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 nine graded tests. I left one out: payments and emails need your own keys, so that test is not graded.

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 1 November 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Adalo's support form needs a reCAPTCHA check, so I emailed support@adalo.com instead. I asked three things: how to cancel the Builder plan, how to stop visitors choosing Admin at sign-up, and how to export my data and code.

The only reply came about 13 hours later, from the Client Happiness Team. It was a standard message saying the inbox is not monitored and asking me to raise a ticket through a web form. It answered none of my three questions.

I could not cancel the plan myself either. The Change Plan screen's Free button only opened a new-app screen, and the Stripe billing portal let me switch between monthly and yearly only. I emailed again to ask for the cancellation in writing. The plan renews at $65 on 26 November 2026.

A support ticket on the same question was answered two minutes after it was raised. The answer said I can change my subscription at any time in my Team and Billing settings and linked a help page. I followed it. The new billing screen's Change Plan and Free button again only opened a new-app screen. The older billing screen loads, but its Change Plan link did nothing when I clicked it, and the help page's own link to the steps was not found. Nothing was cancelled: the screen still shows Builder at $65 with the next payment on 26 November 2026.

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 Adalo's support answered none of my questions.

The nine graded tests average 2.2 out of 5, and I rate Adalo 2.2. Export, build speed and support 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.