Open-source Appian alternatives

Refine is a React-based framework aimed at internal tools, admin panels, dashboards and business-to-business applications. It is described as headless, meaning it provides the logic for data fetching, routing, authentication and other CRUD concerns through hooks and components while leaving the visual layer to the UI library you prefer.

Its topics reference Ant Design, GraphQL, NestJS and Next.js, which reflects the range of UI kits, data sources and runtimes it can be paired with. Because it builds on plain React, teams can use it as a low-code accelerator for common admin screens while still writing normal TypeScript where they need custom behavior.

Refine is MIT licensed and distributed as npm packages, with the core published as @refinedev/core. It runs inside your own project, so there is nothing to host separately. It suits front-end teams who are tired of hand-building the same tables, forms and permissions in every back-office project.

Joget is an application platform that combines rapid application development, business process automation and workflow management in a visual, web-based builder. Business and technical teams can use it together to build full enterprise applications without much hand coding, aiming to shorten delivery from months to weeks or days. Apps built on it are mobile ready and cloud ready, and the platform offers APIs for integration and a plugin architecture for extension.

The README describes a marketplace where ready-made apps, plugins and templates can be downloaded, along with a community Q&A forum, a knowledge base, video tutorials, an online academy and translations in more than twenty languages. Deployment is flexible: on-premise, on-demand cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift and several cloud marketplaces are listed.

Licensing is split. Joget Community Edition is released under GPL version 3, while the Professional, Enterprise and Large Enterprise editions are covered by a commercial end-user license agreement. The core is written in Java. It suits organizations that want to digitize processes such as approvals and forms with a platform they can run themselves.