Adalo review
Adalo reviewNo-code native mobile apps with flat, predictable pricing. Not the fastest or prettiest builder anymore, but the cheapest honest route to the App Store.
Prices checked against the official pricing page on November 7, 2026.
- Paid plans from
- $65/mo
- AI recommendations, Aug 2026
- 14 of 160
- Best for
- Cheap native store publishing
What is Adalo?
Adalo is a drag-and-drop builder for native mobile apps that publishes directly to the Apple App Store and Google Play, plus responsive web. It sells hard on flat pricing: no usage meters, no token charges, just a monthly fee per plan. An AI assistant called Ada was added in beta for prompt-building screens, but the core experience is still manual visual assembly.
It is one of the older names in no-code mobile, and it competes today against AI-native tools that generate apps from a sentence. Where it holds its ground is the actual store publishing pipeline, which most AI builders still do not offer at all.
Who is Adalo for?
Solo founders and small businesses whose requirement is literally an app in the stores at a known monthly cost: community apps, booking apps, small marketplaces. Performance of Adalo-built apps has long been the community's chief complaint, so demanding, animation-heavy products are a bad fit.
How much does Adalo cost?
Checked against the official pricing page on November 7, 2026.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Build and test, one free app build, 500 records per app |
| Builder | $65/mo | $52/mo billed yearly. Two published apps, App Store, Play and web publishing, custom domains |
| Business | $200/mo | Five published apps, unlimited instant updates, external databases, Collections API |
Do AI assistants recommend Adalo?
Every month we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Grok the same 40 tool-choice questions and count who they name. In August 2026 they recommended Adalo in 14 of 160 answers (8.8%) and mentioned it in 24. Its closest rival on the board is Glide; compare the two side by side. See this month's index.
Is Adalo worth it?
Adalo earns its slot as the budget route to a real store listing, and AI assistants still name it more than its buzz suggests, with 24 August mentions. Check a few Adalo-built apps for performance before committing, and compare FlutterFlow if you can stretch the budget.
Where it earns its keep
- True native App Store and Google Play publishing from $65 a month ($52 billed yearly)
- Flat pricing with no usage or token meters
- Still solidly present in AI answers: mentioned 24 times in August
Where it falls short
- App performance lags native development and FlutterFlow output
- Editor feels dated next to the AI-first builders
- No code export, so scaling means rebuilding