One person, building the app builder they wanted to use.

I am Apostolos Papadopoulos, based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Emberblocks is a sole-trader business, not a venture-funded company. There is no sales team and no support tier: when you write in, the person who answers is the person who wrote the code.

Before Emberblocks I built and ran internal tools for other teams on AppSheet. Those teams and their apps are why the AppSheet importer exists, and why the limitations on this page are listed rather than glossed over: I know exactly where a platform giving up on you hurts.

Most small teams run on spreadsheets, copy-paste and one overloaded person who knows where everything is. The tools that promise to fix that tend to fail in one of two ways. Either they are so simple that the first real requirement (a permission rule, a lookup across two tables, an approval step) forces you back to spreadsheets, or they are so heavy that setting them up is a project of its own.

Emberblocks sits in between on purpose. You arrange blocks on a grid, connect them to live data, and publish. Ember, the built-in assistant, drafts the first version from a sentence or two, and you keep editing from there. Your data can live in the built-in database, in your own Postgres, or in an Airtable base kept in sync both ways. Builders are always free; you pay for the people who use your published apps.

The other reason is timing. The platforms a lot of teams built on in the last decade are being acquired, repriced or retired. When that happens, the honest answer is not “switch to us” but “here is exactly what we can and cannot replace”. That is why every comparison page on this site has a dated fact-check line and a section on where the other product is still the better pick.

Emberblocks is open and in use. The core is in place: tables, forms, kanban, calendar and map blocks; roles and per-field permissions; versioned publishing with one-click rollback; workflows with branching and scheduled runs; a two-way Airtable connector; an AppSheet importer; and Ember for drafting and editing apps in plain language. Every new workspace starts with a 14-day Pro trial, no card needed.

What it does not do yet, stated plainly so you can decide before you sign up: Custom domains, SSO and an Enterprise plan are not available yet. There is no live Google Sheets connector (import the sheet as CSV instead). Apps run in the browser and install to the home screen; there are no App Store or Play Store builds. These are on the list; none of them is promised for a date.

A one-person operation means you should ask what happens to your data if the lights go out. The short answer: your data is yours. Apps on your own Postgres never move it anywhere. Built-in tables export to CSV at any time. The terms commit to at least 60 days of notice and a refund of prepaid fees if the service ever closes, and the privacy policy covers how data is handled while it is open.

Email hello@emberblocks.com. That address goes to me, not a queue. Bug reports, migration questions, pricing that does not fit your situation, or a plain “does it do X”: all welcome, and I answer every one.

If you would rather see the product first, open a template without an account, or read the documentation, which is written by the same person who built the features it describes.