Microsoft PowerApps vs Magic xpa: What are the differences?

Developers describe Microsoft PowerApps as "Build professional-grade apps the easy way". It is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your business data stored either in the underlying data platform (Common Data Service) or in various online and on-premises data sources (SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on). On the other hand, Magic xpa is detailed as "Develop Once, Deploy Anywhere". It enables rapid creation of cross-platform business applications for desktop, web and mobile, so you can take advantage of new business opportunities quickly and on-demand.

Microsoft PowerApps and Magic xpa can be categorized as "Low Code Platforms" tools.

Some of the features offered by Microsoft PowerApps are:

• Provide professional developers the tools to seamlessly extend app capabilities with Azure Functions and custom connectors to proprietary or on-premises systems
• Give everyone the power to build the apps they need with advanced functionality previously only available to professional developers—including pre-built AI components
• Empower your team to start building and launching apps right away using pre-built templates, drag-and-drop simplicity, and quick deployment—then roll out continuous improvements as needed

On the other hand, Magic xpa provides the following key features:

• Low-code
• Code-free
• Event-driven