I built and learnt here for over a year and heavily regret wasting all that time, but I’m certainly glad I didn’t get to the point where I released anything and still need to rely on Adalo.
I’ve been reading the forums here from time to time after leaving and it appears Adalo is turning into a slow/non evolving dumpster fire.
I’ve seen plenty of people curious about sticking with Adalo and to be honest, jump ship while you can. After messing around with Flutterflow for a few days I can see it’s far superior already. It’s built by ex google engineers so they actually know what they’re doing, which is refreshing lol.
I also noticed on their forums that a once loyal Adalo builder who had a high traffic app published here has now moved over there and thanks Flutterflow for saving his business from the failure of relying on Adalo and their terrible performance, faulty design and broken plugins issues to just mention a few problems.
I myself have moved to Bubble, it’s such a pleasure to use, extremely powerful and performance is A+. They have a responsive engine for web apps so they display beautifully on mobile also. Plus there is even support to launch native apps.
I felt the need to leave this message because I wasted over a year here and suggest that anyone who is thinking of trying another platform - do it before you waste too much time or need to rely on an inferior platform.
While I agree that an IAP subscription component is needed, there is more than one way to approach that situation as well as more than one way to monetize your app.
App ads are one way, specifically if you have a good amount of traffic.
You can also gate your content just as you would for a subscription plan, but have the gate be non-recurring. I have an app where the user pays for gated content, and while I would like it to be subscription based, they just pay for it month-by-month with the standard IAP component.
In my situation I only have 1 app but with a lot of actions.
1 app with Bubble is 29$/mo and with my amount of monthly actions, it is minimum 200$ with Adalo
This is crazy! I am just starting with Adalo and yes - ease of use and pricing are my two big concerns. I didn’t see anything about the new pricing as I just paid my first month. Where can I see this crazy new pricing.
I’m thinking of FlutterFlow before I even start publishing to the stores. My app is ready to go but now, unsure.
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I went away for a while and wow this situation has escalated. I think this thread is basically useless at this point. But on the good side I got to know how everyone feels and that I’m not alone. Hope the state of Adalo gets better truly.