Standard screens get you a database with forms. We build the app your team would have designed themselves, on Dataverse, inside the Microsoft controls your IT team already trusts.
A code app is a web app written in code, for example React, that Microsoft hosts and runs inside Power Platform. It reads and writes Dataverse and more than 1,500 connectors, while the platform handles sign-in, data policies and admin controls.
Microsoft made code apps generally available in February 2026. For you it means a front end with no design limits, and a back end your IT team already governs.
Read Microsoft's guide to code apps (opens in a new tab)
| Area | Standard Power Apps screens | Code app | Separate custom web app |
|---|---|---|---|
| Look and feel | Microsoft's layouts and controls | Fully designed around your team | Fully designed |
| Where data lives | Dataverse | Dataverse and your connectors | Wherever you build it |
| Sign-in and data policies | Entra and DLP built in | Entra, DLP and Conditional Access built in | You build and maintain it |
| Admin oversight | Power Platform admin centre | Power Platform admin centre | Separate hosting and monitoring |
| Licence per user | Power Apps plan | Power Apps Premium or pay-as-you-go | None, but hosting and upkeep |
ProCon Planning needed a CRM that fits how their planners really work. We designed it with their team and built it as a Power Apps code app on Dataverse, with a conversational assistant alongside the screens.
Read the case studyNo. Your data stays in your Dataverse environment, under your tenant's security and data policies. The only exception is when the solution design includes an AI service outside Microsoft, connected through an API. Then we send only what that task needs, encrypted in transit, and never personal data beyond what the solution design and your data agreements allow. You approve every connection like this before we build it.
You do. It lives in your repository and your environments.
We build with AI-assisted engineering inside our own TTF delivery framework. Every piece of work starts as a user story on the backlog and is built on its own branch. AI helps us write code and tests quickly, but people design the solution, and we review every pull request ourselves before it is merged to main. Every change moves through our DTAP street: development, test, then acceptance with your team, and only after every sign-off do we deploy to production, with release notes. We build against test data, never your live data.
Everyone who uses a code app needs a Power Apps Premium licence: about $20 per user per month at Microsoft's list price, less at large volumes, and euro prices vary by country. For occasional users, pay-as-you-go can be cheaper: about $10 per active user per app per month, billed through Azure only in months they open the app. Some Dynamics 365 licences already include these rights. We size this with you before the sprint starts. See Microsoft's current prices (opens in a new tab)
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