Here is a full list of differences between Makeroid and App Inventor.
- Material Design
- Enhanced User Interface
- Live Chat Support
- Custom Fonts
- Extra component properties
- WebViewer
- Disable zoom (pinching and zoom buttons)
- Disable zoom buttons
- Zoom percentage
- Pull To Refresh
- ListView
- Custom Filter Bar Hint
- Screen
- Status and Navigation bar color
- Custom device menu items & reset menu
- Move task to back
- Version Name and Version Code blocks
- TitleBar sub-title
- ActionBar tabs (Icons or Text)
- Custom ActionBar icons
- Image & Label components
- Ability to enable/disable clicking
- Checkbox
- Custom Checkbox color
- New components:
- Image Editor
- Light Sensor
- Google Map
- Bluetooth Admin
- Push Notifications
- Toggle Switch
- Radio Button
- Rating Bar
- Network
- WiFi
- Floating Action Button
- Audio Picker
- Metadata
- OCR
- QR Code
- Gravity Sensor
- Magnetic Field Sensor
- Temperature Sensor
- Pressure Sensor
- AdMob Banner
- AdMob Interstitial
- AdMob Rewarded Video
- Ability to move apps to the device's external storage.