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24 alternatives to Instantly turn any API into a native app, with a single JSON markup

Hi guys, I've worked on several apps in the past couple of years, and found that it takes too much effort going from having an idea to building an app and having the world use it. I wanted a way to have an idea, turn it into a fully functional native app, and share it with the world, all in the next 5 minutes, as quick and as easy as writing a blog post. That's why I built Jason. Basically Jason lets you build a native interface to display and interact with any data format (csv, rss, html, json), any website, any API in any way you want, simply by writing a JSON markup and loading it.…

Jason enables developers to create native mobile applications from any API or data source by writing JSON markup, eliminating traditional app development steps like compiling and deployment. The tool supports various… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Instantly turn any API into a native app, with a single JSON markup launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    📡 Native App over HTTP, on iOS. Contribute to Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Jasonette▲256

    Make an app by adding JSON to this app.

    2016 · jasonette.com · its alternatives →

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    Make iOS and Android apps with just a single JSON

    2016 · jasonette.com · its alternatives →

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    📡 Native App over HTTP, on Android. Contribute to Jasonette/JASONETTE-Android development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build offline first native apps with just a JSON Markup

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Take any HTML and plug it into native app with JSON markup

    2017 · jasonette.com · its alternatives →

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    Jason▲294

    Infinitely hackable mobile client

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Easy-to-use JSON Library for Go. Contribute to antonholmquist/jason development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AppingKit▲130

    A starter template to build mobile apps with React Native

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    JSON Api▲175

    Hosted API's to develop your app for free 🙌

    2020 · jsonapi.co · its alternatives →

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    Convert any web app into a JSON based Android project

    2019 · webtoandroid.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    a0.dev▲479

    Generate full mobile apps with AI

    2025 · a0.dev · its alternatives →

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    A framework to build Native Mobile apps using JavaScript.

    2018 · vue-native.io · its alternatives →

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    Build & publish a native mobile app without writing any code

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Build native mobile experiences with Javascript

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Creo 1.0▲317

    The new way to build native mobile applications

    2018 · creolabs.com · its alternatives →

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    OK JSON▲113

    Format and view JSON with native Mac app

    2021 · okjson.app · its alternatives →

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    App.js▲100

    library for creating mobile webapps behave like native apps

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Hello Hacker News. I'm Marc, one half of the team that created skip.tools. Skip is a tool that transpiles your SwiftUI iOS app into a Kotlin Jetpack Compose app, and enables you to use a single language to create a complete app that reaches the entire mobile marketplace. What it is: Skip stands in contrast to other cross-platform development tools like Flutter, React Native, and Xamarin, in that it enables the creation of genuinely native applications for both of the dominant mobile platforms. It doesn't embed a separate engine or runtime into your app, but instead lets you use pure Swift…

    2024 · skip.tools · its alternatives →

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    Best Way to Build Native Mobile Apps and Web Sites

    Jun 2026 · snappai.co · its alternatives →

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    Create web applications in a few clicks 💻

    2019 · skaffolder.com · its alternatives →

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