European alternatives to Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps is a low code tool for building internal business applications: forms, approval screens and small line of business tools that sit on top of data an organisation already holds. Teams use it when they need an application sooner than a full development project would deliver one, and it leans heavily on the surrounding Microsoft environment.

Applications built this way end up carrying real business processes, so the platform underneath becomes a long term dependency with its own licensing terms and data location. European organisations that want that dependency inside the EU have serious choices. A European alternative to Microsoft Power Apps covers the same low code ground. Mendix and OutSystems are established enterprise platforms, Betty Blocks is aimed at business users, and Simplifier targets industrial settings.