We performed a comparison between Knack and Microsoft Power Apps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"Overall, the tool is very democratic. It's easy for anyone to use. You don't have to be a professional or well-versed in technology."
"It's very easy to build an app using this solution."
"It uses a lot of AI, which is helpful, especially during the setup process."
"Time to market is most valuable because you can make apps pretty fast. It also has pretty good integration."
"When I am developing any user UI, it gives me complete flexibility. I can manage in any way I want."
"The most valuable feature is the simple data connectivity components."
"It allows us to provide all the information in one single place."
"You can easily connect Power Apps with other databases, like Excel, SharePoint, SQL, etc."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
"Microsoft could streamline monitoring and management. In addition, it should be easier to put the solution in different environments. For example, you should be able to move from a dev environment to a production environment seamlessly."
"As far as dealing with SharePoint, it'll allow you to ha manage up to 2000 rows, however, performance-wise, they're recommending that you just keep it at the default of 500 rows."
"Microsoft PowerApps could improve the speed of Power Automate, it is not very fast."
"The fact that we couldn't share that with our other organization or outside of the organization, consisting of our colleagues in the joint ventures, was a weakness of the solution."
"They probably need to improve intelligent document processing."
"The documentation isn't great. It's only 75% of what you need to know. If you go beyond that and run into issues, it's really not going to help you."
"There are occasional performance challenges."
"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."
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Knack is ranked 30th in Rapid Application Development Software while Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 78 reviews. Knack is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Knack writes "Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". Knack is most compared with Caspio, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Salesforce Platform, whereas Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and Microsoft Azure App Service.
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