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

Softr is a no-code platform with an AI Co-Builder. You describe the app in a chat, Softr asks a few questions, then creates the screens, the database that stores your data, the log-in and the hosting. To change something, you type another message.

You pay with AI credits. The Free plan includes 5 a month, and the paid plans run from $25 to $395 a month. I used a free Business trial that ends on 1 November 2026 and then falls back to Free.

Every number here comes from my own tests and my own monitors. Nothing is estimated or copied, Softr 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 Softr has not yet answered my support question.

Softr has a Free plan with 5 AI credits a month, then $25 Basic, $119 Pro and $395 Business, each with more AI credits. A custom domain starts at Basic. Prices read on 26 October 2026, monthly view.

Softr pricing modal in the monthly view: Free with 5 AI credits, Basic at $25, Pro at $119 and Business at $395 a month, with their features listed

Here is the number you will ask about first. In total I paid $0: the workspace was a free Business trial and I entered no card. The whole test used about 8.8 of the roughly 54 AI credits the trial gave me.

Softr Plan and billing page: Business (Trial) with the trial ending on November 1, 2026, and the apps, databases and workflow usage panels

The free plan's 5 credits would not have covered this test, and the app never reached a finished state, so I cannot price a finished app. I also did not test what 1,000 bookings a month would cost.

Softr built its version in about three minutes, after about five minutes of questions. The wizard asked how members book, whether bookings need approval, how people log in, who can sign up and how the menu works. I answered only from my brief.

Softr: the build wizard asking how users will log in, with Email, Google and SSO options and three steps along the top

My first click on Create my app did nothing, because a theme had to be picked. The app was ready about 25 minutes after I submitted the brief, and live at 36 minutes.

The grade is the lowest, not for the time but for the finish line. The scale stops when 20 of the 24 checks pass. After 13 follow-up prompts only 8 did.

No. 8 of 24 checks passed. Six more, the payments and the two emails, need keys that are mine to supply, so I left them out. What passed: sign-up and log-in by emailed code, and the admin's add, edit and delete of classes.

Softr also invented data although the brief said to use only my facts. It seeded eight classes, such as Sunrise Yoga and HIIT Cardio Blast, with prices I never gave, plus 32 bookings, 8 inquiries and ten sample users. None of my three classes was there.

Softr editor after the first build, with the chat summary on the left and the Fitting Room home page on the right listing Sunrise Yoga, HIIT Cardio Blast and other classes I never asked for

Softr said it cannot delete records, so I deleted them by hand. My three classes then showed the wrong times, such as Monday 11:00 am where the brief says 7:00 am. A prompt fixed the capacities and lengths. Members still have no Book button and no My Bookings page, and no coach screen could be reached.

Softr test app admin page: the Classes table and the Bookings table, where the Class Name, Class Day and Class Start Time columns are empty for every booking, with a message that the data was exported

I asked for the twelve changes, one prompt each. Five worked: the dark green and cream colours, a lower capacity for Power Reformer, a phone layout, the bookings export on the admin page only, and a dark mode toggle that kept the data.

Softr test app as the admin sees it, in dark green and cream, with the About link in the menu, a dark mode button at the top right, three class cards and counters for classes, bookings and inquiries

The seven that did not: a phone field at sign-up, renaming instructor to coach (both names still show), an instructor filter, a credit and cancel flow, a second email and a waiting list. The About page exists, but its address, phone and email are invented instead of the ones in my brief.

Publishing was fast. I pressed Publish and the app was live on Softr's own address in about five seconds. I did not connect my own domain, which needs the Basic plan or above.

Softr editor with the dialog Your app is live showing the address clifton69332.softr.app and the buttons Keep building and See it live

The weak spot is speed: the main content took about 9 seconds to appear on a simulated phone. A "Made with Softr" badge shows on the live app, on the Business trial. I did not count layout faults or try a real phone.

Every day I also run the Softr speed test and the Softr 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.

Softr hosts the app, so a Softr outage would show here. The record has only just started, so it holds no verdict yet.

Every check so far is on the Softr uptime record.

Both of my attacks were blocked. A member who opened the admin page got a Permission denied page, and a member sees no list of bookings. The home counter does show the studio's total number of bookings to members.

Softr test app: a Permission denied page, with the text You don't have permission to view this page and a Back to home button

Softr uses no password: you give your email and it sends a one-time code, which replaces a reset too. A log-in took 20 to 105 seconds from asking for the code to being in.

Softr test app: the live log-in page with one email field and a Continue button, and the Made with Softr badge in the corner

There is one weak spot. A new sign-up gets no user group, and the roles exist only on the sample users Softr invented, so I could not sign in as an instructor. The Users tab holds 12 users, ten of them sample users.

Softr Users tab listing sample accounts with example.com addresses and their Admin, Member and Instructor user groups

Records were saved and kept: five of six data checks I could prove. The Ask the studio form wrote a record, records stayed after reloads, republishes and the colour change, and the admin could add, edit and delete rows in the data view.

Softr Data view with the Classes table showing zero records, after I deleted the invented classes, and the chat on the left saying it generated 72 sample records

The sixth check failed. Members cannot write a booking, because there is no Book button, so the table holds only the invented rows. The bookings do export as a CSV file, but the class columns are blank.

I did not run payments or emails, because both need keys that are yours to supply. My brief asked for a $95 pass through Stripe test mode, an order record, credits for the member and two emails. After the build the Workflows tab said "Create your first workflow" and was empty, so nothing was waiting for keys.

Softr build screen with the requirements summary listing a Stripe test-mode checkout and a confirmation email, beside the Users table with ten sample accounts

Tables called Pass Orders and Class Credits exist, with nothing connected to them. This test is not graded.

Exporting means downloading your app so it can run somewhere else. I looked in Settings and in the data view and found no code export. What exists is a CSV of the records and a CSV of the bookings from the admin page.

I did not read the terms, so I cannot say who owns the app you build. Check this before you pay if your app must leave one day.

I asked Softr's live chat how to build booking and a full-class rule, and had no reply when I wrote this. The chat promises a reply in minutes. I sent it on 26 October.

The trial needs no cancelling: it ends on 1 November 2026 and the workspace falls back to the Free plan automatically. I entered no card.

I have not yet read what other users say about Softr, so this draft has no review scores. Read them before you decide.

If this were my studio, I would not use Softr's AI build for Fitting Room yet. It built something tidy, but not what I described, it would not clean up after itself, and members could not book.

It suits people who want a fast draft of tables and screens and will build the booking parts by hand. It suits you less if you need members to book, pay and get emails without doing that work yourself, or if the app must be able to leave one day. I could not try payments or emails without your own keys, and Softr has not yet answered my support question.

The eight graded tests average 2.5 out of 5, and I rate Softr 2.5. Build speed and export are the lowest grades: the app never reached 20 passing checks, and I found no code export.

See the Softr test results and how I rate.