I’m pleased to announce that AppSheet has been acquired by Google and is joining the Google Cloud team. We are excited about this next step as we will be able to increase our customer focus and accelerate our core mission: to democratize app development enabling many more people like you to build apps without writing any code. And as always, the priorities of our team and Google Cloud remain customer-first.
Why does this acquisition feel like the right next step? First and foremost, we are philosophically and strategically aligned with Google Cloud in a shared commitment to a no-code platform. This acquisition will help even more companies and line of business employees easily create applications with our no-code platform. More importantly, you will be able to develop richer applications at scale that leverage the best of Google, from Android to Cloud AI and Google Analytics.
How does this impact you today? We will continue on in the same manner but with a bigger team and more resources:
Our platform remains the same.
The AppSheet team remains the same and will continue to support you via our normal channels.
The AppSheet platform will continue to work cross-platform.
I want to thank you for embarking on this journey of app democratization with us, making AppSheet your platform of choice for app development. For more information, please see my post regarding this important next step in our shared journey!
@tcanelli we will be part of Google. However, our team is moving to Google and the intent is to grow the service, broaden the feature set, and support all our existing customers. There is a strong commitment to continue to support a diverse set of data sources as we do today, and to make the transition as seamless as possible for all of you. On the technology side, the transition should be almost invisible. In terms of sales process, we’ll figure out how to ease into aligning with Google standards. In short Tammi, what doesn’t change is that we will remain focused on supporting you.
I assume and hope that it will continue to be possible to build, share, and copy prototype apps on a free plan. I’ve put hundreds of hours into a project that is premised on the continued availability of this part of the AppSheet platform.
P.S. Praveen’s message says that the platform will remain the same. I hope this means that there will not be a major change in free access to the platform.
Congratulations Praveen, well deserved. Hopefully AppSheet will keep improving in the same direction as it has been over the last few years and the essence of AppSheet will remain true to its origins. I will be interested to see if Google continues the development of advanced functionality or whether it attempts to ‘dumb down’ the app to make it more accessible. Hopefully it will continue to be relevant to a wide audience of developers from the most basic ‘no code’ users to the more sophisticated developer.
