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Illa

illacloud/illa-builder

An open-source alternative to Appsheet, Powerapps and Retool.

Low-code platform allows you to build business apps, enables you to quickly create internal tools such as dashboard, crud app, admin panel, crm, cms, etc. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Supabase, GraphQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, Rest API, Hugging Face, Redis, etc. Automate workflows with schedule or webhook. Open source Retool. (from the repository)

Stars: 12,328
Licence: Apache-2.0
Last push: 2026-05-27
Written in: TypeScript

Source on GitHub ↗

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.

Activity

Slowing

Last push 5 months ago

Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.

Releases

Stale

illa-builder@4.8.5, 2.2 years ago

Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.

Issues

90% closed

43 open · 403 closed

Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.

Momentum

+8 in 9 days

12,328 stars

Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

PermissiveApache-2.0

Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

Illa’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.

Illa’s own install instructions ↗

Illa against the other open-source options

Every project offered against Appsheet, Powerapps and 1 more, most-starred first.

Illa compared with other open-source alternatives
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Tooljet	41,107	Active	Network copyleft	Docker	HTML
Appsmith	41,084	Active	Permissive	○	TypeScript
Budibase	28,329	Active	Not identified	○	TypeScript
Illa (this page)	12,328	Slowing	Permissive	○	TypeScript
Lowdefy	3,012	Active	Permissive	○	JavaScript

All open-source alternatives to Appsheet →All open-source alternatives to Powerapps →All open-source alternatives to Retool →

Where this page comes from

Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-18
The pairing with Appsheet, Powerapps and 1 more and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data