DaDaBIK®
The Low-code No-code
Web Application Builder
Since 2001.
20+ years of low-coding. Version 12.3 is here (September 2024).
Since V12, we have a new User Interface!
What can I build?
Thousands of customers from all over the world
Is DaDaBIK for Coders or NON-Coders? Both
Do you have a database you need to move online, but don’t have the budget to hire a developer? Want to build an internal tool, a public form or a database frontend?
DaDaBIK makes it easy to build web applications without touching a line of code. It makes creating an online database application easy and fast. DaDaBIK is a low-code/no-code database application builder written in PHP.
First developed in 2001, DaDaBIK is a popular, mature software product used by thousands of customers to make their databases available and updatable online with user-friendly, mobile-friendly, web-based interfaces.
No coding is required.
Start with the data you already have, including:
• an Excel/CSV file,
• an existing database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or MS SQL Server)
• or even from scratch (you don't need a data source if you don't have it).
DaDaBIK creates the database frontend for you automatically, in minutes: it has an integrated CRUD generator which creates a basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) online interface with ease.
Once generated, DaDaBIK’s visual interface configurator allows you to personalize and improve your Web database application to suit your organization’s workflow and needs.
Want to see what a DaDaBIK web app looks like in action? This demo HelpDesk app was built from scratch with DaDaBIK, without writing any PHP or Javascript code (no-code approach).
If you know how to code, then you know the frustration of having to write similar code, again and again, for different projects, when you build a simple database front-end or more sophisticated Web applications (internal tools, workflow and business process automation, public forms). We are developers as well and we know that feeling.
As a low-code solution, DaDaBIK lets you focus only on the code that matters, so you can stop wasting your time with repetitive and boring tasks. DaDaBIK can drastically reduce your development time.
By Using DaDaBIK as a web app builder, you create web applications with a no-code approach (even starting from your existing DB) and then, if the project requires complex workflows or specific needs, simply inject custom PHP & Javascript code using the unique DaDaBIK now-code + low-code integration approach (hooks, custom functions, ...). And yes, you can self-host your applications.
Do you need to integrate existing applications with DaDaBIK? Regardless of the technology used, you can query the database (DaDaBIK stores raw data) in SQL or call the HTTP API to get content in JSON or use hooks to execute some operations (e.g. call your URLs) when a particular event occurs. For example you could use DaDaBIK to create a headless CMS application.
Check out this CRM software, developed from scratch with DaDaBIK, it's no-code + very small addition of PHP & Javascript code.
2024 Reviews
Some of the 2024 reviews and comments, for a complete list, check our last launch on Product Hunt.
I have been using Dadabik since 2019.
I come from a no-code background and experience and I have to say that although it may initially come as a complex framework, it is actually very intuitive and simple to install and run in a web server.
I am working in the charity/humanitarian sector and have used it mainly to develop simple but powerful stock and inventory management platforms for humanitarian organizations to simplify and streamline the record and access to humanitarian aid commodities that are being procured and distributed to people in need. Organizations that may not have financial resources to improve their internal systems are very often looking at open source solutions, but it often comes as a ready to use solutions with little to no flexibility to customize data entry form and templates that are specific to the humanitarian sector. Dadabik is providing that as it allows to start from scratch by importing an existing Excel file and further customizing the system around it to improve realtime access to data and responding the “accountability” requirement to financial donors within the sector.
Moreover, with a little coding experience, you can unleash way more functionality, such as exporting custom PDF templates, and automate some advance functions (PHP framework).
Eugenio, the founder of Dadabik, is also very responsive when it comes to support.
I fully recommend this solution.
Patrick Sautron
Developer, OperationsI was looking for a personal tool for keeping track of the things in my life. I am a retired CTO for a number of top 100 companies, so to me building databases to keep track of stuff is a great hobby. But I needed a tool. It had to be flexible, easy to use, quick to build and it had to store everything in a secure database. I looked at over 30 products which claimed to meet at least one or two of my selection criteria. None of them matched all my criteria until I discovered DaDaBIK. It has been one of the better product decisions in my life. The support I got from Mr. Tacchini in the beginning was responsive, and creative. I highly recommend this product for almost any business or personal use.
Thomas Hurley
Retired CTO of fortune 100 companiesI have been using dadabik since 2020 because I needed to manage a complex and customized data archive in its structure. Even though I did not know the programming languages PHP, HTML, SQL, starting with dadabik I was able to immediately set up my project. Today, after studying the programming languages, my project has also been customized in the layout much more than I initially imagined dadabik would allow.
The product is really easy to use and incredibly adapts to even the most sophisticated needs, just imagine the result and, by applying yourself, you can achieve almost all your goals.
The assistance is impeccable!
I absolutely recommend the product!
Thanks Eugenio! (Comment automatically translated)
FIRST CISL Padova Rovigo
Trade UnionI found Dadabik by googling for a mature solution to quickly provide CRUD access to MySQL databases. I actually started to develop such a tool 20 years ago with PHP, but @eugenio_tacchini did this a lot better than me with Dadabik ! ;-) I use this platform for almost 10 years, for several web projects. Dadabik is real time saver, which allows developpers to publish a complete full web application in a few hours, without caring of boring HTML/CSS stuff ! Thank you Eugenio for your splendid work !!! :-) Regards, Gilles
Gilles
DevSoftware product I have looking for over 30 years. I purchased about two years ago. Brilliant concept and execution. Great for those projects that fall between "doing it myself" to farming it out. Great platform to put a database online. I love that it works great with MySQL (and others too). I hope that AI AppifyText tool get more robust very soon. Thanks for the great product & support.
Bruce Lowry
Data & AnalyticsUsing Dadabik now for approx. one year on two Wordpress websites. The software is easy to use out-of-the-box, but also enables custom functions which enables me to create very specific applications, very fast. Furthermore, the support is great!
Matthijs Wink
website builderI have been a DadaBik fan for many years, but after not touching it for the past 10 years, I am back in the mix. It is great to see this product making such great strides. Keep up the great work!
Joe Matassino
CXX Grey-haired IT guruI have been a user of Dadabik for many years. Eugenio is a superb, professional software designer and Dadabik if perfect for someone like me who wants to create great things with databases. I don't hesitate to recommend purchasing Dadabik. It's the best there is at what it does.
Ken Trethewey
PharologistI have been using Dadabik for several years now.
I have used it with great results for several databases mainly a for use with a heritage railway society.
I have had several conversations with Eugenio including some individual video discussions.
Eugenio is always good at listening and as a result has taken on board many users requests.
It amazes me how he can continue coming out with new features on an already great system
Jim Comerford
.I use DaDaBIK since 3 years implementing database soluution needed for my company specific processes. I think it is a great tool: easy configuration, easy CRUD implementation but if you needd more complex functions this tools let you code by yourself integrating everything you need.
Marco Donà
.5.0DaDaBIK is an amazing low-code / no-code platform that enables me to quickly and cost effectively deploy a modern looking, professional, intuitive applications for my clients.
Alan Dev
.5.0Great app creator. It allows you build your web app in no time.
Nico Kne
Developer4.0Easy to learn and easy to use application which allows you to build simple but also very complex databases and everything in between with great UI and user forms. DaDaBIK has come a long way and offers nice features. I enjoy using DaDaBIK to build extensive internal applications in the area of CRM and the end-users do enjoy it as much as I do. That is a win-win!
Edwin Izelaar
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Reviews
A very good tool to gain time developing your custom web based applications.
5.0This software allowed me to easily expand and develop gradually my web applications, focusing only on the relational database structure, and leaving to DadaBik the management of the forms that the final users will see.
Leone M.
Agriculture Water Management (UK)DaDaBIK is a mature easy to use web front end for database-driven applications
5.0What I like most about DaDaBIK is that the application is highly flexible and expandable. It works out of the box without coding knowledge but can be extended with own code if wanted. One can start a project and it immediately becomes usable application.
Stefan T.
University Professor (Germany)So far the best tool for building online applications
5.0Easy development for custom made applications for my clients and my own administration (ticketing system, office administration and much more)
Juergen M.
IT Consultant (Switzerland)Very good CRUD software
4.0Moved three large archive systems from Access to the WEB.
Frede H.
CEO (Denmark)I'm a DaDaBIK user since its very first version. It helps me to save a lot of programming time.
5.0Increased speed in programming activities. Excellent return on investment: with a small amount of money, I can save a lot of time avoiding repetitive programming. Constantly updated by the author, with new features in every release.
Verified Reviewer (Capterra)
ICT Projects ManagerDadabik is already great. Let us Make it Greater
4.0Dadabik made creating database driven applications easy. I always liked it. So I have contributed to the translation of Dadabik into my mother tongue, Telugu, language spoken by the largest number of people in India, after Hindi.
Kishor VN
Chief Sub Editor (India)Have been able to set up interactive Web site with minimal PHP programming skills
5.0
Verified User (G2)
Medical PracticeMore feedback from our users
DaDaBIK is performing really great for us. I'm so glad we purchased it! I have not seen anything that can do everything we need (eg. TablePress, NinjaTables, WP Data Tables, etc.)
Don Worth, USA
Ventura County Genealogical SocietyI have been impressed by DaDaBIK's ability to quickly generate a basic CRUD app, as that's all I was looking for at the time, but now I'm knocked down by how clever and powerful it is.
Ken Christensen, USA
I have used DaDaBIK for most of the time it has been around. The progress it has made and the space it fills between spreadsheets and off the shelf packages are just amazing.
Gregory White, UK
IT Consultant & video producer/directorEven if you can program in PHP with MySQL, DaDaBIK saves an imense amount of time. And for novices, it requires no knowledge of programming to implement a tight and efficient database front end.
David Serey
DaDaBIK is such an excellent tool and it helped me to quickly design and convert our existing products without the pain of coding from ASP.Net/SQL Server to PHP/MySql."
Dave, UK
DaDaBik is an awesome powerful tool for front-end development. Your team fast-tracked my application development by months.
Tom C., China
...I take this message to congratulate for the fantatic responsive user interface which makes Lerici a fantastic product. 8.0 works well both on Ipad and Iphone...
Paolo Illing, Canada
So far, the most comprehensive, fast and easy to use solution for presenting your data online. No special knowledge needed, no coding. Fast and friendly support.
Verified customer's review, Hotscripts.com
An excellent solution for publishing data from a mySQL database. No coding required. Great forum and support (even for a minor error caused by an old php-version on my webserver, they found a workaround very fast).
Verified customer's review, Hotscripts.com
I can't thank you enough to have put in so much hard work for this type of software. It has really helped me out!
James, Canada
Great stuff! Really makes rapid deployment a reality.
Bill, Canada
Thank you for providing such a useful piece of software! I am using DaDaBik as a front end for the database for my new business. We will use it to search through our inventory, add stock, keep records of sales and expenses and maybe even create invoices if this is possible.
Catherine, Australia
I know a little php and learn best by tweaking codes done by others. I choose DaDaBIK because it's just small enough to get my hands around quickly and next to that it has all functions I need. Thanks for your effort and the information in your forums!
Maarten Boerema, the Netherlands
At the end I would like to say, that this ist just the tool I was looking for: I needed a simple frontend for manipulating and inserting data on my db, but I was to lazy te write my own script with fields and butons for "update" or "delete" and so on.
Thomas, Germany
Thanks for a great way to manipulate data. It cannot come easier than DaDaBIK. Keep up the good work and I intend to make sure that it will impact on organizations in Kenya that support various causes from poverty reduction, AIDS awareness, clean drinking water campaigns which will benefit from easily accessible and searchable data as enabled by Dadabik.
Mucheru, Kenia
I’ve enjoyed working with your product on one of my projects. The learning curve is not too great and I was getting the results I wanted very rapidly.
Larry K., California
I am using the DaDaBIK to enter data into a database used for my iPhone application. I really love DaDaBIK it does almost all I want.
Michael Widegren, Sweden
Endorsed without reservation. A great product that allows you to populate, query, or edit any standard database (MySQL and the like) through a highly flexible Web interface, all without any php/MySQL coding.
David Hochman, USA
I have a very small non-profit client who wanted to modernise their IT but don't have much money to spend. They are blown away with how quickly and cost effectively I was able to deploy a modern looking, professional, intuitive application using Dadabik. They were also amazed at how I was able to make quick updates during the demo (just adding entries to a table that automatically appeared in a drop down field on a form), their previous "home brew" application would normally take a couple of weeks for a change!
Alan Milnes, UK
Milnes Consultancy LtdI run a fansite for a few online games, and we're developing tools to help users through their play. We're running the tools off of an sqlite database and using DaDaBIK to allow our contributors to add and edit data about spells/stats/gear/etc. I also hope to create a front-end install to allow visitors to search our data and generate CSV files for their own tools and spreadsheets. Running our tools off of a single database is reducing the time required to update multiple applications as data gets added, and DaDaBIK is providing a simple user interface so that my partners can keep the data current without having to learn complicated software. My PHP skills are not very strong, so it has saved me a lot of time in coding repetive CRUD forms, interfaces, and session/auth scripting, allowing me to focus my time on the more important task of creating new tools.
Nick Steimling, USA
Firstly, thanks for a great product! This is exactly what I was looking for. I use DaDaBIK as a web frontend to a MySQL database. I set up the database for a political organization so that they would not have to use dozens of spreadsheets to keep track of the tens of thousands of contacts they have. They really like the search functionality, and the ability to export as a .CSV file. This helps them because they have only a few internet connected computers for 20 volunteers. They also use DaDaBIK for data entry every time they find a new contact.
Nickolai, USA
Used DaDaBik since about 2005 and have "grown up with it". Excellent Product and Excellent Support!!! P.S. Go right for the Enterprise Version!!!
Verified customer's review, Hotscripts.com
Why DaDaBIK?
Our mission is simple: to enable anyone to develop custom web applications quickly and easily. We’ve been dedicated to low-code and rapid software development for 20+ years. We are passionate about our product and committed to continuously improve it.
Developed by Professionals
Eugenio Tacchini, Ph.D., is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and University Lecturer in Databases & Data Science at the Catholic University, Italy. He has been a visiting researcher at the Freie Universitat Berlin, the University of California, Berkeley and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
He created the very first prototype of a database application builder 20+ years ago, in 2000. He released the first version of DaDaBIK in 2001, and he remains the lead developer behind the core of the code.
Established & Growing
DaDaBIK is here to stay. Born in 2001 as a Database Front-end builder (DaDaBIK, in fact, stands for "DaDaBIK is a DataBase Interfaces Kreator"), we keep it regularly updated, having released 80+ versions since the initial 1.0 beta.
Our users are helpful and supportive. Our active community forum includes about 20,000 posts.
Thousands of companies, non-profits, governmental organizations, and developers worldwide use DaDaBIK.
Great Customer Support
We answer email support tickets within one business day. We don’t use automatic replies. You’ll often hear back from a real expert within a couple hours.
Professional services are available for installation, configuration, and customization.
Need additional features? We can extend DaDaBIK to meet the needs of your organization and help you move your legacy data to a modern web environment. DaDaBIK is always growing.
Build your first Web Application in minutes!
- Since 2001, THE no-code low-code Web application builder
- No Limits on Users, Tables, Records, User Groups
- No Data Vendor Lock-in
- White label
- Monthly subscription: cancel anytime
- Lifetime licenses (pay once, use forever) also available
- Since 2001, THE no-code low-code Web application builder
- No Limits on Users, Tables, Records, User Groups
- No Data Vendor Lock-in
- White label
- Monthly subscription: cancel anytime
- Lifetime licenses (pay once, use forever) also available