Knack Reviews: 4.3/5 — Solid Choice

Extreme flexibility and personalization I can do nearly everything! I have an advanced level in Excel and use WordPress. Knack bridge the gap between Excel and WordPress. Very strong in Data Base design and communication, and very easy to show, consult and edit the data base on a web page. Very intuitive and elegant interface This is a critical factor for a no computer programer like me. I needed a very lean and clear, BUT COMPLETE, interface to just start working. Knack provides that. All functionalities are at 1 or 2 clicks. This is very saving time. And the interface is very fast! All the notification tools are fantastics Like the personalized emails, rules to automate color coded signalization, etc. SUPPORT I nearly forgot. Knack has a huge expert team of technical support. Always friendly and 48hrs responsive with some kind of solution. I really needed it during the development of my App. It helped me A LOT. Improvments So much complete and easy, that Knack makes me want to develop more functionalities for users. SOmething I never would have imagined 10 months ago.

Missing some functionalities sweep gesture Very useful to pass easyly through each detail view in the database. At this time, need each time to go back to the list of the database and click to view the detail. grafic types Need more grafic types with more options to show data points (% or value). search on objects This is a bizarre one. The search view does no include the search on some objects. Possible to find a way around but it is something that should be fixed. ecommerce module If you do not start your App with the ecommerce template, then you have start from scratch and it is laborious. I would have hoped a module would have been easyly activated and integrated. Integrate template in App Knack offers many prebuild templates like ecommerce, catalogue, class management, etc. But you have to choose first the template and then start building ON it. Would be a great idea to be able to INTEGRATE the template to an App already built. Would help, complet and accelerate A LOT the App development time.

Helping colaboration between workers. Agilization of the workflow. Transparency of information. Centralization and sharing of information.

I've tried several web app database builders and Knack is by far the most powerful. Without any coding, we've built several apps that our team uses at our business, including an complex internal recipe and order management app, and an internal/external hiring app. These apps have withstood the test of time over several years of use. One great thing about Knack is that each of your app's users is counted simply as a record; you're not charged per user. So cost is never an issue when deciding whether employees receive accounts for our apps.

I think the next phase of Knack should include more features for notifications (especially for mobile) and pushing live data updates to user's pages without needing a refresh. Since they've already covered so may use cases for desktop and basic mobile webpages, these would open up possibilities for new types of tablet and mobile apps that users may want to create.

We use Knack for problems and data sets that are too complex for a Google Sheet, and/or require a variety of user permission levels. And the fact that Knack is entirely cloud-based allows our apps to be easily used by team members in various locations or at home. For instance, it allows us to have one recipe database across our company, and it allows wholesale orders to be entered by the sales manager for production staff to see without a million emails back and forth.

The Knack system allows us to create online data collection for our field team to easily use.

I haven't found anything I dislike in the Knack system.

We have employees all across the country and we needed a way to allow them to input data that we can track. The Knack system allowed us to design forms and other informational pages that all of our employees can easily access.

Knack is one of the easiest to use app I have ever encountered. We have used this software in our company to manage contact list, link and use different softwares together. We have integrated with the QuickBooks app,which has really help in tracking and keeping clients details; contact ,addresses, invoices, payment and more. Pricing of the software is based on the number of apps used.

I loved everything on this app except a few setbacks,such as : not economical to use it on one software, imputing all the information, you need to have basic cascading style sheets knowledge to use it.

Knack greatly improved how we work in our company in terms of service delivery and speedy work by our staffs since you can integrate all softwares at one place instead of switching them.

Within hours, I was up and running with a projects database app which allows users to query the various projects that our company is working on. I did not need any IT help or database experts, just knowledge of the subject matter as it was very easy to set things up and enter data.

Knack was not able to do a fairly complex query that I was looking to execute for a given view. Their support team was fast in diagnosing things and letting me know that what I wanted to do was not possible at present time, but that they would add this functionality as a feature request to be considered for a future update.

Our company was managing all of our projects on spreadsheets which quickly became outdated and/or everyone was not all using the same latest/greatest spreadsheet which led to confusion. By having everything housed in Knack, everyone now knows that the Knack app is the latest/greatest source. We also have multiple people managing the data so it is easy for updates to be made instead of finding the keeper of the spreadsheet.

This incredible platform makes building just the right database with user friendly interfaces easy.

I would like more native integrations and more control over interfaces design

I am using knack to bring all of the company data across many platforms together and create a dashboard for strategic planning. I also build small apps for client questionnaires or employee surveys.

Great software for dorks like me that don't know much about programming and complex databases and whatnot, but need something more advanced than Google Forms, Wufoo, etc. It's easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and can make your life so much easier! If you're a nonprofit, they'll give you a 25% discount (pretty generous).

Very little. The front-end user interface is just one thing that comes to mind for improvement, specifically the ability to change how components of a page appear on the screen.

My nonprofit has been able to go paperless with a number of major business and HR processes - such as with timesheets, PTO request and tracking of hours, vendor check requests, personal reimbursement requests, etc.

You can easily set up a complicated app with a lot of database needs

Could have control over the user interface - It would be a complete app builder with that!

Needed a place that received a database from surveys that my clients were able to access and export from.

Easy to use interface. No programming required. I like how you can set up users and create place for them to edit the the content directly.

I haven't really found anything we dislike yet. I do find it can get a bit complicated when you have lots of objects in various relationships. Maybe if there was a way to visualize it more that may help.

We were able to create a database very quickly. We had all the data, but needed it to be accessible online in a mobile-friendly format. The cost to custom build a database was very high and included a long timeline. Using Knack was an amazing alternative that served our needs better than the custom solution!

I've looked at many online database providers, and I kept coming back to Knack because of the ability to have as many users as I want without any associated costs. My app has hundreds of users, and it costs me nothing. Every other database solution I evaluated charged per user. I also like the ease of use. I don't have to manage the API or the security of the system. Knack handles that, which frees my time.

I don't like that you can't see the internal IDs and foreign keys. Knack handles that b ehind the scenes, but it would be better if you could at least see them.

I have created an online database for all of the schools in our state. Each school creates an account and enters its staff members. The second they enter the data, it's available to all of our schools. I've also created an app that allows each school to request approval for playing an out-of-state team. This process is entirely digital now, where in the past, it involved fax or scanned documents emailed to schools and different state associations.

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The fact that nearly anyone can use it to make what they actually want is very useful. It works on both normal PC desktop and mobile devices allows for flexibility. They offer a couple weeks free to try and test out the product to ensure it is right for your group. Also the fact when you speak to people they are really in America is becoming more and more important to our group when looking for vendors.

We have noticed that at times it will knock us out of work and after testing and review we think it's because we have multiple tabs open working on things at the same time. Other than that not too much negative to think of here.

We were able to build the app we needed to add all on our own. After doing so we found it very useful how you are able to track and review the information in Knack. It was the difference maker at helping track large amounts of data we had then.

Our team has used Knack to build out entire OS systems for nonprofits and small businesses. It's flexibility allows for many variations to meet needs from receipt submissions on the finance side to data tracking on the program/mission side. While there is a learning curve, once you get the 'Knack' of how the platform works, you will be building in no time.

The UI can use some more flexibility in how it looks and how the embedded tables function on sites. Internally the design is not the number #1 priority, but when customer facing, being able to add some more design components would be great. They do offer some levels of CSS flexibility which helps a bit.

Building operating applications for various nonprofits and small businesses from finance, to HR, to client facing needs.

No code. Great builder. Excellent documentation. Great support . Ability to customise with css/js if you like. Multi users with different views and permissions. Excellent reporting and dash boarding tools

Needs better gui dev tools, video examples and live data import .

Data collection and sharing for global group. Desktop and mobile access. Custom development so focused on needs no need for lengthy setup and training for users.

Plu and Play, don't need to know how to code to create a custom platform for your needs.

Sometimes hard to get a rapid response from support.

Allows us to do updates and have them deploy to all users instead up updating each users interface.

Decent interface in the builder, I have about 10 applications running and I can easily get into them and review and make changes. Also really can grow with more complex needs, I've been surprised how as the needs have become more complex Knack can deal with that and scale. It's very easy to spin something up and start collecting data.

Sometimes they make changes that break things! Support is very good, but I have customers who rely on the DB so if there is any downtime it has an impact. Must admit probably over the last 6 months they have got much better at this and uptime issues or service problems have been rare. I also wish the reporting was a bit more powerful. Better ad-hoc queries, charting and visualisation would be good.

I'm building complex DBs to collect, manage and report on case management in the social care sector. The tool I build in knack is better featured that many of the existing professional software players in the space and is a tenth of the price.

Creating a database on Knack is simple and analyzing the same is simpler :)

They can work a lot on UX and UI. The current UX is not so user friendly.

We are currently managing a very huge data base of our customers.

It allows me to build databases which i can acces completely remotely. I find tht thatis a great benefit for it. Simple to use, so eveyone in the organisation can learn it.

The support is lacking. When needed it takes a while to get answers or help from them. Also the community support is not good

It helps solving problems in no time where as before it took a year to find a solution for a problem. Now it's just a matter of days

doing my job the programming and creation of online databases are frequent, using knack to establish better links has helped me, and I have much more performance as a professional with the program, uses js drivers that allow faster work and always increasing the personalization, thanks to the modern filters of the program I make each data record and keep effective results

It is important to know each program before using it and know what its limits and failures are, in this case knack has good power and does not give me problems or failures, as a user I am happy to have it, if there are any changes that I would like to make in your panel main buttons are needed to execute more direct orders, it is a very simple panel that if it could be adjusted and customized, each user would be guaranteed a more comfortable work with a platform that fits their tastes and requirements

The number of filters that the program has that make my work experience wonderful is surprising, the cost is excellent and its cloud has good tools to enter my devices while being in the office or on a business trip, it is a program that by not needing a heavy installation, I can use it on all my devices comfortably

Knack is a great tool for a customized CRM.Its easy to use ,relatively inexpensive and can make your life so much easier!.

The thing I don't liked in "knack" is that it does not auto save when inputting data to fields,so we can lose data inputs.

I had a great experience with knack developer support while building a custom solution.

I am not responsible for knowing how to change the back end of knack, but I know that a lot of changes are made on a normal basis that make this system extremely versatile and adaptable to our needs as a company.

I dislike the visual aspect. I think it could be a lot more modern/aesthetically pleasing to the user.

We manage almost all of our program information in Knack, and there is honestly more information in there than I know how to access, but I know that every department uses knack for different reasons and all of it is kept well organized.

I like the easy-to-find different features at the top of the page

I dislike the default setting of 25 entries per page because it sometimes seems like it's not all there

We are solving the problem of allowing students access to a user friendly portal to enroll

I do not know any coding and I am able to create custom solutions for my business anytime I want. I have tried other platforms online but this is by far the easiest to use.

Some customization require coding knowledge. Ecommerce is still under development.

I have created multiple applications from an online store / marketplace to real estate CRM, database of properties and some experimental apps.

Knack is an online database application platform that is superb for creating our database objects depending on our client procurements. It is easy to migrate our pre-existing databases to Knack with its import feature, which ensures record mappings and key validations. Querying is very simplistic, and its backup occurs regularly, thereby ensuring database latency & integrity.

It provisions inline editing so that we can edit our records simply by click and edit rather than reloading the platform to reflect the changes. I don't find anything to dislike about Knack.

The best thing about Knack is its capabilities to create multiple database cluster applications which can be integrated into a cordial platform provided by Knack. This process helps me to collect memory logs, process interactions, and transaction requests which are key performance metrics to evaluate the optimization strategies for our enterprise applications. It has brilliant load balancing implementations which automatically allocate resources based on our incoming workload. Navigation features are convenient, and we can guide over our application. Its easy to replicate my database application clusters as it offers no-code platform for developing them for our customers.

We really like how Knack lets us completely tell the marketing team what we want created so it takes away the back and forth and makes it easy for everyone to understand the mission at hand.

There is nothing we dislike. I guess maybe the only thing that can be changed would be the ability to have a dashboard and see what you have Knacked previously.

The biggest problem is the lack of the communication between sales and marketing. With both departments so overloaded with work Knack eliminates 100 back and forth emails.

Knack helped our team build app-based tables for client management. It was really fast to build detailed database, forms, and reports.

Support time could be better. Occasionally changes are made and it breaks parts of it. When multiple users and access the same data it can be frustrating. Having a better testing option before pushing live would be better.

We use Knack to build a database of clients. We use it to collect, report and manage them. It is much cheaper than hiring a developer.

This truly is a customizable software which makes it incredibly user friendly. I like being able to make this exactly what I'm looking for.

The app glitches a bit. It could use some updating.

I previously used this for my side-hustle business in which I sell multiple types of products. It helped me be organized in order to keep my accounting reporting correct. It helped me see where I'm actually making money and where I should be focusing more of my efforts on. I stopped using it because I stopped focusing on this side-hustle as much and didn't want to put more money into it where I didn't have to.

Very easy to use and can be customized without any difficulty. Price is very reasonable.

I feel customer support should be more effective.

Time and money is saved as there is no code involved.

The ease of use and the short learning curve. The pricing The ability to combine a database with a website very quickly

The rate at which new features are rolled out. The inability to run workflows at the database level as opposed to on the interface/website level.

We run our organizational development pipeline. Engagements database, budgeting system, and contacts database all on Knack. The tables all speak to one another.

The UI is explicit and performance in database storage overcomes hassles of taking up large online spaces.

There is no such drawback that I could analyze about the product and its features.

The fundamental factor of timid storage of large datatypes has been a key solution with use of the product