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8 JotForm Alternatives for 2025

JotForm is perhaps the best-known form builder tool on the market today. However, this is a more varied space than it might appear. On the one hand, most platforms offer wider capabilities beyond simply outputting form UIs. On the other hand, different vendors often have their own more granular target personas and use cases. Today, we’re shedding light on this by exploring the market for JotForm alternatives, including a range of solutions that are aimed at different kinds of users and applications.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 1, 2025

Workspaces

Today, we’re excited to launch Workspaces: the first step in a major evolution for Budibase. A new architecture for better workflows Previously, Budibase centered everything around building a single app. Each app had its own automations and data sources. But as teams scaled, reusing automations or data across multiple apps became a challenge. With Workspaces, that changes. Now, you can group multiple apps, automations, and data sources together within a single workspace.

Joe Johnston

Aug 19, 2025

Dev/Prod switcher

We’re excited to announce a new feature that gives you more control over your development and production environments. The Dev/Prod switcher within the data section allows you to switch seamlessly between your development and production data. Key Updates: Switching Environments: Easily toggle between “Dev” and “Prod” modes to view and work with the corresponding data. External Tables: The switcher is fully compatible with external tables that use environment variables , making managing your different data sources easier.

Joe Johnston

Aug 18, 2025

6 Formstack Alternatives for 2025

Formstack is a popular form-building platform, offering extensive capabilities for creating custom data collection tools, as well as functionality for generating documents, handling signatures, automating workflows, and more. However, the market for form builder tools is relatively diverse, with a range of vendors targeting distinct segments, end users, and use cases. So, it can often be difficult to determine which platform is right for your specific needs. Today, we’re taking one angle on this question, by checking out some of the most prominent FormStack alternatives that are available on the market today.

Ronan McQuillan

Aug 1, 2025

6 Google Forms Alternatives for 2025

Google Forms is probably the most ubiquitous form builder tool available today, offering an intuitive, flexible platform for creating custom data collection UIs. However, this is a fairly crowded market, with a range of different vendors targeting distinct segments, including in terms of their primary users, use cases, and other aspects of their market positioning. Therefore, in order to make an informed decision about the right form builder for your needs, we need to have a clear picture of what our options are, as well as their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Ronan McQuillan

Aug 1, 2025

AI in IT Asset Management | Use Cases and Examples

AI is rapidly transforming almost all kinds of workflows and processes across businesses in every industry. However, some teams and functions are moving faster than others. In many organizations, internal services such as ITSM are quickly becoming the biggest innovators when it comes to AI adoption. Today, we’re exploring some of the forms this can take in the case of one key ITSM process, asset management. Along the way, we’ll cover everything you need to know about implementing AI in IT asset management workflows, as well as checking out some of the key use cases that Budibase can handle.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 25, 2025

Building LLM-Powered Applications

AI is forming a key part of more and more development projects. While this obviously offers massive benefits, it also introduces some important challenges, including securing the required skills and resources to create internal solutions. Today, we’re diving deep into how to build LLM-powered applications, including practical examples of how Budibase empowers you to utilize AI within our low-code platform. Specifically, we’ll be covering: What is an LLM-powered application? Key use cases and examples Benefits and challenges AI capabilities in Budibase AI across the builder AI columns AI in Budibase automation Let’s start with the basics.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 24, 2025

Top 6 Open-Source AI Agent Platforms for 2025

There’s a huge amount of hype around AI agents. Every day, we hear new reasons why they’re going to transform just about all aspects of daily life. But, practical information about how to make this a reality is less forthcoming. The biggest question here is, how can we build agentic solutions of our own? Today, we’re exploring an important subset of this by checking out the market for open-source agent builders.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 23, 2025

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