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Backendless vs Defold Engine

A side-by-side look at Backendless and Defold Engine. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Backendless

Backendless

Development

Backendless is a BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) platform that provides a ready-made backend infrastructure for web and mobile apps. It handles databases, servers, SDKs, APIs, authentication, and more so developers can focus on building their app frontend.

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Defold Engine

Defold Engine

Games

Defold is a free, open source game engine designed for 2D game development. It uses the Lua programming language and offers a full editor for building and debugging games. Defold is focused on cross-platform publishing and offers native deployment to iOS, Android, HTML5, Windows, macOS and Linux.

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