Tadabase AI vs Adalo: the honest comparison.
Adalo builds native-feeling mobile apps on a visual canvas. Tadabase AI ships installable PWAs and full web apps from a prompt, on a backend built for real businesses.
Describe the app you’d build in Adalo — we’ll build it now.
Plain English is enough. You get a working app with a real database, logins and roles, free to start.
A mobile canvas or an app from a prompt.
Adalo is a friendly visual builder for mobile apps. You drag screens and components, use its database, and publish to the app stores. It is approachable, and good for simple consumer-style mobile apps — though complex logic and larger datasets can get slow on its runtime.
Tadabase AI generates installable PWAs and full web apps by conversation, on Tadabase. You get a real relational database, workflows, PDFs, file uploads, role-based access, and front-end AI for your users — and the output is real React you own. PWAs install on iOS, Android, and desktop, with offline cache and a write queue.
Adalo and Tadabase AI, side by side.
What each one gives you out of the box, capability by capability.
| Capability | Adalo | 
Tadabase AI
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| Build style | Visual canvas | Conversational AI |
| Mobile delivery | App stores | PWA + web |
| Offline support | Limited | Cache + write queue |
| Database + relationships | Basic | Tadabase included |
| AI for your end-users | Not available | Ask, Analyze, Agents |
| Approval-gated AI agents | Not available | Yes |
| Workflows + automations | Limited | Visual, included |
| PDF generation | Not available | Yes |
| Row-level security | Manual | Built in |
| Authentication + 2FA | Yes | Built in |
| SSO and SAML | Not available | Yes |
| Real code output | Not available | React, exportable |
| Push notifications | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA and SOC 2 | Not available | HIPAA-eligible plans, built to SOC 2 guidelines |
The part Adalo can’t match.
Generating the screens is table stakes now. What you ship on top (real AI for your end-users, agents that act, and security that holds up) is where Tadabase AI is built differently.
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Your users ask. The app answers.
Front-end AI
End-users type a question in plain English — "show me overdue invoices this month" — and get a real answer as a table, chart, or number, pulled live from your data and scoped to exactly what that user is allowed to see.
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Insights, not just dashboards.
Front-end AI
Analyze reads the numbers your users already pulled and writes the takeaway — trends, outliers, what changed since last week — grounded in the real records, never made up.
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Agents that take action.
AI agents
Put an AI agent inside your app to qualify leads, triage tickets, or send follow-ups. It reads, plans, and acts through your workflows — and pauses for human approval before anything high-stakes. Every action is logged.
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Security as a default.
Security
Row-level security carried by JWT all the way to the backend, 2FA, SSO and SAML, full audit logs, and a pre-deploy security pass that catches committed secrets and missing auth before you publish.
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Ready for regulated work.
Compliance
HIPAA-eligible plans for healthcare, controls built to SOC 2 guidelines (not independently audited), encryption in transit and at rest, per-tenant container isolation, and a DPA on request — GDPR and CCPA aligned.
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A real backend, included.
Real backend
Database with relationships, authentication, visual workflows, PDF generation, file uploads, schedules, and webhooks ship with your first deploy — powered by Tadabase, already running real businesses for years. Nothing to wire up.
Quick answers.
Still curious? Email support@tadabase.io. A real person answers.
Does Tadabase AI publish to the App Store and Google Play like Adalo?
Tadabase AI ships installable PWAs that work on iOS, Android, and desktop with offline support — no app-store review cycle. For most business apps that is faster to ship and update; if you specifically need a native store listing, Adalo is built around that.
Will my app handle more data and logic than on Adalo?
Yes. Tadabase is a real database with relationships, RLS, and workflows, so complex logic and larger datasets do not bog down a visual runtime.
Do my users get AI inside the app?
Yes — Ask, Analyze, and Agents, scoped per user. Adalo does not offer this natively.
Do I own the code?
Yes. Tadabase AI writes real React you can export to GitHub. Adalo apps stay on Adalo.
Bring your business into the world of AI.Launch a real app today.
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