Retool Reviews & Product Details

I wrote my API endpoints and I was able to quickly integrate with them and get a functional UI. This reduced development time by a lot and as a backend developer it made sure I could give something that was functional very quickly.

The documentation wasn't that great. Some examples in docs of how the raw javascript interacted with retool components would have been nice. The GCP integration is buggy, but I believe this is a known issue since there was a bug ticket.

It helps a developer get a product over the line without knowing much about front-end things and styling. I was about to complete my entire app in 3 days along with the tweaked javascripts.

Enables me, a relatively nontechnical person (who just knows some SQL and JS), to build prototypes and flows that I would have formerly needed eng support for

Nothing I dislike. It's amazing! Really great

Helps me build internal tools without having to pull in eng resources

I really like that retool's foundation is SQL + javascript, makes it complex enough to use but easy enough to google ways to make it work.

I think some of the javascript portions of the tool could be 'block coded' / off the shelf vs. having to be coded by users (or let users submit their own blocks).

Retool is bridging the gap between something like Zapier and trying to build our own internal tool from scratch.

- Incredible customization, we can build most workflows without much trouble! - Customer support is wonderful, always around to help answer our questions

- The UI is sometimes buggy and swapping between editor & viewer modes is confusing. - Keeping multiple dashboards in sync when changing our underlying design takes some manual work.

- Customer service workflows that involve reading and writing to our databases - Giving everyone on the team the ability to self serve

App and module features. It allows me to create administrative templates in a matter of minutes. It is really useful to create the backoffice of my company

I would like to be able to organize the modules within subfolders, but at this moment it is not possible.

Quickly create interfaces to manage content

Flexibility to create whatever application our team needs. We have created apps for our finance, tech, product, and marketing teams without the need to involve our Engineering teams. It has many popular connectors and easy to use components.

As of right now, there is not much I dislike about Retool. I think they can have a slightly better experience in the drag and drop builder, but overall everything works great.

We can move way faster than before. This is extremely important for a start-up that needs to grow quickly. It was also allowed us to keep dedicated Engineering bandwidth on our product, while the rest of the team can focus on building apps and processes in Retool.

More people can now develop LOB software

There is nothing to dislike, so much to like

Allowing executives and staff to see how our users are experiencing the app. We've benefited from faster development time and increased velocity.

I used retool for an internal tool, and it let me build a dashboard on top of Postgres for others to use on the team, and it was great to build in.

Learning curve was a bit steep initially, but I was able to figure it out quite fast as it's based on JS + SQL

Retool is making it easy for me to build internal tools without having to waste hours on authentication/access control + UI design. It lets me put more time into the actual product rather than on internal tooling.

It makes it super easy to put together operational and internal tools without needing to use engineers. It saves us a lot of time and engineering resources since Product Managers can build those tools themselves.

If you don't take extreme cart, it can be pretty difficult to keep track of all the variables you're using. It should also be simpler to trigger mutations by passing them variables.

We use Retool to build our internal tooling and it provides us a low-code platform to connect with our internal API's to build experiences for our operations users. Using retool we can build these things much more quickly and iterate on them without needing to divert engineering resources.

The CEO was first reluctant when I first showed it to him, but when I started building tools in 10x the speed that I would have to implement it from scratch, he was converted.

Please please please add mulitple tag support for tables. They would look so much better than the current JSON viewer. Typescript support. This would be a serious gamechanger for me.

Retool removes the burden of having to build UI components simply to display analytics or to look at a database. I can pile up multiple database connections without facing any issues.