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Backendless Overview

What is Backendless?

Backendless is a visual app development platform that offers a full range of low-code and no-code tools for app and web developers of all experience levels. Backendless features include a component-based UI Builder, real-time database, user authentication and management suite, push notification and in-app messaging console, Codeless logic builder, API management, and much more. Backendless was designed from the backend first, making it a perfect backend compliment to any coded or no-code frontend. The Backendless platform's visual approach and pre-built APIs make it easy to build the backend of any app up to 10 times faster than with traditional coding solutions and at a fraction of the cost.

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Product Description

Backendless is a mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS) platform.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Backendless is the most complete no-code/low-code app development platform. Backendless not only offers a visual frontend UI Builder, but also includes a visual and highly customizable backend system for database management, messaging, backend logic, API development, and more.

Backendless is the only no-code platform that offers infinite scalability out of the box. Using our proprietary SuperScaling serverless infrastructure, apps built and deployed on Backendless Cloud can grow and scale without limit and on budget.

Backendless also offers a comprehensive user management system, enabling app owners to manage all aspects of their userbase, from IDs and passwords to notifications and messaging to security roles and application access. Backendless supports over a dozen third-party authentication options including login with Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, and many others.


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Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
Frisco, TX
Twitter
@Backendless
1,602 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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35 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Backendless Reviews

Rick M.
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Rick M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Backendless"
ease of use customer support ease of integration
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0.5 out of 5
"Quite disappointed in the performance and backend functionality"
Really active customer support. Friendly and supportive community. Good idea about making the backend automated and easier to set up. Mostly using ...
Matthew F.
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Matthew F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Backendless: A Perfect Tool for Building Apps with No Code"
I felt that backendless allowed me to build powerful apps with begginer knowledge of code.
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Backendless Media

Backendless Demo - Visual Schema Modeler
Design your schema quickly and easily with a visual model of your data tables' relationships.
Backendless Demo - Real-Time Visual Database
Manage app and user data quickly and easily with visual data tables and SQL-based search and filtering.
Backendless Demo - Codeless Logic Builder
Create complex logic with simple interconnectable blocks, including all APIs.
Backendless Demo - UI Builder
Builder the frontend with a visual, grid-based drag-and-drop builder.
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What do you like best about Backendless?

Backendless is a structured database platform that is hosted in a Cloud enviroment and the Billing takes place on a SaaS basis. - The pricing is reasonable and well worth the money spent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

We are developers of Mobile Phone Applications and our Developemt Platform / Tool we use is Flutter Flow and the Intergration to BackEndLess could be a lot better. It is lacking a lot of Features we require to achieve better integration to our Flutter Flow Apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

BackEndLess offer a One Stop Shop to store and retrieve data from their Cloud Based Mobile App Solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rick M.
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What do you like best about Backendless?

ease of use

customer support

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What do you dislike about Backendless?

the new user may find it intimidating until they start feeling comfortable with the location of resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

The nocode/lowcode environment makes it less stressful for the beginner and allows the more advanced user to add customizations where needed. The timeframe for the development effort has been reduced greatly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Backendless?

The platform is a complete solution for building any kind of web or mobile application — front end + back end, with unbelievable amounts of "out of the box" components and functionalities. Very intuitive to learn, and for any question or support requests the Backendless team is quick to respond and help. Great community and company culture, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Documentation could use some work — because there are so many functions/features, it seems like the Backendless team has some catching up to do with adding more detail, examples, etc to their documentation. Having said that, the courses and tutorial videos on YouTube are amazingly well done and super useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are rebuilding a live web application with tens of thousands of users entirely on Backendless. The app was built the "traditional way" ( Elixir back end, Vue.js front end, Kubernetes, AWS EC2 instances, etc) and we were completely dependent on highly paid "engineers" to maintain and make any changes to the app... Backendless is freeing us from this dependency, we are taking charge of our tech... as non-technical founders! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Hi Alex, thanks for the great review! We're thrilled your team has been able to accomplish so much with the platform and we love seeing the components that you build and share with the community!

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What do you like best about Backendless?

It is useful when you don't have time to code a full backed since a lot of features are given straight away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

They change prices from time to time depending on their business model, so suddenly the bill can be like 4x what you were paying for the same services. So it's not reliable as a long term backend.

Customer support usually respond fast but when you provide all the requested information to fix an issue they just ghost and stops replying emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backend features easy to plug in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Backendless?

Backendless makes developing useful and usable web applications enormously easier than with traditional web dev tools. The support is second-to-none. The UI is so well-designed. I easily geared up to build simple apps in a matter of an hour and more complex apps in days instead of months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

The documentation needs substantial enhancement. Too many of the answers to my questions require digging through forum topics, which often are not clear or complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backendless makes creating and querying databases so easy to do basic data aggregation, summarization, and presentation. The UI Builder makes creating simple data display and query UIs very easy and modern. I get useful tools very quickly that my company can use immediately and enhance iteratively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt B.
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What do you like best about Backendless?

In creating my first app, I chose Backenless, and it was such a great decision to launch myself into the world of successful app owners. The process of storyboarding the UX was second to none. I felt like they were looking out for my investment and the UX and the same time. This company deserves a chance to bid on your project. I recommend them wholeheartedly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

I really can't think of anything. They were on time and on budget with a great product. If there is one thing to say is, "it's me," I want to done faster than is appropriate, but they managed my timeline expectations exceptionally well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is a social networking app, and they handled everything. I came up with ideas, and they suggested tweaks for efficiency and improved UX. This project was from idea stage to production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thanks for the great review, Matt!

Noah C.
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What do you like best about Backendless?

The support forums/ community is by far the best aspect. Mark pillar is a huge part of this. Knowing you can get a real human to respond you any questions you have is huge.

the support is the main reason we chose backendless over aws or other large services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

The column sorting in the data browser being tied to the browsers cache. I clear my cache for performance and sometime use other browsers so it would be nice to be able to have a custom default column sort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

API development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Backendless?

Very intuitive interface, nice drag and drop builder even for complex logic in the code.

They also have a great product tour to get you familiar with key functions of the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Its not completely clear on what the best practice is for using blocks or containers etc in the frontend builder.

Something to give more direction on that would help reduce time working things out yourself.

The other item, is if you have a block in the logic builder that is not connected to something and navigate away, there is no prompt, you just lose that whole block which could have had a bunch of config in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is allowing us to build apps to test out our ideas without investing a bunch of development time and cost.

We can quickly create a proof of concept to see if it is something to put more time and money into Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you so much for the positive review and feedback, Leon! Your comments about UI Builder will be shared with our development team so we can work to improve the experience.

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What do you like best about Backendless?

The feature that stands above the rest is their customer service. They have set the bar. Responses to issues are immediate and often come from the founder himself. Extraordinary! Then you add the robust feature set and ease of use, and you have a first-class platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Nothing so far.

I have been using Backendless for 1 1/2 months now and in that time I have worked through the product tour to unlock a springboard account. I have developed a proof-of-concept app using the iOS SDK and SwiftUI. I have also deployed a server-side event handler written in Java. All of this was effortless thanks to the ease of use, tools, examples, and customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am developing a technology platform for my Son's business that will consist of a suite of mobile apps tied into a WordPress website. When it became apparent that his vision required a database backend I looked at the options available and determined that Backendless was the best fit. I am pleased with all of the functionality beyond an RDBMS that came with my decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Hi Mark, thank you for the kind review! Our support team takes great pride in delivering top tier support, so it's wonderful to receive such high praise!

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What do you like best about Backendless?

The no code logic is great and very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

The new pricing system is not very predictable and short usage spikes turn out yo be very rxpensive very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backendless solving and how is that benefiting you?

No code backend for mobile applications. Easy manageable and easy logic no code moduls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.