Zoho Creator employs powerful and feature-rich tools that help to build customized apps without technical expertise. It is ideal for small and medium businesses who want to automate their business processes. Its low-code intuitive platform along with the drag-n-drop interface enable you to create forms/tables, design, import data from various formats (.xls .csv .mdb), schedule workflows and deliver lots of automated actions. It is a great option for creating both employee-oriented and customer-oriented apps as you can easily integrate third-party services into your app. All you need to do is to write down your business rules, it will look after rest of the things (deployment and hosting).
| Support | Business Hours Online | Customer Type | Freelancers Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business |
| API | Contact | Pleasanton, US / +1 (888) 900-9646 | |
| Deployment | SaaS/Web/Cloud Mobile - Android Mobile - iOS | Category | Application Development Software |
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My favorite tool for creating simple and easy to manage apps is Zoho Creator. I like this tool very much because it provides less complicated tools that enables me to create good-looking and helpful business and personal apps even if I am not a talented programmer. The tool is excellent.
No dislikes because Zoho Creator has been very reliable. Through Zoho Creator, I have learnt many things about app building and I am ready to continue using it.
Zoho Creator is easy to use and I am sure that it will meet all your company's requirements because it will enable your team to create simple to use applications that will smoothen the running of your business. Zoho Creator is affordable to all.
This cloud based tool has been very helpful to me because I have learnt a lot from it. It has simple tools that creating apps using them is very easy. They are self-explanatory. Things or apps created using Zoho Creator are perfect and simple to run.
Zoho Creator allows you to create reports and graphs, add filters and observe all the information of the company. It is ideal for medium-sized databases. It is ideal for programming business workflows. Record the time from the start to the completion of each task. Insert forms on websites. Share forms in blogs and social networks. Schedule the sending of reports or reminders of calls or events. Receive notifications at the moment by email, SMS or as Pop-up on your mobile.
Zoho Creator is a very efficient software, however you need to have better training tools for users who are not developers. The marketing information makes it look like you can create an application without real coding knowledge, but some idea of coding and programming structures is needed to create more robust apps, in my opinion.
With Zoho Creator you can create your databases and put them into production immediately. Zoho takes care of all security, uptime, backups and updates. Overall, I think I would recommend its implementation for common business productivity needs.
We can leverage our existing insight, productivity and other business platforms to create concise and streamlined apps that can be used by our team with the need for advanced coding knowledge. Zoho Creator provides us with a way to create highly custom apps that can be tailors to our needs and refined to make the performance optimal for our projects, business policies and other specifications.
Pros: I found Zoho creator easy to use and developer friendly as well. They made things quite simple, for every app the users will need to input data (forms) and view that data (reports), to create both is really easy and the new editor lets you create custom HTML pages so extend your app to any possible layout.
I like to be able to write code for the app, Deluge does quite good. The syntax is quite easy to understand and the error hints are most of the times really accurate. Is good to be able to communicate between forms and apps, making Zoho creator apps quite versatile.
I also use Schedules often to collect trash, organize records or upgrade records based on a time variable; the reports can go from barebones to complex pivot charts, is useful that you can see underlying data clicking on each segment of the chart.
Cons: I have had some issues with the introduction of the new editor, I like the Old editor to code and the New editor to create custom pages (you are forced to do so), it's often confusing to remember that you have to switch in order to perform one task or the other.
Another issue I have had to cope with several times is the lack of a time-only field, not date-time. I had to use workarounds when I needed the user to input time. Same with try-catch functionalities or being able to edit the fields labels dynamically.
Is also strange that most of the answers in the forum are only visible for the user that asked the question, making it almost useless for users trying to troubleshoot an error.
The charts might take a while to load if the report has a big volume of data.
Overall: Overall I found that is quite easy to build a stable, clean and powerful app in Zoho creator, it's a big deal to be able to write my own code and customize the form definition as well.
Pros: As the zoho tagline said, Operating system for business. It is truly an amazing platform to run your business with ease. Being able to solve the clients business problems and helping them build an app with zoho platform is really an amazing experience.
Cons: If you are not a programmer then you need to hire a certified developer. That's all it takes and you are on you way to successful business app.
Overall: My overall experience of working on logo to develop application was excellent. I have no plans of switching to another technology/platform.
What are the best aspects of this product?
As the socho tagline said, Operating system for business. It is truly an amazing platform to run your business with ease. Being able to solve the clients business problems with zoho platform is really an amazing experience.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
If you are not a programmer then you need to hire a certified developer. That's all it takes and you are on your way to successful business app.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
Pros: Superb product. Helps you save time and manpower. Great integrations and API linkage.
Cons: Requires too much of coding. Not too easy for start but maybe a couple of tries and you are can do it...but you need to learn a bit of coding.
Overall: Except for the poor and overloaded customer support, great to use.
Zoho App Creator allowed our startup to get started very quickly and it is what we continue to use in most of our crucial daily operations. It's a very clean and simple UI and it runs surprisingly well on mobile devices.
It's a little clunky. We have great hardware and internet connection and even then.
You will need robust processes in place in addition to using Zoho. Lacks good automation.
We use Zoho for operations, order and account management, and as a database. As previously stated, how quickly we were able to get started with it was the best thing about it.
Pros: Zoho Creator is fast, reliable and accurate.
We use Zoho Creator to create stable and good-looking applications that we usually rely on to run our businesses.
Zoho Creator has a great interface.
Cons: Zoho Creator is flawless but the support team should improve their timeliness of responding to our questions. Regardless, it is a great tool.
Overall: I have a good or fantastic experience with Zoho Creator.
One of the coolest and most easiest tool on the market to create forms to get users to respond to. The turn around time to create a POC website is minimal with this tool. We could always sell some features internally to our client before going big with those features. UI is easy to navigate so all the workflows come easy and one can easily house a bit of data for the trial versions.
One problem which most of the Zoho users community have reported and we have also come across is its proprietary scripting language - though it is powerful and the driver behind the amazing Zoho creator platform - a dedicated set of associates are required to learn this language. They become your inevitable asset from there on as well to the clients too.
I would recommend Zoho Creator as an untimidating and effective way to build apps that can smoothly deliver business data without extensive time and resources. The foundation is solidly in place for you to implement just about any type of business data form I can think of.
It's surprisingly easy to customize our apps, even after starting out with templates. The templates by default are generally very clean-looking with a professional and functional design. There usually isn't much else needed for us to do to improve upon the design. That really saves us from having to get creative and collaborate on ideas. The data that we've obtained through our Zoho Creator have been invaluable in understanding and improving many aspects of our business.
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There are different pricing plans available for various company size and requirements. The basic edition is priced at $5 per user per month which varies further on the number of users and features add-ons.
The typical customers of Zoho Creator are freelancers, large and mid-size enterprises, small businesses and non-profits.
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