UI Bakery

What it is

UI Bakery is a low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, approval workflows and database-connected business apps. Its pages describe it as an "AI-assisted internal app builder", and its Solutions menu also includes customer portals. It suits operations teams and developers who want to assemble apps from components and connect them to existing databases and APIs, then ship from a cloud service or run the whole platform inside a private network. The pages do not say where the company is based.

What you build and how

The editor. The core is a drag-and-drop UI builder with a WYSIWYG editor. The platform menu lists 80+ ready-made components, and the site says you can build tasks, views and more sophisticated interfaces "using drag-and-drop or with code". Themes let you create a look and white-label apps. App recipes are pre-built templated apps you can start from. The pages do not give a recipe count.

What the solutions cover. The Solutions menu is organized around 4 named uses. Internal Tools covers admin panels, dashboards, approval workflows and database-connected business apps. Dashboards are about visualizing data and insights. Admin Panels is pitched as taking control of your systems with ease, and Customer Portals is the external-facing one. The menu also offers to browse solutions by type, by team, by industry and by integration, which helps a buyer find a starting point close to their own case.

Data. The Integrations item says you connect to databases and APIs. The Database item advertises a free hosted PostgreSQL database, so a small tool does not need a database provisioned first. The homepage adds a newer route: you can connect a running MCP server as a data source, discover its tools and schemas, and build app interfaces around them. The headline for that section reads "Build internal apps from MCP tools and regulated data", and it speaks of governing access to internal data with documented controls such as SSO, RBAC, audit logs, self-hosted deployment and custom AI provider keys. A separate section is titled "HIPAA-sensitive workflows" and talks about planning around access, deployment and AI controls. It describes controls to map, not a compliance guarantee, so a regulated team should read the detail before relying on it.

Logic and automation. The platform menu lists workflow automations as scheduled jobs and webhooks. The comparison page for Airplane.dev refers to scheduled job, webhook and server action executions, with a figure of 1000 executions per month in one feature list. That list does not say which plan it belongs to, so confirm the limit against the pricing page. The same page says you can build simple one-off operational workflows as well as more complex ones with intricate business logic, multiple pages and a dynamic user interface.

AI. UI Bakery AI is described as a way to ship AI-driven applications. The homepage lists AI-powered generation, custom components, code access and brand consistency, and points to a page covering the AI options. Custom AI provider keys are mentioned for teams that need to bring their own.

Embedding and portals. Embedded applications let you embed UI Bakery apps into existing apps. The Customer Portals solution is summed up as "Enhance customer engagement with user-friendly portals." That is the entry for portal builders: the same editor and components are used, and the embed option puts an app inside a product you already run.

Collaboration and release. Git version control is listed for collaborating and deploying across instances. Deployment is a single click, with auto-scaling, SSL and CDN included, and one-click rollbacks and versioning keep each release reversible. The Airplane page's feature list also mentions release history, app and data source environments, mobile responsive apps and user roles of admin, editor and user.

Code export and self-hosting. The homepage headline here is "No vendor lock-in. Own the code and export whenever you want." You can export clean, readable React and keep building in your own IDE. For hosting, the whole platform can run in a private network: the page lists on-prem ready, private cloud, air-gapped and Docker support.

The evidence

The homepage lists "SOC2 Certified", advanced RBAC, audit logs and multi-factor authentication, and says built-in RBAC, audit logs and SOC 2 keep apps compliant and secure. It says the product is "Trusted by thousands of developers and makers" and made "for businesses of all sizes", and the Airplane page has a customer testimonial: "The deployment of the solution was really easy and we can adapt our dashboard and administration screens quickly, without any code development."

Pricing is the gap. The site has a Pricing page, but the text here carries no plan names or dollar figures. The Airplane comparison lists some limits and features without naming a plan. They include 1000 scheduled job, webhook and server action executions per month, online chat or email support, adding more than 5 users and the admin, editor and user roles. Confirm these on the live pricing page before you plan around them.

The Airplane comparison page also tells a short story. It says Airplane.dev is shutting down on March 1 after being acquired by Airtable, and that UI Bakery offers support for moving apps over, with cloud and on-prem options to try. It presents UI Bakery as a place to create tasks, views and dashboards for internal tools.

Support channels named on the site include documentation, a community, a public roadmap and a changelog titled "What's new".

Who it suits and who it does not

UI Bakery suits a developer or small engineering team that wants to build admin tools and dashboards over its own databases without writing every screen, and that values an exit route, since the pages offer both React code export and a self-hosted option. It also suits IT groups that need to run a builder inside a private network, including an air-gapped one. Teams exploring MCP servers get a specific use case, since an MCP server becomes a data source for a custom interface.

Plan for a few things. The pages describe the product as low-code, with code access, so a non-technical founder expecting a pure no-code experience may hit places where code helps. Pricing and plan limits are not clear from the pages, and the HIPAA section discusses controls without promising compliance. Finally, the component set is 80+ ready-made pieces, which suits internal tools and portals well but is not a design studio for a branded public website.