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.