Retool Reviews & Product Details

Retool's drag and drop interface makes it incredibly easy to prototype and build simple internal tools.

It can be a little bit difficult to connect Retool to internal data sources; luckily, Retool has plenty of support available via docs and 1:1 help to overcome these challenges

We're using Retool so that non-engineers (but people with some technical capability) can build their own tools without requiring the engineering team to build them.

Simple UI and unique and valuable outputs with a complete detailed view

The UI could be a bit better to engage more audience,

It is a kind of dashboard that gives valuable outputs and desired results

Super quick to get set up - I was able to build a complex support application (with proper logic) within an hour of clicking "Sign up." We tried the new self-service on-premise option; again, this was very quick to get set up. I had a PoC running on my infrastructure within an hour and could productionize it within a day.

No major downsides to be honest. It'd be great if some of their complex, premium features could be toggled on/off in a self-service manner.

Support staff (both technical and non-technical) can self-service a broad range of new ticket types without escalating. This has significantly reduced our support workload. Typically we'd have solved these problems with scripts & internal tools, which take c. 1w to produce (vs 1-2h with retool).

It's fast. Features that could have taken days, consume expensive engineering work are now super fast and straightforward.

Well, it's weird to say that, but -- The pricing! I believe you can charge more for this product. You are saving companies thousands of $ per month, so $10 per user is underpriced the way I see it. Few other things, it will be cool if you could give an option to only load queries when view is visible. so that the app will load faster

Admin, manage customer accounts, configure DB for customers, etc.. I've realized Retool helps me focus on my product and, as a startup - move much faster. Before retool, I was building API and a Postman request for everything, which isn't friendly for no coders, nor is it a fast solution.

Retool connects to all our databases and microservices in a couple of clicks, and does CRUD out of the box. As a UX engineer, this is critical to me as I can just design workflows that actively pull and push data through our databases. In just a couple of hours I'll have a working prototype of a new tool to share with our collaborators. The high-value prototypes I'll build into a real web app, but Retool works so well that usually, I won't need to.

Retool is kind of ugly for production apps, but that's to be expected from a prototyping app.

Retool has helped us build quick prototypes that can access different sources of data and produce new insights. These prototypes take a couple of hours to build, since we only need to focus on the business logic, not the UI.

Its a great tool to have It can hold a lot of useful information, has many usefull intergrated folders that you can create to help all employees with there day to day work task.

Nothing so far everthing so far is good.

I love the password reste tool, Hitch Mangement tools and just looking up Drivers Information

The simple way to make UI, yet powerful in connecting to various services and APIs. The JavaScript queries add nice functionality to the page and are amazing.

Better Staging environment could have been provided. Current one is pretty difficult to understand. I would like that a completely disconnected staging env be provided to the developers and any change done there does not affect prod.

I make admin panels for the eCommerce company I am working with. They handle lotssss of stuff using retool panels.

The ability to prototype very fast makes the tool very valuable for our company. Our IT-resources are limited and if someone from operations or marketing can design their own tools, the IT only has to connect the tools between databases or frontends.

The editing feature has not the best performance. Multiselection doesn't work or takes a long time. Another point is that there are not many options to upload pictures. Currently only via URL, a storage for pictures would be very nice.

We created a tool for our operations department. They can now edit customers much faster than in one of these "one-for-all" business softwares. We are much faster end we can automate a lot of easy tasks. Its much moreclear for the user and very individually. Another tool that we created is an access point for our databases. We have a well designed tool to edit everything, before that we used Excel. There will be a lot more tools to come that will help us to improve our processes and save a lot of money.

1. I like the ability to quickly drop a few components and link my APIs to get the desired result. I was so excited when I made my first app and shared it with my team, and it got used extensively. 2. Utilizing data from one component to another is a delight. 3. How easy it is for someone with basic tech knowledge to integrate the Database and APIs and start building the apps.

I feel there's room to improve the UX of components interaction. The resizing and adjustment are not smooth sometimes.

1. It helps me make something that is not part of our product, but it's an ad-hoc requirement for my team, and we don't want to spend tech bandwidth in building that. 2. Retool helps quickly build the MVP, and then based on usage, we include it in our product roadmap. 3. A lot of scripts which were used by solution engineer has been put on retool for general team memeber to access and use, that automated a lot of things internally.

It's easy, to show data, and build small tools for customer team. I create a tooling for fix any problem fast.

The UI, I have a big disThe user interface, I have a large screen even so I have to be hiding panels or changing sizes. In edit mode, the panel to create the queries is very small and you have to be scrolling a lot.play

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