has its own app store and hundreds of ready-to-run integrations, and it also provides robust support for legacy systems. The platform includes native mobile apps for business users and developers, making it easy to adjust and monitor workflows on the go.

2. Appian – Best for Enterprise-Scale Data Management

• Ease of integration: 4/5
• Scalability and performance: 5/5
• Security and compliance: 5/5
• User experience and collaboration: 4/5
• Customizability and flexibility: 4/5
  
  

The Bottom Line

Appian is an end-to-end low code development platform suitable for various uses. We recommend it for financial services companies needing custom compliance workflows or retail businesses that want to build generative AI-powered apps or customer portals.

What makes Appian’s low code solution stand out is its “data fabric” feature, which integrates data from across enterprise organizations to break down silos. We like this feature because it helps eliminate costly redundancies within your business processes and unlocks deeper insights that can help drive business growth. Importantly, you have granular control over security and sharing within the data fabric interface.

Additionally, Appian offers excellent team collaboration tools and has ready-made integrations for SAP, Salesforce, and Amazon Web Services. However, one thing holding Appian back is its user interface, which can feel unintuitive at times and requires some coding to address bugs in workflows.

3. Quickbase – Best for Rapid Application Development

• Ease of integration: 4.5/5
• Scalability and performance: 4/5
• Security and compliance: 4/5
• User experience and collaboration: 4.5/5
• Customizability and flexibility: 4/5
  
  

The Bottom Line

Quickbase is an excellent platform for building and deploying simple customer apps and workflows. It offers a wizard-based builder that’s easy to use, even if you’re new to low code development. Quickbase’s low code solutions also use sandboxing and version controls to ensure you can thoroughly test everything before pushing projects live.

Another aspect of Quickbase we like is that it’s packed with integrations. It works with many popular business communication and cloud storage platforms to support collaboration. It also integrates with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Netsuite, and Autodesk to serve businesses across the retail and manufacturing sectors.

Quickbase uses data encryption, governance APIs, and granular security controls to ensure your data is safe. It also fully complies with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements — beneficial for healthcare companies. However, Quickbase doesn’t have built-in compliance workflows for businesses in the financial sector.

4. Microsoft Power Apps – Best for Advanced Workflows and Integrations

• Ease of integration: 4/5
• Scalability and performance: 5/5
• Security and compliance: 4.5/5
• User experience and collaboration: 3.5/5
• Customizability and flexibility: 5/5
  
  

The Bottom Line 

Microsoft Power Apps is one of the most powerful low code development platforms available. It uses Microsoft’s Copilot AI to automatically generate code from just a description of the app or workflow you want. From there, you can directly edit the code, work collaboratively with Copilot to make adjustments, or use flexible drag-and-drop interfaces to fully customize your app.

Power Apps can feel overwhelming at first, especially since they give you more access to the code underlying your projects than other low code software. However, this can be a plus for IT businesses with many employees with programming experience. For other companies, pre-built integrations and AI-powered suggestions help make the platform more approachable.

Beyond Microsoft Power Apps’s low code capabilities, we like its affordability, especially compared to competing platforms. Developers can start working in a test environment for free, and pricing starts at only $20 per user per month for unlimited apps and workflows.

5. Zoho Creator – Value Pick for Small Businesses 

• Ease of integration: 4/5
• Scalability and performance: 5/5
• Security and compliance: 4.5/5
• User experience and collaboration: 3.5/5
• Customizability and flexibility: 5/5

Zoho Creator is our top pick for small businesses on a tight budget and companies that want to use internal citizen developers rather than professional programmers. Plans start at only $8 per user per month for a single app or $20 per user per month for unlimited apps, making this platform quite affordable.

The platform offers a friendly form-based app builder with a wide selection of ready-made fields to speed up development. Zoho Creator’s low code features are flexible enough to build internal business apps, customer portals, and product lifecycle management solutions. Just be aware that customizing your apps in Zoho Creator can be tricky since you’ll need to use a proprietary scripting language to make tweaks. 

The platform has more than 800 plug-and-play integrations for all Zoho productivity and work management apps. It offers granular data security controls but is not HIPAA-compliant, so it’s unsuitable for healthcare companies.

Final Thoughts on Low code Platforms 

Low code platforms can help you quickly build custom apps and workflows to drive your business’s digital transformation. They’re designed to be flexible and easy to use while meeting the needs of companies across industries without an expert development team.

Want to learn more about how low code solutions can benefit your business? Check out CLEVR’s comprehensive guide to low code development.

FAQs

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