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Apps from what your team already has

Bubble, Glide and Softr build apps on top of data you bring, priced by workload units, users or plan limits. FasterOS builds apps from your own forms, reports, sheets and calendars, with logic by clicking, agents that run processes, and the site, support desk and team around them.

• No meters No workload units or per-update fees: hosting by use, people by seat.
• Your own data Every form is a table, at any size, with access rules per form.
• Logic by clicking Jade: explained functions, or text if you prefer.
• More than an app A site, a store, bookings, a support desk and team chat, too.

What's different underneath

Priced without meters

Bubble counts workload units: Starter $29, Growth $119 and Team $349 a month, billed yearly, with 175,000 to 500,000 units and more to buy. Glide Business is $199 a month for 30 users, then $5 a user. Softr runs $49 to $269 a month, with users and records capped by plan.

$5 a month for each person who builds, $1 for each team member who uses the app, and hosting by use. The public uses public apps free, and there’s no workload unit to watch.

The data is yours, already

Glide and Softr sit on data you bring (Google Sheets, Airtable or their own tables, with limits by plan). Bubble has its own database, shaped and secured by you.

Every form is a table, at any size, with access rules per form: the team, the public, or each person only their own records. Reports filter, total and relate them; apps put them in front of people.

Logic and processes, by clicking

Workflows and actions handle what happens on a click or a change. Approvals, schedules and processes that wait for people are built from those steps or another service.

Jade gives every field and form logic from explained functions. Agents run whole processes: started by a form or a schedule, asking for approval, waiting, reminding and escalating, with every step on record.

An app, and everything around it

An app builder makes apps. The site, store, bookings, support desk and the team’s chat and documents live elsewhere.

Apps sit beside your site, store, bookings, live chat, support desk and team chat, docs and sheets, sharing the same records and people.

Side by side

What it takes, and where each one comes from.

Build the same client portal

A firm wants a request form, a record of every request, a report of what’s open, a partner’s approval before work starts, and a portal where each client sees only their own requests. Here’s what each takes.

FasterOS: 6 steps, on your own data

1. Create your team and invite the staff1:34 how-to
2. Ask the Assistant to build the request form1:29 how-to
3. Turn its requests into a report of what’s open1:49 how-to
4. Set the form so each client sees only their own requests
5. Describe the approval; an agent runs it
6. Put the form and report together as an app with its own link1:23 how-to

Four are shown start to finish in narrated how-tos. About 6 minutes of video in all.

A no-code app builder: data, screens, then the extras

1. Set up the data (a spreadsheet, Airtable or the builder’s tables)
2. Design the screens and the request form
3. Write privacy rules so each client sees only their own rows
4. Build the approval from workflow steps, or connect an automation service
5. Pick a plan for the users and records you expect, and watch the meter

Bubble is the most flexible of the three, and the most work; Glide and Softr are quicker, and lean on data kept elsewhere.

Your first year, priced

Our own published prices, and theirs as published or benchmarked. Change anything to match your quotes.

Each of these is one tool for one job, with its own bill. FasterOS is a platform: the first solution pays for your team’s seats, and every one after it (a site, a store, a support desk, agents) adds only its hosting and any add-on.

Beyond an app

What an app builder leaves to other tools, FasterOS does in the same place.

Your first year with each

No-code app builders

• Watch workload units, rows or users, and move up a plan
• Keep the data, the app and the processes in step across tools
• Pay separately for the site, support and team tools

FasterOS

• Add people at $1 a month
• The data, the app and the agents in one place
• The site, support desk and team tools included

When a no-code app builder is the better fit

• A consumer app with a custom interface and app-store mobile apps (Bubble).
• A quick app on a spreadsheet your team already keeps (Glide).
• A portal on top of an Airtable base you don’t want to move (Softr).

Questions

Sources, as published in 2026: Bubble pricing (Starter $29, Growth $119, Team $349 a month billed yearly; workload units); Glide pricing (Business $199 a month with 30 users; $5 an extra user); Softr pricing (Basic $49, Professional $139, Business $269 a month).