Retool is a low-code platform that allows users to seamlessly build internal tools in a short period of time. Users can create and customize tools using a drag-and-drop building platform that makes use of visual blocks that can be easily connected to their database.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
Very seamless and intuitive to use. Drag and drop is super intuitive, and connecting supported databases is seamless. Also very satisfied with the prebuilt components.
Not enough database integrations was one problem. We wanted to spin up elastic search, but ended up going with another DB instead because of lack of support.
All kinds of internal tools, from managing databases to summarizing and visualizing internal documentation
They have a vision that goes beyond just building internal apps, and that proves to be very useful. You also want to be able to quickly pull together some marketing or sales tool, or want to collaborate with partners. That's where most no-code tools fail and retool does not. Next to that, the functionality covered by ready-made scripts or no code features is larger than most tools offer.
Their starting point that 1 tool = 1 page can be circumvented, but it's better if that design concept would be a bit more flexible.
To build a finished tool without help of developers and in fast iterations.
It is very easy to use, debugging is easy, multiple components support, easy to implement SQL and Elasticsearch
Sometimes changes made are not saved immediately, and no multiple simultaneous collaboration supported
No need to write Front end code, easy to integrate SQL, Elastisearch and MongoDB
Retool combines a lot of backend areas into one resource to easily get to the information I need while clicking through sections of a single website as opposed to going between a bunch of tabs.
I wish it included more features but that may be something that is actually due to my company not having built certain things out to sync up.
Combined multiple sections into one dashboard
Retool makes it easy for users to quickly prototype and iterate on tools, and the wide range of integrations with other software and services (such as databases, rest APIs) etc. makes it very easy to use. Love that you can load OpenAPI definitions and they just work
Would be nice to be able to export a retool app into a native software package, or to have some buttons to deploy code on our own infrastructure without needing to roll out the full on prem solution
Building internal / support dashboards that would normally require full tech stacks and UI kits to achieve the same thing. Has saved us a lot of time when shipping in house solutions.
Easy to find the account and the transaction in question by having the download button available.
None so far. The feedback is that I hope that Retool would like to have additional options in locating an account like CH first last name, email address, phone number, etc.
None at this time.
Retool helps my team get multiple dashboards up and running with exceptional pace. This enables us to ensure that all ops and CS dashboards do not require additional development effort and can leverage the drag and drop interface by retool.
There are a few things which, by design, are required to restart the application/limit retool's capability. For instance, the REST APIs, by default, can't have more than 120 seconds timeouts. Or, the REST API also does not support pagination in it's implementation.
We are creating multiple dashboards for our ops teams, and also creating multiple CS dashboards to expedite customer queries with pace. This makes sure that we don't spend engineering bandwidth to a large extent to provision these use cases.
Best part of Retool is how easily anyone (technical or non-technical) can build custom internal tools in a visual dashboard.
While the onboarding tutorial is great (and I routinely get emails from them about demo sessions) I think they need to revamp some of their examples/templates to convince other nontechnical founders why it's better than paying for pre-built tools.
I'm using Retool to give my new hires the ability to make their own tools to automate a lot of the backoffice/administrative tasks that I did on my own without pulling our designer away from their primary focus.
The amount of customization and features are great for our needs.
Nothing immediately comes to mind as I'm not the most advanced user.
I use Retool to help create our software product demo instances; it's beneficial for my work and customers.
Very easy to create interfaces and sync data. Simple to create robust applications that are easy to use by internal stakeholders.
Data loading can take a long time if your app is not built correctly (with pagination, etc.). Definitely needs more guidance around how to optimize apps.
We used Retool to build out interfaces for our admin tooling. We have several components of our platform we need to manage, including users, brands, products, etc. and we manage the data and day-to-day work with Retool apps. It has saved us significant development time as well.
Simple to build complex apps, with helpful autocomplete for difficult parts
Documentation could be better and finding some complex things like state not obvious
Great for prototyping new tools, and providing simple access to databases - helps save tedious sql writing
Its little tricky to learn in the begining but once learnt its easy and time saving , utilities are helpful and simplifies day to day job
nothing as of now from QA/Tester perspective it's effective and very much useful.
Seggregating and representing the data into different dashboards that we have configured and easy to check and use in our verification and validation of several test cases which would easily by pass the database access and query that in turn saves time especially people from remote and co-located areas who needs VPN etc. Excellent Utility.
Almost no-code data integration and UI creation help quickly get to work rather than getting sucked into creating internal tools.
Integration with JSON format databases like MongoDB could be better to help provide easier nested lookup based on document id references. Other than that, it provides comprehensive integration capabilities and robust UI layouts to use.
Managing users on our platform, managing user's internal properties like free credits, access restrictions, and even publishing and managing content on CMS has become user friendly with Retool.
The agility to create new solutions via a varierty of tools to different problems.
The fact that it only allows me to save one password, when for safety pourpuses our programs use different ones.
The agility to have an almost inmediate response to give to our customers.
Easy to get started, rich set of widgets to start. Support a variety of databases. (Postgres, MySQL, TiDB, etc)
I like it in general. Not too many complaints.
Time to build the tool.
Was able to create an admin interface very fast. Developer friendly.
Didn't find a clear documentation on how to achieve certain things (filtering some data before sending it to server, the possibility to use lodash in js expressions) - resorted to google search to find that out.
Build internal company tools without code.
It is very intuitive, you don't need too much programming knowledge to build dashboards.
Sometimes it is hard to find what you are looking for. The screen gets too crowded, I believe there should be a better way to organize things.
We use it for ticket management and to analyze ticket submissions. Also, we use different dashboards to see who is available in our app.
Retool makes it super easy to create internal tools, database & API interactions very easy.
At this time, there is nothing I dislike about Retool.
We use Retool as a database query tool. It's super easy to grant access with SSO.
User-friendly, easy to search multiple fields
Nothing in particular. Maybe more visibility into usage.
It is being able to have visibility into customers' usage with our products.
How easy it is to put together interactive interfaces, as well as the straightforward implementation of custom features.
Personally, I found it hard to control the flow of data and how reactions to changes, especially queries, behave
Creating dashboards for internal use, to have data available at a glance.