Forigi vs Microsoft Power Apps
If you run a Microsoft shop, this is the right first question — and the answer isn’t “rip anything out.” Power Apps and Forigi solve different halves of the same problem; the honest comparison is about which apps you need to govern.
Power Apps governs what’s built inside Power Platform. Forigi governs what your employees build with AI outside it — real HTML/JS apps from Claude Code, deployed behind the same Entra ID tenant with admin-grade policy, audit, and a kill switch.
| Forigi | Microsoft Power Apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Apps employees build with AI coding tools (Claude Code) — arbitrary HTML/JS, deployed as-is | Forms, workflows, and model-driven apps built in the Power Apps studio |
| Builder experience | Conversation in Claude Code; deploy over MCP without leaving the terminal | Visual studio + Power Fx formulas; Copilot assists inside the maker portal |
| Hosts AI-generated HTML/JS? | Yes — that’s the product | No — apps must be rebuilt in the studio |
| Identity | Entra ID SSO on every app, tenant-scoped | Entra ID native (same tenant model) |
| Data governance | IT-approved SharePoint/OneDrive sources, read as the signed-in viewer; per-app isolated databases | Dataverse + connectors under DLP policies and Managed Environments |
| Kill switch | One click, any app, sessions revoked instantly | App quarantine and environment controls (admin center / PowerShell) |
| Governance overhead | Per-tenant policy set once; every app inherits it | CoE starter kit, environment strategy, DLP policy design — a practice, not a toggle |
| Licensing | Pilot: complimentary. GA pricing published before launch | Per-user / per-app plans, premium connectors, Copilot credits |
| Maturity | Private beta (2026), small pilot cohort | Deeply mature, massive ecosystem, enterprise support |
The app is a form or approval workflow, your makers are happy in the studio, you’ve invested in a CoE practice, and Dataverse is where the data should live. Power Apps is mature, supported, and already in your E5 conversation — those are real advantages we won’t pretend away.
Your employees are already building real apps with Claude Code — richer than a form, faster than a studio — and your choice is between governing those apps and pretending they don’t exist. Forigi gives them Power-Platform-grade controls without asking anyone to rebuild anything.
Does Forigi replace Power Apps?
No. If your organization runs Power Apps well, keep running it — it's the right tool for forms and workflows built inside Power Platform's guardrails. Forigi covers what Power Apps structurally can't: hosting and governing the arbitrary HTML/JS apps your employees build with AI coding tools like Claude Code.
Can Power Apps host an app built with Claude Code?
Not as such. Power Apps runs apps built in its own studio with its own component model; you can't hand it an HTML/JS bundle. Rebuilding an AI-generated app inside Power Apps means rebuilding it — which is exactly the friction that pushes builders to ship ungoverned tools instead.
Do Forigi apps live inside our Microsoft tenant boundary?
Apps are gated by your Microsoft Entra ID tenant: viewers must sign in to your tenant, and SharePoint/OneDrive reads execute as the signed-in viewer under your existing M365 permissions. Hosting runs on Forigi's platform, with per-tenant policy, audit retention, and a kill switch controlled by your admins.
Is Forigi licensing simpler than Power Apps?
That's the intent. Power Apps licensing spans per-user, per-app, premium connectors, and Copilot credits — famously hard to forecast. Forigi's private-beta pilots are complimentary, and GA pricing will be published plainly before launch.
Also evaluating Retool? Read Forigi vs Retool.
See both worlds governed from one console.
Bring your Power Platform admin to the demo — the overlap questions are the good ones.