Noloco

Noloco is a no-code platform for building web and mobile apps around a built-in database. It fits teams creating internal tools or client-facing services that need authentication, API connections and mobile publishing in one product. Its free tier is a credible starting point, while audience, record and AI-credit ceilings determine how quickly a growing project needs a paid plan.

Overview

Noloco combines app building with its own data layer, user authentication and API integrations. That integrated approach suits organizations that want to turn operational data into an app without sourcing each foundational component separately. Mobile publishing and support for both web and desktop operating systems broaden where the resulting apps can be used. The main constraint is scale: Free is designed around a relatively small data set and client audience, not an unrestricted production deployment.

Key features

Built-in database

The database is included rather than treated as an external dependency. Free allows 2,000 records, enough for a small tool or early-stage project but potentially restrictive as records accumulate. Build raises the allowance to 25,000, giving a substantially larger operating buffer without changing platforms.

Authentication and API integrations

User authentication supports apps where access must be controlled, while API integrations allow connections to other services. Together they make Noloco more suitable for real business workflows than a purely presentational app builder.

Mobile publishing

Noloco supports mobile publishing as well as web delivery. That matters when staff, customers or other users need the app away from a desktop browser, and it avoids limiting the product to browser-only access.

AI credits

Free provides 30 AI credits per month; Build provides 250. The larger Build allowance is materially better for teams that use AI features regularly, but both quotas make sustained AI usage something to budget rather than an unlimited capability.

Pricing

Noloco uses a freemium model and offers a 14-day trial. The published paid starting point is $65/mo (annual), while the detailed Build plan is $79 a month billed monthly. Those terms are not equivalent: readers should compare the annual starting price with the monthly Build commitment before choosing a billing route.

Free

Free costs nothing, billed monthly. It includes unlimited team seats, 50 active clients, 2,000 records and 30 AI credits per month. Unlimited internal seats are generous for a small organization, but the 50-client and 2,000-record ceilings can become the limiting factors before team size does. It is best for prototypes, small internal tools and narrowly scoped client portals.

Build

Build costs $79 a month billed monthly. It allows 10 team seats, 1,000 active clients, 25,000 records and 250 AI credits per month. This is the practical plan for a live app with a broader audience and a growing data set. The trade-off is that internal seats become capped at ten, so larger delivery teams may need to account for that restriction even as client and record capacity expand.

Enterprise

Enterprise has custom pricing, unlimited records, and custom team and client seats. It is the fit for deployments whose data volume or user counts exceed Build’s fixed allowances and that need capacity arranged around their organization.

Platforms

Noloco supports web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. This combination covers browser users, desktop environments and mobile users, with mobile publishing explicitly included.

Who it's for

Choose Noloco for internal tools, operational apps or client-facing applications that need a database, authenticated access, external-service connections and mobile availability together. Free works for small audiences and modest datasets. Build is better when active clients approach 1,000, records approach 25,000 or AI usage exceeds Free’s monthly allowance. Look elsewhere if your project needs more than ten Build team seats, unlimited Free-scale growth, or a billing arrangement other than the available terms.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Integrated foundation: Database, authentication and API integrations are part of the platform, reducing the need to assemble those capabilities separately.
• Broad delivery: Web, desktop and mobile platform support, plus mobile publishing, gives one app a wide reach.
• Generous Free team access: Unlimited team seats let a small organization involve many internal collaborators without a per-seat ceiling on the free tier.
• Clear growth step: Build increases records from 2,000 to 25,000 and active clients from 50 to 1,000.

Cons

• Free capacity is limited: The 2,000-record and 50-active-client caps can force an upgrade as a project gains traction.
• Build limits team seats: The paid plan allows 10 team seats even while expanding client capacity.
• AI quotas apply: 30 monthly credits on Free and 250 on Build constrain ongoing AI-heavy workflows.
• Plan pricing needs care: The $65/mo annual starting price and $79 monthly Build price use different billing terms.

Alternatives

Joget is worth choosing when its three-user Free Tier, workflow-focused Starter option and broad self-hosted platform coverage better match your deployment.

Retool is an alternative for teams that prefer a free tier and a Team plan priced per builder and internal user, with workflow-run allowances.

UI Bakery suits readers seeking a free plan with unlimited apps and data-source connections across web, Windows, Linux or self-hosted setups.

ToolJet is an option when a cloud free tier with two builders, 50 end users, two apps and 100 AI credits monthly fits the project.

Windmill is an alternative for teams wanting an open-source free offering with workspaces, users and self-hosted support.

Budibase is worth considering when a $19 monthly Pro plan and its stated creator, workspace, automation and AI-credit allowances suit the team.

Glide is a web-only alternative with a Free plan limited to two team members, ten projects and no published apps or enabled workflows.

Jet Admin is another freemium option, including a free tier with 1 GB of storage and a Pro plan priced monthly or yearly.

For broader category comparisons, see Internal Tools Software, No-Code Development Platforms and No-code app builders.

Verdict

Pick Noloco when you want web and mobile app building with a built-in database, authentication, API integrations and mobile publishing in one platform. Its Free plan is a sensible way to start small, and Build supplies meaningful client and record headroom. Look elsewhere if 2,000 Free records, 50 active clients, 30 monthly AI credits or Build’s ten team seats do not fit your operating model.