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Microsoft Power Apps vs WaveMaker comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power Apps
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
1st
Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
95
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
WaveMaker
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
31st
Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms
30th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power Apps is 7.6%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WaveMaker is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Power Apps7.6%
WaveMaker1.4%
Other91.0%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

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BS
Automation Enthusiast at Self employed
Low-code AI workflows have streamlined content curation and currently support rapid app creation
Microsoft Power Apps could be improved because there are still a lot of jargons and too many moving parts. For example, if you look at Copilot, the term Copilot is confusing in the sense of whether it is Copilot in M365, Copilot Studio, or Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps. There is a plan designer which uses Copilot. The whole thing how AI has been positioned is still not lucid for the end user. An end user wants to know exactly what they want and where they go to get it. I think that could also be because things are evolving so fast. From an end-user perspective, the way it has been positioned, the clarity and the boundaries between the different types of offerings and AI offerings available is confusing as of now. There should be better clarity on that. The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model. In traditional software development, almost 95 percent of the time, the development team bears the cost of the licenses. For example, if I develop something, I may have to pay licenses for four or five different software that I use. As a user, if you use my services, you probably pay something to me as a subscription, but you do not have to bother about the licenses. All that is wrapped under the hood. Unfortunately, in Power Platform as such, and even in other low-code things like UiPath, if you use a premium feature such as Dataverse, almost everything ends up using Dataverse or SQL Server or some relational database. If you use that, then as an app builder or app maker you have to have a premium license. The end user too would need to have a premium license. That really makes the adoption prohibitive. It is too expensive. We are talking about something like around just for Microsoft Power Apps alone, approximately twenty dollars per month, which is extremely high. Another point to consider for what else can be improved in Microsoft Power Apps is that one does not know what compute power one is getting when one buys a license. If you look at the licensing model, you will get to know how much of Dataverse storage you will get in terms of log storage, database storage, and file storage. However, you do not get to know how much of compute power is being given to you. I do not think Microsoft has an SLA saying that any request of a certain amount, such as MB per second, you will get a response time of whatever, one by sixtieth of a second or some millisecond. I do not think that they have that performance SLA in place. They do have storage SLA which comes with the license, but they do not have a corresponding SLA for performance.
it_user576294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Software Developer at a tech services company
This is a RAD tool to build business apps, tables, and forms.
It needs a desktop version for developers with license type CE. I would like to have the possibility to have a CE that lets me migrate from SQL Server Express, Access, and OpenOffice Base and keep all UI front-end development in just one system. In short, the 6.7 was good enough. The question is: Will there always be a desktop version CE that will let me work with, for example, five users for free, and then start to pay from user six, or in my case, three users? Right now, I do not see WaveMaker in this field, and there are others points to ask for from a desktop.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can design apps quickly and we can connect to any database."
"I have seen a lot of new features coming into Microsoft Power Apps over the last year, and the overall ecosystem is coming together much better now."
"I like the containerization of Azure."
"The solution is very straightforward, its context is obvious, and everything is easy to understand, so compared to previous applications which were developed in Visual Basic, we can quickly update the whole business process without spending weeks or a month dealing with those aspects."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact it is highly customizable; all types of forms can be created to collect information, pictures, and files, and with PowerApps you can connect your application to a wide variety of databases and applications where your data lives to read or write to it."
"When compared with Microsoft Power Automate, it is a bit more mature, and we're able to build things pretty rapidly."
"It helps bring together data and processes that are spread across different systems because of its high integration capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Model-driven or Canvas application-making platforms, and the power of the two gives us exactly what we are looking for."
"It is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool to build business apps that lets you work with many diverse data stores and build tables and forms easily."
 

Cons

"Can be improved to cater to complex developments."
"The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model."
"There is always room for improvement in stability."
"You can't add too many filters onto anything you build, otherwise, it will be very slow and it will affect your performance."
"It would be good if this solution supports standard BPN operations. We are thinking of switching to a BPM solution next year because it is not a BPM solution."
"Microsoft PowerApps can be more costly for small teams or organizations."
"This tool doesn't have an internal database. It only relies on the data layer of Microsoft Cloud."
"We would like to see the period for viewing executions within this solution to be extended beyond its current limit of 28 days. We would prefer to be able to offer our customers an infinite amount of history to search."
"It needs a desktop version for developers with license type CE."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft PowerApps is expensive, but there are many features included."
"The enterprise-level costs a great deal of money, and you have to purchase additional licenses to scale it."
"It might be too complicated to continuously monitor the business consumption and what to pay."
"The product is inexpensive."
"The price of Microsoft PowerApps is reasonable compared to other solutions."
"The pricing is complicated to understand."
"Our enterprise contract with Microsoft Power Apps includes the application feature platform in our subscription package, so we are not incurring any extra expenses. All of our other subscriptions are also part of our license agreement."
"My company has non-profit licensing, and hence, it is affordable. Pricing depends on usage."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise50
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Questions from the Community

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