Glide

The beauty of Glide is in its simplicity.

It transforms an Excel sheet, Google sheet, or any sheet into a mobile, desktop, and web app. Glide's strength lies in its clean UI that you can brand in a few clicks with your brand colors. You don’t need to worry about design; just structure your data. That’s why it’s one of the easiest no-code tools out there.

Bubble

Bubble offers incredible freedom in design while still being a no-code tool. It’s more powerful than Glide with its plugins. But, it takes more time to get from zero to something functional because you have to design everything by hand.

If you want freedom in the interface and access to external tools, Bubble is the way to go.

Replit

Replit is an AI coding tool where you interact with an AI agent through chat.

You tell it what you want, and it writes the code for you. The beauty here is that you get real code that can be exported and further enhanced by developers.

Replit allows you to create both the interface and the database just by chatting, unlike other tools that struggle with database integration.

Time Comparison

From my experience, it takes about one or two hours to have a working prototype with Glide. With Replit, it takes around a day of work. For Bubble, expect a day or two to create something solid.

Backstage view: How did I use AI to help me in the writing?
This article is based on an audio recording I took while walking that then was transcribed and cleaned with Audiopen. I then reviewed and adapted the text by hand.