Retool Reviews & Product Details

Retools is very easy to get started with, and at the same time, it is highly customisable, which makes it a very productive tool for creating a Proof of Concept (PoC) of any idea or overall to make any tool or experiment with ideas.

There wasn't anything in particular that I disliked. Some things could have even additional functionality and flexibility points, but Retool is continuously working on the product/platform and improving it with more features and functionality, like the recent Retool Workflows which added a whole new dimension of possibilities!

Experimenting with software development can sometimes be a bit costly because there are frontend concerns, backend concerns, system architecture, infrastructure, technology-specific matters, etc. Retool provides a comprehensive, streamlined and customisable development environment to visually create ready-to-use proofs of concepts and products, focusing on productivity and functionality. This saves a lot of time, costs and risk and allows for better software and a much friendlier and more accessible way to a broader audience.

It's straightforward, and I can instantly pull up a customer's device identification! I like that it doesn't consume much RAM and provides several features to adjust user permissions for every customer.

Nothing so far! It's convenient and super fun to use!

We use Retool daily to pull up and track our customers' device data. It provides clear insights on workouts and the ability to modify user permissions. Retool makes those daily tasks very simple!

The drag and drop UI components, easy to setup data connections, customizability just to name a few

No real downsides. The product is excellent. We have not yet tested several aspects of the product.

Developing internal tools is a painful process. Retool has made this so much easier. We have increased the productivity of our ops and engineering team significantly.

The way data is organised in retool is great.. multiple queries, customisable queries etc.

Its slow sometimes. I am not sure its due to internal or external dependency

Its a order management tool for us.. all backend activities are done here.

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.

- 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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I enjoy that Retool, as far as I can tell, is a javascript GUI overflowing with connectors. I haven't coded in javascript in 20 years yet still found it incredibly intuitive to sketch out my first application from start to finish within about a day, integrating feedback just as quickly. I was able to rapidly integrate back-end views I had created to support this without having to fiddle with connection strings or anything like that. I enjoy the fact that just about any input can be controlled by passing javascript statements, and that once you understand this the sky is the limit. I do not have enough experience with similar tools for comparison to identify deficiencies. I have also been using this tool for ~ two weeks, so asses my feedback in that context. Most of my experience is in analytics, working primarily in SAS, R, Python, and various implementations of SQL.

Retool is great for rapidly building new apps for internal users and iterating through them. It is very flexible and customizable. This makes it very powerful. However, it suffers the same risk in the development space as Excel has in the financial space: it seems subject to the whims of the user and could easily lend itself to nightmare code and nightmare maintenance. In the right hands, it is perfect for its intended use case but may draw lesser-experienced users into building infrastructure off of it instead of relying on the engineering teams where that work is more appropriate.

Rapid development and iteration for approvals and denials in our process flow. We can test ideas in real-time, identifying flaws before trying to engage engineers.

Lots of connections. Lots of widgets. Extremely easy to use and still with code and customizable

Very expensive for on prem installs with sso. which is too bad.

We created our entire admin panel with retool. reduce time and cost for creating a from-scratch admin panel

There are a bunch of resources to get started and the customer support team is very responsive.

It's pricey for early-stage startups, but they do offer a startup package for free.

building internal tools to allow account managers to create and update content.

Easy to use and using SQL to execute CRUD operation make it very easy.

Pricing for some useful option is not very cheap, but it deserve his price.

I create small application in a very fast time for my customers

I get suggestions on what to type for code. This helped me overcome the learning curve and made it easier to build things quickly. I have not used a competitor so I don't know how Retool would compare, but just in general good documentation that covers as many situations as possible is always the best.

I wish there were more Javascript query examples. Unless if that example is the real only way to be able to use Retool with JS. I felt pretty confused on how to manipulate different aspects of my table with Javascript and still don't really know how to do much more than the example given.

As mentioned above the only problem is not knowing how to fully use the JS Queries. I want to run an API call on about 9000 rows of data, and the API takes a while. The only way I have it set up is that I have to wait till the whole query is done before I can repopulate my table with the results- which just feels very hacky. I think there is a better way to do it, but trying to find it was hard. The benefits I realize are how powerful the UI is. I love the fact that I can easily build out these widgets and the biggest benefit of Retool is the ability to just manipulate the data easily in a safe read-only ara. I know that's one of the core product offerings, but it's just nice.

Sales and Ops Support has been the differentiator when compared to other competitor products.

The pricing is a little confusing and I am a bit worried that I build something amazing but then it becomes to expensive to maintain with a big user base

Bringing all my data in one place and then representing it in a way that allows my staff to improve their delivery

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.

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.