In most cases, nobody — because there is no code to own. A no-code application is a configuration executed by the vendor's platform: you own your data (usually exportable as CSV), but the logic, the screens and the execution stay with the vendor for as long as the subscription lasts. Only tools that generate real code and hand it over allow ownership in the full sense.
Configuration is not code
When you assemble an application on a visual builder, you are not creating software: you are creating a configuration — tables, views, rules — stored in the vendor's database and interpreted by its engine. That configuration has no existence outside the platform: you cannot install it elsewhere, have a developer review it, or evolve it without the vendor.
Terms of service reflect this: you remain the owner of your data, the vendor remains the owner of its engine. If the subscription ends, if prices change, or if the platform shuts down, you leave with data exports — not with the tool that brought them to life.
The question to ask before choosing
Before investing months of processes into a tool, ask the awkward question: if I leave in two years, what do I take with me? Three answers exist, from most captive to most free.
- A CSV export: your data survives; your screens, rules and automations disappear.
- A proprietary export re-importable only into the same vendor: portability in a closed circle.
- The full source code, in standard technologies: the whole application follows you.
Ownership in the full sense: receiving the code
Code generation reverses the balance of power: the tool produces a real application and hands it to you. That is Blueprint Maker's principle — every generated application is a standard Next.js + Prisma project, exportable as a ZIP or pushed to your GitHub, with its relational database, screens and dashboard.
You can host it wherever you want, or use the dedicated URL included; read it, hand it to any developer, evolve it without asking permission. The platform is there to generate; the application belongs to you.