01-14-2026, 06:59 PM
Hello friends! The Canela team wishes everyone a Happy New Year. I know it's been a while. We've been very busy working on Appli and future products. Our approach was different in 2025. Appli is stable and very useful. As a result, we've been using Appli for all our new projects and will start converting some of our older projects to Appli as well.
This marks an important milestone for Appli. Our team depends on its fast development cycle and lower developer-to-project ratio to boost our growth. We're putting a strong effort into it. Whenever we find issues or opportunities to improve, we take the time to enhance Appli. You can follow our progress by checking out the change log available in the player and builder.
Before I discuss our first multi-app enterprise-level project, here are some of the Appli highlights for 2025.
I asked the team about their favorite improvements for 2025.
* Scale factor for desktop apps
* Many new/improved actions like: AI, timer, and array support
* Array support via no-code
* Event viewer
* Tabs for the low-code editor
* Debugger for low-code editor
We invite you to check out our new videos to learn more about these features https://www.youtube.com/@appli_io/videos.
If you have any questions, please post them on our forums https://forums.appli.io/.
Meet our first enterprise platform built entirely in Appli called Quizli (Quizli.net).
Let’s dive in. Quizli was originally intended to be a simple Appli technology demo. As we began attending trade shows to introduce Appli, we brought Quizli along as a working example. It was something tangible that demonstrated what was possible with low-code development.
Our typical flow was simple but powerful: Show Appli running live with Quizli’s code visible. We would demonstrate how quickly features could be built or modified. The goal was to show how easy the same project could run across a wide range of devices we had on hand at the trade show. What started as a demo quickly proved itself as something much more. The attendees began asking about how they could get Quizli. It did not take long for us to realize that Quizli had an audience. After doing market research and talking with educators, we got to work.
Two developers, one UI/UX designer, one content creator, and a project manager worked regularly for the next twelve months taking Quizli from a solid demo to what it is today, a complete platform for managing assessments in K-12 education.
Quizli includes a desktop teacher app, a companion mobile app, and a student app. We face a challenging environment in education. We need to support a wide range of hardware in schools. The student app must run on Windows, iPads, and/or Chromebooks. Teachers usually require Windows or macOS to run the teacher app, and we also need to support Android and iOS for the companion app.
The teacher app is used to manage all the assessments, classroom management, and generate reports. This is the core of the experience for educators. While Quizlis can be created manually, the real magic happens when teachers scan their teaching materials with the companion app and use our advanced AI features to create on-grade-level assessments. The tool helps the teacher meet state standards and fulfill their mandated requirements. This makes Quizli a huge time saver. Assessments are automatically graded and recorded in the gradebook as needed.
Not all Quizlis are designed to be recorded. Many are used as part of live instruction, where learning happens in the moment. Today’s educators often teach five or more ability levels within a single classroom. Quizli is part of the solution. It supports teachers by guiding students as they work through problems—without disrupting the lesson. Quizli accommodates multiple learning modalities and helps school districts meet Individualized Education Plan (IEP) requirements. The software makes it easy to tailor experiences for each student: learners can listen to questions, speak responses, type answers, or handwrite their work as needed. The experience is seamless and flows with instruction.
Our teacher-assisted features guide students on where to focus, helping them improve their answers with confidence. This targeted support brings clarity and structure to an increasingly challenging learning environment for both educators and students. Students can select a persona within Quizli to personalize their experience, including preferred voice and communication speed. These interactions remain private, giving students the freedom to explore, make mistakes, and ask for additional help without fear of embarrassment. The custom support stays on task with the students individualized program.
We have an agressive marketing campaign to promote Quizli this year. We will take full advantage of the excitement this platform is generating. We will introduce school districts to our free pilot program to see what the service provides. It is truly exciting to see this idea come to life.
Quizli answers a common question: Can you build real applications with low-code tools? The answer is a definitive yes. Appli enables teams to build faster than traditional coding approaches, allowing developers to focus more energy on what they want to create rather than how to make it work. Quizli is an enterprise-level platform similar in scale and complexity to NurseNotes.net. It is designed to support hundreds of millions of records. This is made possible through its integrated backend powered by LiveCloud.io, ensuring performance and scalability.
Appli’s actions and IDE have become increasingly powerful over the past few years. You might assume that bringing a program to life through clicking would be tedious and you’d be right. As developers, we know we can type far faster than even the most efficient clicker. That’s why Appli’s low-code editor works like a text editor. You type your actions directly, and as you do, all available parameters appear inline. Fill them in using simple dropdowns, press enter, and move on to the next line. It is fast and fluid.
The value of a company that makes software with its own development platform cannot be overstated. We trust Appli to be the basis of all our projects and we’re excited to leverage it to grow in ways that simply weren’t possible before. Appli is like having a full development team behind you. It amplifies your time and your ability to execute. There has never been a better time to build your business. Jump in and see what you can create with Appli.io.
-Mark Talluto
This marks an important milestone for Appli. Our team depends on its fast development cycle and lower developer-to-project ratio to boost our growth. We're putting a strong effort into it. Whenever we find issues or opportunities to improve, we take the time to enhance Appli. You can follow our progress by checking out the change log available in the player and builder.
Before I discuss our first multi-app enterprise-level project, here are some of the Appli highlights for 2025.
I asked the team about their favorite improvements for 2025.
* Scale factor for desktop apps
* Many new/improved actions like: AI, timer, and array support
* Array support via no-code
* Event viewer
* Tabs for the low-code editor
* Debugger for low-code editor
We invite you to check out our new videos to learn more about these features https://www.youtube.com/@appli_io/videos.
If you have any questions, please post them on our forums https://forums.appli.io/.
Meet our first enterprise platform built entirely in Appli called Quizli (Quizli.net).
Let’s dive in. Quizli was originally intended to be a simple Appli technology demo. As we began attending trade shows to introduce Appli, we brought Quizli along as a working example. It was something tangible that demonstrated what was possible with low-code development.
Our typical flow was simple but powerful: Show Appli running live with Quizli’s code visible. We would demonstrate how quickly features could be built or modified. The goal was to show how easy the same project could run across a wide range of devices we had on hand at the trade show. What started as a demo quickly proved itself as something much more. The attendees began asking about how they could get Quizli. It did not take long for us to realize that Quizli had an audience. After doing market research and talking with educators, we got to work.
Two developers, one UI/UX designer, one content creator, and a project manager worked regularly for the next twelve months taking Quizli from a solid demo to what it is today, a complete platform for managing assessments in K-12 education.
Quizli includes a desktop teacher app, a companion mobile app, and a student app. We face a challenging environment in education. We need to support a wide range of hardware in schools. The student app must run on Windows, iPads, and/or Chromebooks. Teachers usually require Windows or macOS to run the teacher app, and we also need to support Android and iOS for the companion app.
The teacher app is used to manage all the assessments, classroom management, and generate reports. This is the core of the experience for educators. While Quizlis can be created manually, the real magic happens when teachers scan their teaching materials with the companion app and use our advanced AI features to create on-grade-level assessments. The tool helps the teacher meet state standards and fulfill their mandated requirements. This makes Quizli a huge time saver. Assessments are automatically graded and recorded in the gradebook as needed.
Not all Quizlis are designed to be recorded. Many are used as part of live instruction, where learning happens in the moment. Today’s educators often teach five or more ability levels within a single classroom. Quizli is part of the solution. It supports teachers by guiding students as they work through problems—without disrupting the lesson. Quizli accommodates multiple learning modalities and helps school districts meet Individualized Education Plan (IEP) requirements. The software makes it easy to tailor experiences for each student: learners can listen to questions, speak responses, type answers, or handwrite their work as needed. The experience is seamless and flows with instruction.
Our teacher-assisted features guide students on where to focus, helping them improve their answers with confidence. This targeted support brings clarity and structure to an increasingly challenging learning environment for both educators and students. Students can select a persona within Quizli to personalize their experience, including preferred voice and communication speed. These interactions remain private, giving students the freedom to explore, make mistakes, and ask for additional help without fear of embarrassment. The custom support stays on task with the students individualized program.
We have an agressive marketing campaign to promote Quizli this year. We will take full advantage of the excitement this platform is generating. We will introduce school districts to our free pilot program to see what the service provides. It is truly exciting to see this idea come to life.
Quizli answers a common question: Can you build real applications with low-code tools? The answer is a definitive yes. Appli enables teams to build faster than traditional coding approaches, allowing developers to focus more energy on what they want to create rather than how to make it work. Quizli is an enterprise-level platform similar in scale and complexity to NurseNotes.net. It is designed to support hundreds of millions of records. This is made possible through its integrated backend powered by LiveCloud.io, ensuring performance and scalability.
Appli’s actions and IDE have become increasingly powerful over the past few years. You might assume that bringing a program to life through clicking would be tedious and you’d be right. As developers, we know we can type far faster than even the most efficient clicker. That’s why Appli’s low-code editor works like a text editor. You type your actions directly, and as you do, all available parameters appear inline. Fill them in using simple dropdowns, press enter, and move on to the next line. It is fast and fluid.
The value of a company that makes software with its own development platform cannot be overstated. We trust Appli to be the basis of all our projects and we’re excited to leverage it to grow in ways that simply weren’t possible before. Appli is like having a full development team behind you. It amplifies your time and your ability to execute. There has never been a better time to build your business. Jump in and see what you can create with Appli.io.
-Mark Talluto