Parabola.io

• Parabola was founded in the year 2015 as a drag-and-drop visual programming platform to help users create custom reports, workflows, integrations, etc.
• Till date, the company has raised a total of US$2.2 million in funding from two funding rounds.
• The latest funding came from the lead investor Matrix Partners on May 22, 2018.
• Some major clients served by Parabola include the likes of Netflix, Juice Press, Volcom, Panoply, Jobvite, Souvla, etc.
• Users require credits to run flows in Parabola. The number of credits required depends on how many rows of data the client is processing at a time.
• Users can have 15 run credits for free per month. To avail 50 run credits per month, clients have to pay US$4 at a rate of US$0.08 per credit.
• A detailed overview of Parabola’s pricing can be found at this link.
• Some drawbacks of Parabola, as evident from user reviews, include its crowded space, bugs, and the unavailability of most of the features in the free plan.

Bubble

• Bubble, headquartered in the greater New York area, was founded in the year 2012 as a visual programming language for web and mobile applications.
• Till date, the company has raised US$6.3 million in funding from a total of 20 investors.
• Bubble helps users to build applications without typing codes.
• Some applications that are considered as alternatives to Bubble are Ruby-on-Rails and Django.
•  Companies that used Bubble to build their own platforms, tools or tracking systems include the likes of Dividend, Comet, McKinsey and Company, and Plato.
• Bubble provides four types of pricing options to their users. These pricing plans are termed as hobby, personal, professional and production.
• While hobby counts as a free plan, users can avail personal, professional and production plans at monthly rates of US$25, US$115 and US$475.
• As opined by one industry publication, one drawback of Bubble is that it slows down websites and apps that are developed through it.

Gamesalad

• Gamesalad, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a company that was founded in 2007 in order to provide a development platform for anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface.
• Till date, the company has raised a total of US$7.4 million in funding from 5 rounds.
• The platform of Gamesalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers till date.
• Gamesalad does not have any free version to offer and it's pricing starts at US$17.00 per month, per user.
• However, the platform offers free trial options to users to check its features and modes of application.

Codeflow

• Codeflow, headquartered in Bangalore, India, is an open source visual programming language.
• The language is fully compatible with Node.js™ and NPM™ packages.

Other Players

• Apart from the visual programming platforms or languages mentioned above, there are several other players in the visual programming market which are considered as commercial or enterprise focused.
• These players are Embrio, DG Solution Builder, AT&T Flow Designer, ReactiveBlocks, GraspIO, Wyliodrin, Zenodys, miniBloq, Blocky, Rasplogic, Noodl and Wia.