Global technology leader Zoho Corporation has announced a major enhancement to its low-code application development platform, Zoho Creator, introducing a suite of advanced artificial intelligence features aimed at accelerating and simplifying app development for businesses of all sizes.
The launch underscores Zoho’s continued investment in practical, secure, and real-time AI capabilities designed to deliver tangible value to users.
At the core of this release is CoCreator, a new AI assistant integrated into Zoho Creator. Powered by Zia, Zoho’s proprietary AI engine, CoCreator allows users to build applications more quickly and intelligently through voice and text prompts, business process flows, and specification documents.
The tool significantly reduces development time and expands access to app creation for users with varying technical expertise, all without requiring additional costs for existing subscribers.
Zia, which has been part of Zoho’s ecosystem since 2015, supports contextual intelligence across the company’s full product suite. This deep integration, made possible by Zoho’s complete ownership of its technology stack, gives users a smarter system that understands their data and anticipates usage patterns more effectively than many competing platforms.
According to Kehinde Ogundare, Country Head of Zoho Nigeria, “Since introducing Zoho Creator in 2006, our mission has been to make app development simpler and faster without compromising functionality.
AI now takes us to the next level, shortening the time from idea to application. Today’s announcement significantly raises the standard for building quality apps quickly and intelligently, all without adding to our customers’ costs.”
Among the new features is the Idea-to-App Generation capability, which enables businesses to use ZohoAI or OpenAI to create complete applications using voice or text input, process diagrams, or system documentation such as software requirement specifications. The platform intelligently recommends domain-specific modules, fields, and features tailored to each business context.
Other upgrades include contextual form generation and field suggestions, which allow developers to prompt the system for specific components or have Zia auto-suggest the best inputs within forms. Developers can also generate and annotate code blocks directly within apps using contextual prompts, improving both code quality and maintainability.
Further expanding functionality, the platform can now convert unstructured data from various file types and databases into structured applications through AI-powered data cleansing and modelling.
Zoho has also introduced AI Skills, a feature currently in early access, which enables apps to interpret natural language instructions in a business context and automate complex workflows. This feature will be broadly available by June 2025.
Additional improvements include mobile voice-based app generation, document uploads with automated data extraction, and the ability to deploy custom AI models for use cases like optical character recognition, prediction, and object detection.
Zoho remains firmly committed to responsible AI practices. Its AI models—whether contextual, assistive, or agentic—are not trained on customer data and do not retain any user information, ensuring the privacy and security of customer data while delivering real business value. The company continues to focus on building right-sized, practical AI tools that enhance productivity without inflating customer costs.
With over 55 applications covering nearly every major business category, Zoho is one of the world’s most prolific technology companies. It operates its own data centres and protects customer data with stringent privacy protocols. Over 100 million users globally rely on Zoho to power their businesses, including Zoho itself.
The company is privately held and profitable, with over 18,000 employees worldwide and a presence in the USA, Canada, UK, Japan, China, Singapore, the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, and other countries. In the Middle East and Africa, Zoho is headquartered in the UAE and has offices in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
