Backendless Alternatives: Top 8 Competitors

Backendless Alternatives: Top 8 Competitors

Backendless is one of the best MbaaS available in the market right now. It has a lot of features not present in many other mobile as a service in the market. But for some reason, you don’t like Backendless, or their service is not available in the format you need, here are the top 8 alternatives that you should know about:

Back4App

Overview

Back4App is a very unique mobile backend as a service development company that is dedicated to providing a full jack-of-all-trades experience for all types of applications. Developers can make both applications of all kinds, and online games through their platform without having to go through any issues or loops that are very difficult.  Since Back4App is built on top of Parse platform, most other applications & social media applications should be compatible with any application that supports Back4App. Plus, developers shouldn’t have any problems integrating other options onto this application.

Features & Benefits

• Automated Scaling of Applications based on Parse server
• App Migration
• Web-Based Management Tools
• Amazing Reliability
• Backup and Recovery
• 24*7 Monitoring and Alerting
• Expert Support
• Affordable, and free model available

Parse

Parse is the oldest and the most reliable mobile backend as a service. Though it has been officially open-sourced by Facebook, with the final server getting pulled off in 2017, there are a lot of projects that are based on Parse nowadays. Parse is not only reliable, it is fast, and most social media applications nowadays completely support Parse and some part of them is still based on Parse.

There are a lot of benefits to using MbaaS based on Parse, even nowadays.

Here are some of the benefits and features of using parse:

Features & Benefits

• Open Source
• Provides analytics
• Provides social login support through Facebook
• Push notifications support
• In-App purchase receipt validation
• Background jobs
• Automation of email service
• Webhooks

Parse is now considered the vanilla mobile backend as a service for many developers in the mobile developer community.

Kinvey

Kinvey is a mobile development provider that is also able to develop many online applications too, while the main focus is on the development of business applications. Kinvey offers cloud functionality, like Backendless, and is almost similar in terms of efficiency. Kinvey is used by many professional businesses when they want to develop an application fast and quick, without having to sacrifice many resources.

Here are some of the features that Kinvey provides:

Features & Benefits

• Cloud caching
• Open Source (most source is available on Github)
• Provides analytics
• Provides login through Facebook
• Push notifications alert
• Enabled background jobs
• Efficient

AWS Amplify

Amazon Web Services have become an integral part of the modern internet. They have been providing a lot of different services that are based on the internet, like the AWS servers, and so on. One of their many services is the AWS Amplify, which is designed for mobile backend as a service. AWS Amplify is basically a set of JavaScript scripts that are combined together under a single platform. The developer can easily use these scripts to make a powerful backend for any type of application, provided that they are able to provide full-fledged backend support. AWS Amplify provides a list of strong cloud operations, with many other things added to the list when push comes to the shove.

AWS Amplify may only look like a basic platform of scripts, but it is rather extremely powerful. This is why it makes this list.

Here are some of the amazing features of AWS Amplify:

Features & Benefits

• Local Testing
• GraphiQL Editor
• Artificial Intelligence
• Lambda Function triggers and resolvers.
• Custom indexing
• Support for AAS (Amazon Aurora Serverless)
• Streamlined OAuth flow
• Extremely powerful and volatile
• Can help on the frontend too
• Designed for a GitHub environment.

PubNub

PubNub is not just a mobile backend as a service, it is a complete infrastructure as a service company. The company makes complete real-time applications based for the web, mobile, and even Internet of Things. PubNub also provides services for MbaaS, and most of its code is available on GitHub. It is all open-source, and you can use the code to develop an application from scratch. The built environment is safe, and your company shouldn’t run into any major issues because it gets updated on a regular basis. MbaaS PubNub is one of the direct Backendless competitors. PubNub can be used either way: build from scratch, or just use one of the formats given and build upon that.

Features & benefits

• Real-time network support
• Easily scale applications for the global market
• Build real-time applications
• Fast deployment
• Add SMS and other advertisement support
• Many add-ons
• Completely open-source
• Efficient code

Firebase

Firebase is also one of the alternatives to Backendless. Firebase is designed for games, but can also work with professional applications that require an internet-based login system, and/or a social network system to work with. One of the best features of Firebase is that applications built on Firebase are able to work offline too, and immediately synchronize with the server as soon as the application is connected to the internet. This can be used to develop many applications, in areas where internet connectivity is an issue. Firebase is also very affordable, and most developers can rest easy knowing that Google is behind the MbaaS.

Features & Benefits

• In-app messaging
• A/B Testing – for phones with the new partition system.
• Cloud messaging
• Prediction & offline work environment
• Analytics through Google
• AdSense support

Cloudboost.io

Cloudboost.io is one of the Backendless alternatives that is also a complete cloud platform. If you are looking to develop a complete cloud dependant application, this MbaaS is the right option for you. Here are some features and benefits to this product:

Features & Benefits

• Scalable storage
• Implement search engine
• Build real-time applications
• Amazing customer service
• Infinite scaling
• Fast deployment

Heroku

Heroku is not a mobile backend as a service, it is a platform as a service. It allows developers to build and run applications entirely on the web without having to spend a single byte on their own PCs. Heroku is very unique, in the sense that it is based on CLI, and is one of the oldest, and most mature backends on the list. It definitely gives Backendless a tough time as one of the alternatives to Backendless. In fact, it might be one of the Backendless competitors.

Features & benefits

• One of the most mature backends
• Deploy applications on the cloud
• Small applications
• Saves precious storage
• Easy to deploy
• Real-time development
• CLI interface, for people who don’t like fancy UI.

Conclusion

These are the best alternatives for Backendless, in case you don’t find Backendless to be up to your expectations.