Adalo vs Make

Adalo is a US-based no-code platform for building native mobile apps and web apps with a drag-and-drop editor. It targets non-technical founders, small businesses and community organizers who want a real app in the App Store and Google Play without hiring developers. Screens are assembled from components such as lists, forms, buttons and maps, and actions link them to a built-in relational database.

Data can live in Adalo's own database or in external collections connected through Airtable, Xano or any REST API, which lets teams move heavier logic to a proper backend later. A component marketplace adds payments, charts and other blocks, and custom actions call outside services. The free plan allows unlimited test apps; paid plans (Starter, Professional and Team) are priced mainly by the number of published apps, with custom actions and collaboration reserved for higher tiers.

Adalo fits simple booking, directory, loyalty and community apps, and MVPs meant to validate an idea quickly. It struggles when lists grow large, when logic gets complex or when performance becomes critical. FlutterFlow generates Flutter code you can export and suits more ambitious mobile projects, Bubble is stronger for complex web apps, and Glide is faster for internal apps built on spreadsheets.

Make, formerly Integromat, is a visual automation platform founded in Prague in the Czech Republic. Celonis acquired Integromat in 2020 and relaunched it as Make in 2022. Its core job is connecting apps and automating multi-step processes, with a visual canvas that handles complex logic better than linear automation tools.

Scenarios are built as flowcharts: modules for each app action are connected by routes, with routers for branching, iterators and aggregators for working with lists, filters, data transformation functions and error handlers for retries and fallbacks. Make supports more than 2,000 apps plus generic HTTP, webhooks and JSON tools for anything with an API, along with AI modules for OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and other providers. Make AI Agents, introduced in 2025, add goal-driven agents that decide which tools to use. Since August 2025 pricing is based on credits instead of operations: most module runs use one credit, AI modules can use more. Plans from the free tier up to Enterprise add more credits, shorter scheduling intervals, team roles and security features.

Make fits operations teams, agencies and technical marketers who build complex, high-volume automations and want them to cost less than on Zapier. The visual approach has a steeper learning curve, and credit consumption needs monitoring as scenarios grow, especially with AI modules. Zapier is easier for simple automations and has more app integrations, n8n is open source and self-hostable for developers, and Power Automate suits Microsoft-centric organizations.