Power Apps
Deliver apps embedded with AI to quickly modernize your legacy applications and systems.
Start from a table, a sketch, a sentence, or your own code and build solutions your way.
Features
Build professional solutions
- Describe the app you want, and AI helps you design it. Make edits, add automation, and write code—all with Copilot in Power Apps.
- Seamlessly create tables using natural language and connect your data through simple drag-and-drop experiences.
- Finish your apps faster by choosing the right controls with suggested ideas.
- Let AI generate working apps and data quickly from images and Figma files.
- Use prebuilt templates, drag-and-drop functionality, and quick deployment for fast building and continuous improvement.
- Extract more value from your apps with AI-generated data insights using Copilot.
- Help users quickly fill in forms, generate text inputs, and simplify other common actions with the power of Copilot.
- Customize predefined AI models and give your apps more intelligence with AI Builder.
- Easily deploy generative AI agents in apps on desktop, mobile, or in Microsoft Teams—wherever your users are.
- Get visibility and control over apps deployed across your organization with less effort thanks to unified governance.
- Use the built-in deployment pipelines in Microsoft Power Platform to simplify and centralize application lifecycle management.
- Use leading governance tools to set up and manage environments and enable anyone to build without creating IT risks.
- Interoperability with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio, and GitHub enables everyone to build with the tools they use most.
- Create an app for any device to design a tailored user experience and optimize for specific tasks and roles.
- See the underlying code (YAML) directly in Microsoft Power Apps Studio. Create packages for using low-code concepts with common developer patterns.
- Use Microsoft Power Fx—a general-purpose, strong-typed, low-code programming language—across Microsoft Power Platform.
- Help break down data silos with a built-in data platform that takes care of business logic, security, and compliance.
- Choose from more than 1,400 connectors or build your own to connect to any data source with ease.
- Generate immersive, responsive apps automatically using your data model in a simple drag-and-drop interface.
- Empower your frontline workers to work anywhere—regardless of network connection—with an offline-first architecture.
- Increase frontline worker productivity with a modern mobile interface, natively optimized for devices with improved performance and reliability. Digitally transform physical workflows by integrating capabilities like barcode scanning, near-field communication (NFC) reading, media capturing, and location services.
- Distribute custom-branded Android™ and iOS apps to end users with individual mobile device management. Use shared device mode so multiple frontline workers can easily sign in and out of devices with a single sign-on (SSO).
Use cases
Solve for any business problem
Finance
Start from any data source—or simply describe your data—to quickly develop budgets, forecasts, and reports.
Sales and marketing
Connect disparate systems to provide instant notifications and mobile access to product info and sales tools.
Human resources
Build easy-to-use apps that help employees stay connected, track data, share information, and take action.
Operations
Transform auditing processes, modernize inventory management, and save on dispatch costs.
Frontline workers
Give workers and managers the apps they need to increase efficiency—on desktop, mobile, or shared devices, or in Microsoft Teams.
ANALYST REPORTS
Recognized by top industry analysts
Learn why Microsoft is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For Professional Developers, Q2 2023.2
Learn why Microsoft is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms.3
Learn why Microsoft is named a Leader in the Omdia Universe: No Code, Low Code Solutions, 2023–24.4
Pricing
Power Apps pricing
Developer plan
Build and test unlimited apps across three environments to experiment before moving to production.
Free
Build and test unlimited apps across three environments to experiment before moving to production.
This product is not available in your market.
Power Apps Premium
Enables licensed users to build, modernize, deploy, and run unlimited applications.
$20.00
user/month
Enables licensed users to build, modernize, deploy, and run unlimited applications.
This product is not available in your market.
Solutions
Powerful alone, better together
PARTNERS
Get expert help from Power Apps partners
Take advantage of the Microsoft partner ecosystem of service providers in low-code professional app development.
Customer stories
How companies use Power Apps
Resources
Explore news, training, and support
Frequently asked questions
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You can start building apps for free with the Power Apps Developer plan. For individual or small team usage, limited Power Apps Basic is included in some Microsoft 365 licenses. To unlock the full benefits and deploy an unlimited number of apps, sign up for a Power Apps Premium license, which costs $20.00 per user/month.
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The Power Apps Developer plan is free for development and testing. Create apps and flows without writing code using full-featured Power Apps and Power Automate development tools, and easily share and collaborate with others.
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Join the Power Apps Community and follow news on the blog.
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Power Apps uses Microsoft Dataverse to store and manage data, with built-in benefits from the comprehensive low-code security and governance features and policies in place from Microsoft.
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No. Introducing low-code development into your organization can reduce shadow IT, since employees build solutions in-line with provided rules and governance.
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Low-code development isn’t a replacement for developers—it gives developers an additional tool to build solutions. It enables developers to automate repetitive tasks, prioritize complicated jobs, and devote their time to more difficult projects. It also empowers more employees in an organization to support the development team by creating professional-grade websites and apps.
Take the next step
Start building with Power Apps for free
Build and test with a free developer account. Imagine, describe, and then watch your app get built with Copilot in Power Apps.
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- [1]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Power Apps, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, July 2024.
- [2]The Forrester WaveTM: Low-Code Development Platforms For Professional Developers, Q2 2023, John Bratincevic, Chris Gardner, Christopher Condo, David Mooter, Andrew Cornwall, Devin Dickerson, Sarah Morana, Kara Hartig, June 19, 2023.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, Oleksandr Matvitskyy, Kimihiko Iijima, Mike West, Kyle Davis, Akash Jain, Paul Vincent, October 16, 2024.
GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
- [4]Omdia Universe: No Code, Low Code Solutions, 2023-24, Michael Azoff, Chief Analyst, Cloud Native Computing, September 15, 2023.
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