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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

ServiceNow and AppSheet compete in the low-code app development and IT service management category. ServiceNow appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and flexibility, while AppSheet offers a cost-effective and simpler solution.

Features: ServiceNow excels with extensive customizability, a visual workflow editor, integration capabilities, and a strong community. It offers ITIL processes and custom app development. AppSheet provides an intuitive environment focused on Google Workspace integration, mobile-friendliness, and a straightforward solution for simpler tasks.

Room for Improvement: ServiceNow could simplify its complex licensing model, improve its user interface, and enhance non-IT asset integration. Performance analytics and mobile capabilities need betterment. AppSheet could expand integration partners, improve app templates, and enhance SQL database functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ServiceNow offers flexible hosting options like public, private, hybrid cloud, and on-premises, but its customer service can be inconsistent. AppSheet operates mainly in the public cloud, offering simplicity within the Google Workspace ecosystem, although technical support ratings vary.

Pricing and ROI: ServiceNow is a premium-priced solution, often justified by extensive features, and offers significant ROI in enterprise efficiency. AppSheet has a more budget-friendly pricing model, attractive to Google Workspace users, with ROI seen in flexibility and integration with Google's ecosystem.

To learn more, read our detailed AppSheet vs. ServiceNow Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

AppSheet

Ranking in No-Code Development Platforms

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ServiceNow

Ranking in No-Code Development Platforms

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

217

Ranking in other categories

Help Desk Software (1st), IT Asset Management (1st), IT Service Management (ITSM) (1st), Rapid Application Development Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the No-Code Development Platforms category, the mindshare of AppSheet is 6.0%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow is 15.8%, down from 26.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Daniyal Farrakh

Program Manager at Motorola Solutions

Helpful for reporting and to do risk assessments

Within our group, I think five to six people will probably use the tool. The tool is mostly not used on an everyday basis. It is not used daily but weekly. I think the tool offers usability, and I think we can scale it. As far as our utilization is concerned, I think it is very scalable. It is very flexible. You can utilize the tool for various reasons. You can use the tool to look at your vulnerability scans and upload information. You can do risk assessments. You can do physical site assessments. I think scalability deserves five stars for sure. The scalability seems to be very easy to use and scalable and flexible.

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Somnath Kand

Team Lead at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Custom integration and reporting lead to efficient ticket management

There is a need for bug or error tracking in ServiceNow. Although there are child incidents or tickets, tracking primary issues or bugs within enhancements is not present. The reporting features in the new portal could be more user-friendly. While it provides options to minimize chart and image sizes, actual implementation doesn't always reflect these changes.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"AppSheet is easy to set up and easy to use."

"The solution has been very user friendly, easy to use, and we are able to use many applications like Excel or Google sheets."

"The tool's integration capabilities enhance our existing workflows and as far as the workflows are concerned, I think it is pretty seamless, intuitive, and interactive."

"The security of the solution is very good."

"A feature I found most valuable in AppSheet is its intuitive UI/UX design, as that makes the platform very easy for customers to use. The solution also has a drag and drop feature that's quite good. I also found AppSheet integration with the cloud platform to be quite good."

"The solution is quite efficient, elaborate, sophisticated, fast, and easy to use."

"The solution is pretty simple to implement."

"I have found the way they structure the workflow and the fact that it a progressive application is valuable for me. This allows me to be able to build it once and use it in multiple formats."

"Being able to have the required information for project management is valuable. I've got multiple people accessing it, and I'm tracking tasks with percentages done. It allows me to have detailed notes and provides the ability to attach documents. I have used a lot of project management solutions, and there were gaps in terms of what was available. ServiceNow has got all the features and functionalities. It is a solid solution. It is also easy to get into and use. It is certainly highly scalable."

"It is easily configurable and has a good developer society online, available for any issues from the backend."

"I find the incident management part to be the most valuable. That's how the service desk tracks tickets."

"Overall, I rate ServiceNow 10 out of 10."

"In the Service Portal, the widget concept - and the way we have developed our widget - is pretty simple. We can leverage a lot on top of it."

"I have found the workflows and integration the most valuable in this solution."

"We used ServiceNow for change management, release management, and event management."

"The solution has very good automation tools."

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Cons

"The solution needs to improve its SQL database capabilities."

"They could improve by providing more language support other than English, integrate better with other databases, and provide a better UX."

"No improvements are required as AppSheet is quite efficient."

"In terms of areas for improvement in AppSheet, I do many things with it, and I'm happy with its data features. The solution has good data features, and though some basic functions may not be there, AppSheet is good enough for me at the moment. I can use it in my business. I like it, and I'm still happy with it because I'm not using it intensively. I just use AppSheet for simple tasks rather than complex ones, though the solution has many use cases. In its next release, what could make the solution better would be more partners for integration, for example, integration with SAP, particularly plugins or APIs with more partners that it could integrate with. There should be an out-of-the-box feature built for integration with more partners."

"There needs to be an improvement in their operation vision. They need to see things more globally because at the moment they are very North-America focused. We do not always have mobile applications and the way we use them is slightly different in Africa from the way they use them in America."

"AppSheet should continue to make the tool's features easy to use, such as the ability to add additional notes or notifications."

"There are now a lot of low-code or no-code applications available on the web. AppSheet is working on that path."

"They only give a single sign-on at a very high cost."

"Their user interface is old-fashioned and outdated, and it can be more friendly for the eye. They can improve the user experience."

"The interface is not user-friendly."

"The setup was time-consuming and required a lot of internal resources."

"I do not like the user interface."

"Service mapping could be less complicated."

"Change Management is the area I have found that this tool can be improved because there are so many fields which are missing, such as urgency of the customer request and how the priority is defined. These are some of the areas in which I found that BMC Remedy is much better than ServiceNow."

"An area for improvement would be the accessibility of downloaded and compressed files."

"The product’s standard user experience is not the best."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required to use this solution and it costs approximately $10 per user a month. I am paying $300 a month for 30 licenses."

"I chose this solution because it was cheaper than other competitors."

"In terms of how much AppSheet costs, I'm currently on the free tier, but if I need to add more users to it in the future, I will go with the paid version."

"The tool is available at a low price."

"ServiceNow tends to be a little bit more expensive as compared to BMC Helix ITSM."

"The licenses are expensive."

"The pricing is reasonable and affordable, making it suitable for businesses ranging from small to large scale."

"For large-scale companies, the cost of ServiceNow is not expensive, but for small and mid-scale companies, it is higher."

"ServiceNow pricing is an art, not a science. The deal depends on how commercially savvy you are, which does make it something that is quite difficult to get right. It is most definitely an opportunity area for ServiceNow to improve and have more visibility around pricing of the different products within the platform."

"We know that ServiceNow is not cheap, it's more expensive than other solutions. But we are trying to increase our ability to handle tickets so that the cost per ticket is less."

"The product cost is higher than that of other vendors."

"The solution is priced for medium to enterprises sized businesses. However, it is expensive compared to competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

University

10%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

27%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppSheet?

If you are a Google Workspace user, you have AppSheet as part of the package, so you don't have to pay anything more to use it.

What needs improvement with AppSheet?

I do not have enough experience with AppSheet to make specific recommendations for improvements.

What is your primary use case for AppSheet?

I am mainly an IT consultant for Google Workspace into small companies and nonprofit organizations. I work with different tools. However, 90% of my job revolves around Google Workspace.

Which solution is better for developing non-ITSM applications: OutSystems or Service Now?

The short answer is that OutSystems is far better for 2 main reasons. Firstly, with Service Now you are locked into that platform for good. The business model is to lock in and then keep pumping th...

Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?

Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...

What do you like most about ServiceNow?

The solution has a user-friendly interface.

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Overview

AppSheet provides a no-code development platform for application software, which allows users to create mobile, tablet, and web applications using data sources like Google Drive, DropBox, Office 365, and other cloud-based spreadsheet and database platforms.

Google

ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.

ServiceNow offers prebuilt applications to support any process, as well as a framework and tools that allow you to build your own.

ServiceNow’s service management solutions include change, request, incident, problem, and cost management, as well as HR, IT, field service, and facilities management solutions. They also cover business management solutions such as vendor performance management, financial management, performance analytics and project portfolio suite, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.

“The Smarter Way to Workflow”

ServiceNow’s activities, processes, and tasks are overseen as part of a comprehensive managed workflow that supports such features as real-time collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. ServiceNow’s suite of products allow for operation using serverless computing, and include the categories of Business Apps, Customer Service, HR, IT, and Security.

ServiceNow can be used to support most workflows because of the wide range of tools it offers. These include on-suite ticketing tools, predictive modeling to manage workflows, and benchmarking for the tracking of progress. ServiceNow can assist with artificial intelligence and machine learning processes and can be used to organize the cases of a help/service desk as well as for instance management and problem management. It also smoothly integrates with many legacy systems.

ServiceNow offers service management software for industries including:

Cloud services
Education
Financial services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Telecommunications

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users prefer ServiceNow to its competitors because of its scalability, stability, and ease of use. It helps everyone in the company to be on the same page by creating a single source of record across all departments. One user stated that “I’ve definitely used over 20 project management solutions, but they can't be compared with ServiceNow.” Another said that “ServiceNow is an industry leader in multiple areas and provides an excellent ROI.”

Sample Customers

Husqvarna, Solvay

AAA, AstraZeneca, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Broadcom, Christus Health, Epicor, Equinix, GE Capital, Intuit, KPMG, Loyola Marymount University, OshKosh, Quantas, RedHat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Re, U.S. Department of Energy, Safeway, Yale University, and Zillow

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