European low-code and visual programming platforms

A low-code platform lets you build applications and automations mainly by configuring them rather than writing everything by hand. You assemble screens, data models and workflows in a visual editor, connect to existing systems through prebuilt integrations, and drop into code where the visual route runs out. Teams use them for internal tools, approval flows and integrations between systems that were never designed to talk.

Applications built this way tend to hold operational data and to be hard to move, since the logic lives in the platform rather than in files you own. RUAL, n8n, Mendix and Betty Blocks come from European companies, so the runtime and the data behind these apps stay under EU law. When comparing European low-code platforms, ask what you can export and whether self hosting is possible.