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Microsoft Power Apps vs Prophecy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power Apps
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
96
Ranking in other categories
Rapid Application Development Software (1st), Low-Code Development Platforms (1st)
Prophecy
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Preparation Tools (16th), AI Data Analysis (296th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Microsoft Power Apps and Prophecy aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Microsoft Power Apps is designed for Rapid Application Development Software and holds a mindshare of 7.8%, down 12.5% compared to last year.
Prophecy, on the other hand, focuses on Data Preparation Tools, holds 0.0% mindshare.
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Power Apps7.8%
Oracle Application Express (APEX)5.0%
OutSystems4.7%
Other82.5%
Rapid Application Development Software
Data Preparation Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Prophecy0.0%
Alteryx Designer Cloud8.5%
Alteryx8.1%
Other83.4%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

BS
Automation Enthusiast at Self employed
Low-code AI workflows have streamlined content curation and currently support rapid app creation
Microsoft Power Apps could be improved because there are still a lot of jargons and too many moving parts. For example, if you look at Copilot, the term Copilot is confusing in the sense of whether it is Copilot in M365, Copilot Studio, or Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps. There is a plan designer which uses Copilot. The whole thing how AI has been positioned is still not lucid for the end user. An end user wants to know exactly what they want and where they go to get it. I think that could also be because things are evolving so fast. From an end-user perspective, the way it has been positioned, the clarity and the boundaries between the different types of offerings and AI offerings available is confusing as of now. There should be better clarity on that. The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model. In traditional software development, almost 95 percent of the time, the development team bears the cost of the licenses. For example, if I develop something, I may have to pay licenses for four or five different software that I use. As a user, if you use my services, you probably pay something to me as a subscription, but you do not have to bother about the licenses. All that is wrapped under the hood. Unfortunately, in Power Platform as such, and even in other low-code things like UiPath, if you use a premium feature such as Dataverse, almost everything ends up using Dataverse or SQL Server or some relational database. If you use that, then as an app builder or app maker you have to have a premium license. The end user too would need to have a premium license. That really makes the adoption prohibitive. It is too expensive. We are talking about something like around just for Microsoft Power Apps alone, approximately twenty dollars per month, which is extremely high. Another point to consider for what else can be improved in Microsoft Power Apps is that one does not know what compute power one is getting when one buys a license. If you look at the licensing model, you will get to know how much of Dataverse storage you will get in terms of log storage, database storage, and file storage. However, you do not get to know how much of compute power is being given to you. I do not think Microsoft has an SLA saying that any request of a certain amount, such as MB per second, you will get a response time of whatever, one by sixtieth of a second or some millisecond. I do not think that they have that performance SLA in place. They do have storage SLA which comes with the license, but they do not have a corresponding SLA for performance.
MM
Data Measurement & Reporting Advisor at Evernorth/Cigna
Automated data collection has replaced manual emails and now connects business forms to back-end reports
Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited. We have to do a lot of manual entry with the form to get it set up. We have a lot of things that change year over year, so I have to go in there and manually play around with it, manually changing this and that. Having dynamic forms, having the forms connect to back-end data, and basically making the forms more streamlined would be my need from Prophecy. Everything else on the back end, the pipelines, and those types of things have been pretty easy to understand. I think once you get things set up, I've been very impressed with it. The only improvement at least for my side would be the form.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"What we like about Microsoft PowerApps is that it allows us to simplify business processes and user experience."
"There are great templates on offer that make creating apps easy."
"The most valuable features are low-code and fast development."
"It is a really good tool; we can run programming knowledge, we can learn the PowerApps, we can interact with applications, and it is user-friendly so anyone can easily learn and work on this tool."
"I would say that it's a very advanced product because it empowers people to do simple things, which previously may have required people to have some technical skills."
"The solution is very straightforward. Its context is obvious and everything is easy to understand."
"We like that this solution allows us to fully define our test environments, and link them using different code. This means we can do different tests, but with one basic structure, and then export the data and use it in other platforms."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft PowerApps is the ease of use to create an application."
"Prophecy has positively impacted my organization by greatly speeding up development time and providing capabilities of using DBT alongside functionalities associated with that, making it a very good tool to avoid coding much and utilize AI with the graphical tools available without needing to code."
"Prophecy has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to offer it as an ETL layer for our incentive management application, which has improved our story and demos to customers during the sales cycle."
"The form feature of Prophecy is so valuable for our team because it saves us a lot of time."
 

Cons

"The solution needs a bit more refinement in general."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"Integration with databases and other tools needs to be improved."
"The notion people have is that no code equals no knowledge, and that's simply not true. Even though you don't have to write codes, you still have to know what you're doing."
"I think installation and integration could be improved. It's tricky compared to other tools."
"If they would reduce the price, that would be an improvement, and they should also improve their customer service support, because the last time I contacted them it took one week to resolve the issue."
"I’d need more time with it. As of now, I can’t think of an area for improvement."
"The tool's documentation can be better. The information in the documentation needs to be updated."
"Prophecy can be improved, as right now the form is very limited."
"Prophecy is pretty stable, but there are often some unexpected issues that arise, especially performance issues or problems with Airflow on deployments."
"Prophecy is generally stable, although it does have a few issues at times, such as the Fabric connection randomly dropping and the environment freezing occasionally."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The enterprise-level costs a great deal of money, and you have to purchase additional licenses to scale it."
"The product is inexpensive."
"I pay nine dollars monthly for the subscription to this solution and the price of the is reasonable."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"We would advise organizations that this solution has a high-price point. However, the cost is justified for how comprehensive the package is, and all components of the solution are available under the standard license plan; there are no hidden costs involved."
"The pricing is complicated to understand."
"There are two licensing costs, one is pay-as-you-go, or you can develop it for one year."
"There are areas of Microsoft PowerApps that can be improved. For example, the license policies are expensive to purchases the premium connectors. If a company would like to use the premium features, they have to pay a lot of money. The Microsoft PowerApps portal could be easier to use when there are a lot of external users because if a company has 1,000 external users, it is too expensive to use the Microsoft PowerApps portal."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
56%
Healthcare Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Construction Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise53
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Questions from the Community

How would you choose between Microsoft PowerApps and Salesforce Platform?
I think it depends on your use case. If your organization uses Microsoft Enterprise products, PowerApps will work better in your environment. Similarly, if you have a Salesforce integration in pla...
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 ...
Would you choose Microsoft Azure App Service or PowerApps?
Microsoft Azure App Service is helpful if you need to set up temporary servers for customers to run their programs in locations that other cloud providers do not cater to. When servers are closer t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Prophecy?
My experience with Prophecy's pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the tool can be expensive, and the licensing adds more to that. We try to add the licensing and increase the number only whe...
What needs improvement with Prophecy?
There are a few things to improve in Prophecy, such as scheduling the models and jobs; with the introduction of Prophecy Automate, I think that will improve that. I also see that there are some mis...
What is your primary use case for Prophecy?
I have been using Prophecy for the last year and a half. My main use case for Prophecy is to perform data transformations in Snowflake. A quick specific example of a data transformation I use Proph...
 

Also Known As

PowerApps, MS PowerApps
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Sample Customers

TransAlta, Rackspace, Telstra
JP Morgan Chase, Marks & Spencer, Ralph Lauren, Pfizer, Acxiom
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