Best Application Development Software in Africa

Compare the Top Application Development Software in Africa as of September 2026

What is Application Development Software in Africa?

Application development software is a type of software used to create applications and software programs. It typically includes code editors, compilers, and debuggers that allow developers to write, compile, and debug code. It also includes libraries of pre-written code that developers can use to create more complex and powerful applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Application Development software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Intrexx

    Intrexx

    United Planet GmbH

    Low-code allows you to create a comprehensive, integrative solution that makes your work processes agile and adaptable at any time in the future. As a result, you save time and energy without having to do without tailored, coherent and seamless solutions. Therefore, low-code really is the best of both worlds because it harmonizes simple development and individuality. Your path to a successful digital future with low-code development.
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    Comidor

    Comidor

    Comidor

    Comidor is a cutting-edge Low-code, Intelligent Automation Platform that enables fast-growing businesses to orchestrate, automate, and autonomize their operations. The platform combines low-code/no-code application development, BPM, workflow automation, RPA, AI, and ML, driving intelligent transformation.   • High-productivity Low-Code Application Designer that enables business users with no coding knowledge to design, build, and deliver business applications with minimal effort at high speed. • Intelligent Automation that integrates BPM and Workflow Automation with RPA and AI/ML to streamline, optimize, and automate end-to-end processes • Application Marketplace with a wide variety of ready-to-use business apps suitable for every business need, such as Enterprise Collaboration, Project Management, HR Automation, CRM & Sales, Document Automation, Finance & Accounting. • Digital Workplace that provides a modern digital business environment where people and bots work together
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    Alpha Anywhere

    Alpha Anywhere

    Alpha Software Corporation

    Alpha Anywhere is the only development platform with both low-code and no-code capabilities. Developers can rapidly create secure, cross-platform mobile and web business apps. Alpha leads in offline development, ensuring that data can be captured AND accessed (database lookups/media file retrieval) offline. A powerful bi-directional API can integrate with existing systems of record and workflows, tie into web services, and meet advanced security requirements. Offers: - pre-built templates - full-stack development - sophisticated analytics/dashboards - full-stack development - scale-able, secure, and reliable cloud deployment Professional developers and citizen developers can use the Alpha TransForm mobile forms builder to digitize paper forms in minutes. Offers offline operation, built-in analytics, and unmatched speed, power, and flexibility in the no-code segment.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Convertigo

    Convertigo

    Convertigo SA

    Convertigo is the first open source Enterprise Grade Low Code / No Code platform to accelerate your Enterprise digitalization for reasonable costs. Dream an App, Make an App! Imagine you can make any app you want. From simple handy workforce apps to Enterprise grade multi-device transactional applications helping companies to accelerate their business. Get live sooner! Convertigo Low Code platform application development makes your Enterprise to get business success more efficient, delivering complete applications, similar to Pro Code but faster and cheaper. Reduce by 90% time and money needed to build and deploy business applications running on all type of devices such as smartphones, tablets and PCs whatever operating systems they are running on. Enjoy Open Source! This means that you can use Convertigo Community Edition Free of Charge. Open Source also solves the Vendor Lock-in paradigm by allowing you to quit the platform and still enjoy running your apps
    Starting Price: $15 per month / user
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    Hostinger Horizons
    Hostinger Horizons is the perfect vibe coding tool, letting you build websites and apps based on an idea or a feeling. Simply describe what you want, and our AI acts as your personal designer and developer, creating a complete, mobile friendly project instantly. Horizons is built to create real world applications. You can generate a full ecommerce store, a blog, or a custom business tool. The AI intelligently builds both the visual frontend and the functional backend, with support for essential integrations like Stripe for payments and Supabase for user accounts. Designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and developers who want results without complexity, our prompt based editor makes customization simple. As a Hostinger product, your project comes with built in hosting and easy one click deployment, giving you everything you need to bring your vision to life.
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    Starting Price: $9.99/month
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    Jira

    Jira

    Atlassian

    Jira is the only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team. Jira by Atlassian is the #1 software development tool for teams planning and building great products. Trusted by thousands of teams, Jira offers access to a wide range of tools for planning, tracking, and releasing world-class software, capturing and organizing issues, assigning work, and following team activity. It also integrates with leading developer tools for end-to-end traceability. From short projects, to large cross-functional programs, Jira helps break big ideas down into achievable steps. Organize work, create milestones, map dependencies and more. Link work to goals so everyone can see how their work contributes to company objectives and stay aligned to what’s important. Your next move, suggested by AI. Atlassian Intelligence takes your big ideas and automatically suggests the tasks to help get it done.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Quixy

    Quixy

    Quixy

    Quixy is a cloud-based, user-friendly platform that enables businesses to build and manage enterprise-grade applications quickly and effortlessly. Designed for today’s fast-paced environment. Quixy empowers users without coding skills to create applications up to ten times faster using a simple drag-and-drop interface. With an integrated cloud database, enterprise-grade security, and scalable infrastructure, Quixy enhances operational efficiency, transparency, and productivity. Whether building custom applications from scratch or customizing pre-built solutions, Quixy simplifies the development process, helping teams innovate and manage business processes seamlessly. It's the ideal platform for organizations seeking to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive growth efficiently. Schedule a Demo now with Quixy
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    Starting Price: $20/user/month
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    Twilio

    Twilio

    Twilio

    Design and deploy your ideal customer engagement experience. Twilio is a single fully-programmable platform with flexible APIs for any channel and over 400+ integrations, backed by a community of over 9 million developers. Build accurate and personalized experiences for your customers, easily and at scale, using SMS and WhatsApp messaging, voice, video, email, and more. Browse documentation and SDKs in multiple coding languages, including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, java, and C#, or jumpstart your first project with our open source code templates to quickly build production-ready communications apps. Sign up and start building today.
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    Starting Price: $0.0085 per min
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    Buildfire

    Buildfire

    Buildfire

    Buildfire is a mobile app development platform that enables businesses and brands to build, publish, and manage native iOS and Android apps without custom development. The platform provides pre-built features, integrations, and app management tools through a visual editor and dashboard. Buildfire is a leading mobile app development platform trusted by thousands of businesses to build, launch, and scale high-performance mobile applications. With over a decade of experience and more than 10,000 apps built, Buildfire empowers organizations to bring their mobile strategies to life, faster and more affordably, through a powerful no-code platform and expert custom development services. Whether you're a small business, enterprise, or digital agency, Buildfire offers the flexibility, scalability, and support needed to succeed in today’s mobile-first world.
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    Starting Price: $189 per month
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    Zoho Creator
    Zoho Creator is an all-in-one, AI-powered low-code platform that helps businesses digitize operations with an intuitive and visual approach to app development. Businesses of all sizes use Zoho Creator to automate processes, modernize legacy systems, and accelerate digital transformation, all without extensive coding. The platform combines AI, business intelligence, and advanced analytics to provide actionable insights. Its unified data model and auto-scaling features ensure reliable app performance as your business expands. The multi-platform builder supports development for web, mobile, and tablet devices from a single build. Create forms, collect data, automate workflows, generate reports, and turn your ideas into fully functional apps. Try Zoho Creator for free!
    Starting Price: $8/user/month/annually
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    Appery.io
    Appery.io is a low-code app development platform that makes creating hybrid mobile apps, web apps, and progressive web apps (PWAs) easy. Creating a custom app UI has never been easier. Leverage the speed of drag-and-drop functionality and the power of JavaScript to turn your idea into a complete application in days instead of months. Appery.io is a web, PWA, and mobile app development platform. Cross-platform applications built with Appery.io will work smoothly and look great across all popular devices and operating systems. Submit mobile apps to the App Store and Google Play, or deploy them as web apps and PWAs, all with a single codebase. Our low-code app development platform is easy to master even for total beginners. Seasoned app developers, on the other hand, will continue working with the frameworks they love, such as Ionic and Angular, augmented with visual tools to boost their productivity.
    Starting Price: $30 per month
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    Omnis Studio

    Omnis Studio

    Omnis Software Ltd

    Omnis Studio is a cross platform application development environment. Omnis Studio allows application developers and programmers to write application code and business logic once, and deploy their applications on virtually any platform or device, including desktop PCs on Windows and macOS, as well as tablets and phones on iOS, Android and Windows. Support for a large range of client devices is enabled using the Omnis JavaScript Client, a unique JavaScript based technology for rendering the application UI and web forms in a standard web browser on desktops and mobile devices. The integration of data and services is available in Omnis Studio via REST based Web Services, and functionality can be extended within Omnis Studio by utilizing its powerful and flexible external components API. Omnis is headquartered in the UK and has subsidiaries in USA, France and Germany and distributors for many other parts of the world.
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    1C:Enterprise

    1C:Enterprise

    1C Company

    1C:Enterprise is a universal rapid application development platform for building and delivering business management and accounting solutions in HORECA, Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance, and other industries. It has the breadth of capability to address the diverse needs of today’s business through building solutions in a low-code environment. The 1C:Enterprise platform enables developers to rapidly build business applications of any complexity, from the most straightforward single-developer products to advanced ERP systems. 1C:Enterprise applications run on desktop, mobile, and web. The platform automatically adapts applications to the required OS, browser, and DBMS. Due to the support of multiple open standards (ODBC, REST API, OData, XML, JSON, COM, SOAP, HTTP, etc.), 1C:Enterprise applications easily integrate with any software and hardware, including equipment from various vendors.
    Starting Price: $200
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    AppSheet

    AppSheet

    Google

    Google AppSheet is a no-code application development platform that helps businesses create custom apps and workflow automations without requiring programming experience. The platform uses Gemini AI to help users quickly turn ideas into functional applications by generating app structures, workflows, and intelligent features from simple prompts. AppSheet allows organizations to build apps for data collection, task management, reporting, inventory tracking, approvals, and collaboration using tools such as forms, barcodes, signatures, locations, and photo capture. The platform integrates with Google Workspace applications including Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Chat, and Apps Script, while also supporting third-party services like Salesforce, Dropbox, Office 365, and SQL databases. AppSheet includes automation capabilities such as notifications, workflow triggers, AI-powered document processing, and machine learning features that help streamline repetitive business processes.
    Starting Price: $5 per user per month
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    Clappia

    Clappia

    Clapptron Technologies Private Limited

    Clappia is a No Code platform that can transform non-developers into app makers, without needing to write a single line of code. With Clappia, anyone in your organization can build customized mobile and web apps because building apps here requires no coding or any technical expertise. Based on the requirements, you can select and customize a set of pre-coded blocks, visually configure all backend processes, and get mobile and web apps in no time. For complex scenarios, you can use Excel formulae. The best part, there is no setup cost. You only pay for the number of users and build any number of apps. So, you can start quickly and pay as you go. Small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises are opting for Clappia to build mobile and web apps for field force, shopfloor employees, work order management, data collection, audits and other business processes. 
    Starting Price: 0
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    Apptim

    Apptim

    Apptim

    Apptim empowers mobile developers and testers to easily test their apps and analyze their performance to prevent any critical issues from going live. Measure app render times, power consumption, resource usage, capture crashes and more on Android and iOS devices. Get your first test results in less than 5 minutes and compare the performance between multiple app versions. Try Apptim for free today and release with confidence: https://bit.ly/3ert9yQ
    Starting Price: Free
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    Salesforce Agentforce 360 Platform
    Agentforce 360 Platform is Salesforce’s unified, AI-native foundation designed to help organizations build and scale an agentic enterprise. It connects humans, data, AI agents, and applications on one trusted and open platform. With Data 360, businesses can unify and govern enterprise data to deliver accurate, contextual insights across every workflow. Customer 360 integrates sales, service, marketing, commerce, and industry solutions into a single AI-powered customer view. Slack serves as the collaborative layer where employees and AI agents interact in real time to automate and act securely. The platform includes built-in integration, automation, analytics, security, and DevOps tools to streamline development and operations. Running on Hyperforce infrastructure, Agentforce 360 enables companies to innovate quickly while maintaining enterprise-grade security, compliance, and performance.
    Starting Price: $25.00/month/user
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    Felgo

    Felgo

    FELGO GmbH

    Felgo is a cross-platform SDK for rapid, native app & game development for iOS, Android, Desktop & Embedded. Felgo’s biggest advantage is the big time savings and the easiness to learn compared to other development SDKs. You write less source code and make use of a single code base for all platforms. Less code means fewer bugs and faster releases of new updates from a single team for all platforms. Key Features for Mobile & Desktop: • Create stunning UIs and animations to wow your users and rank higher in the app stores. • Code & time savings up to 80% thanks to the reactive & declarative language and 200+ APIs. Key Features for Embedded: • Create high performance embedded system apps & second screen apps. • Native performance and rapid UI creation, powered by C++ & JavaScript. Felgo is an official Qt Technology Partner. Felgo is in use by over 50.000 developers worldwide and field-proven by Fortune 500 companies across all kinds of industries.
    Starting Price: Free for personal usage.
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    Protogrid

    Protogrid

    Protogrid

    Protogrid lets you create tailor-made workflow apps to organize your business data on the desktop and on the go. With Protogrid you get your own powerful business applications in no time, tailor them exactly to your needs and use them conveniently on your desktop and as a full-fledged mobile app. Online and offline. Creating a new database application with Protogrid takes just a few minutes. Once you give us something to work with, our intelligent database system automagically creates views and arranges your data in the best way possible. Focus on the important stuff and let Protogrid do the heavy lifting. On your desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. On the internet or through the App Store. Online or offline. Protogrid has what it takes to run database applications pretty much everywhere – and our track record is constantly improving.
    Starting Price: $14 per user per month
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    OutSystems

    OutSystems

    OutSystems

    OutSystems is the number one low-code platform that is specifically designed to help users build and deliver better apps faster. Combining the power of low-code development with advanced mobile and enterprise integration capabilities, OutSystems enables users to visually develop and manage their entire application portfolio, stage interdependent apps and components, seamlessly integrate with existing systems, and streamline DevOps processes.
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    Delphi

    Delphi

    Embarcadero

    Delphi is the ultimate IDE for creating cross-platform, natively compiled apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience.
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    C++Builder

    C++Builder

    Embarcadero

    C++Builder is a fast, integrated design and development suite for modern apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience.
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    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ is a composite no-code and AI platform for building internal apps, voice workflows, and agentic workflows. The platform includes DronaHQ Apps, which helps teams create production-grade internal tools with built-in security, permissions, and reliability. Users can build applications through vibe coding, low-code development, prompts, and connected data sources. DronaHQ Agents helps teams create an agentic workforce that connects to enterprise systems and data to execute operational work. The platform is designed to support enterprise teams that need app development, AI agents, integrations, governance, and workflow automation in one environment. Built for speed and flexibility, DronaHQ helps organizations turn business needs into secure apps and operational agents without relying only on traditional software development.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Betty Blocks

    Betty Blocks

    Betty Blocks

    The number one platform to build advanced enterprise-grade applications: surprisingly easy, fast, and fun. The Betty Blocks platform is often used by corporate organizations, law firms, and legal teams to automate important business processes with bespoke applications, released in a rapid manner. The platform of Betty Blocks offers limitless solutions. From pre-built templates to personalized applications, we've got you! With use cases such as contract- and NDA generators, you can easily integrate document templates and define the variables you need to customize your documents. Our best-in-class integration with for example iManage, and Thomson Reuters HighQ, ensures our platform fits perfectly into your IT landscape. With Betty Blocks, you can lower your development lifecycle from months to weeks or even days! 100% in the cloud, 100% pushing your organization's needle on innovation.
    Starting Price: $1500.00/month
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    SDK.finance

    SDK.finance

    SDK.finance

    SDK.finance is a white-label core payments platform, serving as a backbone for building fintech products on top. Available in cloud PaaS and on-premise with the source code license versions, the platform caters to businesses of all sizes - from startups seeking affordable software to SMBs and enterprises that need scalability and independence.
    Starting Price: Contact us
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    Joget DX

    Joget DX

    Joget, Inc.

    Joget offers an open-source, AI-powered platform that converges no-code/low-code development with AI to rapidly build and customize enterprise applications at scale. By combining AI with visual app builders—not raw code—Joget makes app generation faster, safer, and more accessible. With Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities, Joget Intelligence enables organizations to automate and enhance processes while maintaining oversight and compliance. Unlike typical AI code generation, Joget's visual-first approach ensures applications are maintainable and governed within collaborative human workflows. As an Application and Integration Fabric, Joget connects legacy and modern systems seamlessly. Its extensible, open-source core and plugin architecture offer unmatched flexibility, and its White Label solution allows OEMs and digital solution providers to fully rebrand the platform. Trusted by startups, global enterprises, and government agencies across the globe.
    Starting Price: $5/user/month
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    Applivery

    Applivery

    Applivery

    Applivery is a modern, cloud-based Unified Endpoint Management UEM / MDM platform that provides comprehensive control over Android, Apple, and Windows devices. It offers seamless integration with identity providers, enabling single sign-on (SSO) for enhanced security. The platform supports zero-touch deployment, allowing for efficient device provisioning without manual intervention. Applivery’s advanced analytics deliver insights into device performance and user experience, facilitating proactive management. Its user-friendly interface ensures quick setup and smooth integration across organizations of all sizes, aligning with the latest industry standards. Additionally, Applivery provides features designed to help organizations achieve and maintain compliance with security certifications and standards, such as ISO 27001, SOC2, CIS and more. 
    Starting Price: €2/device
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    Shopney

    Shopney

    Shopney

    Shopney is the best rated Shopify mobile app builder. It helps you increase sales with an excellent mobile experience, fast checkout, and push notifications. You can convert your Shopify store into a native mobile app in just 1 day and start to invest in your own sales channel! The main features: -An easy drag & drop editor to build your mobile app in minutes, without any code or design skills required -Different layout options for different store types (theme options) -In-app live chat feature that you can even convert your visitors to clients in real-time. Incredible 7/24, multilingual customer support which guarantees a smooth onboarding and launch process Shopney has an outstanding average rating of 5 stars on the Shopify app store and more than 2000 Shopify merchants.
    Starting Price: $99 / mo
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    VisionFlow

    VisionFlow

    Visionera

    Streamline internal processes with VisionFlow by Visionera. VisionFlow is a powerful unified platform for the development lifecycle of your business applications, software, and products. It is modular and covers key areas such as Helpdesk & Customer Support, IT Service Management (ITSM), Application Lifecycle Management, Project Management, Product Development, CRM and more.
    Starting Price: $20.00/month/user
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    GeneXus

    GeneXus

    Globant

    Simplify and Automate Software Development with GeneXus GeneXus is a Low-Code Platform powered by AI that simplifies and automates software creation. By modeling instead of coding, it generates complete solutions—from user interfaces to backends—faster and with less complexity. With 35+ years of experience, GeneXus helps enterprises build scalable, AI-driven systems, modernize legacy software, and adapt to new technologies without rework. It supports development across web, mobile, and desktop platforms, seamlessly integrating databases, APIs, and enterprise systems. Trusted in over 50 countries, GeneXus is a leader in the low-code market.
    Starting Price: $0
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