Why our customers choose DronaHQ vs Forest Admin
According to them, DronaHQ is easier to use, the user interfaces are richer and responsive which can be accessed on an end-user portal as well as a mobile app. A visual app builder empowers teams to build digital solutions without writing Javascript + Node.js for everything.
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Forest Admin Alternative for Web + Mobile apps
Unlike Forest Admin, every app that gets built on DronaHQ is by default accessible over the web and mobile. The platform offers a drag drop app builder, responsive designing, and dynamic layouts.
Internal apps for handy quick transactions, on-field use are the need of the hour.
Exhaustive library of ready templates
While Forest Admin enables you to build web apps from scratch, DronaHQ comes with a growing repository of ready templates – from dashboards and forms to admin panels and approval systems.
Users have the opportunity to customize the templates further, connect their data sources, and go live in minutes.
Integrate data without writing code
While Forest Admin users need to dive in and use Node.js, DronaHQ provides an easy point and click interface to binding data to controls from every data source making the learning curve that much smaller.
For complicated operations, we support all excel formulas and only when push comes to shove do we open up the world of JS.
Visually build Actionflows with blocks
On click of a button, page load and for many more such events, DronaHQ provides a visual flowchart-based interface to build the actionflows, however complex they may be.
These actionflows support serverside as well as clientside operations which makes building stunning experiences possible.
“Going with DronaHQ was an easy decision, it is helping us cut down the time to launch tools from a few weeks to a few days. Support for unlimited end-users was cherry on top.”
Suyash Katyayani
Co-Founder & CTO
“Where we’ve really enjoyed success with DronaHQ is that we can turn things around, now, from an idea to a real thing in five weeks, which for us is wonderful.”
Andrew Scott
Global Solutions Owner
DronaHQ forms are more powerful
DronaHQ has more powerful form controls with offline support and advanced conditional logic and rules and validations and native support like barcode scanners etc. for field form usecases
Almost all internal tools need forms and DronaHQ scores hands down over Forest here.
DronaHQ out of the box add-ons
DronaHQ provides add-ons like Business process workflows, Automations, and PDF creator out of the box which means more usecases are covered without leaving the platform.
All mature apps need these and Forest Admin Alternative DronaHQ provides single-click access.
Host DronaHQ within your own infrastructure in a single click
DronaHQ allows you to deploy an airtight self-hosted version of the platform within your own infrastructure in a single click.
This way, teams in some of the more sensitive and regulated industries get to build tools so that no data leaves their infrastructure
DronaHQ layouts and designer for building aesthetic UI
Though these are internal tools, there are times when you need to design an aesthetic pixel perfect UI and Forest Admin fails to provide you an editor which does that.
DronaHQ provides layouts with all visual CSS properties as well as a drag and drop control designer.
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