OPEN-SOURCE DATABASE APP BUILDER

FULLY CUSTOM DATABASE APP BUILDER

OPEN SOURCE • FREE • SELF-HOSTED • NO LICENSE FEE

Saltcorn gives you a structured data foundation, then lets you build workflows and user interfaces on top with visual builders. It's open-source and self-hostable, so your data never gets locked into a closed platform.

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New build: 1.6.1 released with visual workflow editor builder, enhanced view builder and a loop-based AI copilot app builder.

01 / Replace old tools

Replace old tools with structured apps.

Running spreadsheets and old Access databases means double-checking everything and chasing information by email. SaaS might help — but only if your processes are standard. If they aren't, you end up stitching tools together.

An easier way is to build your own apps around your actual workflows, on top of a structured data foundation, using a simple visual builder.

Saltcorn's entities list, showing a structured set of related tables — A structured data foundation: related tables in one place.

02 / Why Saltcorn

Built around how your team actually works.

One structured foundation, tools that match your real processes, and room to keep improving as your organisation evolves.

Give your team a unified place

One home for your ops

Bring your processes, records, workflows, dashboards, and tools into one place, instead of spreading them across spreadsheets and SaaS.

Stop forcing your process to fit

Build tools that fit

Create workflow apps around your organisation's real processes — not a standard template designed for someone else's business or industry.

Keep improving as you evolve

Grow without rebuilding

As your processes change, your team can extend the system, add new workflows, and use the co-pilot to speed up feature-building — without starting from scratch.

03 / What you can build

Build the system tools your organisation needs.

Operational tools

Process hubs, project trackers, equipment tracking, monitoring & evaluation.

Data & workflow apps

Approval flows, compliance systems, internal databases, reporting workflows.

Portals & interfaces

Customer portals, CRM tools, staff portals, reservations and payments.

Legacy replacement

MS Access replacement, spreadsheet-to-app projects, outdated internal tools.

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04 / How teams use Saltcorn

What started as ticketing on Saltcorn is now our entire operations backbone — 120+ tables, hundreds of views, contract management, document management with RAG, and a fleet of AI agents working on our own data.

Patrick Pasch Head of R&D CamData GmbH

05 / Ownership

Own the system behind the work.

With SaaS or enterprise platforms, your data gets stuck inside third-party servers.

Saltcorn is open source and self-hostable behind your own firewall, so you can build useful, safe apps without handing the future of your system to a closed platform.

Saltcorn entity-relationship diagram of a self-hosted application — Your schema, your server: connected data you control end to end.

06 / How Saltcorn works

From raw data to working tools, in four moves.

Start with the data

Bring process-dependent data into one connected system, with the right fields and structure for each table.

Link everything

Connect customers to projects, projects to tasks, tasks to people, and approvals to workflows — one relational model behind it all.

Entity-relationship diagram connecting Saltcorn tables

Build the tools people need

Create forms, dashboards, portals and workflows with visual drag-and-drop builders — no code required.

The Saltcorn drag-and-drop builder editing a view

Keep work flowing

Give people one place to manage, update and use the information they need — no more hunting for spreadsheets or chasing through email.

The Saltcorn workflow editor with a step open

07 / Non-standard by design

For teams that don't fit the template.

Standard SaaS works when your processes are standard. If yours are non-standard, don't worry — you don't need a full software team to start.

All you need is someone who understands how the data and workflows fit together. Saltcorn does the rest, turning it into flexible working apps that you control — and the co-pilot helps them go faster.

The Saltcorn co-pilot in chat mode, building a page — The AI co-pilot builds pages and workflows from a description.

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