Kony Development Cloud vs Swiftify

Likelihood to Recommend

Improve performance while the app is in production. The init app development in planning, the testing stage is not an ideal scenario to use KDC yet.

Read full review

Henry PAN

Principal IS Consultant

IMVECHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

It is recommended to use Swiftify in any situation that requires iOS development because even if you develop just in Swift or just in Objective-C, it could be helpful for researching and investigating purposes.Additionally, if you need to convert big quantities of code from Objective-C to Swift, this tool will optimise that work. It will not translate a whole class of 2000 lines perfectly, but after converting it you can review the code and modify the lines that have not been properly converted, making you save more than the 50% of the time in that case.I've not been able to test it properly as I only used the trial version and it is really limited.

Read full review

Verified User

Paraprofessional in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Pros

Cross-platform mobile development - we used this for developing the app on a native platform (which could be iOS, Android). Kony offers tools that are useful because they decrease costs and increase the speed at which apps are developed. In addition, cross-platform mobile development tools are generally quite simple to use as they are based off of the common languages for scripting, including CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. It has become easy to find resources with the skill set especially because this is based out of common languages.
In Kony mobility platform Visualizer makes app development quick and easy. Tons of documentation online.
Used Kony to develop an amazing app that serves our customers well. WYSIWYG interface is great for building interfaces quickly. Build and test quickly for many different targets.

Read full review

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Semiconductors Company, 5001-10,000 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

It's especially good for people that know Swift, but have very little experience with Objective-C. It gives you a first cut of code translation. Then you can go from there.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Cons

Manuals or instructions need to be streamlined with its high pricing.
It's a very intricate platform. It only performs moderately while the app is currently in operation.

Read full review

Henry PAN

Principal IS Consultant

IMVECHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

New conversion languages, like Python or C++ would be great.
Some more free tries would help to know how important/helpful it would be for iOS projects.

Read full review

Pedro Soria Martínez

Technical Support

BEEPComputer Software, 1-10 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Swiftify 8.2

Based on 6 answers

Swiftify is good converter, there's a room for imrovement, but it helps a lot.

Read full review

Yuriy Yarosh

Applications Engineer

Self-employedComputer Software, 11-50 employees

View all 6 answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

We evaluated variety of platforms like Xamarin, Sencha, PhoneGap. When we were initially evaluating Xamarin, it was not Microsoft and so the releases and features were not very streamlined. Also licensing was a issue with that.Sencha was a very attractive cross mobile platform but was expensive. Just for handful of developers price was high. Ours is big enterprise so licensing costs became huge.PhoneGap is based out of open source Apache Cordova project and is completely free to use, which goes some way to explain its popularity. The enterprise version boasts marketing features via Adobe’s Marketing Cloud, so when it launches it will probably be monetized.Comparing with the features platform has to offer and the price tag attached to it, we narrowed down to using Kony.

Read full review

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Semiconductors Company, 5001-10,000 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

Swiftify tries to convert the code even if the code can not be executed in a real situation.I chose Swiftify because most of the times you just need to convert one line, one method... That of course, it is using and used by other code that you didn't add in the conversion code, but you just need to convert that for now. In this situation, Swiftify converts the code, other ones such as iSwift will report an error in the code and will not convert it.

Read full review

Verified User

Paraprofessional in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Return on Investment

Positive on ROI. I'm constantly utilizing Kony since it's a robust tool capable of publishing.
It also shares prototype creations of apps in a highly intuitive and customizable environment. It provides a preview of apps in real-time. Collaboration is seamless. Important functionality includes smartphone features (without any written code involved) and accessibility to a browser, maps, and SMS.
Trying to understand the user manual can be challenging since there are way too many features available. All of them aren't really necessary for beginners. And they've yet to offer them in a "phased" approach.

Read full review

Henry PAN

Principal IS Consultant

IMVECHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

good ROI, saves a lot of time.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Kony Development Cloud Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

—

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Swiftify Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Offline Converter	custom pricing¹

per seat

SaaS Edition

Pay As You Go	$5¹
Cloud 30 (Monthly)	$49²
Cloud 100 (Monthly)	$99³
Cloud 300 (Monthly)	$199⁴
Cloud 1000 (Monthly)	$299⁵
Cloud 30 (Yearly)	$399⁶
Cloud 100 (Yearly)	$799⁷
Cloud 300 (Yearly)	$1,599⁸
Cloud 1000 (Yearly)	$2,399⁹

per file
30 files per month
100 files per month
300 files per month
1000 files per month
300 files per year
1000 files per year
3000 files per year
10000 files per year

Additional Pricing Details

—

Kony Development Cloud vs Swiftify