Open source Microsoft Power Apps alternatives
Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 0 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Microsoft Power Apps alternative; 9 more are in the category where Microsoft Power Apps is a typical product.
Open source projects in the same category: Low-Code & Internal Tools
Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Microsoft Power Apps; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.
Strapi
100strapi · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- With the visual content model builder, you design data structures without writing code.
- You get automatic REST and GraphQL API for the content models you create.
- You configure user access with built-in role and permission management.
- • High number of open issues (670)
- • NeutralHacker News
Strapi – Open-source Node.js Headless CMS
“Never used Strapi so take this with a grain of salt - Hasura doesn't provide an admin interface. It's just supposed to be a backend, not a CMS. - Strapi doesn't have a mechanism for sending events to the client, although it seems GraphQL subscriptions are in their roadmap. -…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Strapi – Open-source Node.js Headless CMS
“A nice UI for entering content into forms is about 10% of a what a scaled content production team needs to get work done and 0% of what a digital marketing team needs. All that being said, Strapi can still be a really good product to fill a big part of the framework without…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
PayloadCMS
100payloadcms · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- Within the /app directory of your Next.js project, you can manage both the front-end and the management panel in a single code base.
- You can perform database queries directly using React Server Components.
- Using ready-made templates, you can quickly stream projects such as e-commerce site, blog, or portfolio.
- • High number of open issues (1,459)
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework
“In june evaluated PayloadCMS (v3 beta), Strapi and Sanity for powering an app with (30+ content types) and a website. In the end i chose PayloadCMS. - I can programatically define content types in typescript - selfhosting - localization support. Sanity: _Pros_: great DX, easy to…”
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
Cloud storage plugin socket usage at capacity
“### Link to reproduction _No response_ ### Describe the Bug I am using the cloud storage plugin with an S3 adapter pointing to DigitalOcean Spaces. I have users making a lot of edits relating to images lately. After a significant amount of uploads and image swapping, I get…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
Hasura
95hasura · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- Access PostgreSQL and other supported database resources via a single API endpoint
- You write custom business logic using Typescript, Python and Go Connector SDK
- You use open source data connectors to connect to data sources
- • High number of open issues (2,368)
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres
“Databases aren't simply persistence layers, they also encompass querying which implicitly couples your application to them. The simplest query model is the key value store, which itself is a form of coupling, but it's quite limited in the operations it can support with high…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres
“I think it depends on how much business logic you have in your REST API layer. If you can get away with using a turnkey solution like hasura with the right access control rules or by adding schema stitching then it would save a lot of effort. I think the best thing would be to…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
React Admin
100marmelab · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- REST or GraphQL API connect to design data listing, editing and creation pages
- Manage user access with authentication and role-based authorization components
- Customise the interface experience with optimist processing, search filters and notification features
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
4.0 Roadmap
“We're starting to think about the next major milestone for react-admin. It'll mostly be a cleanup release, removing all the deprecated features and the compatibility layers we put in place. It should also be the occasion to use the latest major version of our dependencies. ##…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
simonw · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- You run SQLite database files from the command line on a local web server and examine them through the interface
- Add license and source information to the data published with metadata files in the JSON format
- Using Heroku or Google Cloud Run services, you post databases to the Internet in one command.
- • High number of open issues (715)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Architecture Notes: Datasette
“My ultimate dream is that providers like that will use Datasette itself - or a similar system that has the same characteristics: make it really easy for people to slice and dice the data using querystring parameters or even SQL queries and get back out just the data they want as…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Architecture Notes: Datasette
“Simon thanks for taking the time to explain Datasette internals. Not a Python developer myself, I was intrigued by the use of hooks to extend Datasette and ended up looking into pluggy and how Datasette plugins use hooks. I noticed some Datasette hooks like 'extra_template_vars'…”
frappe · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- Manage application data with built-in management panel interface
- You provide system integration via auto-generated RESTful API endpoint
- You configure the role-based user and access management system
- • High number of open issues (2,295)
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
v16 UI issues
“- [x] Weird border in drop down - [x] Edit profile and reset password does nothing - [ ] Sidebar - [x] Edit sidebar should auto expand - [x] Show tool-tips for icons in collapse mode - [x] Collapse tree when sidebar is collapsed - [ ] No icons for child items in sidebar - [x]…”
API Platform
100api-platform · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- Design your own data model using plain PHP classes or transferring current ontologies to ice
- You present in hypermedia REST or GraphQL API minutes, which includes page, data verification and access control.
- Automate React-based Material Design management interface or Next.js and Vue.js supported client applications
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Loading API gives 502 bad gateway
“HI All, When i load the API using URL it gives me "502 Bad Gateway". Could anyone please guide me what is the issue and how to fix this. Thanks in Advance.”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Cannot start docker services
“Hello. I'm struggling with docker in AP 2.2.0. When I run `docker-compose up -d`, everythings seems to work. ``` docker-compose up -d --build ... Successfully built d04505723c6d Creating apiplatform220_admin_1 ... done Creating apiplatform220_php_1 ... done Creating…”
AdminJS
60SoftwareBrothers · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- You can list all records in the database and perform CRUD operations on it.
- You can define special business logic actions on database objects.
- You can create custom dashboards with widgets to monitor application data.
- • Last update over 1 year ago
- • NeutralHacker News
AdminJS just got it's new version
“Hey folks, I've recently started working as a lead on AdminJS and yesterday we've relased new version of the tool. We've added Currency and Phone inputs, changed React version, changed the richText input provider and did some other minor changes. Changelog: AdminJS repo: WDYT?…”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
AdminJS v7 - feedback, urgent issues, questions, discussions
“This is a thread to aggregate all questions/feedback/urgent bugs/discussions related to the recently released version 7. Feel free to share your ideas or let us know about any issues you're facing related to migration or usage. **[What's new in version 7 ]( describes the largest…”
arhamkhnz · Low-Code & Internal Tools
Common commercial products in this category: Retool, Microsoft Power Apps, Airtable
- Next.js 16 ve Shadcn UI tabanlı bir yönetim paneli şablonuyla projeni hızla başlatırsın.
- Hazır CRM, finans ve analitik panellerini kendi verine uyarlayabilirsin.
- Tangerine veya Brutalist gibi tema ön ayarlarıyla açık ve koyu modları özelleştirirsin.
- • No published release
Verified against README · Oct 28, 2026 · source