Creo – Design and Code merged in a new tool
Next generation cross-platform app development with drag and drop app builder for iOS, macOS and Android. Creo combines the traditional Design and Development process into a single easy-to-use application for unprecedented productivity.
Creo – Design and Code merged in a new tool launched on January 18, 2016 with 12 votes, #2,087 of 4,523 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Creo is a low-code app development platform that combines design and coding into a single tool for building iOS, macOS, and Android applications. It features a drag-and-drop interface for creating complex layouts and navigation, with support for 100% UI and code sharing between iOS and macOS Catalyst apps. Developers can preview dynamic data from sources like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and REST APIs directly during design without running the app. Every element is object-based and can respond to events and perform actions.
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From the sources
With Creo you can build complex navigation hierarchies or elaborated windows using a very intuitive drag & drop interface. With Creo you can create iOS and macOS Catalyst applications with 100% UI and code sharing. Thanks to its underlying technology, Creo is able to show dynamic data from a variety of sources directly while designing your app, without the need of running it. Some of the built-in DataSet are SQLite, MySQL, cubeSQL, PostgreSQL, REST API, device sensors and much more. In Creo everything is an object. That means that every object can respond to events and perform specific actions written in the Gravity programming language. Creo supports Xcode Swift project exporting. “I…from creolabs.com
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