# GlideApp Classic alternative nocode tools

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 17, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447 "2024-05-17T07:38:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![keenly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/keenly/32/58685_2.png) [@keenly](https://community.glideapps.com/u/keenly)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/1 "2024-05-17T07:38:22Z")

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Hello, strange to ask this here but i’m sure i’m not alone.  
I loved the experience building my Classic GlideApp MVP, but i started migrating to the new version it’s basically lost 50% the features I needed.

Does anyone know of nice user friendly Glide App Classic alternative with the following key features.

- Mobile only (showing the mobile preview on desktop)
- Favoriting in collections
- Collection Maps display

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/2 "2024-05-17T12:05:33Z")

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> [@keenly](#):
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> Mobile only (showing the mobile preview on desktop)

Glide Apps are responsive and designed to fit and adapt to any screen size. I’m sure people have reasons for wanting to restrict the width of their app, so I won’t argue that. The only alternative I could offer would involve a business+ plan which allows your app to be iframe embedded in another web site, which would allow you to create a sort of phone emulator with your app displayed inside of it. Other than that, simply making your browser window smaller will give you the mobile experience as well.

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> Favoriting in collections

You can still do this. Favorites in classic apps were nothing more than a user specific boolean column and a button or switch to set the boolean. Pretty easy to reproduce in New Apps.

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> Collection Maps display

The Map component in New apps is a type of collection. So you can show one item on the map or show multiple items. All depends on how you configure it and the data you feed into it.

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**Author:** ![keenly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/keenly/32/58685_2.png) [@keenly](https://community.glideapps.com/u/keenly)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/3 "2024-05-18T09:30:49Z")

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thanks for the response.  
maybe ill stop being lazy and try to get maps and favourites working again if i dont find an alternative.

do you know of any templates / examples showing maps and favourites together in the new app?  
here’s a screenshot of my classic app.

 ![1000023258](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/7/c71e3302554c8b4ce27331ddb191d41951778627.jpeg)

so you can switch between the map / list view, and filter by favourites.

floating button component has also removed

there are also bugs a found preventing me from duplicating screens and changing the data source which makes building screens like this from scratch each time a drag.

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**Author:** ![keenly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/keenly/32/58685_2.png) [@keenly](https://community.glideapps.com/u/keenly)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/4 "2024-05-18T10:27:11Z")

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also is the share location feature in the new map.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/5 "2024-05-18T23:48:36Z")

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> [@keenly](#):
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> so you can switch between the map / list view

Not natively possible using the new component anymore, but theoretically you can have a choice component and show/hide two different components based on the chosen value.

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> and filter by favourites.

Maybe the same approach as above, using a user-specific boolean column for favorites.

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> floating button component has also removed

This might be possible with CSS if you’re on any newest pricing structure’s paid plan.

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> there are also bugs a found preventing me from duplicating screens and changing the data source which makes building screens like this from scratch each time a drag.

Can you clarify more on this with some screenshots or a video?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/6 "2024-05-19T00:32:08Z")

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> [@keenly](#):
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> there are also bugs a found preventing me from duplicating screens and changing the data source which makes building screens like this from scratch each time a drag.

It’s pretty easy to copy all components from one screen and paste them into another. Most, if not all components should copy over without issues. May just require minimal reconfiguration of each component to link to the correct columns in the table, if the source table is different. Have you tried that?

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**Author:** ![keenly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/keenly/32/58685_2.png) [@keenly](https://community.glideapps.com/u/keenly)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 10:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/7 "2024-05-21T10:07:35Z")

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Oh yes, copy all, pasting helps thank you.

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**Author:** ![keenly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/keenly/32/58685_2.png) [@keenly](https://community.glideapps.com/u/keenly)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glideapp-classic-alternative-nocode-tools/73447/8 "2024-05-21T10:10:04Z")

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This going a bit off topic. but this is why i’m asking about alternatives.
