Sold by: ZOHO Corporation
Deployed on AWS
Zoho Creator is a low-code platform for creating enterprise-grade custom applications that can be seamlessly accessed from smartphones, tablets, and web browsers.
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Overview
Zoho Creator is an enterprise low-code application development platform that lets businesses to build powerful custom applications rapidly and launch them on premise. The product empowers teams to collaborate, develop, deploy, and maintain applications and workflows while meeting data residency, security, and compliance needs. Zoho Creator is primarily for Business app development teams who are looking for a platform that can help them create custom applications at a fraction of the time required for them while developing using traditional methods. In this setup, you can build applications in your Zoho Creator cloud platform and run them in your on-premise infrastructure. After developing the application in your Creator cloud account, you can download and upload the application (patch) as a .zip file in your Creator on-premise account and let users start utilizing it. This means that any application built on the Zoho Creator cloud platform can be deployed as a stand-alone app in your Creator on-premise setup and private cloud environments. This method allows your cloud applications to interact with your on-premise systems and thereby lets you accommodate the unique business needs of your organization.
Highlights
- Abstracts 90% of the complexities in the app development lifecycle, by offering a rich ecosystem of features such as intuitive visual builders, code editors, built-in connectors, and prebuilt templates enabling business to roll out applications much faster.
- Empowers businesses to easily migrate data from existing systems and automate their IT and business processes, predict business trends and create personalized portals for customers and partners, and empower employees to work on the go with native mobile apps.
- Offers comprehensive, enterprise-grade security features such as data encryption, Multi-factor authentication, IP restriction to keep your data secure.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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Contact onprem-support@zohocreator.com
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
Getting Started: In order to access Zoho Creator, you need to access your browser and type in the 'Public DNS' value in the URL format given below, in which you need to replace the <public_DNS> with the instance public DNS copied from the Instance Summary page. URL : https://<public_DNS>:8443
Default Credentials: The default username for logging in will be admin and the password will be the AWS EC2 instance ID. These credentials must be changed after your first login.
For more help on getting started, please refer https://workdrive.zohopublic.in/writer/open/hfa8166440d33778445a5918723efbd57f6e7
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Support
Vendor support
USA: +1 888 900 9646 UK: +44 (20) 35647890 Australia: +61 2 80662898 India: +91 44 67447000 Email: onprem-support@zohocreator.com
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AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
David L.
using Zoho Creator for an International Moving Company
Reviewed on Apr 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
the ability to make custom applications taylored specifically to our needs
What do you dislike about the product?
some bugs in the formulas ... but the help desk was fast to respond
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we created a general overview of all servies for easy viewing and analysis
Eric G.
Adaptable and User-Friendly, Ideal for Project Management
Reviewed on Mar 03, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Zoho Creator because it's easy to create adaptive solutions to our specific needs. Even though I'm not an IT person, I can create fields and reports on my own.
What do you dislike about the product?
Facilitating connections between fields and reports without programming is challenging. It takes a lot of internal effort to understand our needs and plan solutions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Zoho Creator to manage time entry, expenses, vendor invoices, and client billing. It's easy to create adaptive solutions for our needs, and I can create fields and reports independently, even without an IT background.
PRANAV S.
Flexible Low-Code Platform with Seamless Zoho Integrations
Reviewed on Dec 20, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Zoho Creator is a very useful web platform for a low code development of business use cases with ability to integrate with other Zoho products like Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Analytics etc. This helps in amazing customisations to fit into every business requirement with lots of flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since it is a low code platform, the UI look and feel seems a bit basic and at times is not user friendly with navigations on the browser. This aspect possibility requires improvements to further enhance user experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zoho Creator helps our organisation with budget tracking & management, our procurement process management with approval workflows and invoice estimate management for forecasting and approval of invoices to be sent to our customers
Computer Software
Fast Prototyping and Deployment, but UI Customization Can Be Restrictive
Reviewed on Oct 16, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The speed at which i can prototype and deploy complex applications is amazing also the ease of connecting with the entire zoho ecosystem.
What do you dislike about the product?
At times, customizing the UI for every fine control or pixel-perfect design can feel restrictive or require workarounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fundamentally solves two main business problems that impact development, the problem of disconnected processes and the problem of slow, expensive custom development.
Alok S.
From ideas to apps in hours – Zoho Creator makes innovation effortless
Reviewed on Aug 19, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Zoho Creator feels like having a full development team in your pocket. What impressed me most is how quickly I could turn rough business ideas into fully functional apps without touching heavy code. The drag-and-drop interface is simple, but the platform doesn’t compromise on depth — I could add workflows, integrate with Zoho CRM, and even connect external APIs in just a few clicks. It’s rare to find a no-code tool that balances simplicity for beginners with power for advanced users, but Zoho Creator manages to do both. For me, it’s not just an app builder, it’s a productivity multiplier.
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes feels a step behind the desktop version — especially when managing complex workflows or larger datasets. I also feel that onboarding new team members could be smoother; the learning curve for non-technical users is small, but not zero. That said, Zoho’s documentation and support community are improving steadily, so these are more “areas for growth” than real deal-breakers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zoho Creator helped us move away from scattered spreadsheets and manual processes into structured, automated workflows. We built custom applications for lead tracking, approvals, and reporting without needing a dedicated IT team. This has saved hours of repetitive work every week, improved data accuracy, and given management real-time visibility into business operations. The biggest benefit is agility — if our process changes, we can quickly update the app ourselves instead of waiting weeks for external developers.