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Glide Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated
Build a powerful, data-driven app or website, without writing a line of code. Over 250,000 people & companies have made millions of apps with Glide. Reduce cost and time to market by using Glide.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Glide goes from free to $199 a month with nothing in between, and the paid plan is metered on something most buyers do not think about: updates. You get 5,000 a month, and every one after that costs $0.02. An update is any row Glide writes or changes, so an app that a team actually uses all day consumes them far faster than a headcount-based estimate would suggest.
- What it is: A no-code platform that turns spreadsheets and databases into working web and mobile apps.
- Best for: Teams turning an existing spreadsheet workflow into a real internal tool without hiring a developer.
- Pricing: Free tier. Business from $199/month billed yearly. Enterprise quoted. Verified July 2026.
- The honest catch: The gap between free and $199 is a cliff, and update overages can exceed the base price on a busy app.
What Is Glide?
Glide’s proposition is narrow and well-executed: point it at a spreadsheet or database and it produces a functioning app with a real interface, permissions, and workflows. Its own tagline for the paid tier — “turn your spreadsheets into tools” — describes the job precisely.
The reason it matters is that most companies run meaningful operations on spreadsheets that everyone knows should be an application: inventory counts, field inspections, client onboarding, equipment checkouts. Building those properly means a developer and weeks of work. Glide gets to something usable in an afternoon, with 40-plus components, workflows, an API, and support for over 100 data sources at the Enterprise tier including HubSpot, Stripe, Salesforce, QuickBooks, and PostgreSQL.
The trade-off is that you are building inside Glide’s model. It is excellent for CRUD-style internal tools built on tabular data, and a poor fit for anything needing unusual interaction design or complex client-side logic.
How Glide Works
- Data first. Connect a spreadsheet or database; the app is generated from the table structure.
- Updates as the meter. Every row Glide writes or changes counts. 5,000 included on Business, then $0.02 each.
- Editors versus users. 1 editor on Free, 10 on Business; 30 app users included, then $5 each.
- Row limits. 25,000 on Free, 100,000 high-scale rows on Business.
- Workflows and APIs. Business adds workflows, Call API, and the Glide API.
- Custom domains and branding on Business, SSO and backups on Enterprise.
Glide Pricing
Captured from Glide’s pricing page in July 2026, in US dollars, with yearly billing selected. VAT is added at checkout.
| Plan | Price | Editors | Users | Updates/mo | Rows |
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| Free | $0 | 1 | Unlimited personal | — | 25,000 |
| Business | from $199/mo yearly | 10 | 30, then $5 each | 5,000, then $0.02 each | 100,000 |
| Enterprise | Quoted | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
What decides your real bill:
- Updates are the cost that surprises people. Five thousand a month sounds generous until you consider what generates one. A team of twenty logging a handful of records each per day reaches it inside a month, and at $0.02 each the overage compounds quietly: 10,000 updates is $299 a month, 25,000 is $599. Model your write volume, not your headcount.
- The free-to-paid gap is a cliff, not a step. There is nothing between $0 and $199. A solo builder with a working app and no budget has no intermediate option, which is the most common complaint about Glide’s pricing and the reason people compare it unfavourably against Softr or Airtable.
- The free tier is genuinely usable for building. One editor, unlimited personal users, and 25,000 rows is enough to build and validate an app properly before paying anything.
- Extra users are cheap; extra updates are not. $5 per user beyond 30 is reasonable. The metered updates are where an app’s success turns into a bill.
- “Starting at” is doing work in that $199. It is the floor for Business, not the price for a real deployment with users and usage.
- A 14-day free trial covers Business features, which is the right way to measure your actual update consumption before committing.
Who Should Use Glide
- Teams with a spreadsheet that should be an app. The clearest case, and what Glide is built for.
- Operations and field teams. Inventory, inspections, checklists, and dispatch are natural fits for its data model.
- Businesses without developers. A working internal tool without a hiring decision is a genuine saving.
- Companies validating an idea. Build free, prove the workflow, then decide whether $199 is justified.
It fits poorly for consumer-facing apps at scale, where update costs and the platform model work against you; for complex custom logic, where Bubble offers far more control; and for solo builders on a budget, given the absence of anything between free and $199.
Honest Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Genuinely fast. A working app from a spreadsheet in an afternoon is not marketing.
- A usable free tier. One editor and 25,000 rows is enough to build and validate.
- Good data source coverage. 100-plus sources at Enterprise including Salesforce, Stripe, and PostgreSQL.
- Cheap incremental users. $5 each beyond the 30 included.
- Workflows and API on Business. Real automation rather than static views.
- 14-day trial of paid features.
Limitations
- No tier between free and $199. The most-cited weakness.
- Update overages can exceed the base price. $0.02 each compounds on a busy app.
- Update consumption is hard to forecast before you have real usage data.
- Only 1 editor on free. Collaborative building requires Business.
- Constrained by the data model. Excellent for tabular CRUD, limited beyond it.
- VAT added at checkout, so the headline is not the invoice.
Glide Alternatives and How It Compares
- Softr is the closest competitor for turning Airtable and databases into apps, with a gentler pricing ladder.
- Airtable is the database layer many Glide apps sit on, and its own interfaces cover simpler cases without a second tool.
- Bubble offers far deeper control for genuinely custom applications, at the cost of a much steeper learning curve.
- Notion covers lightweight internal tools and documentation where an app is more than you need.
- Make handles the automation side if what you actually need is workflow rather than an interface.
- Zapier and AppSheet are the other names commonly shortlisted, the latter being Google’s equivalent for spreadsheet-driven apps.
For a broader survey, browse our no-code platforms directory.
The Verdict
Glide is very good at one job: taking a spreadsheet that has quietly become business-critical and turning it into an application with permissions, workflows, and an interface people can actually use on a phone. For an operations team running inventory or inspections out of a shared sheet, that is a real problem solved in an afternoon rather than a quarter, and the free tier lets you prove it works before spending anything.
The pricing is where care is needed, in two distinct ways. First, there is nothing between free and $199 a month — a cliff rather than a ladder — which makes Glide awkward for solo builders and small teams whose app works but cannot justify a four-figure annual commitment. Softr and Airtable both handle that middle ground better.
Second, and more importantly, updates are the meter and they are difficult to forecast. Five thousand a month is the Business allowance, every additional one costs $0.02, and an update is any row written or changed. That means your bill scales with how much your app is used rather than how many people can log in — so the more successful the tool becomes internally, the more it costs, in a way headcount-based budgeting will not predict. Ten thousand updates is $299 a month; twenty-five thousand is $599, or triple the advertised price.
The practical advice follows directly: build on the free tier, then use the 14-day Business trial with real users doing real work, and watch the update counter rather than the feature list. That number, not the $199, is what determines whether Glide is cheap or expensive for your particular workflow.
FAQ
How much does Glide cost?
Glide has a free tier, a Business plan starting at $199 per month billed yearly, and a custom-quoted Enterprise plan. Yearly billing saves 20% against monthly. Business includes 10 editors, 30 app users with additional users at $5 each, 5,000 monthly updates with additional updates at $0.02 each, and up to 100,000 rows. VAT is added at checkout, and a 14-day free trial of Business features is available.
What is an “update” in Glide?
An update is any row that Glide writes or changes — creating a record, editing a field, or a workflow modifying data. Business includes 5,000 per month and charges $0.02 for each one beyond that. Because updates track how much the app is used rather than how many people can access it, consumption is difficult to estimate in advance and is the most common source of unexpected cost.
Is Glide’s free plan good enough?
For building and validating, yes. It provides one editor, unlimited personal users, up to 25,000 rows, 40-plus components, and unlimited drafts, which is enough to construct a real app and confirm the workflow. It stops being sufficient the moment you need multiple editors, custom domains, workflows, or a team using it in production — and at that point the only step up is $199 a month.
Why is there nothing between free and $199?
That is Glide’s chosen structure, and it is the most frequent criticism of the product. There is no intermediate tier for a solo builder or small team whose app works but cannot justify roughly $2,400 a year. If you are in that position, Softr and Airtable’s own interfaces both offer gentler pricing ladders for comparable internal-tool use cases.
What is Glide best for?
Turning existing spreadsheet workflows into proper internal tools — inventory, inspections, checklists, dispatch, and similar operational data — for teams without developers. It is fastest where the data is genuinely tabular and the app is CRUD-shaped. It is a weaker choice for consumer-facing apps at scale, for anything needing unusual interaction design, and for budget-constrained solo builders.
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This service has made it possible for our company with almost no Dev experience to create a detailed customer app and employee app, that allows our customer journey to come to life. With almost no prior coding experience, I was able to learn the system through the incredible community, videos and more.
Almost nothing. The only thing is I would like to see a more robust chat feature. The chat currently is hard to make a one on one experience between different users. For support apps, this function is critical. Otherwise, It's working brilliantly and I hope to turn Glide coding into a career. I constantly am amazed by its capabilities and can't wait to see what they add next.
It's created our Customer journey and allowed us to give our customers control of their data. It has also allowed our employees to be able to connect with our customers one on one.
From prototype to new feature, glide helps get you there. Use Glide to wireframe ideas, to test out data logic, to identify needs through user testing, and use it for customers or as your best in-house tool
As Glide continues to grow it adds new features and capabilities, however it is not always clear what the roadmap or "end goal" is for Glide. As a customer and user it makes it hard to plan for your own tech plans and transfers with this ambiguity.
Glide allows us to create apps to showcase and provide improved user experience for our clients. We were able to get to market and launch products very easily, and also to evolve those products with little friction over time.
Glide is easy to use for people who don't code!
Glide has a great selection of templates. Continuing to add more will be useful
Glide helps me build applications and websites without having to rely on technical coders
I love the instantaneous display of data from our databases. Using multiple sheets (Airtable, Sheets, Glide) makes creating powerful!
Limit of blocks or template usable. It's a shame not to be able to create more freely
Accessibility and ease of creation.
Simplicity and ease of use. Getting an app online is a breeze and takes not time at all
the new UI change was a big hit to my productivity. getting more used to it now though
Its very easy to create apps to collaborate with others. In one day I can have a simple app ready to go. the templates are also very helpful
The ease of iterating the design, the wo
The ease of iterating the workflows and design. To be able to release the app in real time. The flexibility that it provides any user to create any kind of a work flow that they want to test out. The possibilities are unlimited.
For me, aggregating information in one place and distributing to a cohort was a challenge. The fact that it supports google sheets, I could write crawlers and automatically put the feed in the sheets, which shows up inside glideapp in real time. I can reiterate on the card design on the basis of feedback received from users.
Glide is pretty intuitive and easy to use. It does have a learning curve but it is much softer than other websites.
Because it is so easy to use, it naturally has some limitations as to what you can do with it. Sometimes it is difficult or even impossible to implement what we have in mind if it is something more complex. It is also a little expensive considering my country and my business' size.
Glide helped me create an interface to interact with my students. I leave homework, assignments and interesting material there and it is pretty intuitive for them to use.
How fast and intuitive Glide is, in a few hours I had a useful app more than 250 could use. Based on a course and the community on Whatsapp with non-technical people. I'm building a bigger project now and it is so good to start if you are new to no-code and applicable in such different areas in business and life. Recommend!
So far nothing. I am still learning and improving my skills :) Great job from the team behind Glide and so excited to see and use the product as it evolves and gets better!
How fast it is to build a solution what it's been more useful to me is how fast I can share an app with someone and receive immediate feedback to work on improvements.
The most helpful thing is how quickly you can go from starting an app, to publishing something functional. The drag and drop tools make it easy for anyone to use.
Since it's a drag and drop, no-code platform it's not completely customizable. Sometimes it requires unofficially supported work arounds for the app to look how you want it.
Glide is solving the problem of being able to easily view data sets on a mobile platform rather than trying to scroll around on a spreadsheet on your phone. It looks good and is easy to use.
As a platform Glide is so easy and fast to use - I've created apps that have solved real-world problems within a few days - instead of weeks or months! The designs are naturally beautiful, but also allow me to add my own designs for a custom touch. Plus the team at Glide are super supportive and new features are being released all the time, I can't recommend them highly enough.
Naturally, because it's not a custom platform you are limited to the features, layouts and confinements that Glide makes available, rather than having full control and open customization.
Removing spreadsheets, and creating apps for teams who need easy control and different functionality based on roles (eg. team members versus admins). We have got some great integrations working with Glide, however we know we can get an app without integrations launched for people to install with in a week.
I think the key weapon of Glide is its user experience as well as the interface. IT's super easy to work with and I literally built a working app in less than 1 week. Honestly, we think Glideapps is amazing. The no-code platform will give you access to a whole new world: that of apps. You can create and publish your own app in minutes, fulfilling virtually any purpose you need. Whether it be for your business or your personal life, there’s an app that can streamline any process.
The Glide database is currently limited to 30,000 rows and this could be a problem if we would like to build a powerful ERP system with inventarisation, accountance and more. Glide isn’t the most practical platform if you have a project which needs a lot of design customization. It’s possible that you won’t be able to find exactly the right template for your needs, so bear that in mind. Because Glide creates PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), your Glide app won’t be able to send notifications on users’ desktops. However, you could leverage the many ways of sending email notifications or even texts, thanks to integrations, actions and triggers.
At the moment we are using it as ERP software for the production of cosmetic products. It helps us to search in the database of ingredients very easily from our mobile phones even when we are out of the office.
The way the data is pulled and arranged automatically
sometimes delay in the update and when i change something in the app i have to download it again
I am working in Finance and I had zero experience with mobile apps, I was looking for something I can use to show my reports on mobile since most of the persons looking at my reports are on the go all the time and reports are not great to open on mobile but with glide, I was able to create an easy report so they can open from the mobile without having to search for info or zoom in or out, the view is just clear and I really like it
Easy to go from 0 to 1. If you have good knowledge of data bases, excel formulas and design yo can do a lot
Is hasn't a good connection with Microsoft excel.
Communication between areas. We are solving it for 3 different departments of the company. Planning, construction and administration
The built-in functions and the support are awesome!
Nothing really, once you have grasped the concept it is easy to use
If I don't understand how to put something together which I know what I want but not sure how to do it the community forum is a great help but the one-to-one support is invaluable!
Muito simples o modo de uso. Muito intuitivo. Design muito bonito e inteligente.
A parte de filtros é a única um pouco complicada de entender de início, maqs depois que aprende fica mais tranquilo.
Ajudando a organizar os projetos e ajudando na gestçao deles.
The best thing about using Glide is being able to share with others an easy and intuitive way to enter data, keep records or simply access information easily.
So far the most complicated thing is that to use all the magic of Glides, you need to use Make.com or Zapier; it's not a big deal but you need to know a bit about how a webhook works.
When working on a project that handles customers and inventory, Glide helps us have real-time visibility into the status of everything. Like having our own custom CRM without code.
It is a very easy tool to use to quickly make fully functional and nice looking mobile apps. It's also great that the app that gets created can run in most any browser and such works on desktops and tablets.
There are some functions that are somewhat limiting. The Datagrid still needs the ability to link row clicks to other pages. And some components will not show if there is no data for that row. It would be nice to have the option to show the label and blank data anyway. However, they are adding new features all the time.
Quick development of mobile apps. Ability to extend the functionality of google sheets. Ease of development. Ability to deploy apps to users very quickly. Easy to make changes iteratively.
Unlike many other no-code tools, Glide takes care of the design for you. You don't need to worry about pixels and positioning components on the screen. Glide is very easy for beginners to pick up. The videos on YouTube are polished and easy to understand. The community is also very helpful and friendly.
You will need to know the many workarounds. Building on Glide is unlike building with a programming language, so you need to switch your mindset. For example, passing variables from one screen to another requires a different approach in Glide. However, after you understand Glide's peculiarities, you can build really fast.
I needed to build an app for my non-profit organization. It must be built quickly and at a low cost. After a period of learning, I was able to build the app in a few days by myself.
I have tested several no code apps and they have in my opinion two big problems: not as easy to learn and charge by app. With Glide, we have been able to deploy hundreds of apps using Google Sheets as the base, easy really learning curve, and one fair price for all our apps.
They changed the pricing structure and we were not able to keep doing what we did with Glide for a while. However, I understand we were early users and they have to make money. And the prices are fair
We are a corporate training company and we used to include printed manuals with each workshop. Now, we develop an app with all the information our participants need and no more printing, or distribution costs, and the participant can use the information very easily.
It simplicity and user friendly environment
The pricing, the PRO plans are too expensive for small business
In my case I need an easy to use app to upload data about project executions, Glide give me the right set of tool to achieve it.
The easiest way to create an app. If you are not a developer is a must
Some glitches and specific features. The login page should be easier to edit
The easiest connection to needed data in one place instead of sending it over and over
I have tried 3 previous no code platforms (Bubble, Appsheet and Filemaker) and I've found Glide to be a great combination of power and ease of use.
Some features are being added to allow more customization but in general there's always a trade off between power and ease of use. I haven't found much I dislike.
So far I've only built some simple inventory management apps but it's clean interface and ease of use is enjoyable. It's very fast to build with.
It allows you to build exactly what you need for your internal processes. Great for teams, and working outside google sheets.
It's a bit hard to understand at first but once you get the hang of it it's amazing.
We built an internal app for employees. They can track customers accounts and notes.
As someone with no app making experience, I found Glide very easy to use. The UI is intuitive, they have lots of templates for you to start from, and lots of customization options.
Even though they have a lot of options, I still haven't quite got my app to do exactly what I want it to do, although it is close. I imagine I would need to do custom programming to get what I really want though.
I needed a method of tracking my bonsai garden - what trees I have, where I got them and for how much, then note when major work was done on the trees. The app is much easier than tracking on paper, I can do it from my yard easily, and it allows me to really learn a lot more about each tree and how it responds to my actions.
Very easy to use. Content is realtime updated. It was very easy and quick to create a first website, that also acts an an interactive app.
Nothing, it is really the programm I was looking for to create an information app.
In the free version is the ammount of changes limited. This can be be problem when you have to redesign your app.
Using the conference template, I could infer what I needed. That was a huge help.
No easy way to edit after publishing. By mistake, a published the app and then built a new one, using the same data.
We needed an app for a tech conference. This was the easiest and free way to see if Glide worked for us. It does. Now we can offer attendees an app and not a paper schedule.
Easy to use, no code requirements, adaptable to our needs and fair price
Until the moment, there are no custom push notifications
Keeping track of all the customer orders of the company, inventories and production scheduale.
How easy it is to build an app and publish it. Within a couple of weeks to months you have a completely working and published app
Sometimes there are some limitations in what is possible. But often with a diversion it can be achieved.
Namely price and time. It is fast to build and cheap to publish
The ease and speed with which an app can be created and be fully functional.
perhaps an area for improvement is analytics
the creation of apps easily and in a very short time without the need for any programming.
The integration with Google Sheets and the collaboration feature with teams.
Nothing, in particular, with the upload of background.
Helped us create a dashboard for My Good School for easy monitoring and evaluation.