Retool Reviews & Product Details

The various integrations, how easy it is to build new tools. The development is straightforward, and integration into Databases and other tools becomes very simple and can be done without the significant support of Software Engineers.

The number of modules and queries become pretty hard to handle very quickly. It's missing features to help organize different elements of an application. Sutruuringing of modules and questions could be done better.

Spending Engineering Resources on building internal management and Admin tools is a complex trade-off. Everyone knows it benefits internal processes in the long run, but it is harder to justify compared to customer requests and customer-facing features. So having a tool that significantly reduces the time required to build internal management and admin tools is a must-have. Retool is filling that perfectly.

It's very intuitive and simply works perfectly right out of the box.

I like it all. It would be nice to see a summary of things that don't match up or don't exist (from misspellings).

Interacting with Snowflake database data without having the end users needing to know SQL.

Extremely Intuitive Great UI Good Range of data sources

Access Controls are on the more expensive plan.

Automation of manual business processes. Creation of internal tools for non-technical staff

Retool is an insanely fast tool for rapidly prototyping new applications and deploying into production environments. 95+% of the components required are available and immediately work out of the box with minimal onboarding. The development interface is very intuitive. As a developer I found myself rarely needing to refer to docs. Any startup quickly building applications or large organization re-thinking back-office utilities should consider Retool. I rarely write reviews; this is one of those cases where I have been so impressed by a product that I am going out my way to share.

Performance could be improved. It's not a blocker, but there is additional query overhead that requires tuning. Applications are not as snappy as a fully custom solution, especially for repetitive tasks that require data loading, e.g. quickly flagging results in a table with a checkbox. For our usage, this is an easy trade-off for the speed of application development and low maintenance requirements.

We were able to replace custom administrative tooling (React + Blueprint and Spring Boot) in a matter of days and quickly augment with new features. Development speed is easily 10x vs custom build.

The past part of ReTool is how easy it is to gather data from multiple sources and build a highquality internal tool that anyone at our company can use.

I dislike the front-end of the application. At times it can be a little slow trying to build out the front-end.

We've solved a lot of problems at our Company using Retool. Some of them including managing our Quotes with customers, managing internal analytics, and vehicle management.

The amount of flexibility it offers to users.

The lack of video tutorials out there. The documentation is solid but more tutorials in video format would be greatly appreciated.

We are solving the issue of having little engineering resources available to us to create an internal app. With Retool, non-engineers can create apps that allow us to interact with, add to, and update data in our backend.

The number of integrations ready to be used to create a back-office panel. Salesofrce, AWS S3 and DynamodDb were the most useful for our use case. We have tried a few of other services and they were not so easy to use.

We would like some more flexibility in the elements personalization, but it's hopeful something that will come soon

We managed to fastly and easily create a complete back-office for our platform.

The user interface is really friendly. There's a learning curve but it's not too steep.

It would be nice to have more integrations to other data sources

We have a backup sql database where we need to get reports from. Retool easily integrates with it and I can create useful tools

Setting up the UI is ridiculously easy. You can configure your sources and hook them up with the UI elements with little to no effort. What's especially useful is that you can see the preview of the data as you map it.

I only dislike that I didn't start using Retool earlier!

Retool provides enough flexibility for me to design anything the business demands. The major benefit is that I don't need an engineer to make changes. Everyone can create their own experience that fits just them. You only expose the data.

I like the ability to do Rest queries in tables with data pulled from various sources. It comes very handily to create operational dashboards

Retool is breaking things often when they release. The tool is critical for our operations, and this results in complaints, but their support is very responsive

Retool helps have a very customized back office for both our core product and experiments. The engineering cost of an app is nothing; with a few minutes, we can build a great pull and play tool and share it internally.