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Betty Blocks vs Microsoft Power Apps comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Betty Blocks
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
36th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No-Code Development Platforms (15th)
Microsoft Power Apps
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
95
Ranking in other categories
Low-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of Betty Blocks is 1.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Apps is 7.6%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Power Apps7.6%
Betty Blocks1.1%
Other91.3%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

Featured Reviews

Hans De Groot - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/Operator at Informatieewerkplaats
The solution is stable and has good support, but is expensive
Betty Blocks, when I started with it, was similar to a back-end platform with the ability to have a standardized back-office UI out of the box, which is perfect for a lot of situations. For more customer-facing UIs, we had to create the front end ourselves, building endpoints with HTML and JavaScript. Then Betty Blocks started in 2018 with the page builder. This allowed us to create drag-and-drop interfaces. That was quite cumbersome. Now Betty Blocks is entering a new generation of it - next generation forms - which should be a lot better. The most valuable feature is the back end. The way we can create action flows for things such as sending emails, creating PDF reports, or connecting to web services is very complete. I never experience a lack of functionality in it. The standardized back-office UI is said to be deprecated over time, which is a shame, because it is a real time-saver and is one of their strong points, only if it was kept up-to-date.
BS
Automation Enthusiast at Self employed
Low-code AI workflows have streamlined content curation and currently support rapid app creation
Microsoft Power Apps could be improved because there are still a lot of jargons and too many moving parts. For example, if you look at Copilot, the term Copilot is confusing in the sense of whether it is Copilot in M365, Copilot Studio, or Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps. There is a plan designer which uses Copilot. The whole thing how AI has been positioned is still not lucid for the end user. An end user wants to know exactly what they want and where they go to get it. I think that could also be because things are evolving so fast. From an end-user perspective, the way it has been positioned, the clarity and the boundaries between the different types of offerings and AI offerings available is confusing as of now. There should be better clarity on that. The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model. In traditional software development, almost 95 percent of the time, the development team bears the cost of the licenses. For example, if I develop something, I may have to pay licenses for four or five different software that I use. As a user, if you use my services, you probably pay something to me as a subscription, but you do not have to bother about the licenses. All that is wrapped under the hood. Unfortunately, in Power Platform as such, and even in other low-code things like UiPath, if you use a premium feature such as Dataverse, almost everything ends up using Dataverse or SQL Server or some relational database. If you use that, then as an app builder or app maker you have to have a premium license. The end user too would need to have a premium license. That really makes the adoption prohibitive. It is too expensive. We are talking about something like around just for Microsoft Power Apps alone, approximately twenty dollars per month, which is extremely high. Another point to consider for what else can be improved in Microsoft Power Apps is that one does not know what compute power one is getting when one buys a license. If you look at the licensing model, you will get to know how much of Dataverse storage you will get in terms of log storage, database storage, and file storage. However, you do not get to know how much of compute power is being given to you. I do not think Microsoft has an SLA saying that any request of a certain amount, such as MB per second, you will get a response time of whatever, one by sixtieth of a second or some millisecond. I do not think that they have that performance SLA in place. They do have storage SLA which comes with the license, but they do not have a corresponding SLA for performance.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"All these components are separately tuneable, which makes it a very strong platform, and we believe that this should be considered in the enterprise market."
"The most valuable feature is the back end."
"The scalability is good."
"It uses a lot of AI, which is helpful, especially during the setup process."
"The most valuable features for us are predominantly on the user interface front."
"The most valuable features are low-code and fast development."
"It is a really good tool; we can run programming knowledge, we can learn the PowerApps, we can interact with applications, and it is user-friendly so anyone can easily learn and work on this tool."
"Issue tracking and centralized issue management are significantly enhanced with Power Apps, reducing lengthy data consolidation processes across departments."
"We get feedback on a real-time basis, which is actually very useful for us."
"Generating reports is very fast with Microsoft PowerApps. It's stable and scalable as well."
 

Cons

"I would like to see full integration with AI."
"In many cases, they make choices where flexibility is a little bit degraded, but if you leave everything open and the flexibility is great then the usability is a little bit less."
"What I find lacking in the software is its ability to query the database."
"The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model."
"In my experience, the solution's deployment can be tricky."
"This tool doesn't have an internal database. It only relies on the data layer of Microsoft Cloud."
"Microsoft Power Apps must be more robust when integrating with Microsoft Power BI."
"The pricing is too expensive and the licensing system is complicated."
"The connectors are the main components that reference the data sources, and these need to be improved."
"If the price was reduced and the quality of the user interfaces was improved it would be beneficial."
"It would be good if this solution supports standard BPN operations. We are thinking of switching to a BPM solution next year because it is not a BPM solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is quite high, but the pricing is also not very transparent."
"The pricing structure that we have been working with was based on a number of blocks."
"Whatever the cost of licensing is, it is in the millions."
"It might be too complicated to continuously monitor the business consumption and what to pay."
"We use the Office 365 package, and Microsoft PowerApps is a part of the package. We don't pay any separate price for this. There are no additional costs. We just pay for the Office 365 package."
"One of the main things about this solution is the price. The cost for Salesforce is $35, $25, or $10 per user per month. PowerApps costs much less than that. It is at a good price point. It may change in the future, but at this point, its price is pretty fine."
"The platform's pricing is reasonable."
"I pay nine dollars monthly for the subscription to this solution and the price of the is reasonable."
"It was about $40. There are people that are lower than that, however, they don't give you the features."
"In terms of pricing, Power Apps is cost-efficient."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

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Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise50
 

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PowerApps, MS PowerApps
 

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Sample Customers

KPMG, TELE2, Sligro Food Group, Ymere, Flexpoint Group
TransAlta, Rackspace, Telstra
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