No-code development platforms (NCDPs) allow creating application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional computer programming based on writing code.

As with low-code development platforms, it is meant to expedite application development,^[1] but unlike low-code, no-code development involves no code writing. This is usually done by offering prebuilt templates for building apps.^[2] In the 2010s, both of these types of platforms increased in popularity as companies dealt with a limited supply of competent software developers.^[3]

No-code development is closely related to visual programming languages.^[4]

No-code tools are often designed with line of business users in mind as opposed to traditional IT.

The potential benefits of using a NCDP include:

• Agility - NCDPs typically provide some degree of templated user-interface and user experience functionality for common needs such as forms, workflows, and data display allowing creators to expedite parts of the app creation process.^[5]
• Richness - NCDPs which at one point were limited to more basic application functions increasingly provide a level of feature-richness and integrations that allows users to design, develop, and deploy apps that meet specific business needs.^[6]

• Flow-based programming
• List of online database creator apps
• Low-code development platforms
• Rapid application development
• Lean software development
• Platform as a service

• Pattani, Aneri (16 November 2016) "A coding revolution in the office cube sends message of change to IT". CNBC. Retrieved 15 November 2017.