Responsive web designs and mobile apps are simultaneously growing in popularity and usage. Where responsive web designs are soon to become a necessity, mobile apps are still catching up and soon to be the one prerequisite for shopping. It is now becoming imperative for companies to maintain responsive designs along with mobile app launches that will retain their visibility and customer drive. Mobile app development can usurp a lot of company budget and time. Where web design companies are willing to develop compatible applications best-suited to user and company needs, it is also important to take into account the time consumed for such an activity.

Alpha Anywhere: One of the most rapid app development tools that can create hybrid mobile as well as web apps to work offline. It gives a native look and feel and has a strong SQL database support. It resolves data development conflicts in just a few clicks. Mobile file system access is available with compression for large amounts of data for hybrid mobile apps.

App Press: App Press is a web-based and cloud-based platform that does not require any codes and targets iPhone, iPad and android apps. It claims to produce apps in just a day and new designers can easily train on the platform.

EachScape: EachScape is also a cloud-based and unified platform using the drag-and-drop editor suitable for native iOS HTML5 and android apps. The architecture depends on blocks and modules and can extend capabilities using SDKs.

iBuildApp: The iBuildApp consists of ready-to-use customizable templates suitable for iPhone, iPad and Android apps. It promises to create apps in just FIVE minutes.

Appcelerator: Appcelerator combines multiple frameworks, SDK and back-end cloud for mobile systems development. Titanium SDK is compatible with both native and hybrid mobile apps with one single code base. The framework is designed to develop high-quality applications with great speed.

Appery.io: Formerly known as Tiggizi it is a native and hybrid mobile app builder using cloud HTML5, and JQuery Mobile. Installation and download are eliminated because it runs on cloud. It connects to the REST API for data that can be easily used on the mobile which can also be tested for service response structures.

Conduit: Conduit is the simplest application builder that can create stunning apps very quickly. It involves just one click and no coding. Apps for iOS and Android can be developed within minutes with a variety of components RSS, events, e-commerce, social feed etc.

Other platforms that can create store-ready apps are Kinvey, Keen.io, Urban Airship, PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, Canvas, weejot and Apigee.