IBM Worklight Alternatives

IBM Worklight is described as 'Worklight helps you build, test, and deploy native, HTML5, and hybrid mobile apps for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone devices. The free Worklight Developer Edition gives you tools and an app server—in an easy-to-install Eclipse plugin' and is a web app development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to IBM Worklight for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone, Web-based and Mac apps. The best IBM Worklight alternative is Qt Creator. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Apache Cordova or Appcelerator Titanium. Other great apps like IBM Worklight are B4X, RhoMobile, WebDGap and Sencha Touch.

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  1. Qt Creator icon

    Qt Creator

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    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    129 Qt Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Worklight is a development environment while Worklight is a whole system that helps building hybrid mobile apps

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    • Qt Creator is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • Qt Creator is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • Qt Creator is Paid and Open SourceIBM Worklight is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Apache Cordova icon

    Apache Cordova

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    Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • Apache Cordova is the most popular Web-based alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • Apache Cordova is the most popular free alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • Apache Cordova is Free and Open SourceIBM Worklight is Paid and Proprietary
    • Apache Cordova is LightweightIBM Worklight is not according to our users
  4. Appcelerator Titanium icon

    Appcelerator Titanium

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    Appcelerator Titanium, offered for free by Appcelerator, lets web developers use web technologies, open source and cloud computing to build native apps for iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Appcelerator Titanium is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • Appcelerator Titanium is Free and Open SourceIBM Worklight is Paid and Proprietary
  5. B4X icon

    B4X

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    Cross platform development tools for native iOS, Android, desktop and server applications. B4X is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for real world apps. The programming language is a modern version of Visual Basic.

    71 B4X alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    • B4X is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • B4X is Freemium and ProprietaryIBM Worklight is Paid and Proprietary
  6. RhoMobile icon

    RhoMobile

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    Cross-platform framework for creating mobile and desktop apps for iOS, Android, WinCE, Sailfish OS, Windows, Linux and OS X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Sailfish OS
     
  7. WebDGap icon

    WebDGap

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    WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application.

    52 WebDGap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
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    Sencha Touch

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    Sencha Touch allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry touch devices.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Apple HealthKit icon

    Apple HealthKit

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    HealthKit allows apps that provide health and fitness services to share their data with the new Health app and with each other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
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  11. Capacitor by Ionic icon

    Capacitor by Ionic

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    An open source native runtime that makes it easy to build cross-platform apps that run equally well on iOS, Android, and the Web.

    49 Capacitor by Ionic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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    appdeck

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    Create mobile application for iOS and Android devices (smartphone or tablet; including iPhone, iPod, iPad or Samsung Galaxy) using your HTML5 website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  13. Trigger.IO icon

    Trigger.IO

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    Build native mobile apps for multiple platforms from a single HTML5 codebase. You write your HTML5 code using the Forge JavaScript API which gives you access to native features such as the camera and contacts API.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  14. Kurogo Mobile Platform icon

    Kurogo Mobile Platform

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    Kurogo is open-source Mobile Optimized Middleware™ from Modo Labs that connects content from a wide range of back-end sources, refactors and recombines it, and makes it available on any mobile device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
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