Click

What the product is

Click is a no-code app development tool from Asteria Canvas Inc., a company in Shibuya, Tokyo. Its pitch is that an idea becomes an app by drag and drop, with no programming knowledge needed. The site is written in Japanese and aimed at Japanese-speaking buyers, from individuals and small teams trying a prototype to larger companies that want to train staff to build their own tools. The company says 26,000 companies and organizations have chosen Click in total, and that being a Japanese-made service makes it easy to use and easy to get support for.

The homepage frames the buyer's problems directly. It names 3 common worries of companies considering a no-code tool: turning their own product into an app to grow sales, getting a new business idea built and released quickly, and making a profit from building websites with a no-code tool. Click's answer is that any kind of app or service can be built the way you picture it, without code.

What you build and how

Click's FAQ says you can build many kinds of apps, naming social networks, matching services, video distribution and e-commerce apps. It also says specialist knowledge is not needed, because no programming is required and the manuals and the community help you learn how to build features and apps. The homepage adds that an app can be released in just a few days, and that drag and drop gives anyone an app with a high degree of freedom.

The editor is a drag-and-drop canvas where you place elements. Several of the features the site lists are elements you drop in:

• Chat: place an element and you get an advanced chat function, including group chat.
• Map: put pins on a map to show the spots you want to highlight.
• Barcode scanner: read a barcode and get its information.
• Stamp: a stamp feature that collects stamps when a dedicated stamp device is pressed against a phone.
• Push notifications: messages that appear on a phone's home screen.
• An auto-generated admin screen, so you do not design the management side by hand.

Beyond the editor, the site lists payments and login. Click has its own payment function, so you can implement payments inside Click and review payment history. LINE login lets people sign in with their LINE account inside the LINE in-app browser.

On integrations, the site says you can connect several external tools and combine them in one app, and it names kintone and Google Sheets. It lists external API integration for connecting to a range of other services, and it lists a way to build AI-based apps easily. Zapier and external API calls also appear as a metered line in the plan table, so integrations are a counted resource on the paid tiers.

Publishing is broad. The site says Click supports web apps and also native apps, desktop apps for PCs and LINE mini apps. The plan table lists PWA, iOS app and Android app output, push notifications and a custom domain. According to the FAQ, creating an app and running it as a web app cost nothing, and anyone considering Standard or above is asked to get in touch.

Templates come with the 0 yen tier, and the site says registration takes about a minute.

For production, the FAQ says the product is designed so that apps can keep running all the way as they grow, and that the functions needed for that are added over time. It adds that apps monetizing through Click exist, and that some apps handle 10,000 simultaneous connections.

Plans, limits and trust

The pricing table has 4 tiers, with prices shown including tax.

• Free, for prototypes: 0 yen a month, 2 apps per workspace, 10 records per app, 10 MB of storage per workspace.
• Standard, for individuals: 4,400 yen a month when paid yearly, 10 apps per workspace, 1,000 records per app, 1 GB per workspace, 50 Zapier and external API calls per app.
• Pro, for small corporate use and marked as recommended: 19,600 yen a month when paid yearly, 100 apps per workspace, 25,000 records per app, 20 GB per workspace, unlimited Zapier and external API calls, and 10 invited members per workspace.
• Enterprise, for mid-size to large companies: the site asks people considering Pro or above to make contact.

The table lists PWA, iOS app, Android app, push notifications, Google Analytics and custom domain under each of the Free, Standard and Pro columns. The monthly-billing prices are 4,980 yen for Standard and 21,780 yen for Pro. The footnotes matter for budgeting: the contract term is 1 year starting on the first day of the month of signup, it renews automatically, and even monthly payment is a yearly contract. Cancelling early incurs a charge equal to the remaining term, and a downgrade has to be requested by 1 month before the renewal date. 1 account cannot be shared by several people or companies. Building apps for third parties as contract work, and using Click for teaching in educational institutions, both require contacting the company first. The contact form asks for the expected number of users, in bands from 1 to 10 up to 101 or more.

Security gets its own section. The site says data runs on AWS servers, which it presents as handling large volumes of data without losing speed. 2-step authentication with a one-time code at login and IP address restriction, which blocks access from outside named addresses, are both marked as Enterprise only. The company says this makes Click safe both for internal use and for work done on behalf of clients.

Customer examples on the homepage include an assessment app from Ajike that passed 100 visits a week within 3 months of release, 2 internal AI apps built by Tobu Top Tours for efficiency and quality and now used by all employees, and a no-code camp over 1 night and 2 days at Nihon Nogyo Shimbun after which participants built work apps that staff now use. The company also sells a no-code bootcamp, a 2-day training course meant to build people who can solve internal problems by developing apps, with a subsidy that can reduce the price by up to 75 percent.

Who it suits and who it does not

Click suits a Japanese-speaking founder or small team that wants a mobile-friendly app with payments, chat, maps or push messages, and a freelancer who can start at 0 yen and move to Standard. It also suits a company that wants to build in-house capability, since the bootcamp and the AI app examples point that way. The LINE mini app and LINE login support are a draw for products aimed at consumers who already use LINE, and the stamp and barcode elements fit loyalty and retail apps.

The limits are real. The 0 yen tier allows only 10 records per app, so it is a prototype tier, and Standard stops at 1,000 records per app. The yearly contract with an early-cancellation charge means you commit before you know the fit, and 2-step authentication sits only in Enterprise. The site is in Japanese, which narrows the audience to teams that work in the language.