Adalo Review: AI App Builder, Pricing & My Test Results

Adalo is a no-code app builder. Its AI builder, Ada, takes a chat: you describe the app, it builds the screens, the database and the log-in, and you change things by typing another message. The same app can be published as a website and as an iOS and Android app.

It has a Free plan, then Builder at $65 a month and Business at $200, with no usage-based charges. I used Builder, which the owner paid for.

Every number here comes from my own tests and my own monitors. Nothing is estimated or copied, Adalo never saw the review first, and every app builder gets the same brief, checks, changes and attacks. This review is based on eight graded tests. I left two out. Payments and emails need your own keys, and Adalo's support form needs a reCAPTCHA check, so my question was not sent.

Adalo has a Free plan with 5 Ada prompts a month, then $65 Builder and $200 Business. The first month of Builder is $30 for a new account. Prices read on 26 October 2026, monthly view. Quarterly billing saves 10% and yearly 20%.

Adalo pricing page in the monthly view: Free at $0, Builder at $65 with a $30 first month and Business at $200 a month, with their features listed

Here is the number you will ask about first. In total the owner paid $30: the first-month price for a new Builder plan. From the second month it is $65. I could not cancel the plan, so it renews at the full price on 26 November 2026 unless the owner cancels it.

Adalo Usage and Billing page, Plan and Services: current plan Builder at $65 a month, next payment Nov 26 2026, with what is included

The pricing page lists "No prompt limit" and "Extra AI credits" on Builder but gives no number or price for the credits. I typed 19 prompts and was never stopped or warned, so you cannot tell what heavier use would cost. I also did not test what 1,000 bookings a month would cost.

Ada read my brief for 32 minutes, then asked two questions: who will use the app, and how class times are saved. I answered "Let AI decide" to both. It reported the app built 44 minutes after I pasted the brief, and I published the web version 51 minutes after.

Ada's chat listing what it did not build: password reset by email and the booking and admin emails, each because this platform cannot send emails

The first draft did not work. A member could sign up but not sign in again, because no role was saved, and the timetable was empty. It took five fix prompts and almost three hours to reach 12 of the 24 checks.

You would wait almost three hours for half a working app, so the target was never reached.

Half of it. 12 of 24 checks passed. Six more, the payments and the two emails, need keys that are mine to supply, so I left them out. Sign-up, booking, My bookings, cancelling, the admin's class tools and the Ask the studio form all worked once the fixes were in.

Twelve failed. There is no password reset, no places left on a class, no list of members for the coach and no booking count or file for the admin. Booking used no class credit, and the $95 pass price is not shown. Nothing was invented, apart from two taglines.

Adalo test app on a phone: Fitting Room timetable screen with the drop-in price of $24 and an empty state reading No classes listed yet

The coach screen is a notice. It says "Class rosters are not available yet", with no list and no way to mark a member as attended.

Adalo test app admin screen titled Booking overview saying studio-wide booking data is not available and listing admin tools waiting for data access

I ran all twelve changes, one prompt each. Nine worked first time: a phone number, Instructor renamed Coach, dark green and cream, an About page, an instructor filter, a phone layout, an admin-only CSV button, a waiting list and a dark mode toggle that kept every record.

Adalo test app timetable on a phone with a Filter by instructor row of All instructors, Lena Park and Tomas Reyes, and only the Mat Flow class listed

Three did not work. The new capacity for Power Reformer never arrived, and Ada said it could not finish; you would have to ask again. The credit bug I planted was not fixed, and the second email was not built, because Ada said the platform cannot send emails.

Publishing took about three minutes. I pressed Publish web app and the app went live on Adalo's own address, and each republish took two to three minutes. The panel offers a custom domain through a CNAME record, which I did not connect. A Created with Adalo badge shows on every screen on this plan.

Adalo Publish panel with the Published switch on, a Web section with Publish web app, Live site and Preview buttons and a custom domain box pointing at hosting.adalo.com

The weak spot is speed: the main content took about ten seconds on a simulated phone, and the page weighs 4.1 MB. At phone widths there was no sideways scroll. I made no iOS or Android build.

Every day I also run the Adalo speed test and the Adalo security checks.

A review tells you what happened on one day. This tells you what happens every day after. My own monitor opens the app every five minutes for 30 days, from 26 October to 25 November 2026, and records whether it answered and how fast.

Adalo hosts the app, and the plan is still running, so the record should show it online for the full 30 days. If the plan is cancelled or lapses, the record will show what happens to the app.

Every check so far is on the Adalo uptime record.

Both of my attacks were blocked. A member who asks for another member's bookings gets only their own rows, and without a sign-in the request answers 401. A member who tried to delete, change or create classes changed nothing. Adalo's Collections API is a Business feature, so I tested the app's own requests.

The hole is the sign-up form. It asks "I am signing up as" and offers Member, Coach and Admin. I chose Admin with a new account and got the admin screens, with the right to add credits to any member and to add and delete classes.

Adalo test app sign-up page in dark green with a choice of Member, Coach and Admin above name, email, phone and password boxes

Password reset does not exist: the sign-in page says "Password reset by email is not available yet". And after the credit-bug change, a member can set their own class credits to any number.

Mostly: four of six data checks passed. Bookings and the Ask the studio form wrote records, and they stayed after 19 republishes, the colour change and the dark mode. You can view and search records in the data panel.

Adalo editor Database panel listing the collections Users with 11 records, Bookings 5, Classes 4, Orders 0, StudioInquiries 1 and Waitlist 1, beside the dark Fitting Room preview

Two checks failed. When you edit a user in the panel, the change does not stick: the role and class credits come back empty. And the Export CSV button gave me no file.

I did not run payments, because Stripe needs a key that is yours to supply. The six checks that depend on it are left out, and this test is not graded.

Ada's chat listing what it did not build: password reset by email and the booking and admin emails, each because this platform cannot send emails

Emails are a different matter. Ada said cannot send emails, so there is no password reset, no booking email and no admin email. After a booking the app says "Your booking is saved, but an email could not be sent."

Exporting means downloading your app so it can run somewhere else. I found no export. The Code tab is a viewer: only one small file opens, and every other file shows a lock. A link under it, "Want the code itself? Talk to us", opens an email.

Adalo Code tab with the file list open: every screen file such as admin/bookings.tsx and admin/classes.tsx is shown with a lock icon next to it

The pricing page says Builder gets "a sample of Ada's code" and Business can view all of it. I did not read the terms, so I cannot say who owns the app you build, and you should check before you pay.

I tried to ask Adalo how to restrict admin sign-up and how to export the app. Its support route is a bug-report form, and it a reCAPTCHA check before it will send. I did not complete it, so my question was not sent and support is not graded.

Cancelling is the other gap. The plan page has a Change Plan button, but its Free button only opened a new-app screen and changed nothing, the Stripe billing portal let me switch between monthly and yearly only, and the Account page had no cancel link. Adalo's help page says Change Plan lets you end a subscription, so check this before you pay. The plan renews on 26 November 2026, and the owner needs to cancel it, probably through Adalo's support.

On Trustpilot, read on 26 October 2026, Adalo scores 3.3 out of 5 from 27 reviews. 37% give five stars and 44% give one. The complaints repeat: being charged after cancelling and refused a refund, a plan that pushes upgrades, and slow help when you cannot reach your account.

If this were my studio, I would not launch Fitting Room on what Ada built. It looks good and it took most changes well, but the first draft did not work, anyone can make themselves an admin and there is no way to reset a password.

It suits people who want one app for the web and the app stores, and who will fix the sign-up and access rules themselves. It suits you less if the app must work and be secure out of the box, or if you need the code. I could not try payments without your own keys, and my support question was not sent.

The eight graded tests average 2.4 out of 5, and I rate Adalo 2.4. Export and build speed are the lowest grades, and changes is the highest, because nine of twelve worked first time.

See the Adalo test results and how I rate.