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Animoto is a drag-and-drop online video maker that lets anyone turn photos, video clips, music, and text into professional videos for marketing, social media, and personal use. It offers templates, stock assets, and licensed music to speed up creation.

Alternative toBiteable|IInVideo|VVyond

AnswerThePublic is a search-listening and keyword research tool that visualizes the questions, prepositions, and comparisons people type into search engines. Marketers and content creators use it to find content ideas and understand audience intent.

Ant Design is an open-source enterprise-class UI design language and React component library offering a large set of high-quality, ready-to-use components and design resources. It is backed by Alibaba's Ant Group.

Any.do is a task management and productivity app that combines to-do lists, calendar, reminders, and team collaboration in one workspace for individuals, families, and teams. It is available across mobile, desktop, and web.

App Analytics in App Store Connect is Apple's built-in analytics for developers, measuring downloads, conversion, engagement, retention, and monetization for apps on the App Store. It is included free with the Apple Developer Program.

Alternative toFAFirebase Analytics|Mixpanel|Amplitude

Appcues is a no-code product adoption and user engagement platform that lets teams build in-app onboarding flows, tooltips, surveys, and personalized messages without engineering. It targets product and growth teams aiming to improve activation and feature adoption.

Mobile market intelligence platform formerly known as App Annie, rebranded to data.ai and now part of Sensor Tower. It tracks app downloads, revenue estimates, rankings, usage, and competitor performance across the App Store and Google Play.

All-in-one platform for app analytics, competitive intelligence, App Store Optimization, and market research. It tracks downloads, revenue, ratings, reviews, and SDK adoption across the App Store and Google Play.

AI-powered platform for monitoring user feedback, automating app store review responses, optimizing store visibility, and extracting product insights across multiple app stores and feedback channels.

No-code/low-code visual development platform formerly known as AppGyver, acquired by SAP and rebranded as SAP Build Apps within the Business Technology Platform. It uses a drag-and-drop builder and visual logic flows to build process-centric apps deployable to web, iOS, and Android.

Drag-and-drop no-code platform for building native iOS and Android apps and Progressive Web Apps. It offers industry templates for restaurants, salons, coffee shops, and other small businesses.

Alternative toAPAppy Pie|BBuildFire|GoodBarber

Applause is a fully managed crowdtesting and digital quality platform that uses a global community of 300,000+ real testers, AI, and automation to test websites, mobile apps, and IoT products across real device and OS combinations. It covers functional QA, usability, accessibility, payments, and localization testing for enterprise teams.

App store analytics and ASO management platform covering millions of apps across 150+ countries, with keyword tracking, Apple Search Ads auction results, competitor analysis, and download estimates.

A no-code platform that lets users build native iOS, Android, and web apps via a drag-and-drop editor, with data integration, push notifications, monetization, and app store publishing.

AI-driven platform for mobile app user acquisition and monetization, offering programmatic advertising, app discovery, game ROAS optimization, and rewarded playtime campaigns.

No-code mobile app builder that converts websites, HTML content, and ideas into Android (APK/AAB) and iOS apps, with AI code generation, customization tools, and Google Play publishing support.

Alternative toAppmachine|AAppspotr|BBuildFire

A low-code visual app builder for native iOS/Android and progressive web apps, with drag-and-drop design, user management, REST API integrations, and real-time content management.

Alternative toAppmachine|AAppsGeyser|BBuildFire

A curated marketplace offering discounted software deals and lifetime licenses for entrepreneurs and small businesses across many product categories.

Alternative toSStackSocial|PitchGround|Dealify

Apptopia provides mobile app performance and consumer engagement data across thousands of public companies, helping investors and brands track trends and benchmark competitors.

Alternative toSTSensor Tower|Ddata.ai|Similarweb

Artboard Studio is a browser-based graphic design and mockup tool that applies images and video to thousands of realistic device, apparel, packaging, and print mockups without Photoshop.

Asana is a work management platform for organizing projects, tasks, and goals, with automation and AI features that help teams coordinate work at scale.

Alternative toMMonday.com|TTrello|ClickUp

Atatus is a unified observability platform offering application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, logs, real user monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring across 200+ technologies.

Alternative toDatadog|New Relic|DDynatrace

Automate.io was a no-code integration tool for connecting cloud applications and building multi-step workflows to automate sales, marketing, and business processes. The product has shut down after the team joined Notion.

Alternative toZapier|IIntegrately|Nn8n

Ortto (formerly Autopilot) is a unified platform combining a customer data platform, marketing automation, and analytics to build omnichannel journeys across email, SMS, push, in-app messages, and live chat.

Alternative toHubSpot|ActiveCampaign|CCustomer.io