Mendix vs. Supernova

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mendix
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
$0
Supernova
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Supernova is a collaborative platform that helps product teams turn ideas into production-ready features while keeping design and development connected. It brings designs, tokens, guidelines, and code libraries together in one collaborative environment.
$0
per seat
Pricing
MendixSupernova
Editions & Modules
Free Edition
$0
Pro Edition
1,250
per month (billed annually)
Enterprise Edition
1,675
per month (billed annually)
FREE
$0
per month per seat
PRO
$20
per month per seat
ENTERPRISE
custom
custom per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MendixSupernova
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
MendixSupernova
Features
MendixSupernova
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Mendix
9.0
9 Ratings
7% above category average
Supernova
-
Ratings
Visual Modeling9.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Security9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management9.49 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MendixSupernova
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(66 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(12 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MendixSupernova
Likelihood to Recommend
Siemens AG
Mendix excels in scenarios involving Business Process Automation, making it a strong choice for applications requiring workflow automation, including processes like request approvals, document management, and other business workflows.Conversely, Mendix may be less suitable for projects that demand highly customized solutions with extensive custom coding. Its primary focus on low-code development may not align well with the requirements of projects that heavily rely on intricate and specialized coding.
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Supernova.io
Supernova is the best documentation platform on the market, having tested numerous alternatives, including the more popular zeroheight, Knapsack, etc. It's ideal for low-code solutions for brand guidelines and detailed component documentation. Their automated exporter pipelines are the icing on the cake, enabling them to pull what you see in Figma and push it directly into your codebase.
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Pros
Siemens AG
  • We're able to really easily develop different views that are very specific to a customer's needs or customer's different types of user needs. So for example, the production managers can have a certain view that's relevant to them and then certain line managers can have views that are specific to them that allow them to run different scenarios which they define. So it allows us to easily build customized apps for each different type of user.
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Supernova.io
  • Customer service.
  • Automation
  • Organization
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Cons
Siemens AG
  • Earlier versions lacked in UI/Ux. This is still improving.
  • Since everyone and anyone can create custom add ons (widgets), Mendix could improve their quality checks (but not as rigid as eg Apple).
  • Upgradeability used to be somewhat of an issue. Version 7 looks to be handling this better than previous versions.
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Supernova.io
  • Difficult to sync large files (more of a Figma problem).
  • Restrictive paid tiers.
  • Redundant features.
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Usability
Siemens AG
A 10 would say I have nothing to wish for. A 9 means I haven't seen anything better.This tool really helps you in the whole creation and maintenace cycle, so from requirements to building/modeling to testing to deploying to capturing feedback.
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Supernova.io
It is occasionally buggy, but nowhere near as buggy as zeroheight.
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Support Rating
Siemens AG
Response times are quick and you will get updates regularly about the status of your request. Even with very technical questions they have specialists that can help you with your problems it will give you an answer or help you with a work around.
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Supernova.io
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Siemens AG
Mendix would be my preferred system all the way. The system is designed for these kinds of works. I've worked with WP and DNN but they should be used just for websites. To create an app for a business value, I would suggest Mendix. Also, the offline capabilities of Mendix have greatly improved since the deployment of Mendix 7.13.
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Supernova.io
Supernova has best-in-class customer service. Our Figma library is a huge file and was unable to automatically sync with most platforms (including Supernova) - of all three platforms we tried, Supernova was the only one that actively assigned engineers to our case and offered a solution within a couple of days. They've been great partners.
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Return on Investment
Siemens AG
  • It helps to speed up application development because of its low code by the fact that it's low code. It allows professional developers to focus more on specialized application development rather than the more routine application development that business IT and super users can do for themselves with some coaching from the IT department. So it's just allowing the more specialist professional developers.net, for example, Java in our organization to focus on more complex engineering application developments.
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Supernova.io
  • We've seen a massive increase in organizational design system adoption since launching our Supernova site.
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ScreenShots

Mendix Screenshots

Screenshot of Agile Project Management: Collaborate. Manage. Iterate.Screenshot of Central App Management: Application Management Made Easy.Screenshot of App Store: Hundreds of building blocks to get you out of the gate.Screenshot of 1-Click Deployment: Efficient DevOps. Enabled.

Supernova Screenshots

Screenshot of Build high-fidelity prototypes that feel and look like your actual products.Screenshot of Keep your prototypes fully aligned with your brand and design system. Apply tokens, colors, and typography instantly, so every prototype reflects the real product experience - from first idea to high-fidelity concept.Screenshot of Automatically generate synchronized PRDs, specifications, and other documents, and push them to their workbenches, such as Jira.Screenshot of Export on-brand, on-codebase code straight to VS Code or Cursor using our remote MCP serverScreenshot of Instantly search your design system: tokens, components, assets with AI-assisted queries.