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6 TypeForm Alternatives for 2025

TypeForm is one of the most popular form builder tools on the market today, owing in large part to its intuitive, streamlined experiences for creating professional data collection UIs. However, this is a relatively crowded space, with several notable vendors targeting specific types of use cases and end users. Today, we’re checking out an important angle on form builders, by checking out some of the most prominent TypeForm alternatives on the market today.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 3, 2025

8 JotForm Alternatives for 2025

JotForm is perhaps the best-known form builder tool on the market today. However, this is a more varied space than it might appear. On the one hand, most platforms offer wider capabilities beyond simply outputting form UIs. On the other hand, different vendors often have their own more granular target personas and use cases. Today, we’re shedding light on this by exploring the market for JotForm alternatives, including a range of solutions that are aimed at different kinds of users and applications.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 1, 2025

Workspaces

Today, we’re excited to launch Workspaces: the first step in a major evolution for Budibase. A new architecture for better workflows Previously, Budibase centered everything around building a single app. Each app had its own automations and data sources. But as teams scaled, reusing automations or data across multiple apps became a challenge. With Workspaces, that changes. Now, you can group multiple apps, automations, and data sources together within a single workspace.

Joe Johnston

Aug 19, 2025

Dev/Prod switcher

We’re excited to announce a new feature that gives you more control over your development and production environments. The Dev/Prod switcher within the data section allows you to switch seamlessly between your development and production data. Key Updates: Switching Environments: Easily toggle between “Dev” and “Prod” modes to view and work with the corresponding data. External Tables: The switcher is fully compatible with external tables that use environment variables , making managing your different data sources easier.

Joe Johnston

Aug 18, 2025

AI in IT Asset Management | Use Cases and Examples

AI is rapidly transforming almost all kinds of workflows and processes across businesses in every industry. However, some teams and functions are moving faster than others. In many organizations, internal services such as ITSM are quickly becoming the biggest innovators when it comes to AI adoption. Today, we’re exploring some of the forms this can take in the case of one key ITSM process, asset management. Along the way, we’ll cover everything you need to know about implementing AI in IT asset management workflows, as well as checking out some of the key use cases that Budibase can handle.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 25, 2025

Building LLM-Powered Applications

AI is forming a key part of more and more development projects. While this obviously offers massive benefits, it also introduces some important challenges, including securing the required skills and resources to create internal solutions. Today, we’re diving deep into how to build LLM-powered applications, including practical examples of how Budibase empowers you to utilize AI within our low-code platform. Specifically, we’ll be covering: What is an LLM-powered application? Key use cases and examples Benefits and challenges AI capabilities in Budibase AI across the builder AI columns AI in Budibase automation Let’s start with the basics.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 24, 2025

10 Self-Hosted AI Tools

AI is becoming central to all kinds of business processes. This offers almost unprecedented potential for efficiency and improvements within workflows. At the same time, though, businesses are constrained by several considerations that can affect their choice of solutions. For large organizations, one of the most prominent examples of this is self-hosting. That is, many enterprises and other security-focused organizations place a high level of emphasis on solutions that can be hosted on their own infrastructure, especially where these relate to mission-critical data or processes.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 22, 2025

What are Enterprise AI Agents?

Interest in agentic AI has exploded over the past few years. In particular, businesses of all kinds are adopting AI agents to build efficiency, reliability, and scalability into their internal processes and workflows. However, as with all kinds of software tools, what an effective solution looks like can vary from one organization to the next. Indeed, a range of platforms have come to market in recent years for building and managing AI agents, but these often target very different segments and user personas.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 18, 2025

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