Our first major release of the year was Collection Permissions. This allows you to control access to information inside of your app. There are 4 levels of permissions for you to choose from for each collection in your app as well as additional permission options available for the 'Users' collection & associated properties. This powerful feature is an important step for everyone making no-code apps.

We also spent some time in January gearing up for our new Component Marketplace 2.0 launch (planned for March) by improving some things for our incredible third-party component developers.

We made sharing private components easier so that you can just share a key now instead of inviting developers to your team. We made it so that developers can publish natively to Windows now. And finally, we added file & image datatype support! That way, developers can create components that can upload, view, and update files and images, opening up possibilities for our makers to utilize external files in their apps.

We've always had robust list filtering functionality (e.g. filtering by number, users, text, etc.), but previously you could only chain filters together using AND logic. In February, we launched the ability to also add OR logic, unlocking much more powerful filtering that enables you to build any list you can dream up.

There were a couple of other updates that we think flew under the radar. There's now a way to set max text length for all text components. The feature allows you to set a character limit and then after the limit is reached the text will be cut off with an ellipsis… With this feature, the design of your lists stay clean and brief no matter the length you're pulling in from the database.

Finally, we also added A TON of new date formats. Not only did we add some much-needed pre-formatted options like DD/MM/YYYY, but we also provided all the individual pieces you need to construct your own date formats.

Back in 2020, we launched the first version of our Component Marketplace. It allowed creators to build components with code, and makers could use those components without coding! Just drag & drop them into their apps.

But in March, we introduced version 2.0. This gave third-party developers the ability to sell their components in the marketplace. Every component can now have its own page so that you could see a demo and learn more about what that component can do. We also dropped 25 new components on launch day!

A Few of the New Components We Launched:

• Image Comparison Slider
• Action Menu
• Zoomable Image
• Input Validator
• Image with Animation
• Gradient Rectangle
  

Our most requested feature of all time was to add geolocation support, and in April, we delivered in a big way! Instead of building a single geolocation feature, we integrated location functionality throughout the entirety of Adalo’s feature set. From accessing device location and autocomplete address search to saving location data and filtering lists by proximity to the user, Adalo unlocks the ability to build incredibly powerful, location-rich applications.

Here Are The 11 New Features We Dropped All On the Same Day:

• New Location Property Type
• Edit Records & Search By Location in the Database
• Automagically Add Location Input in Forms
• Standalone Search Component
• Get Users' Device Location
• Users Can Search By Location
• Upload an CSV of Location Data
• See Locations on the Maps Component
• Filter Lists by Location
• Sort By Proximity
• Change Visibility By Location
  

When you're building an app, it can be scary to make big changes. You don't want to mess anything up! Now with Design Versions, you can save the current state of your app before you make any major design changes. All of your screens, components, colors, fonts, etc. will all be saved in each version. Don't like the new changes? No problem, just restore your previously saved version. We'll even automatically save a version before you restore just to make sure you never lose any changes.

We added a new Team Switcher! Within the menu on the right side, you will now be able to switch between the teams you have access to. For Adalo Experts, freelancers, and agencies, this was a really helpful feature to keep things organized between their different teams.

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In July, we dropped our first batch of huge performance updates. These updates were targeted at making Adalo Apps faster. There were 4 overall categories of improvements.

1. Dramatically faster initial list loading times
2. Instant navigation
3. Improved loading experiences
4. Improved create record speed

In our tests of lists with 5,000 records, we experienced an 86% decrease in the time it takes for the initial load (see our before and after video).

Our first performance update in July focused more on Adalo Apps, but we weren't finished rolling out some big improvements to the overall speed of Adalo. The August release was all about the Adalo Editor.

Our most active users tend to build big apps with several screens. And by several, we mean lots and lots and lots of screens. So. Many. Screens! This unfortunately comes with a big hit in performance: the editor can slow down or even fail to load altogether, which was a huge challenge. To tackle it we needed to completely rethink how the editor handles loading screen data. So that’s what we did!

We ended up launching 2 big improvements.

1. Improved Editor Performance for Apps With Lots of Screens
2. Improved Performance for Editing and Rendering Text

We’d been so focused on improving Adalo for our current makers that it had been quite some time since we gave our public-facing website an update. We had to help visitors understand how powerful Adalo had become! We’ve now upgraded our site with beautiful new visuals and messaging to better tell the story of how Adalo is the best way to build software without code.

A Few of the New & Improved Pages

• New Home Page
• New 'Hire an Expert' Page
• Search & Filtering Added to Experts Page
• Freelancers & Agencies Page
• Businesses & Organizations Page
• Startup Founders Page
• New Integration Pages like Zapier
  

For advanced Adalo makers, this feature launch was like Christmas morning came early! It's critical to have access to the specific, never-changing ID for each record in your database – especially for building powerful and hyper-targeted workflows. We’ve now exposed this ID so it can be used in custom actions, visibility rules, conditional actions, list filtering, and more!

We weren't finished rolling out our performance improvements from the summer and in October we added a few more speed updates. We dramatically reduced notifications latency by optimizing our Notifications service and improved latency by as much as 100x in certain cases. This service will now be able to much more reliably handle large batches of notifications. We also rebuilt Adalo CSV exports from the ground up to be much more performant. The UI hasn't changed, but it functions much better under the hood! We've also removed the 10,000 record limit for exports. Please keep in mind that especially large exports can still take several minutes to process.

Because so many of you all use Zapier while building your Adalo apps, we figured it was time to make our integration even more simple & powerful.

So in November, we launched a brand new updated version that allows you all to create Zaps right from inside of Adalo. The new In-Editor integration gives you access to over 5,000 apps to integrate with.

In addition, with the release of our new Zapier integration, you can now Trigger records to be updated in other external apps. So instead of it just being a one-way Zap that triggers an event to happen. You can now have your Zap actions in Adalo update existing records.

With so many new components getting released in our marketplace, we realized that we needed a new way to filter and sort all of the components. So in December, we launched a new way for you to see which components have been recently added. And to celebrate we launched another 25 new components.

A Few of the New Components Included:

• Animated Tabs
• Autogrow Text Input
• Rich Text
• Number Picker
• Scrollable Markdown
• Two-State Image List
• Vertical Video
• Advanced Image Picker