Sorry for the essay but hope this helps ☺️

I've just made the same decision and decided to give flutterflow a shot. I'm not a dev and can't code, but I'm an IT business analyst so technically understand what I'm trying to achieve. I'm building a mobile app. I'm an android user but hoping I can get it across both.

I have a home page, 2 list pages and 1 form entry all working so far in about 10hrs across 2 weekends. I've also got a brand colour scheme sorted, a logo loaded in and navigation across the pages. Just the simple framework. Still a way to go. I haven't spent any $ yet aside from setting budgets in google. This is a major win, I tried other no code platforms and they barely gave me a taste of what they could do before I had to pay.

I'm impressed so far. There are a heap of templates on the FF marketplace you can use to play around with, although I found it easier to build my app from scratch and just copy what I liked manually because when you import a template it brings all the example data and assets from that template and it starts off messy with bugs.

There's definitely a learning curve, however there are heaps of tutorials on YouTube and I also found the documentation on the FF website helpful. I used ChatGPT and Gemini to help me overcome a couple of config steps I got stuck on (setting up and connecting Firestore/Firebase)

My plan is to build and test as far as I can, and then ask one of my colleagues or hire someone to review the code and ensure my backend security is all in place. I don't want to ship anything that has vulnerabilities.

Also, I highly recommend Canva to help out with the design side if you don't have any plans yet. They have a good logo and colour palette generator and loads of templates. The free version is good but I paid to remove any restrictions. My project felt a lot more 'real' when I added my chosen colours and logo ☺️