Glide alternatives: for a public-facing site, or for the move to GlideOS
Glide turns spreadsheets and prompts into apps for work: inventory, field reports, CRMs, dashboards. People look at Glide alternatives for two reasons now. Some want a public-facing site rather than a team app. Others are deciding what to do since Glide launched GlideOS, a separate platform with no migration path from Glide Classic.
Two Glides: Classic and GlideOS
Glide's pricing page answers the question most current users have. GlideOS is described as an AI software development platform for building internal business apps from a spreadsheet, a prompt or a file. It's a standalone product with its own plans and subscription, separate from the original platform, now called Glide Classic. Glide says Classic apps won't be disrupted, but that the two can't share data and there's currently no tool for migrating a Classic app to GlideOS.
As of 24 October 2026, GlideOS lists Free, Basic at $25, Plus at $50 and Pro at $125 a month, billed monthly; Glide says annual plans aren't available yet. The Free plan allows no published apps. Basic publishes personal and team apps (two of them); publishing public apps starts on Plus, with five published apps; Pro, starting at five team members, removes the cap. Each plan includes AI credits, which Glide uses as its unit for the model work of building.
Why people look at alternatives
- A public site, not a team app. Glide is built for the people inside a business. If what you need is a site customers find and read (services, prices, a contact form), an app builder is a roundabout way to make it, and public publishing on GlideOS starts on Plus.
- Starting again anyway. Moving a Classic app to GlideOS means rebuilding it in a new account, which makes it a natural moment to compare other tools as well.
- Credits. GlideOS plans are built around AI credits, with top-ups and higher tiers for more. If you'd rather a fixed price per app, compare carefully.
What to gather before you change anything
Glide's strength is that your data usually lives somewhere else. Its documentation lists Google Sheets, Airtable, Excel, BigQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server among the data sources, so the spreadsheet or database stays put whatever you choose. Beyond that, export any data held in Glide Tables, list each screen, the actions on it and who can see what, write down the roles and row-owner rules, and note any workflows and the triggers that start them. That list is what you'll rebuild, on any platform.
Four options, by what you're building
| Option | Build this | Keep in mind |
|---|---|---|
| Stay on Glide Classic | An existing team app that works | Glide says Classic apps continue to function as before |
| GlideOS | New internal apps built from a prompt or spreadsheet | A fresh start in a separate account, priced in credits |
| Softr | Portals and internal tools on Airtable, Sheets, HubSpot or SQL, with sign-in and permissions; see its AI app generator | Plans count app users and records (pricing) |
| Anticode | A public website, or a small self-contained browser tool | No sign-in, permissions or live spreadsheet data |
Where Anticode fits
Anticode is for the first reason: you need the public face of the business, not the tool your staff use. Describe it, and the Architect asks up to three questions and shows a plan; the site is built as plain HTML and CSS across as many pages as it needs. The contact, booking and newsletter forms save submissions and can write each one to Google Sheets, Airtable or Notion, so a new enquiry lands in the same sheet your Glide app reads. That makes the two work side by side: the site collects, the app manages.
For something more interactive (a price calculator, a quiz, a checklist), Anticode writes it as a single-file app that runs in a strict sandbox. It can save to the visitor's own browser and read owner-edited content from CMS collections, and its forms reach you through the same pipeline. See the app sandbox and our page on turning a spreadsheet into an app.
What Anticode can't replace
- No live data. Neither sites nor apps read from Google Sheets or a database; apps have no network access and simulate anything server-side with labelled demo data.
- No users or roles. Published sites have no sign-in, so there's no row-level access, no per-user data and no team app.
- No workflows. No scheduled or triggered automations; form posts can call your own endpoint through site functions.
- No import. A Glide app can't be brought into Anticode.
- English only. The builder and the sites it makes are in English.
When Glide is the better choice
If your team works from a spreadsheet and needs an app on their phones to view, edit and act on its rows, with different people seeing different data, Glide is designed for exactly that and Anticode isn't. A working Classic app has no deadline attached: Glide says it keeps working. Rebuild it on GlideOS when you want what the new platform adds, and look elsewhere only for the parts that were never a team app. For the two side by side, see Anticode vs Glide.
Questions people ask
Can I migrate a Glide Classic app to GlideOS?
Not with a tool. Glide's pricing FAQ says there's currently no technique for migrating Classic apps to GlideOS, and the two platforms can't share data.
Will my Glide Classic app stop working?
Glide says existing Classic apps will continue to function as before, and that GlideOS is a separate product.
Which GlideOS plan can publish a public app?
Plus and above, according to Glide's pricing page as of 24 October 2026. Basic publishes personal and team apps.
Sources
- Glide pricing (GlideOS), checked
- Glide Classic, checked
- Glide documentation, checked
- Softr AI app generator, checked
- Softr pricing, checked