A database with an instant REST API, sign-in, subscriptions, workflows and an operations dashboard, all built from your data model.
Build it in the Anythink dashboard, from the terminal, or by asking Claude. You describe the system. Anythink runs it.
you › Create an orders entity with a required decimal total and a status of pending or paid, then add a workflow that runs when an order is updated.
$ anythink entities create orders$ anythink fields add orders total --type decimal --required$ anythink fields add orders status --type varchar \ --display select --options pending,paid$ anythink workflows create order-updated \ --trigger Event --entity orders --event EntityUpdated --enabled
Payments run on Stripe, where Anythink is a verified partner, and projects run on DigitalOcean.
Most products end up stitching together a database, a CMS, an automation tool, a subscription service, search and an admin panel. Anythink does each of those jobs from one data model.
Database, REST API and sign-in
Usually Supabase or Firebase
Content management
Usually Strapi or Directus
Automation and integrations
Usually Zapier
Subscriptions and in-app purchases
Usually RevenueCat
Search
Usually Algolia
Internal dashboards
Usually Retool
One project
One project, one data model, one bill.
Model your data once. The API, permissions, subscriptions, workflows, search and dashboards all read from it, so there's no glue code to write and nothing to keep in sync.
Anythink covers the core job each tool does for a typical app, in one project. For anything beyond the built-in integrations, a workflow step calls any HTTP API.
“When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed.”
Dreyfuss designed the Western Electric 500 telephone and the Honeywell round thermostat, objects people used for decades without reading a manual. Anythink applies the same idea to building a business. The dashboard keeps the controls simple. The API, CLI and MCP server go further: the interface can be a sentence typed to Claude or any AI assistant, and the output is a working backend you can inspect, test and trust. You don't have to learn the product first.
Every task works three ways, and they all change the same project. Here's one task: an orders table with a total and a status.
The Anythink dashboard
Point and click. Good for modelling data and seeing what's there.
The Anythink CLI
Scriptable and repeatable. Good for CI and for promoting staging to production.
$ anythink entities create orders$ anythink fields add orders total --type decimal --required$ anythink fields add orders status --type varchar \--display select --options pending,paid$ anythink data list ordersClaude, through MCP
Describe what you want, in Claude Code or the dashboard's AI chat. It runs the same commands and tells you what it did; you can check every change in the dashboard.
you › “Create an orders entity with a required decimal total and a status of pending or paid. Then add a workflow that emails the customer when the status changes to paid.”
Six things Anythink does natively that usually take an extension, a second vendor or a weekend of glue code.
Subscriptions
Plans, trials and offer codes with Stripe, plus Apple in-app purchases verified on the server. Receipts are checked against the App Store, re-verifying is safe, and each purchase is bound to the account that made it.
Workflows
Trigger on a record change, a schedule, an API call or a button. Read and write data, call any HTTP API, run a script, send email and push, or ask Claude or OpenAI, without a separate automation tool.
Access
Grant records to users or whole groups when they're created, and let group members read their team's data while staff-only records stay private.
Operations
Charts, materialised views that join entities with payments data, and grid, kanban and calendar views. Your team runs the business from the same project your app uses.
Push
Send push from a workflow to one user or thousands, add action buttons, and run another workflow when someone taps one.
AI
The Anythink MCP server reaches the whole CLI: entities, fields, data, workflows, roles, payments and more. Use it from Claude, Cursor or another MCP client, or from the AI chat in the dashboard, which has the same access.
What's built in, and where you'd need an add-on, side by side.
| Capability | Anythink | Supabase | Firebase | Appwrite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REST API generated from your data modelAnythink: public or private per entity, and rate-limited per project. | Built in | Built in | Not available | Built in |
| Social sign-in, including Apple and Google | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Row-level access for groups and teams | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Built in |
| OpenAPI spec for your own data APIAnythink publishes one for every project, ready for client generators. Supabase generates TypeScript types and in-dashboard API docs instead. | Built in | Not confirmed | Not available | Not confirmed |
| Full-text searchSupabase uses Postgres full-text search. Firebase and Appwrite point to Algolia-style extensions or integrations. | Built in | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe |
| Dedicated search engine: typo tolerance, facets, highlightingAnythink runs Meilisearch for every project, indexed as your records change. | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe |
| Geo search: radius, bounding box, sort by distanceSupabase needs the PostGIS extension; Firestore needs geohash libraries you implement. | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Not confirmed |
| Visual workflow engine | Built in | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Push notifications | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Built in | Built in |
| Subscriptions and payments | Built in | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe |
| Apple in-app purchasesFirebase relies on the RevenueCat extension; Extensions shut down on 31 March 2027. | Built in | Not available | Add-on, extension or DIY recipe | Not available |
| Dashboards and charts on app data | Built in | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Built in | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Realtime subscriptions | Not available | Built in | Built in | Built in |
| Self-hostingAnythink is a managed service. Enterprise customers can have a dedicated stack. | Not available | Built in | Not available | Built in |
● Built in◐ Add-on, extension or DIY recipe– Not available? Not confirmed
Based on each vendor's public documentation, checked 28 September and 3 October 2026. An add-on means an extension, a partner integration or a recipe you build and run yourself.
Built for
Anythink gives founders sign-in, a REST API, subscriptions, workflows and an operations dashboard in one project, from first prototype to paying customers.
Learn more →Anythink gives enterprise teams a managed backend with roles, row-level security and encrypted secrets, on a dedicated Kubernetes cluster if you need one.
Learn more →Anythink gives agencies a project per client, a branded dashboard to hand over, and a CLI that copies your template project into each new client project.
Learn more →Each part of Anythink reads from the same entities, so your API, permissions, workflows, payments and dashboards never drift apart.
Add email and password, magic links, and Apple, Google or LinkedIn sign-in to your app, with every native token verified on the server.
Automation that runs inside every project. Trigger on a record change, a schedule or an API call, then send email and push, call other services or run a script.
Every entity you create gets a REST API straight away, with filtering, sorting and pagination built in. Make each entity public or private. Row-level security decides what each caller sees, every project is rate-limited, and your OpenAPI docs write themselves.
Model entities, fields and relationships in the Anythink dashboard, the CLI or with Claude, and each entity gets a REST API the moment you save it.
Store files of any type, serve public ones from a CDN and private ones through short-lived signed links, with size, dimensions and duration recorded for you.
Model plans, trials and offers once, then take payment through Stripe or Apple in-app purchases without writing receipt-validation code.
Search any entity with typo-tolerant full-text queries, filters, facets and geo radius, backed by Meilisearch and indexed as your records change.
Roles carry entity-scoped permissions, row-level security restricts which records a user can see, and group-scoped reads extend that to a team without opening every record to every teammate. All three are enforced at the API, not reimplemented in your app.
Build charts, grids, kanban boards and dashboards on the same data model your API already runs on, with no second database to keep in sync.
Connect Slack, Google, GitHub, Claude and OpenAI, then call any of them as a step in a workflow.
Send push notifications with tappable action buttons, and route the tap back into a workflow. Anythink sends through Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android and iOS) and web push (VAPID), templates the payload, and fans bulk sends out across a queue instead of a synchronous loop.
Store the API keys, tokens and credentials your backend needs as project secrets. They're encrypted at rest, never shown again after you save them, and decrypted only at the moment a workflow step uses them.
Send sign-up confirmations, invites, password resets, magic links and any email your app needs, from your own verified domain and with your own templates. Workflows send email when a record changes, on a schedule, or when your API calls them.
How it works
Create entities and fields in the dashboard, the CLI or by asking Claude. Every entity gets a REST API straight away, public or private as you choose.
Set roles and permissions, then use row-level security so each user, or each group of users, only reaches their own records.
Add workflows that run when data changes, on a schedule or from an API call. Send email and push, call other services, or run a script.
Create plans with trials and offers, take payment with Stripe or Apple in-app purchases, and check entitlements from your app.
Watch it from the operations dashboard: charts, materialised views and grid, kanban, calendar and map views over the same data.
“Our experience is that Anythink has been a life saver, each part of the setup has been handled in a calm and seamless way regardless of difficulty, Anythink always seems to have a way to solve any problem and simply…”
Steve BradleyManaging Director, Route 1Workflows, payments and dashboards come with every plan, including Free. Plans differ in storage, monthly active users and usage, so you pay more only as your product grows.
Anythink Free Plan
0.5GB database storage
1GB file storage
50,000 monthly active users
500 workflows per month
50 emails per day
Perfect for projects that are getting off the ground.
8GB database storage
100GB file storage
100,000 monthly active users
2,500 workflows per month
100 emails per day
💾 Automated backups
Perfect for medium to large projects.
8GB database storage
100GB file storage
100,000 monthly active users
10,000 workflows per month
500 emails per day
💾Automated backups
⚡Priority support
A dedicated stack on its own Kubernetes cluster, built on request in any DigitalOcean region, with limits and terms set under your contract.
Unlimited database storage
Unlimited file storage
Unlimited users
Dedicated support team
Single sign-on (SSO)
Custom SLA & compliance
Deploy in any DigitalOcean region
How We Compare
Anythink is a managed backend platform. You model your data, and Anythink gives you a REST API, sign-in, subscriptions with Stripe and Apple in-app purchases, workflows, search, file storage and an operations dashboard on top of it.
You can build and run it from the Anythink dashboard, the CLI, or an AI assistant such as Claude through MCP.
Yes, for apps that need an API, sign-in, payments and automation in one place. Anythink gives you a REST API from your data model like Supabase does, and adds native subscriptions, Apple in-app purchases, a visual workflow engine and an operations dashboard.
It's fully managed, so there's nothing to host, and realtime subscriptions are planned.
Yes. Ask the AI chat in the Anythink dashboard, or connect Claude, Cursor or another MCP client to the Anythink MCP server. Either way the assistant creates entities, fields, roles and workflows through the same commands as the CLI, and you can review every change in the dashboard.
Not for the usual work. The REST API, sign-in, permissions, payments and workflows come from configuration. When you need custom logic, a workflow can run a script or call any HTTP API.
Every plan includes workflows, payments and dashboards, including the Free plan. Plans differ in storage, monthly active users and usage limits. See the pricing page for the numbers.
Yes. Enterprise customers can have their own dedicated stack, set up on request. Get in touch to talk it through.
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