To facilitate faster, simpler, and more intelligent app building, Zoho Corporation has launched new services and features within its low-code application development platform, Zoho Creator.
The new Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant, CoCreator, can be used to build applications by using voice and written prompts, process flows and business specification documents.
In a statement to Business Post on Monday, the global technology company said this milestone reflects its commitment to investing in AI capabilities that offer real-time, practical, and secure advantages to business users.
Powered by Zia, CoCreator drives shorter go-to-market timeframes and democratises app creation for users of varying skill levels—all without requiring add-ons to a customer’s existing subscription.
Zia has served as a bridge across Zoho’s entire product suite, including Creator, since its launch in 2015.
As AI becomes increasingly central to business operations, Zoho’s complete ownership of its tech stack and deep AI integration provides customers with a higher level of contextual AI across all company workflows compared to competitors. This empowers users with a system that truly understands their data and anticipates its usage.
Among the newly-launched capabilities is the Idea-to-App Generation feature, allowing businesses to utilise ZohoAI or OpenAI to develop full-fledged applications including contextual integrations, automations, permission sets and insightful dashboards.
By using text or voice prompts, process flow diagrams, or systems documentations like software requirement specifications (SRS), Creator will provide domain-specific suggestions, ideas for relevant fields, and modules tailored to a customer’s business
Contextual component generation AI enhances existing applications by offering prompt-based form generation. Zia also proactively suggests contextual fields within forms, a functionality missing from many low-code development platforms.
Developers of all skill levels can generate and optimise code blocks contextually within apps using Zia’s prompter, and also annotate existing code blocks for future maintenance.
Further advancing business capabilities, users can rapidly transform unstructured data from various file types and databases into custom applications and remove inconsistencies using the AI-driven data cleansing and modelling feature.
Additionally, the newly-introduced AI Skills enables businesses to build apps with specialised skills that interpret natural language instructions in the business context and automate complex chains of actions intelligently. This feature is currently available in early access and will be widely available from June 2025.
“Since we introduced Creator in 2006, our mission has been to make app development simpler and faster, without compromising on functionality.
“AI now takes us to the next level, shortening the time from an idea to an app.
“Today’s announcement significantly raises the baseline on speed of quality app creation with deep capabilities, without adding costs,” the Country Head for Zoho Nigeria, Mr Kehinde Ogundare, stated.