Why engineering teams choose DronaHQ over Budibase
DronaHQ vs Budibase
DronaHQ offers multiple pricing plans and key features like SSO, environments, and custom branding from the Business plan. In contrast, Budibase lacks mobile support and reserves critical features for its enterprise tier.
Web & Mobile o/p
Custom branding
Custom SSO
Data environments
Engineering calls
Pricing
Add-ons
Datasources
Action flow builder
Powerful UI controls
Dynamic themes
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“…Building apps—web or mobile—is faster, easier, and actually enjoyable thanks to the intuitive builder and customization options.” – Yash Gandhi, Solution Specialist, 
Media.net saves tons of engineering hours
We want our engineers focused on core business priorities, but internal demands often divert them. By adopting DronaHQ, we’re streamlining internal interface creation to save time, boost productivity, and refocus engineering on our core product.
Amit Bhawnani
VP of Engineering
Purplle scales internal ops 10x faster
Going with DronaHQ was an easy decision for our requirements. It is helping us significantly cut down the time to launch tools from a few weeks to a few days. The support to share apps with unlimited end-users has been the cherry on top.
Suyash Katyayani
CTO and Co-founder
Budibase vs DronaHQ
Developers switch from Budibase to DronaHQ for its superior developer experience and flexibility to accommodate growing business needs.
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Default native mobile app - Multiscreen apps
- Smooth transitions
- Menus
- Multilingual apps
- Dynamic themes
- Dark mode apps
- Frontend actions
- Custom SSO
- Custom branding
- Data environments
- Custom UI
- 24 x 7 Developer support
- Community
- Rich docs
- Onboarding support
Budibase alternative for Web and Mobile apps
Integrate data without knowing JS
Unlike Budibase, where JS is required for most tasks, DronaHQ uses Excel-like formulas for data integration and offers JS only when needed, with 70+ connectors to databases, SaaS apps, and APIs.
Visually build actionflows
DronaHQ features a visual flowchart interface for building actionflows, supporting complex server-side (navigation, logic) and client-side (DB queries, API calls) operations to create seamless experiences.
DronaHQ forms are more powerful
DronaHQ offers advanced form controls with offline support, conditional logic, validations, and native features like barcode scanning, making it far superior to Budibase for field form use cases.
DronaHQ out of the box add-ons
DronaHQ includes add-ons like automation, database, storage, and PDF Creator, covering more use cases without switching platforms—essential for mature apps and accessible with a single click.
Frequently asked questions
Budibase offers user based pricing, DronaHQ offers a more affordable business plan and offers flexible usage-based and developer-based options.
DronaHQ is SOC 2 compliant, with flexible pricing plans tailored for enterprises like usage-based and developer-based options. We offer prompt feature rollouts, on-demand engineering support, and free engineering hours to accelerate onboarding.
Budibase does not offer native mobile app development. DronaHQ allows users to build native iOS and android apps, additionally apps that work seamlessly on both the web and mobile without separately building designs, saving time and effort.
DronaHQ provides 24/7 dedicated engineering support to all customers, regardless of plan. Budibase limits such support to enterprise customers only, making us a more reliable choice for consistent, accessible support.
DronaHQ: A powerful alternative to Budibase
What makes DronaHQ a better custom app builder?
Truly enterprise-grade apps
Superior end-user experience
24 x 7 engineering support
Unlimited users plan available
Dinesh Kumar | VP Engineering
Switching to DronaHQ finally gave us the flexibility for teams to manage configurations independently, freeing developers for innovation.
