Anticode vs Glide (GlideOS): business apps from your spreadsheets, or sites for the public
Glide turns spreadsheets, files and prompts into business apps for teams, now through GlideOS, with sign-in, shared data tables and workflows. Anticode builds public websites and self-contained apps whose data stays in each visitor's browser, and checks them before they're published. If your staff will sign in to work on shared records, Glide is built for it; if strangers will visit, Anticode is.
The short answer
Choose Glide if the app runs part of your business: inventory, field reports, work orders, a CRM or a project tracker, used by people you invite, built from the spreadsheet you already keep. Choose Anticode if you're making something public: a business website, a launch page, or a calculator, quiz or tracker that anyone can open without signing in and that needs no shared database.
Glide Classic and GlideOS
Glide now has two products. Its pricing page describes GlideOS as a standalone AI platform for building internal business apps from a spreadsheet, a prompt or a file, separate from the original Glide, now called Glide Classic. GlideOS needs its own subscription, Classic apps keep working, and there's currently no tool for migrating Classic apps to GlideOS. The rest of this page compares Anticode with GlideOS.
How each one builds
Glide's overview of GlideOS says you work through chat: type or dictate what you want, attach a spreadsheet, document or image, and GlideOS builds the apps and the data tables behind them, remembering decisions at the project level. Data can come from Google Sheets, Excel or CSV uploads, or tables GlideOS creates from your description, and workflows can run on a schedule, from a webhook or on demand.
Anticode's Architect also starts with a conversation, asking up to three questions and showing a plan. For an interactive tool, the model writes the whole program as one HTML document that runs in a strict sandbox: no network, no real accounts, no live data. It can save to the visitor's own browser, and anything that would need a server is simulated with labelled sample data. When the environment allows, a new app is opened in a headless browser at phone and laptop widths, screenshotted and clicked through so the Critic can fix what it finds.
Side by side
| Anticode | Glide (GlideOS) | |
|---|---|---|
| Design approach | Seven design systems, nineteen design checks and a design gate | Generated app layouts that work across devices |
| How you build | A sentence, up to three questions, a plan, then a build | Chat with an agent, starting from a prompt, spreadsheet or file |
| Users and data | No visitor accounts; app data stays in each visitor's browser | Shared data tables, sign-in and access settings per app |
| Code ownership and export | One HTML file or a Next.js project; push to GitHub | Apps run on Glide; no code export described on the pages we read |
| Hosting and custom domains | anticode.dev address free; own domain on paid plans | Publishing on paid plans; custom domain by TXT record |
| Security checks | Twelve checks on the shipped HTML; failing pages can't be published | Access settings per app; Enterprise adds single sign-on |
| Pricing model | Daily and weekly build allowance, a quote before each build | Monthly plans with credits standing in for AI tokens |
| Best for | Public websites and self-contained tools | Internal apps for teams working on shared data |
Who can open the app
Glide's guide to publishing and sharing says organisations on paid plans can publish, and offers four access levels: invite only, anyone can sign up, anyone can open with sign-in optional, and anyone can open without signing in. Public apps are on the Plus, Pro and Enterprise plans, and the guide warns that data shown in a public app can be seen by anyone with the link. You can use a Glide subdomain or connect your own domain with a TXT record.
Anticode has one audience: everyone. Published sites have no visitor accounts or member areas, so there's no per-user data to protect, and apps keep what a visitor enters in that visitor's browser. Contact, booking and newsletter forms in a site or an app reach the owner through Anticode's form pipeline, sealed at rest, and connectors can pass them on to Google Sheets, Airtable or Slack. If you need real accounts, the Next.js export adds email sign-in, roles and Postgres row-level security for you to host.
How you pay
As of 24 October 2026, Glide's pricing page lists GlideOS plans billed monthly, in dollars without naming the currency, and says annual plans aren't available yet. Free costs nothing, with limited credits and no published apps; Basic is $25 a month with 100 credits and two published apps; Plus is $50 a month with 250 credits, five published apps and public apps; Pro is $125 a month starting with five team members, unlimited published apps and building with your own agent over MCP; Enterprise is priced on request. The page explains that credits stand in for the AI tokens GlideOS uses, and more can be bought.
Anticode measures each build by what it actually cost against a daily and a weekly allowance, quotes it before it runs, and doesn't count failures. Prices are on the pricing page.
Where Glide is the better choice
- Your spreadsheet is the system. GlideOS is built to turn it into apps for the people who use it.
- Staff sign in. Invite-only apps and access settings for an organisation.
- Shared, live records. Data tables that every user reads and writes; Anticode apps have no server-side database.
- Automations. Workflows on a schedule or from a webhook.
Where Anticode is the better choice
- A public site. Designed pages, checked for accessibility and security before publishing.
- A free-standing tool. A calculator or quiz anyone can open, with no sign-in and no data leaving the browser.
- Installable without a store. Every published site can be installed on phones and desktops as an app.
- Code to keep. HTML or Next.js export and a GitHub push.
Anticode's limits
No visitor accounts, no shared database in apps, no live third-party data and no multiplayer, so an app for a team working on the same records belongs in Glide or a similar tool. Apps read CMS collections but don't write to them, and the builder is English only. The spreadsheet to app page covers what Anticode can do with a sheet; Glide alternatives lists other options.
Questions people ask
Is GlideOS the same as Glide?
Glide's pricing page says GlideOS is a separate product from Glide Classic, with its own plans and accounts, and no tool yet for moving Classic apps across.
Can Anticode turn my spreadsheet into an app?
It can build a self-contained tool with sample or owner-edited content, but it can't keep a shared spreadsheet in sync for several users. That's Glide's job.
Does Glide publish public apps on the free plan?
No. Its pricing page lists no published apps on Free, and public apps from the Plus plan.
Sources
- Glide pricing, checked
- Glide Docs: What is GlideOS?, checked
- Glide Docs: Publishing and sharing, checked