No-Code Database App Builder · Since 2001

Build self-hosted apps without code.

Create database-driven business applications visually. Add your own PHP or JavaScript only when needed.

Prefer to start with AI? AppifyText.ai is DaDaBIK’s sister platform: build and refine an app with AI from a prompt or Excel file, then export it to DaDaBIK when ready. Start with AppifyText.ai

What can I build?

Thousands of customers from all over the world

Build without limits

Scale your application without per-user pricing or platform-imposed limits.

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Grow without extra seats

No limits on users, user groups, tables or records. Your costs do not increase every time your team grows.

Host it your way

Run your app on your own computer, an intranet server, or your preferred hosting or cloud provider. Your data remains in standard SQL databases.

Choose how you pay

Buy a lifetime license or choose a monthly subscription you can cancel anytime.

Capterra Reviews

4.7/5 average rating from verified reviewers

Excellent Tool That Helps Businesses

5.0

My overall experience has been very positive. DaDaBIK is a flexible and user-friendly tool that fully met my expectations. It has helped me efficiently manage and present data while saving a significant amount of time compared to building a custom solution from scratch. I would gladly recommend it to other businesses looking for a reliable database and reporting platform.

Aurimas L.
Developer, Entertainment

Powerful Internal Tool Builder with Strong Flexibility and Good Value

4.0

DaDaBIK is a solid and reliable low-code solution for building internal management systems quickly. It is particularly useful in environments where resources are limited but there is a need for structured data management and custom workflows. For my use case in building an internal business registry tool, it has been genuinely helpful and has improved efficiency in handling approvals and data tracking.

Felix D.
Business Registration Adviser, Government Administration

Powerful, Flexible, and Excellent Support.

5.0

I use DaDaBIK on two large websites to manage member data, and my overall experience has been extremely positive. The software is stable, fast, and packed with useful functionality. Support is easy to access through the community forum, and support tickets are answered quickly and professionally. Overall, I consider DaDaBIK an outstanding solution for anyone looking to build and maintain custom web applications efficiently.

Matthijs W.
Webmaster, Non-Profit Organization Management

Great NoCode/LowCode Tool

5.0

I am very happy with the tool. Dadabik is a tool which serves the purpose for the business I am supporting. I can really recommend the product.

Frank S.
Manager Administration and IT, Education Management

A very good tool to gain time developing your custom web based applications.

5.0

This software allowed me to easily expand and develop gradually my web applications, focusing only on the relational database structure, and leaving to DadaBik the management of the forms that the final users will see.

Leone M.
Agriculture Water Management (UK)

DaDaBIK is a mature easy to use web front end for database-driven applications

5.0

What I like most about DaDaBIK is that the application is highly flexible and expandable. It works out of the box without coding knowledge but can be extended with own code if wanted. One can start a project and it immediately becomes usable application.

Stefan T.
University Professor (Germany)

So far the best tool for building online applications

5.0

Easy development for custom made applications for my clients and my own administration (ticketing system, office administration and much more)

Juergen M.
IT Consultant (Switzerland)

Very good CRUD software

4.0

Moved three large archive systems from Access to the WEB.

Frede H.
CEO (Denmark)

I'm a DaDaBIK user since its very first version. It helps me to save a lot of programming time.

5.0

Increased speed in programming activities. Excellent return on investment: with a small amount of money, I can save a lot of time avoiding repetitive programming. Constantly updated by the author, with new features in every release.

Verified Reviewer (Capterra)
ICT Projects Manager

Have a project in mind?

Tell us about the application you need to build. We’ll discuss your requirements and how DaDaBIK can help. During business hours, we typically reply within one hour.

Discuss Your Project

Start with AI. Build visually. Extend with code.

DaDaBIK adapts to the way you want to work today and to the requirements your application may have tomorrow.

Start with AI - with guardrails

Describe the application you need (or upload a real-world Excel file) and AppifyText.ai creates a ready-to-use DaDaBIK application. Refine it with further prompts, then export and self-host it when ready.

The AI builds within DaDaBIK’s structured application model instead of generating a standalone codebase. Tables, relationships, forms, roles and permissions remain explicit, inspectable and editable.

Build visually

Configure data, forms, searches, menus, relationships, permissions, reports, dashboards and workflows through DaDaBIK’s visual interface.

Start from MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Excel, CSV or a blank application. Generate a database frontend in minutes and adapt it to your real business process. For many applications, no coding is required.

Extend with standard code

When requirements become more specific, add PHP, JavaScript and SQL through hooks, custom functions and APIs.

Your custom code stays separate from the DaDaBIK core, your data remains accessible in standard SQL tables, and you decide where the application runs.

AI helps you build and refine. No-code removes repetitive work.
Standard code remains available where it creates real value.

Explore a Pre-Built Application

Product Hunt

Selected feedback from the Product Hunt community.



I have been using Dadabik since 2019.
I come from a no-code background and experience and I have to say that although it may initially come as a complex framework, it is actually very intuitive and simple to install and run in a web server.
I am working in the charity/humanitarian sector and have used it mainly to develop simple but powerful stock and inventory management platforms for humanitarian organizations to simplify and streamline the record and access to humanitarian aid commodities that are being procured and distributed to people in need. Organizations that may not have financial resources to improve their internal systems are very often looking at open source solutions, but it often comes as a ready to use solutions with little to no flexibility to customize data entry form and templates that are specific to the humanitarian sector. Dadabik is providing that as it allows to start from scratch by importing an existing Excel file and further customizing the system around it to improve realtime access to data and responding the “accountability” requirement to financial donors within the sector.
Moreover, with a little coding experience, you can unleash way more functionality, such as exporting custom PDF templates, and automate some advance functions (PHP framework).
Eugenio, the founder of Dadabik, is also very responsive when it comes to support.
I fully recommend this solution.

Patrick Sautron
Developer, Operations

I have been using dadabik since 2020 because I needed to manage a complex and customized data archive in its structure. Even though I did not know the programming languages ​​PHP, HTML, SQL, starting with dadabik I was able to immediately set up my project. Today, after studying the programming languages, my project has also been customized in the layout much more than I initially imagined dadabik would allow.
The product is really easy to use and incredibly adapts to even the most sophisticated needs, just imagine the result and, by applying yourself, you can achieve almost all your goals.
The assistance is impeccable!
I absolutely recommend the product!

Thanks Eugenio! (Comment automatically translated)

FIRST CISL Padova Rovigo
Trade Union

I found Dadabik by googling for a mature solution to quickly provide CRUD access to MySQL databases. I actually started to develop such a tool 20 years ago with PHP, but @eugenio_tacchini did this a lot better than me with Dadabik ! ;-) I use this platform for almost 10 years, for several web projects. Dadabik is real time saver, which allows developpers to publish a complete full web application in a few hours, without caring of boring HTML/CSS stuff ! Thank you Eugenio for your splendid work !!! :-) Regards, Gilles

Gilles
Dev

I was looking for a personal tool for keeping track of the things in my life. I am a retired CTO for a number of top 100 companies, so to me building databases to keep track of stuff is a great hobby. But I needed a tool. It had to be flexible, easy to use, quick to build and it had to store everything in a secure database. I looked at over 30 products which claimed to meet at least one or two of my selection criteria. None of them matched all my criteria until I discovered DaDaBIK. It has been one of the better product decisions in my life. The support I got from Mr. Tacchini in the beginning was responsive, and creative. I highly recommend this product for almost any business or personal use.

Thomas Hurley
Retired CTO of fortune 100 companies

I have been a DadaBik fan for many years, but after not touching it for the past 10 years, I am back in the mix. It is great to see this product making such great strides. Keep up the great work!

Joe Matassino
CXX Grey-haired IT guru

I have been a user of Dadabik for many years. Eugenio is a superb, professional software designer and Dadabik if perfect for someone like me who wants to create great things with databases. I don't hesitate to recommend purchasing Dadabik. It's the best there is at what it does.

Ken Trethewey
Pharologist

I use DaDaBIK since 3 years implementing database solutions needed for my company specific processes. I think it is a great tool: easy configuration, easy CRUD implementation but if you need more complex functions this tools let you code by yourself integrating everything you need.

Marco Donà
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5.0

DaDaBIK is an amazing low-code / no-code platform that enables me to quickly and cost effectively deploy a modern looking, professional, intuitive applications for my clients.

Alan Dev
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5.0

Great app creator. It allows you build your web app in no time.

Nico Kne
Developer

4.0

Easy to learn and easy to use application which allows you to build simple but also very complex databases and everything in between with great UI and user forms. DaDaBIK has come a long way and offers nice features. I enjoy using DaDaBIK to build extensive internal applications in the area of CRM and the end-users do enjoy it as much as I do. That is a win-win!

Edwin Izelaar
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Why DaDaBIK?

Because faster development should not mean giving up control.

Self-hosted by design

Deploy on your server, private cloud or local network. Keep your application data in standard SQL databases and decide how the system is operated, accessed and upgraded.

AI with guardrails

AppifyText.ai creates structured DaDaBIK applications rather than an unmanaged codebase. The platform gives AI a defined application model, making the result easier to inspect, refine and maintain.

No-code without a ceiling

Build visually, then use PHP, JavaScript, SQL, hooks and APIs when your requirements grow. You do not have to abandon the platform and rebuild the application from scratch.

Pricing that does not punish growth

DaDaBIK does not charge per user and places no limits on users, tables or records. Choose a monthly subscription or a lifetime license.

Direct support from people who build the product.
During business hours, we typically reply within one hour.

More feedback from our users

I have used DaDaBIK for most of the time it has been around. The progress it has made and the space it fills between spreadsheets and off the shelf packages are just amazing.

Gregory White, UK
IT Consultant & video producer/director

DaDaBIK is performing really great for us. I'm so glad we purchased it! I have not seen anything that can do everything we need (eg. TablePress, NinjaTables, WP Data Tables, etc.)

Don Worth, USA
Ventura County Genealogical Society

DaDaBik is an awesome powerful tool for front-end development. Your team fast-tracked my application development by months.

Tom C., China

I have been impressed by DaDaBIK's ability to quickly generate a basic CRUD app, as that's all I was looking for at the time, but now I'm knocked down by how clever and powerful it is.

Ken Christensen, USA

Even if you can program in PHP with MySQL, DaDaBIK saves an immense amount of time. And for novices, it requires no knowledge of programming to implement a tight and efficient database front end.

David Serey

DaDaBIK is such an excellent tool and it helped me to quickly design and convert our existing products without the pain of coding from ASP.Net/SQL Server to PHP/MySql.

Dave, UK

So far, the most comprehensive, fast and easy to use solution for presenting your data online. No special knowledge needed, no coding. Fast and friendly support.

Verified customer's review, Hotscripts.com

An excellent solution for publishing data from a MySQL database. No coding required. Great forum and support (even for a minor error caused by an old php-version on my webserver, they found a workaround very fast).

Verified customer's review, Hotscripts.com

I can't thank you enough to have put in so much hard work for this type of software. It has really helped me out!

James, Canada

Great stuff! Really makes rapid deployment a reality.

Bill, Canada

Thank you for providing such a useful piece of software! I am using DaDaBik as a front end for the database for my new business. We will use it to search through our inventory, add stock, keep records of sales and expenses and maybe even create invoices if this is possible.

Catherine, Australia

I know a little php and learn best by tweaking codes done by others. I choose DaDaBIK because it's just small enough to get my hands around quickly and next to that it has all functions I need. Thanks for your effort and the information in your forums!

Maarten Boerema, the Netherlands

At the end I would like to say, that this is just the tool I was looking for: I needed a simple frontend for manipulating and inserting data on my db, but I was to lazy te write my own script with fields and buttons for "update" or "delete" and so on.

Thomas, Germany

Thanks for a great way to manipulate data. It cannot come easier than DaDaBIK. Keep up the good work and I intend to make sure that it will impact on organizations in Kenya that support various causes from poverty reduction, AIDS awareness, clean drinking water campaigns which will benefit from easily accessible and searchable data as enabled by Dadabik.

Mucheru, Kenia

I’ve enjoyed working with your product on one of my projects. The learning curve is not too great and I was getting the results I wanted very rapidly.

Larry K., California

I am using the DaDaBIK to enter data into a database used for my iPhone application. I really love DaDaBIK it does almost all I want.

Michael Widegren, Sweden

Endorsed without reservation. A great product that allows you to populate, query, or edit any standard database (MySQL and the like) through a highly flexible Web interface, all without any php/MySQL coding.

David Hochman, USA

I have a very small non-profit client who wanted to modernise their IT but don't have much money to spend. They are blown away with how quickly and cost effectively I was able to deploy a modern looking, professional, intuitive application using Dadabik. They were also amazed at how I was able to make quick updates during the demo (just adding entries to a table that automatically appeared in a drop down field on a form), their previous "home brew" application would normally take a couple of weeks for a change!

Alan Milnes, UK
Milnes Consultancy Ltd

I run a fansite for a few online games, and we're developing tools to help users through their play. We're running the tools off of an sqlite database and using DaDaBIK to allow our contributors to add and edit data about spells/stats/gear/etc. I also hope to create a front-end install to allow visitors to search our data and generate CSV files for their own tools and spreadsheets. Running our tools off of a single database is reducing the time required to update multiple applications as data gets added, and DaDaBIK is providing a simple user interface so that my partners can keep the data current without having to learn complicated software. My PHP skills are not very strong, so it has saved me a lot of time in coding repetive CRUD forms, interfaces, and session/auth scripting, allowing me to focus my time on the more important task of creating new tools.

Nick Steimling, USA

Firstly, thanks for a great product! This is exactly what I was looking for. I use DaDaBIK as a web frontend to a MySQL database. I set up the database for a political organization so that they would not have to use dozens of spreadsheets to keep track of the tens of thousands of contacts they have. They really like the search functionality, and the ability to export as a .CSV file. This helps them because they have only a few internet connected computers for 20 volunteers. They also use DaDaBIK for data entry every time they find a new contact.

Nickolai, USA

Used DaDaBik since about 2005 and have "grown up with it". Excellent Product and Excellent Support!!! P.S. Go right for the Enterprise Version!!!

Verified customer's review, Hotscripts.com

Before no-code had a name.
Before text-to-app became a trend.

DaDaBIK has spent 25 years turning emerging ideas into practical software, without taking control away from the people who build and run the application.

2001

A database app builder before no-code was a category

DaDaBIK made it possible to turn a database into a working web application visually, while giving developers a faster foundation for custom software.

February 2023

Text-to-app before the wave

AppifyText.ai began turning plain-English descriptions into working and deployed DaDaBIK applications before AI app generation became one of the software industry’s dominant trends.

Today

AI with guardrails

AI creates an application within a mature, structured platform: a result that can be inspected, refined, exported, self-hosted and extended with standard code.

DaDaBIK was created and is led by Eugenio Tacchini, Ph.D., a computer scientist and university lecturer in Databases and Data Science, with research experience at Freie Universität Berlin, the University of California, Berkeley, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

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