Zoho infuses new AI capabilities in low-code app development tool

Zoho has launched new features within its low-code application development platform, the Zoho Creator. According to the company, the milestone reflects its commitment to investing in AI capabilities that offer real-time, practical, and secure solutions.

For instance, Creator’s now has a new AI assistant, CoCreator, that facilitates faster, simpler, and more intelligent app building by using voice and written prompts, process flows and business specification documents.

Here is a summary of the new features:

1. Idea-to-App generation using ZohoAI or OpenAI
2. AI-driven data cleansing and modelling
3. Voice-based app creation
4. Custom AI models for OCR, prediction, and automation
5. AI Skills for natural language automation (early access now live)

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 since its launch in 2015. As artificial intelligence 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.

“Since we introduced Creator in 2006, our mission has been to make app development simpler and faster, without compromising on functionality,” said Kehinde Ogundare, Country Head, Zoho Nigeria. “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.”

Among the newly-launched capabilities is the Idea-to-App Generation feature. This allows 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.

Additional enhancements also include document uploads that allow extraction of relevant information into an application that can then be queried easily; voice-based app generation from mobile devices; and deploying custom AI models for capabilities like OCR, prediction, and object detection.

Zoho’s AI commitments

According to Zoho, it remains steadfast in its commitment to AI innovation guided by principles of customer privacy and delivering true customer value.

Its generic AI models across contextual, assistive, and agentic categories are not trained on consumer data, nor do they retain customer information, ensuring responsible AI use. With over 55 apps across nearly every major business category, Zoho Corporation is one of the world’s most prolific technology companies. It owns and operates its data centres.