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Zoho Creator

Overview

What is Zoho Creator?

Zoho Creator is a low-code application development platform for building enterprise-class applications that run on mobile, tablet, and web. It is designed to allow users to create custom forms, configure workflows, build pages, and deploy apps quickly.

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Pricing

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Standard

$8

Cloud
per month per user

Professional

$20

Cloud
per month per user

Enterprise

$25

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
    Optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.zoho.com/creator/pricing.ht…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $8 per month per user
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Features

Low-Code Development

Low-code development tools allow non developers to build simple process applications with little oversight. These tools simplify the application building process, and are frequently used for simple process applications.

8.1
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Zoho Creator?

Zoho Creator is a low-code platform engineered to help organizations build scalable custom business solutions faster than traditional development methodologies. Built with enterprises in mind, the platform combines an application builder, an integration builder, and an analytics builder under a single subscription deployable with features that span across no-code, low-code, and pro-code to cater for different developer personas.

Why the Zoho Creator platform?

> It simplifies application development
> It reduces IT complexity and cost
> It supports extensive 3rd party integrations
> It enables extensive business process automations
> It has data privacy, data security, compliance at its core
> It scales as processes and business scales

Zoho Creator Features

Low-Code Development Features

  • Supported: Visual Modeling
  • Supported: Drag-and-drop Interfaces
  • Supported: Platform Security
  • Supported: Platform User Management
  • Supported: Reusability
  • Supported: Platform Scalability

Additional Features

  • Supported: Process blueprinting
  • Supported: Multi-device app builder
  • Supported: Unified builder

Zoho Creator Screenshots

Screenshot of Multi-Platform App builderScreenshot of Dashboards created using Zoho CreatorScreenshot of An overview of Hotel management dashboardScreenshot of Schedule and manage eventsScreenshot of BI and AnalyticsScreenshot of Help Desk overview

Zoho Creator Video

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Zoho Creator Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal - All countries
Supported LanguagesAt development platform level - Arabic, German, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified) At application level - 60+ languages

Frequently Asked Questions

Zoho Creator is a low-code application development platform for building enterprise-class applications that run on mobile, tablet, and web. It is designed to allow users to create custom forms, configure workflows, build pages, and deploy apps quickly.

Zoho Creator starts at $8.

Power Apps, Mendix, and OutSystems are common alternatives for Zoho Creator.

Reviewers rate Drag-and-drop Interfaces highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Zoho Creator are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

Zoho Creator Customer Size Distribution

Consumers5%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)30%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)15%
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 24)

Zoho Creator, the most powerful easy to use database tool available!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 30, 2015
AT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zoho Creator
2 years of experience
We use Zoho Creator as a backend database and database tool set to help us automate real estate contracts.
  • Flexible.
  • Easy to program.
  • Does a lot of the work for you in database creation and manipulation.
  • Hosted already so you don't have to figure out your own hosting solution.
  • Control - Zoho allows you complete control and portability over your data.
  • Integration with other web services.
Cons
  • Design tools to control the look and feel could be improved. I believe they are working on this.
  • Ability to store very sensitive information, such as social security numbers/encrypted database.
  • Easier way to manage multiple access profiles available to web/customer users.
Highly secure databases may not be a good fit, though I understand that Zoho is developing the ability to export the whole database and tools (Zoho Creator) to a user's server. This would eliminate this issue. It is useful for a highly customizable data base with minimal programming experience required.

Easy, Simple, Solutions

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 15, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zoho Creator
5 years of experience
I use Zoho Creator to create and manage various lite databases to store information. The software is very easy to use and manipulate into any form or spreadsheet style tool you want to use. I currently have 3 different creator tools setup and being used across different departments at our company.
  • easy
  • quick
  • intuitive
For our use of Zoho Creator we only have 2 people that manage the information. It works well that only certain users can edit the information but all users can view the public data. Zoho Creator works well on web and mobile browsing. I have no complaints with the software it does as described and more.

Easy, Supportive and Unique

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 21, 2019
Beneficial and unique email service, I have been using it for five years for my freelancing and other business opportunities. I use it full time on my Smartphone to get updates of my transactions. Replies by some companies. It is somehow better than Google because it is easier to understand than Google. The app is excellent and Organize with Unique UI.
  • User Interface is great.
  • Updates are on time.
  • Android App is great.
  • Quick Delivery.
Cons
  • Sometimes the android app faces some problems displaying email, and it keeps loading.
  • It doesn't show the OTP screen when logging in through the WEB sometimes.
  • If you need a unique email.
  • If you don't find a username, you desire to use it on Gmail.
  • Best security features.
  • It can be used anywhere with a mobile App.
  • Well organized Inbox.
  • Well, categorize emails into Spam.
  • I have found the support team to be personable, thorough, helpful, and, most of all, concerned to ensure that I'm getting what I need. from my subscription. They've helped me with setup, configuration, and found solutions to my key problems.

Zoho Creator - Review

Rating: 4 out of 10
October 19, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zoho Creator
3 years of experience
We use Zoho Creator to eliminate the paper trail and automate most of our processes including:

1. Inventory
2. Manufacturing
3. Quality control
4. Invoicing
5. Accounts
6. Reporting & Forecasting
  • Fast development
  • Cross-platform
  • Easy to learn language
Cons
  • Support is non existent
  • Reports take time to display updated information
  • User interface needs a major overhaul
Zoho Creator Platform is better suited to small companies / personal use. As a medium size company, Creator has been a challenge to use, especially in my experience due to the extremely incompetent support team. Offline functionality is advertised but should not be as it requires that your application has no logic which completely nullifies the whole . Application logic will work at times and fail at others. Support team will insist that it had always been working when it is clearly evident that they are scrambling to fix the issue at the backend.

How Studio 31 automated 37+ processes and saved over 3 hours every day with Zoho Creator

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 27, 2022
It's always perceived that wedding photographers have the best job and it's all fun. However, in reality, it's the most complex service offering in the whole wedding industry because it's the only service that has a very long customer lifecycle—90+ days—and also the riskiest. For the first few years, Studio 31 was busy building a strong foundation, and it solely focused on the creative aspect of the business, along with great customer service. From inquiry to delivery, there were more than 37 processes that had to be diligently followed to provide a hassle-free experience for its customers. For Studio 31, everything was smooth initially, when we captured a limited number of weddings. However, as we grew, we lost control over what was happening, and a creative profession turned into an administrative one, with all the hassles that entails.<br><br><ul><li>Data management and accuracy </li><li>Expensive human error due to business complexity </li><li>Dependency on spreadsheets that had to be manually updated </li><li>Updating customers manually resulted in over 46 email threads per customer and staff having to invest over four hours every day in replying to emails</li><li>Lack of analytics and reporting</li><li>And more random issues that would pop up every day </li></ul>After investing a lot of money and time in over 15 CRM's, we learnt that any ready to use platform will not suit our business model and this is where Zoho Creator came in. We are able to build whatever we've in mind without much restrictions. It's like an open canvas. <br><br>There's nothing that you cannot achieve in Zoho Creator. You just need clarity and direction on how to make best use of the product.
  • Build anything from scratch
  • Saves tons of time when compared to traditional development
  • Can see results instantly if we've the right people working on it
  • Citizen developer friendly
  • Integrations with other Zoho Products + Third Party tools makes life easier
  • Easy reporting and analytics
  • The fastest and best solution for building internal tools that wont cost you a bomb
Cons
  • Technical support through live chat where we can get help on coding etc.
  • Partners and developer resources
I was researching economic alternatives to achieve this somehow, and that's when I learned about low-code tools. They're like a canvas; one can build and achieve anything, and save 90% of the actual development cost. We researched several solutions and figured out that Zoho Creator worked the best. We started building the software in 2017 and it took us about 19 months to get the entire workflow sorted. However, a boon in disguise was the time that we got during the Covid lockdown. We put all hands on deck, and in about 200 days, we had built a much-improved software solution. We'd built something outstanding, and we knew this because we were able to see the results.
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