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 RhoMobile, WebDGap, Sencha Touch and Apple HealthKit.

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  1. Qt Creator icon
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    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.

    135 Qt Creator alternatives
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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Qt Creator Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Code Formatting
    6.  C++
    7.  QT Based
    8.  Visual studio intergration
    9.  Debugging
    10.  Refactoring
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    Qt Creator VS IBM Worklight

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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
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    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...

    47 Apache Cordova alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Portable
    5.  Web-Based
    6.  Multiplatform Export
    7.  Javascript scripting
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    Apache Cordova VS IBM Worklight

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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
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    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.

    72 Appcelerator Titanium alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Appcelerator Titanium Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  Cross-Platform
    3.  Native application
    4.  Code Completion
    5.  Mobile friendly
    Discontinued

    On February 2021, Axway announced that Appcelerator Titanium has been discontinued, with support ending on March 1, 2022. All private source code will be made open source by this date. https://www.axway.com/en/appcelerator-end-of-life

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    Appcelerator Titanium VS IBM Worklight

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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
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    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.

    36 RhoMobile alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Sailfish OS

    RhoMobile Features

    1.  Mobile framework
    2.  Desktop Application
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    RhoMobile VS IBM Worklight

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    • RhoMobile is the most popular Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • RhoMobile is Free and Open SourceIBM Worklight is Paid and Proprietary
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    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.

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    WebDGap running on Windows 10

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    WebDGap Features

    1.  Supports Zip files
    2.  Lightweight wrapper
    WebDGap running on Mac OS X El Capitan v10.11
    WebDGap running on Elementary OS (Ubuntu 14.04 Linux based distribution)
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    WebDGap running on Android 6.0
    Discontinued

    This app was discontinued on April 13, 2018.

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    WebDGap VS IBM Worklight

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    • WebDGap is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to IBM Worklight.

    • WebDGap is Free and Open SourceIBM Worklight is Paid and Proprietary
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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.

    30 Sencha Touch alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Sencha Touch VS IBM Worklight

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  9. Apple HealthKit icon
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    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.

    17 Apple HealthKit alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch

    Apple HealthKit Features

    1.  Goal Tracking
    2.  MedCheckups
    3.  Heart rate monitor
    4.  Objective-c
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    Apple HealthKit VS IBM Worklight

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    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.

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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    B4X Features

    1.  Multiplatform
    2.  Code Completion
    3.  Native Java Libraries
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Syntax Highlighting
    6.  Code Formatting
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Dark Mode
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Rad
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  11. Capacitor by Ionic icon
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    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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone

    Capacitor by Ionic Features

    1.  Progressive Web App
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    Capacitor by Ionic VS IBM Worklight

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  12. Kurogo Mobile Platform icon
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    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.

    27 Kurogo Mobile Platform alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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    Kurogo Mobile Platform VS IBM Worklight

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    Convertigo

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    Convertigo is a Low code Open source Enterprise Mobility Platform enabling Enterprises to reduce their mobile apps development costs and delivery time by 10 to 50 times.

    33 Convertigo alternatives
    Visual Mobile Builder

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Convertigo Features

    1.  Visual Programming
    View on the mobile palette
    A Low code Page
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    Convertigo VS IBM Worklight

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    MoSync

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    The MoSync SDK is an open source development environment for mobile which allows you to develop apps for modern platforms including iOS and Android, using HTML5/Javascript, C/C++ or by blending languages to suit your own requirements as a developer.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The last update on the GitHub repo was on August 27, 2013. The company behind MoSync went bankrupt in 2014 and the domain name is now used by another website. The website has been archived by Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20151104081758/http://www.mosync.com/). The source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/MoSync/MoSync) and the software is available on GitHub (https://github.com/MoSync/MoSync/releases) and on the archived website (https://web.archive.org/web/20150923065307/http://www.mosync.com/download).

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    MoSync VS IBM Worklight

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