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Cross-platform development
One of the primary benefits of using Zoho Creator for mobile app development is that it supports cross-platform development. This means that a single Zoho Creator app can be deployed on both iOS and Android devices, without the need to create separate versions for each platform. This can save a significant amount of time and money, as there is no need to develop and maintain two separate codebases.

Visual development environment
Zoho Creator also features a visual development environment, which further reduces the learning curve and makes app development more accessible to non-technical users. The visual environment allows users to drag-and-drop different elements to build their app, without the need to write any code. This makes Zoho Creator an ideal platform for citizen developers, who can create simple apps without any prior coding experience.

Flexible deployment options
Zoho Creator also offers flexible deployment options for mobile apps. Apps can be deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. This flexibility enables organizations to choose the deployment option that best meets their needs, whether it be for security, compliance, or cost considerations.

Offline access
The offline access feature allows users to view and modify their data without relying on an internet connection. By utilizing the Zoho Creator SDK, developers can access core platform services, such as security or data synchronization, enabling the efficient implementation of mission-critical applications with the assurance that their data will remain secure.
Its easy to build forms, placeholders, and menus that are optimized for offline saving, so users can easily access stored data generated from their smartphone or tablet. This makes it incredibly easy to develop applications that bring all necessary business logic online and offline, allowing you to scale your mobile applications regardless of the level of connectivity.
Convenient support for both online and offline usage makes it possible for organizations to maximize productivity in any environment.
Rebranding
Zoho Creator provides the technology to build custom mobile applications with rebranding capabilities, allowing developers to deliver robust user experiences on any device. Users can quickly and easily design their apps in Zoho Creator and customize them with their own brand identity within minutes. No matter their industry or target audience, developers have available APIs that let them integrate third-party elements into their application, such as directory services and Google Maps support, to enhance the functionality of their app.
sdk to build custom functionality
own domain
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Rapid application development
The Creator platform was crafted with the concept of "model-driven development", which means that applications are built from predefined models instead of code. This approach allows developers to rapidly create and deploy business applications with minimal coding. In addition, Zoho Creator provides a number of features that make it well suited for rapid application development, including an object-oriented data model, drag-and-drop UI builder, and built-in workflow engine.
It also features a point-and-click data modeler that makes it easy to map data from any source, as well as a SQL query builder that lets users create custom reports and dashboards. Additionally, the platform offers integration with third-party software products, making it easy to extend the capabilities of applications built on the platform.
Custom domains
A custom domain is a unique identifier for an application or service. It allows developers to create unique URLs for their applications, which can be used to access the application from any device or platform. They also make it possible to use monitoring and performance tools to track and optimize the performance of an application. In addition, custom domains can be used to create aliases for applications, which can be used to redirect users to the correct URL, if they enter an incorrect URL.
Built-in authentication
Creator's built-in authentication feature is typically based on the standard OAuth 2.0 protocol. This protocol provides for the use of multiple authentication methods, including password-based authentication, two-factor authentication, and other methods. The OAuth 2.0 protocol also allows for the use of refresh tokens, which can be used to obtain new access tokens when the original access token expires.
Zoho Creator even allows developers to add custom authentication logic. This gives organizations the flexibility to implement the authentication schemes that best fit their needs.
Automated user management
The automated user management feature in Zoho Creator facilitates organizations that regularly add new personnel to their system, as well as those that need to manage complex access permissions for a large group of users. This feature allows administrators to create login credentials automatically when they invite a user, assign roles, and customize permissions for each user, depending on their needs.

Admins can receive real-time notifications when users register, allowing you to keep your records up-to-date. You're also able to create users with a single sign-on workflow for just about any other application, for convenience and time savings. Each created user has access to an online environment where they can modify their account details as well as customize the functionalities of their assigned roles. Administrators have full control over user access and permissions, which reduces potential security risks and keeps the system secure at all times.
The platform also provides tools that enable security features, such as two-factor authentication, password expiration, and email verification.
Integration flows
600+ application ecosystem
Integration flows in Zoho Creator offer a powerful and efficient way to synchronize data between two different systems, allowing businesses to truly gain a unified picture of their operations.
Zoho Creator's integration flows provide an advanced way to streamline business processes, combining the power of an integrated application ecosystem with 600+ apps. Integration flows are designed with custom triggers and actions, making it easy to link your data sources together and ensure accurate, real-time information.

Allowing users to map variables to move information between systems quickly, these integration flows dramatically reduce the time and resources needed to keep up with system updates while adding value to an organization's cycles.
With customizable logs and notifications available, teams can better monitor the progress of integration flow tasks and ensure everything is efficiently synchronized.
Click and configure
Zoho Creator enables users to quickly and effortlessly click and configure cloud-based apps within minutes. Our intuitive low-code platform allows users to build native mobile and web applications directly from the database, without any extra coding.
Configuring screens, data objects, and more is straightforward, with the user only needing to modify parts of the app suited for their own unique needs. The limits of which widgets are ready to use are set based on the role of the user.
The platform's customization tools let you tailor business logic, prioritize preferences, and refine multi-step workflows—all with a few clicks.
Zero backend configurations
Zoho Creator makes it possible to reduce the time and effort needed to configure your backend. With its intuitive drag-and-drop builders and powerful automation tools, you can quickly build a complete system without having to spend hours doing coding or manual configurations. This means that there is no need for external experts to come in and configure the backend, allowing you to save costs while still getting all the benefits of a top-end system.
These advances in technological efficiency provide greater support for product designers, enabling them to focus their attention on building customer-optimized solutions that deliver a superior user experience. The result is a massively enhanced customer satisfaction rate for organizations utilizing Zoho Creator's powerful no-configuration feature set.
BI & analytics
Augmented analytics
Augmented analytics in Zoho Creator provides businesses with powerful, data-driven insights to better inform their decision-making.
Its AI-driven engine simplifies the complexity of analytics, allowing you to gain a clearer understanding of your business processes and performance. Using advanced algorithms and natural language processing, you can ask questions about your data in plain text and receive actionable insights from real-time visualizations.

By proactively suggesting useful charts and other visualizations, it can reduce the manual effort of compiling complex reports. Augmented analytics in Zoho Creator also helps identify previously unknown correlations and trends in data, as well as uncover opportunities for further business improvement.

Secure collaboration
With Zoho Creator, businesses can securely collaborate on projects with the platform's robust security features. Creator simplifies the authorization process and protects data with encryption, while also incorporating two-factor authentication that guarantees secure access to users who need to do their job.
Moreover, teams can assign specific roles and control visibility of information depending on a user’s need-to-know level, as well as monitor changes in real time, with audit logs. Users can also configure forms, notifications, and scripts according to their needs, so that collaboration is seamless without compromising security.
With extra levels of authentication and site-wide encryption, users can rest assured that their confidential data is stored on a highly secure platform. Administrators also have access to a wide range of tools designed to help them manage settings and permissions for users accessing sensitive documents and files within Zoho Creator. All user activities are tracked for the purpose of maintaining audit logs, which provides an additional layer of transparency between organization administrators and end users.
AI-powered apps
No-code AI builder
Zoho Creator has made the process of building and deploying chatbots, automated task managers, machine learning applications, and more, much easier with their no-code AI builder for citizen developers.
This technology makes it possible for non-tech professionals to quickly build intelligent solutions without ever needing to write a line of code. In addition to taking advantage of a rich library of use cases, developers have access to natural language processing and intelligence algorithms, all inside an easy-to-use platform.

With this feature, users have the flexibility to train models without needing coding experience or deep technical knowledge. The AI builder harnesses Zoho's natural language processing capabilities, which automatically learns how to properly interpret text with minimal training effort. This allows users to easily automate tasks and unleash the full potential of their data in record time.
The no-code AI builder feature provides enormous opportunities for organizations looking to streamline processes and offer better customer experiences, while avoiding potentially costly development cycles.
Sentiment analysis
The sentiment analysis feature in Zoho Creator provides a powerful way to obtain valuable feedback from customers and employees alike.
With this feature, users can quickly analyze large amounts of text data and gain insight into the sentiment of topics like customer support requests or employee engagement surveys. Automated sentiment analysis uses advanced natural language processing technologies to accurately decipher text documents and gauge the sentiment behind it.

The tool also allows Zoho Creator to recognize certain words and phrases as potential indicators of how people feel about different topics. By aggregating data from multiple sources, Zoho Creator can develop a clear understanding of what customers think about their products and services for better decision-making. Companies can also quickly identify target customers and tailor their strategies according to the particular needs of each customer segment.
By uncovering this information, organizations are able to shape their business policies more accurately and efficiently.
Optical character recognition
Optical character recognition (OCR) technology has come a long way since its inception—and Zoho Creator has fully embraced its capabilities, allowing users to significantly reduce manual data entry tasks.
By leveraging industry-leading OCR technologies, Zoho Creator can take scanned documents and accurately extract text from them in a matter of seconds. Detailed information like dates and numbers can even be extracted directly from scans and files.

The OCR feature also automatically reads handwritten documents and tags multiple fields for easy searching and retrieval, making it possible for users to quickly find what they need without manually scrolling through endless pages of information.
OCR in Zoho CreatorZoho Creator eliminates the need for manual data entry, thereby saving on labor costs and improving accuracy. It also significantly reduces processing time and ensures consistent and accurate formatting, regardless of whether you're dealing with large documents or small ones.
Unified data service
Cloud infrastructure
Zoho Creator's cloud infrastructure offers an innovative take on providing secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to store, manage, and analyze business data. It's designed to meet the needs of any organization, regardless of size.
Its capabilities include multi-tenancy support, which facilitates scaling as demand or complexity increase. Furthermore, its enterprise-grade security ensures that users' valuable data remains secure and confidential.
This service also eliminates the need for manual entry, saving staff time and ensuring reliable data accuracy. It even keeps your business’s information organized, easily accessible, and secure from unauthorized parties. Dashboards are simple to generate in real-time reports with third-party integrations available for extended connectivity, giving users greater insight into their operations. Powerful automation functions ensure that potential issues or opportunities can be identified quickly and efficiently to save on costs or boost efficiency.


With robust integration options across applications and services, this platform gives organizations the flexibility to meet their unique requirements without compromise. The unified data platform helps streamline operations and makes sharing information easy amongst all stakeholders.
Unlimited data sources
Zoho Creator offers a virtually unlimited array of data sources for creating custom apps. From various native options like JSON, OData, and SOAP to popular cloud-based solutions like Dropbox, Salesforce, and Google Drive, Zoho Creator's app builder offers a deep toolbox of structures you can use to input and analyze data.

Additionally, the platform allows you to customize those inputs using powerful formulas to automatically generate velocity or identify trends according to specific criteria.
Through its intuitive drag-and-drop interface and hundreds of prebuilt APIs, users are able to instantly build complex business logic and connect to multiple databases in minutes. To ensure top security protocols are followed, Zoho Creator also enables users to configure user rights and access restrictions so that data is visible only to relevant parties or processes.
Depending on their business requirements and preferences, users are able to access hosted databases, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, as well as local vendor departments.
This gives users the freedom to handle large workloads in an efficient manner.
With this integrated infrastructure, users have full control over their computed result sets, as well as the ability to use a variety of customization controls.
Easy governance
Zoho Creator enables complex business processes and workflows to be automated more efficiently, while ensuring adherence to established governance policies.
Its comprehensive security and access control capabilities give you flexibility and enable you to configure roles with prebuilt templates, or define them from scratch. This lets you grant fine-grained permissions on data, applications, and every other object within your apps, to ensure all data remains secure at all times. Additionally, its integrated permissions structure helps ensure only authorized personnel have access to confidential data or systems.


Any changes made can be tracked in the audit log, so you always know who's responsible for any changes made and when they were performed.

Utilizing Zoho Creator for rules-based governance simplifies processes and ends tedious manual tasks associated with maintaining enterprise workplace structure and loading information into databases quickly and accurately.
Serverless functions
Multilanguage support
Zoho Creator's intuitive interface makes it easy to set up language parameters in a matter of minutes and translate phrases automatically. The framework also simplifies building complete web/mobile applications with multiple locales (with RTL support), as well as content localization services.
Features such as FaaS (functions as a service) and language-specific APIs make it easy to access backend data and manipulate resources using various coding languages.
With dedicated support for dynamic languages, such as JavaScript and Python, users can build powerful custom apps with ease. Furthermore, its native inclusion of Node.js eliminates the need to install additional libraries or frameworks, making the development process more efficient and cost-effective. Zoho Creator provides flexibility, with a comprehensive range of supported languages to help create highly customized business solutions, simplifying the task for developers who don't have language proficiency across all their systems.
Zoho Creator has built on this technology, allowing users an easier transition into building projects and applications that involve more than one language, for scalability purposes. Resources are made available for whichever language you decide and, with their help, you can create incredible ventures quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
Write once, execute anywhere
Zoho Creator's serverless functions bring the concept of "write once, execute anywhere" to reality. Developers can create functions which are completely independent of the authoring app, allowing them to add powerful features to an application, without writing a single line of code.

Serverless functions powered by Zoho CreatorZoho Creator also enable secure execution by automatically managing authentication and authorization across cloud resources, giving you an extra layer of security. With this feature, the complexity and cost of deployment have been drastically reduced, as developers don't need to worry about infrastructure—no servers, VMs, or even containers to manage.
This allows for the direct deployment of code components on different web application platforms, without having to rewrite them. Even with varying portability requirements, developers can use serverless functions to integrate custom logic into their existing applications with ease. Serverless functions also help reduce development time, as they're able to dynamically adjust resources to meet an application’s changing needs.
No maintenance
With Zoho Creator, users benefit from zero maintenance needed when they create custom applications with a serverless backend. The platform is hosted on AWS Lambda, which allows users to quickly set up and manage their own services that run in response to various events like external API calls.
Developers can now focus on coding the logic for their applications without worrying about managing servers or keeping them updated and available. Editing an existing application or pushing updates is easy as well; edits or additions can be made directly via the web-based interface or even via an automated continuous deployment system connected to source control repositories like GitHub.
The cloud infrastructure underlying serverless functions automatically scales up when required, meaning organizations no longer need to deal with unpredictable load spikes. This allows for improved performance at scale without manual interference. Serverless functions offer valuable cost savings, too, since you doesn't need to pay for infrastructure and systems support when using Zoho Creator.