Hey guys! New to Adalo here. I’m super excited to get started using Adalo; it seems like such a great resource. I am a little wary though about the rights to the finished app when I’m done. Does Adalo claim copyright/ownership of my app when I’m done with it, or do I own the intellectual property of the app? Anybody know the answer? 
Hi James,
Welcome to Adalo and the Community! 
You own your app. Adalo does not claim anything, they just help you build the app.
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Thanks so much for the response! I appreciate it
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So how does the costing work? It seems according to the pricing They have control of your app and charge you for the use of your own app! Thats not ownership ? Or am I mistaken? Can we get the code and use elsewhere?
Hi Trevor
From Adalo:
“you own the intellectual property associated with the app you make and can get an export of your app’s data at anytime.”
What you pay for is to be able to use the software, support, integrations and other services that Adalo offer to give you the chance to create a no-code app.
Regards
Jare Ramirez
So what you saying is we don’t actually own the code. We cannot download it and you can use it as you wish
So its not actually our intellectual property ? Is that correct
Hi @TrevorVB,
This is a great question and I agree the concept can be confusing. Adalo’s approach to building and deploying apps is a bit different from a lot of other solutions in that the Adalo infrastructure continues to be used by the app once it is deployed to the app store. For many Adalo users this is a pretty big advantage because it means the onerous task of managing a database, user authentication, notifications, servers, etc is offloaded to Adalo. As you might imagine, we manage a lot of infrastructure, among other things almost 3 million app databases. Not to mention Adalo streamlines the process associated with publishing apps in the app store. If you’ve ever done this outside of Adalo, it is not fun.
So each app is most definitely associated with code, and I guess that code could conceivably be exported (ejected) from the Adalo runtime. But Adalo’s real appeal (at least to me) lies in the managed services it provides to app developers. Without those managed services, the code would need to be dramatically refactored and rewired into a standalone database as well as all of the other ancillary services an app requires to function properly.
There are of course plenty of use cases and situations that require organizations to manage their code independently. But Adalo was never intended to accommodate those situations.
Happy to answer other questions!
Jason
Adalo CTO
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