Airtable Reviews & Product Details

Airtable allows my very large team to collaborate on projects. It is great for sorting data. We use it for just about everything

I don't like that you can't customize your homepage.

It allows us all to work on one database at the same time. It shows history. We get work done faster.

Use it for project planning but for easy onboarding

The one that I wish you could do is to email a file to a project. It would make is so much easier to have people email what needs to be updated. Eliminates a step.

Because of working with different non-profits and small businesses, having a place where they can easily view summaries I put together is a time saver for them and myself.

Easy customization. Can do anything you want. Excellent UI. Endless possibilities.

Inability (that I'm aware of) to add free, view-only users to your base.

Automation of core HR processes. Easy insight into key metrics for management team. Tracking of all HR tasks and follow ups and administration.

Airtable is so flexible and has many amazing features. They are also often improving the platform and do seem to have an ear out for their customers' wants and needs. I love how easy it makes collaborationg and sharing data on various levels with different views of the same data set. It makes creating and maintaining databases easy. It's also helpful that they include native automations that help optimize processes, especially around maintenance. And their new interface feature is awesome (though it can use some continued improvements) as it makes it eas to share visualization of the data and improves user experience.

As with any tools and softwares, there are some gaps here and there. I think for my team, their billing and the confusion around how users shift in tiers has been the #1 pain point but the team has always been kind and helpful from the beginning (even when we only had two paid accounts). As for general functionality, we wish there were a way to let people submit changes to their own data without requiring a paid account or workaround. Would love to see a portal type function without having to add a third party tool but really this is just a bonus. I also get a little frustrated with how record IDs function in automations. For some things, you can't access the record's ID if it's not a field in the actual base. The search record tool in automations is not often as helpful as it could be. Usually, I'd like to use the found record in an action but because it acts as a list of multiple records it doesn't always work out, so I have had to use workarounds.

Airtable helps us on so many different levels! It helps us create and maintain databases of people and data that we can share internally and easily have a public view embedded into our website or resources for our external audiences to access. It easily gives us control over who can see what information. It gives us the power to create out own databases without having to outsource for something more complicated when not really necessary. I also feel like it's much easier for me to sort and draw connections between data with Airtable, even for simpler items like expense tracking.

Plug and play systems. Live updating. Access from anywhere, anytime.

The new changes in the interface are a bit weird. And I would like more payment plan options for more storage.

Organization, finance tracking, goal setting

The user friendliness of the base interface overall.

Some automation functions require more than basic knowledge of office or gsuite tools.

Adding additional functionality to the page designer app.

I love how we were able to build with Airtable. Starting with the free plan our business grew over the years & now we have the premium. Airtable helped us do that!

Most of the things I disliked have been changed or are in the process of being changed.

Easy to store, retrieve, & read information in many different formats.

I like the automatic linking of different fields, ability to access info through multiple devices

The PDFs crash if you accidentally swipe sideways in mobile which is frustrating. Wish I could freeze a frame in mobile to always see, sometimes difficult to organize fields

Helps organize multiple aspects of a single item

There are so many helpful use cases for tracking data and information, and the ease of use makes getting started a breeze with plenty of room to go deeper as you go!

Some of the advanced features are confusing, and I'd like more options for types of data in the fields. I'd love for instance to be able to group dates by day of the week and month, but am only able to do this through a complicated custom formula.

I have data I regularly want to track that I later want to organize or analyze. Working as an independent contractor for instance, i keep track of all my projects and can see where I'm making money and where I'm not.

Airtable has powerful features, allowing us to connect and track data and projects in ways we would never have been able to. It is simple and easy to use, and we love it!

Managing users and who has access to which bases and tables can sometimes be a bit confusing, but this is pretty minor. No major complaints at all.

Airtable lets us centralize information between teams that are far apart spatially and temporally, so that everyone has access to the right information in real-time.

Building Database without coding. Easy to use. Easy to integrate with softr.io to build my webpage using the Database. Free of cost plan is very helpful for startup business like me.

Adding content (data) to the database can be modified to be more accessible, like allowing to build forms to add the Database in many comfortable layout form designs.

Building Database without coding. Easy to use. Easy to integrate with softr.io to build my webpage using the Database. Free of cost plan is very helpful for startup businesses like mine.

User interface is fun to use. I love how intuitive everything is.

Working with teams can cause destruction of your tables if you're not careful. Also being able to add team members to only fill out forms would be nice without having to get a full membership.

Project management. I like creating a view that allows me to manipulate data. I can drum up a specific list easily.

Intuitive, quickly operational and yet very functional

As of today: the most missing feature is the conditional select fields. Eventually : the price

missing dev ressources ? no problem, you can build quickly a strong automated workflow that can be connecter with multiple softwares

It improved the way we organized the sales process in our company. Having the tool itself, made it more sophisticated.

It is very easy to use and has all the relevant funcionalities needed.

We want to have more sales and keep track of the work of the sales reps

Managing personal and business thru different types of views.

Inability to use the tables embedded on places like Miro or Notion.

Organization and accountability of tasks and expenses.

The amount of things you can achieve is limitless

Too much choice sometimes and not always knowing what to do

Creating tables we can embed on our website

Powerful and versatile database with a pleasant interface. They are constantly adding features. We use it to track everything from new requests (coming in through our website via Airtable forms or via Zapier when entered manually in Hubspot) through the tasks and lifecycle of a project, clients/companies, vendors, vendor invoices, client invoices, portfolio ideas, social media calendar, EOS scorecards. We use some Automations and Extensions, and plan to get into Interfaces soon.

I found the learning curve ok for myself, but I know there is a lot of functionality that I am not using yet. Others might find the learning curve harder. I would suggest starting out to use it like a spreadsheet, then adding more views and cross-references to other tables, then getting into advanced features.

It allows us to keep almost all of our business and operations data in one place, making duplicate data entries a thing of the past and allowing everyone to access the data they need at a moment's notice. We can share granular data in custom views with clients or vendors, so they can stay abreast of deliverables and status as well.

Every user can create their own view and sort, group, and filter however they see fit. They can create as many views as they want to make their life easier and more organized.

It would be helpful if one could connect bases together. For instance, if I have a labor pool I'd put those people in one base. And in my other bases, I'd pull from that labor pool base and it would keep track of who is assigned where.

Keeps me organized, with an easy-to-use interface.

Airtable is extremely easy to use, has so many use cases, I use it as regular database, forms, even creating simple landings

I wish more features were available for free accounts

On-cloud database management, it can generate several different views, is easy to share with others and to have my data available whenever and wherever I need it

I love that, for free, we can track things like receipts and inventory with images and in the cloud!

I wish I understood the apps a little better and I wish I could experiment with them without having a premium account.

Tracking receipts, listing kit inventories for libraries. I wish that I could integrate my inventory with a reservation calendar, but I can't figure it out.