Zoho Creator vs Appery.io Tester
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zoho Creator
Access and interact with custom applications built on a low-code platform. This app offers intuitive gesture controls, offline report access, and data management capabilities. It empowers businesses to build and deploy a wide range of solutions with minimal coding.
- Low-code/no-code app building
- Intuitive visual builders
- Offline report access
- Data management and import/export
- AI-assisted data fields
- Rapid application development
- Integrations with 600+ apps
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This mobile app lets you access and interact with the applications that you have built on Zoho Creator or with Creator apps that have been shared with you. Equipped with a huge range of custom touch-controlled gestures and actions, engaging with your Zoho Creator apps has never been more intuitive or more personalized! Just not that, you can access your important reports even while you are offline and export them in any format you need. About Zoho Creator Zoho Creator is a renowned low-code/no-code app builder that abstracts 90% of the complexities in the app development lifecycle, enabling users to create the apps with less effort and time. It combines the robust power of Business Intelligence (BI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation to help businesses build solutions and innovate more easily than ever. So far, over 13,000 businesses have built 6 million apps on Creator to cater to more than 7 million end users. Key Features: Equipped with intuitive, visual builders and ready-made code blocks, Creator lets you build an application for almost any situation—be it a task manager, a CRM, or an ERP without prior coding knowledge. Its proprietary, easy-to-grasp programming language, DELUGE, allows for advanced workflows and limitless customization. Other exciting features include: • Data management (one-click data imports from popular databases, export data in multiple format, AI-assisted data fields, quick data operations, pre-built data charts, access reports offline, and more) • App planning and design (schema builder, custom layouts, reusable Java, nodeJS code snippets, and more) • Rapid application development ( low-code development, oversee your app through various phases―development, staging, and production, AI/ML-led assistant, native mobile app development) • App deployment (managed cloud, on-premise, sandboxing, single click deployment to production environment, and more) • Administration (user authentication and domain-based restriction, access logs, audit trails, enterprise governance capabilities and more) • Experience first (self-service stakeholder portals, PWA, native feature support like geo-tagging, signature capture, bar code and QR code scanner, custom branding and design options, and more) • Collaboration (approval centers, notifications, schedulers, real-time collaborative development, smooth handovers with application testing teams, and more) • Integrations (out-of-the-box integrations with 600+ apps and services , low-code enabled custom API creation, and more) • Security (geographically-distributed, fully-encrypted, fully-owned data centers, real-time cloud-based backups, low maintenance, 99.9% uptime, and more) Promo video: https://youtu.be/zuh8hzIczZ4
Appery.io Tester
Test your hybrid mobile applications directly on your device. This tool connects to a low-code platform, allowing you to run and preview your creations in real-time. It's ideal for developers using the platform to build web apps, PWAs, and hybrid mobile apps.
- Test hybrid mobile apps
- Native API integration
- Low-code app development platform
- Run apps on device
- Preview web apps and PWAs
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Quickly test your hybrid mobile app(s) with native APIs built with Appery.io, low-code app development platform that makes creating hybrid mobile apps, web apps, and progressive web apps (PWAs) easy. To start building your first app, sign up to get your two-week fully-functioning Pro plan for free as a trial and then use our Appery.io Tester app to run it on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Appery.io Tester at 4.8 against Zoho Creator's 4.2. Appery.io Tester also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). Zoho Creator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (466 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Appery.io Tester holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zoho Creator has 466 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Zoho Creator's written reviews are positive against 33% of Appery.io Tester's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Zoho Creator ships an update every 11 days, Appery.io Tester every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zoho Creator | Appery.io Tester |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (466 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 466 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zoho Corporation | Appery |
Customer experience
Zoho Creator
Appery.io Tester
Bugs and requests
Zoho Creator
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues and freezes
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
- Corrupted or lost user data
- Barcode scanning problems
- Unreliable push notifications
Requested features
5 requests- Offline mode support
- Ability to edit apps on mobile
- Improved notification system
- More advanced analytics and reporting
- Faster deployment of new features
Appery.io Tester
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Zoho Creator
No in-app purchases
Appery.io Tester
No in-app purchases







