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About Alpha Anywhere
Alpha Anywhere is an app development solution designed for application developers across industries such as construction, health care, oil and gas, manufacturing and more. Key features include deployment management, mobile development, software development, data modeling, compatibility testing and source control.
Alpha Anywhere helps users to create data-driven applications that allow them to manage regulatory compliance, mitigate risks and respond to sales and service queries. Users can also validate data entries against offline and online databases, trigger email reports and SMS texts, generate custom reports and more.
Additionally, Alpha Anywhere can either be deployed on-premise, hosted in the cloud or accessed via mobile devices. It also supports integration and real-time data exchange with connectors, webhooks and features a custom application program interface (API).
Services are offered on an annual subscription basis that includes support via phone, email and online live chat.
Alpha Anywhere pricing
Alpha Anywhere has a free version and offers a free trial. Alpha Anywhere paid version starts at USD 99.00/month.
Starting Price:
USD 99.00/month
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
Yes
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Alpha Anywhere Reviews
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Frank
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 22/11/2018
Alpha Anywhere - flexible, powerful, affordable
We use Alpha Anywhere to quickly build very solid apps for clients. This solution ensures speed, flexible and reliability, thus enhancing productivity and leading to happy and satisfied clients.
Pros
The thing I like best about Alpha Anywhere is how incredibly easy it is use it, even for users that aren't experienced.
Another thing is that's, considering the features it's packed with, it's really quite affordable. Most other solutions with similar features are far more expensive than Alpha Anywhere.
I also love the support I get from the team behind this software. They're great to work with, knowledgeable and constantly improving the product.
Cons
The only thing I can complain about is the rather limited documentation, though it's not really a big problem as the software is very easy to use and they have great support if one ever needs them.
Response from Alpha Software Corporation
Thanks for the review, Frank. We're pleased to hear you enjoy the product. We are continually working to improve our documentation and appreciate the feedback.
Replied 26/11/2018
Philip
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 14/02/2017
THE Application Development Platform for Web and Mobile
First, a confession: I'm a former MS Access developer (please don't judge me!). I converted to Access from DOS-based dBase IV.
I discovered Alpha 5, several years ago, from an e-mail ad (that's what it used to be called... it became "Alpha Anywhere" a couple of years ago in order to highlight its ability to develop on multiple platforms). The offered a free trial, so I decided to give it a try. Well, after 2 weeks, I was hooked.
The applications I develop now dwarf those I'd developed previously. I'm doing things that would never be possible in Access... and giving my customers "cloud" access to their apps. If you're a serious business application developer, you should certainly give it a try!
Here are some things you should know (the good and the not-so-good): As an Access developer, I loved that could use the back-end tables and queries in Alpha. That made the transition much faster. Now, most of my new applications, use SQL Server (added security, reliability and scalability), but I wouldn't fault anyone who stuck with Access tables (they're easier to create). Alpha lets you use almost any SQL-based application (MySQL, Access, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) for your data set and even includes its own "dbf" format. They advertise Alpha as "codeless" development. Well, that's a bit misleading. YES, you can develop basic applications with little or no coding, but I've found that you'll need to learn some javascript and XBasic, if you need your application to do more than rudimentary data entry and retrieval. That was my biggest struggle. With Access, I really needed only VBA. XBasic and javascript are more powerful and more complex. Even now, I feel like I have a lot to learn about javascript.
Alpha still needs to work on its documentation (their new documentation site is much improved), but their "message board" is great and the Alpha community is a terrific resource to help you get ideas and resolve issues.
I've fully installed more than a dozen full-scale applications (on public servers and my own servers) and I couldn't be more satisfied with the experience.
I'd recommend Alpha Anywhere to any developer that's in it "for the long haul." It will grow as you do.
Pros
Flexibility in choosing the platform and destination and flexibility in choosing the back-end data set. I love how much you can do, without having to resort to writing code
Cons
I wish there was a place I could call, when I ran into an obstacle. If I can't get an answer to my problem, I have to hire an independent consultant on an hourly basis. I'd rather pay a fee to get access to a phone line that could help me.
Response from Alpha Software Corporation
Thanks for your feedback, Philip!
Replied 14/02/2017
Randy
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 08/01/2020
Decent software
Pros
The software makes it easy to create a quick and dirty application in little time as long as it is a simple application
Cons
Complicated applications require a very advanced understanding of javascript and xbasic. The annual cost that Alpha Software charges increases a lot every time that I renew the licence.
Response from Alpha Software Corporation
Hi, Randy -
We appreciate your review of Alpha Software. Thank you!
Re: Complexity - Consider Alpha Mentoring for help you with any challenges you run into. Or consider our no-code product Alpha TransForm, https://www.alphasoftware.com/alpha-transform-overview-and-free-trial
Re: Pricing - Historically, we've kept our prices extremely low and have slowly increased price to reflect advanced and industry-first features we're adding to the platform (robust offline, on-device data storage, Alpha Cloud, etc.). I think you'll find we have extremely competitive pricing vs. what you see for other low-code products. We publish our prices online:
https://www.alphasoftware.com/pricing
https://www.alphasoftware.com/alpha-transform-pricing
If you have further questions please contact [email protected]
Thanks again for your business and for the review!
Replied 15/01/2020
Richard
- Industry: Outsourcing/Offshoring
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 08/01/2017
Great WEB and Mobile Rapid Application Development software
I have no formal programing training other than self taught knowledge. I was using Delphi to create desktop applications for tracking to progress of building permit through the review and inspection process. I was hoping to move from a desktop application to a web based application and was looking for a easy to use platform to develop Web based application.
At some point I discovered Alpha software and downloaded the trial version. I was able to build a fully functional permit tracking application in a very short time, with very little coding in the background. Alpha's development environment was similar to Borland Dephi (using Visual Pascal), i.e., it is an object oriented, event driven, rapid development environment that allows the user to set properties to control desired results.
Initially, I used an Alpha mentor to help with some of the coding in XBasic and JavaScript. Now I need little support to work in Alpha Anywhere.
More recently, I have been developing mobile based applications using tools included in Alpha Anywhere. The most difficult element of building mobile applications using Alpha Anywhere and Phone Gap has been getting through Apple Developer requirements for publishing.
I would recommend Alpha Anywhere to develop web based, client server applications, for developers at any level of programing experience. For those like me, with only self taught knowledge, it works great. For developers with a strong programing background, the application is flexible enough to allow customization.
Pros
The ability to develop very robust web based an mobile applications with little coding. The applications I have developed are very stable in use.
Cons
The development platform has a tendency to be unstable. It is not unusual for the software to lock up during use. I have used the software on a number of machines with similar results, it can just lock up with no recovery at any time. I would recommend saving work often.
The platform uses a number of programing languages such as, HTML, JavaScript, Jason, and Xbasic. Each is a little different and can get frustrating when coding.
Spencer
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 13/07/2017
It is powerful, but it is not as easy as they would claim it to be.
Easy application development.
Pros
It is a powerful solution for highly customized applications. It allows creating web pages with dynamic data quickly with little code. It has a lot to offer to developers who need to get information from users and display that information to other users. It connects to many if not all external servers. It allows for a complex security system that gives the access to those that need it and restricts it to those that don't need or shouldn't have it.
Cons
It gets pretty complicated and the pricing just doubled. The application uses a lot of resources, so make sure your computer can handle it when you are dealing with a lot of data and controls. Ther server is stable, but I do need to restart it when I get a lot of users, maybe a once a week, I hope an update will fix that.
