The Zite alternative for the work around the app
Switch if the app is the easy half and the work around it is the point: steps that start from an email or a schedule, a person's yes before anything risky, and the report at the end. Every Cheqq plan runs workflows on a schedule; on Zite that starts with Business. Stay with Zite if a large team builds together: it includes unlimited editors on every plan.
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An agent-native app platform from the team behind Fillout: describe an app and Zite builds it on one database for the workspace, with typed workflows, AI fields, sign-in for your users and hosting, and unlimited users and editors on every plan.
A workspace that builds the operation the app belongs to. The records, the page and its permissions are the start; around them run workflows that start from an email or a schedule, columns AI fills on every row, and documents made from the same records.
Why people move from Zite
Nothing here is a knock on Zite. These are the points at which a tool stops being the right shape for the job, whichever tool it is.
The work starts before anyone opens the app
An enquiry arrives by email, a payment fails, a form comes in overnight. If nothing happens until someone logs in and clicks, the first hour of every job is still manual.
Schedules cost a plan change
Zite's scheduled workflows start on Business, at $75 a month billed yearly, since its September 15, 2026 price change.
Unattended is not unsupervised
The steps that spend money or email a customer should wait for a named person to say yes, and ask someone else if they go quiet, rather than running blind or not at all.
The output is usually a document
The proposal, the board deck, the monthly report. If they're made outside the tool, the numbers in them drift the moment they're copied out.
Cheqq vs Zite, row by row
In plain terms. Where Zite is the stronger answer, the row says so.
| Capability | Cheqq | Zite |
|---|---|---|
| Editors and usersZite | Cheqq Each editor takes a seat; viewers are free, and people using a page you publish never take one. | Zite Unlimited users and editors on every plan, including Free. |
| Enterprise sign-in and auditZite | Cheqq No SAML SSO or audit log today. | Zite SSO and audit logs on Enterprise. |
| Workflows on a scheduleCheqq | Cheqq On every plan, Free included. | Zite On Business and up, from $75 a month billed yearly. |
| What starts a workflowCheqq | Cheqq A schedule, an email to the workflow's own address, a webhook, a record change, or someone running it. | Zite The app, a schedule on Business and up, or a webhook. |
| What a run countsEven | Cheqq Every step in the workflow is a step-run each time it runs. | Zite One workflow run per run from a published app, however many steps: 5,000 a month on Pro, 50,000 on Business. |
| AI on every rowEven | Cheqq Describe a column and it fills every row and each new one; cells a person typed are left alone. | Zite AI fields in the database, drawing on the plan's credits. |
| Undoing a bad buildEven | Cheqq Every turn of the build conversation is a restore point: go back to any of them and the work goes back with it. | Zite The code has Git-backed history, and the database has backups and point-in-time restore. |
| Getting it outZite | Cheqq Download a collection's records as CSV or JSON, with every field or only the visible ones. | Zite View and download the code; export a whole workspace's code, schema, apps and forms (not its records), and each table as CSV. |
Zite’s column checked against its own site on .
Both products move fast. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
What the same work costs
Two people run an app with work around it: a nightly sync and a morning report on a schedule, and about 900 runs a month of a 4-step workflow.
| Zite BusinessScheduled workflows start on Business; billed yearly. Unlimited editors | $75 |
|---|---|
| A month | $75 |
| A year | $900 |
| Cheqq Pro, 2 seats$16 × 2, billed yearly | $32 |
|---|---|
| Step-runs for 900 runs4 steps a run: 3,600 of the 40,000 included | $0 |
| A month | $32 |
| A year | $384 |
- Both billed yearly. No step calls a model.
- Without schedules, Zite Pro is $20 a month billed yearly for unlimited editors, which is less than Cheqq from a second editor on.
- Prices as each company published them on , in US dollars before tax. The sources are at the foot of the page.
What you would build instead
Sentences you could type on your first afternoon, and what comes back.
The enquiry arrives and the work is already done.
Give the workflow its own email address. When something lands, it reads it, creates the record, drafts the reply and waits for a yes, all before the first person opens the app.
One instruction, every row.
Point a column at the job instead of doing it a record at a time. It runs on every row, catches up rows you add later, and lands the result as a real field you can filter and publish.
The expensive steps wait for a yes.
Refunds, outbound email, anything that spends money. The run pauses on a named approver, asks someone else if they go quiet, and stops if they decline.
Moving from Zite
Export each table
Zite exports its tables as CSV, one at a time. Upload them together and Cheqq turns them into records with the right kind of field for each column.
Describe the app
Say what the page should show and let people do. It goes live at its own address, able to touch only the fields you list.
Add what runs around it
The email that starts the work, the schedule, the approval, the report. Read the steps before you switch them on.
Switch over when it's right
Share the new page's address and retire the Zite app once people are using it.
Once Cheqq has built it, you can ask someone on our team to check it.
When to stay with Zite
A big team builds together
Zite includes unlimited editors on every plan. If many people build, a flat price beats paying per editor.
Your security review is the gate
Zite offers SSO and audit logs on Enterprise; Cheqq has neither today. If procurement signs off before anyone builds, that decides it.
You already run Fillout
Zite's Team plan bundles Fillout Forms with the same database, one bill for both.
You want the code
Zite lets you view, edit and download the code behind an app. Cheqq builds and hosts the page for you instead.
Switching from Zite
Does Cheqq charge per app user?
No. People who use a page you publish never join your workspace: they can submit a form, book a slot or check a status page without taking a seat, and a public page needs no sign-in at all. Viewers are free too. Seats are only for people who build: owners, admins and editors.
Is Zite cheaper?
For a team that builds together, usually: Zite Pro is $20 a month billed yearly for unlimited editors, against $16 a Cheqq seat. Once you need workflows on a schedule, Zite asks for Business, at $75 a month billed yearly, while every Cheqq plan runs them.
Does Cheqq have SSO?
Not today. If your organisation requires SAML SSO or an audit log, Zite's Enterprise plan is the honest recommendation.
Can Cheqq do the internal-tool part?
Yes: records with typed fields and relations, pages at their own address, permissions the server enforces on every request, and sign-in for the people you invite. The difference is what happens around the app afterwards.
Sources
- Zite — Pricing — checked
- Zite — What's new (September 15, 2026 prices) — checked
- Zite Help — Scheduled workflows — checked
- Zite Help — Usage and workflow runs — checked
- Zite Docs — Workflows — checked
- Zite Help — Export and import — checked
- Zite Help — Code viewing and editing — checked
Comparing something else?
vs Lovable
vs ManusThe app, and then the operation around it
Describe the process you run, not just the screen you look at. Free to start.