WaveMaker Reviews & Product Details

WaveMaker is an Agentic Application Generation Platform designed to accelerate the development of web and mobile applications within enterprise environments. The platform integrates AI agents into a structured development lifecycle to assist teams in building software that adheres to established architectural standards and internal design systems. WaveMaker introduces a specialized system for generating enterprise-grade web and mobile applications using a governed, two-pass architecture. 1. Developer-Governed AI (WaveMaker 12) The platform now integrates SDLC Agents designed to handle specific development tasks—such as UI component construction, API orchestration, and security implementation—within the constraints of a project's existing design system and architectural guardrails. 2. The Two-Pass Generation Model is a structured approach to AI-assisted development that separates creative intent from code execution to ensure architectural consistency: Pass 1 (Agentic Intent): AI agents process Figma designs and natural language to generate a structured, tech-stack-agnostic application markup. This allows developers to verify architectural guardrails before any code is written. Pass 2 (Deterministic Execution): A specialized engine converts the verified markup into production-ready code (e.g., Angular, React, or React Native). This decoupled process eliminates AI hallucinations, maintains enterprise security standards, and ensures predictable LLM costs.

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WaveMaker

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English

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Sundeep Gopal (Marketing at WaveMaker, Inc.)

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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Drag n drop UI

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Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/7/2016

"Faster development using WaveMaker"

5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

I like the ease of integration of cloud & deployment of application. The response time of customer service and flexibility of the tools. they are simple and solve common day to day application development requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

Need additional templates and sample applications. this makes it easy and quick to get started with components with no need to read documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WaveMaker:

hey i wanted a quick solution that would reduce my frontend development time using modern frameworks that i already knew e.g. javascript. I also wanted the tool to generate both mobile and web. Wavemaker filled that need as i do alot of backend stuff and want a way to quickly build frontend which is not our core focus. That's where wavemaker is shinning and perfectly solving that need. We use wavemaker to quickly build data driven forms, and display processed data to users. And a bonus point is the integration with AWS which is our main backend cloud provider. We run almost entirely on AWS and wavemaker makes it easy to quickly deploy the solution to AWS with one click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I build alot of backend machine learning algorithms. I use wavemaker to quickly integrate with my APIs on the cloud and share with clients.

I also use wavemaker for quick visualizations and data driven frontends. I have tried the mobile build and looks fantastic.

In total, wavemaker has saved me about 60% of design and coding of frontend applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jerry B.

Senior Programmer Analyst / Database Administrator

Food & Beverages

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/30/2016

"Wavemaker RAD"

5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

Rapid Application Development in a browser and its WYSIWG

No IDE required

Industry Standard Server technologies (java, docker)

Latest Client WEB technologies (HTML5, Angular-JS, CSS, javascript)

Can deploy WEB / Mobile Hybrid apps

Connect multiple data sources on one page (DATABASE, WEB services, etc)

Built in production level ready CSS themes

Built in template interfaces to popular 3rd party apps (FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter)

The best implementation / support team I have worked with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

For myself coming from a different platform the learning curve was slow at the start only due to that the product is using cutting edge technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WaveMaker:

You have to check this product out. Once you get their concept of how to build applications you are off to the races. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

modernizing web applications. The wavemaker platform uses the latest HTML5 / Docket based technologies and they keep releasing new version to keep up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Britt W.

Implementation Consultant

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/4/2016

"Wavemaker 8.x"

4.5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

Highly abstracted front-end and back-end support. Great templating features promoting reuse. Browser based and no third party plugins required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

Really nothing to dislike! - Try it! - You should have a simple app running in less than 1 day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WaveMaker:

Try it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Needed cross-platform support and back-end support for direct SQL connects as well as mature web services in order to extend functionality of a manufacturing ERP package - without modifying the source codes of that package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erica M.

Administrative Assistant

Religious Institutions

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/18/2016

"I was able to get the things done that I was needing."

2.5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

How simple it was. As administrator I didn't have to ask too many questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

Getting to multiple windows wasn't the easies thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Donald R.

Mobile Application Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/4/2016

"Happy Wavemaker Developer"

5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

Wavemaker has the best tech support I have ever seen. And the product itself is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

That it is "Cloud Based", and that I must rely on an internet connection to work on my project. If not for that, I would consider Wavemaker a perfect fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

McCourt C.

Systems Development Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/26/2016

"Wavemaker - Little Known Hero"

5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

The ease of design and the online IDE are pretty slick.

Easy of integration of data services is amazing, would rival Servoy or File Maker.

I first looked at this when looking for a viable alternative to Servoy.

The data layer was was pricked my interest.

Its very easy to build back end data services to connect with virtually any database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

Its taken a long time to get to a usable state.

I have been playing with this for over two years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anthony B.

Senior Solution Architect

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/3/2015

"Great solution for both beginners and experts"

4/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

I first started using WaveMaker (6.7.0) over a year ago. I wanted to make some improvements to a in-house webapp a co-worker developed. I was unfamiliar with and had little experience with application development tools like WaveMaker, but I found it incredibly easy to learn. After a year of learning and using WaveMaker, I can say that I'm pretty familiar with how everything works and have even created new apps from scratch with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

There's a lot of little things I don't like about WaveMaker. For one, it was incredibly slow when using it on my computer (Windows-based). If I had a more powerful computer, I think this would allow me to develop faster and not have to wait for screens and fields to load within the app. Another cause of this slowness was probably by own doing. I tried to create a huge webapp using just one page. This meant that all the javascript, layers, panels, fields, etc. had to be loaded when the one page of my app loaded. This was noticeable when trying to make a simple change to a field. I have since made the app more robust and split out layers/screens onto their own separate pages. This has definitely sped things up.

The other problems were related to LiveVariable views. Everytime I updated the Java code or Database, it removed some of the fields from my LiveVariable Views, which in turned removed columns from my DojoGrids. This is very annoying. Similarly, updates to my database (MySQL) usually requires me to reimport the entire database into my WaveMaker project again. I had to also add back in my HQL quieries. Again, very annoying.

I hope some of these things have been fixed in the more recent versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WaveMaker:

My recommendation to others considering WaveMaker is to join some forums and view what others have done within WaveMaker. For the most part, I was able to search on the internet for answers and see solutions for problems I ran into. If you are a new user to rapid app development using WYSIWYG, then I can definitely recommend WaveMaker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The apps that I create using WaveMaker are a UI for static and dynamic data from a database (MySQL). They solutions have been developed to allow others in my company to configure and monitor data in complex data integration projects. Prior to having these webapps, other Solution Architects like myself would configure and monitor the data directly within the database, using database tools like Toad.

I have realized that WaveMaker is such a powerful tool with lots of additional features and functionality that I haven't even used yet. And that is just within the version I'm using (6.7.0). There have since been updated versions of WaveMaker which I am sure include fixes and additional features.

I don't have much experience with other Rapid API app development software, but I my overall experience with WaveMaker has been mostly positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael P.

Associate Network Systems Technician

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/23/2014

""Listen, there's a computer inside another computer. ""

5/5

What do you like best about WaveMaker?

Management is super simplified when you don't have to worry about a zillion physical connections. Being able to scale down a datacenter by moving 10 cabinets worth of stuff into about 3 is absolutely brilliant.

There's also the ability to easily scale up.

Need more compute? - add more hosts or (just vMotion your machines to another host host) upgrade existing hosts!

Need more storage? - Add on to your SAN or if you're using vSan, just put more storage on your hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WaveMaker?

The initial investment for licensing can be kind of rough but even compared to Hyper-V's free model, it's totally worth it.

Performance can still be a challenge when using shared storage for applications requiring a lot of IOps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WaveMaker:

Take your time with your initial implementation. There's nothing worse than getting everything setup for the first time and realizing you're already over-allocated.

Don't be afraid to push your hosts but, if you can, make sure you've got a good HA solution in place.

When in doubt, talk to your rep about your virtualization plans.

Don't get too carried away - make sure you know how a server or application is going to act once you virtualize it. Have a plan to go V2P if the need arises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Datacenter management keeps getting easier the more systems we virtualize.

Hardware costs are easier to handle.

Setting up labs is a breeze.

Better server availability with HA and vMotion

Easy to migrate or clone a machine between datacenters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.