Describe what you need and Aleria builds it: a real, working app, hosted on the web and ready the moment you open the link. Not a mockup, not a slide, not a static report, but a product your team actually works in, with buttons that do things, charts that update, and forms people fill in.
You write one sentence. Aleria designs the app, builds it, tests it, and hands you a live link moments later. Want it different? Say so in plain English and watch it change. No code, no setup, no ticket in the IT queue. What used to mean a brief, a budget, and a six-week wait is now a single message in a chat.
Apps may need to be enabled for your workspace. If you don't see an Apps section in the sidebar, ask your administrator. See Plans and feature availability.
Anything you'd otherwise force into a spreadsheet
If you've ever stretched a spreadsheet into a job it was never meant to do, a tracker, a planner, a tool the whole team pokes at, an app is usually what you actually wanted. The range runs from small team helpers to systems a department runs on:
- A sales pipeline dashboard that filters by owner, region, and quarter and lets you drill into any single deal.
- A quote and pricing calculator with your rate card and branding built in, so any rep can produce a clean, consistent quote in seconds.
- An incident or request tracker the operations team works in daily, with severity tags, owner assignment, and a weekly trend view.
- A vendor or contract register where procurement logs renewal dates, filters by status, and sees what's expiring this quarter.
- A project status portal with per-project detail pages that stakeholders can open without a meeting.
- An employee onboarding tracker that walks each new hire through their steps and shows HR who is where in the process.
- A budget or expense approval tool where managers log requests, set a status, and finance reviews the queue.
- A KPI dashboard that reads from your real numbers and gives leadership one live view instead of a monthly slide.
None of these need a developer. You describe the one you need, and the first version is live before you'd have finished formatting the spreadsheet.
How easy this really is
The whole thing happens in a normal chat. You type a sentence or two, the way you'd brief a colleague:
"Build a tracker where the team logs support tickets, tags each one by priority, and I can see how many are still open."
That's the entire skill required. You don't pick a template, choose a database, or even know what a database is. Aleria handles the screens, the buttons, the storage, and the hosting, and shows its work in the chat so you can follow along. When it's done, you get a link like https://support-ticket-board-4m8xqz1c.aleria.app/. Open it and the full app is right there.
Don't overthink the first message. A rough one-liner is enough to get a working version, and it's far easier to react to something real than to specify everything perfectly up front.
Changing it is as easy as building it
This is where it stops feeling like software and starts feeling like a conversation. Once the app is live, you keep talking to it in plain language:
- "Add a filter by team."
- "Use our brand colors."
- "Put a count of open tickets at the top."
- "Make the priority tags red, amber, and green."
Each request produces a new version in moments, and the link stays the same, so anyone you've shared it with always sees the latest one. You're never stuck with a first draft, and you never have to start over to fix something.
Live data, not a frozen copy
An app can show real, current data instead of numbers typed in once and left to go stale.
- Point it at a database, a connector, or a Big Data Fusion source, or just ask Aleria to set that up in the same chat.
- As the underlying data changes, the app reflects it automatically. No re-export, no manual refresh.
- The app follows the same access rules as the sources it reads, so people only ever see what they're allowed to.
Connect the source first, or ask for it in the same chat, then build on top of it. That way the very first version already shows your real data instead of placeholders.
A place your team actually works
An app isn't just yours to look at. Share it to your workspace and it becomes somewhere your team gets work done together.
- Everyone in the workspace can open and use the same live app.
- They work against the same data, so everyone sees the same picture.
- When one person adds an entry, it shows up for everyone else right away.
You control this from the app's share button and can change it whenever you like. See Sharing and privacy.
Its own address, nothing to install
Aleria hosts every app at its own web address, in the form https://<app-name>-<id>.aleria.app/. The address is the app: open it on a laptop or a phone and the whole thing loads, with no install, no account to create, and no hosting to manage. That makes these links ideal for sharing, demos, and everyday use.
When an app earns a permanent spot in how your team works, your administrator can keep it running at a stable internal address or hand the underlying code to your team. If an app matters, ask your admin to make it permanent rather than leaning on the temporary link forever.
Everything in one place
All the apps you've built live in the Apps section in the sidebar. From there you can:
- See every app with a preview thumbnail
- Open any app's live link
- Continue building one (this reopens it in chat with everything loaded, so you can keep editing)
- Manage who can see it
- View its version history
You don't have to finish an app in one sitting. Come back any time, choose to continue building, and Aleria reopens the chat with the full context restored, so you pick up exactly where you left off.
You can always undo
Every time you change an app, Aleria saves a new version. Open the version history to see past versions and roll back to an earlier one if a change didn't work out. The version other people see is whichever one you've published, so you can experiment freely without anyone seeing a half-finished idea.
A worked example
It's Friday and your operations lead wants an incident board before Monday's review. You type:
"Build a board where the team can add an incident with a title, a severity of low, medium, or high, a site, and a note. Let people filter by site and severity, and show a chart of incidents per week."
Aleria builds it and gives you https://field-incident-board-4m8xqz1c.aleria.app/. You connect it to your operations database so the board shows real incidents, share it to your workspace, and by lunchtime the whole team is adding and filtering entries in the same place. Then you add one more line: "Put a count of open incidents at the top." A minute later the updated board is live at the same link, in time for Monday, and you never opened a code editor.
Common questions
What is an app, exactly?
Software with its own interface that Aleria builds and hosts for you, such as a tracker, a calculator, a dashboard, or an internal tool, rather than a static document. You build it by describing it in a chat, in plain language, with no code.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You describe what you want in everyday language and Aleria builds, tests, and hosts the whole thing. Changes work the same way: you ask, and the app updates.
Where does an app live?
At its own web address, in the form https://<app-name>-<id>.aleria.app/. Opening the link loads the full app, with no install and no account. All your apps are also listed in the Apps section in the sidebar.
How long does it take to build one?
A first working version usually appears within moments of describing it, and each change you ask for lands just as quickly. You can have something live before you'd have finished setting up a spreadsheet.
Is the data in an app live?
Yes, when you connect it to a database or external source. It reads from the real source each time it's opened, so it reflects current data rather than a snapshot. An app that isn't connected to a source shows only the data built into it.
Can my team use the same app?
Yes. Share an app to your workspace and everyone can open and work in the same live app, against the same data, so an entry one person adds is visible to the rest.
Can I undo a change to an app?
Yes. Every change saves a new version, so you can open the version history and roll back. The version other people see is whichever one you've published.
How do I make an app permanent?
An administrator can keep it running at a stable internal address or export the underlying code to your team. Apps may also need to be enabled for your workspace by an admin, so ask your administrator if you don't see an Apps section.