Retool

Retool

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    Pete A.

Great tool for building internal tools

  • March 01, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like using Retool to build UIs based on data from our database.
What do you dislike about the product?
Thus far, it hasn't been easy for me to utilize the rest endpoint that relies on pagination. Maybe I need to watch some tutorials or something, but I haven't figured it out yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a problem where we needed to show non-developers a quick snapshot of our database. There are other tools other than Retool that allow this, but they don't have the option to also call APIs.


    Nithin R.

Easy and user friendly tool

  • February 08, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Open source code helps in easy coding and integration as per our requirements. We used it to enhance the KYC module internally, and it gave us miracles. Small size, fast, and reliable
What do you dislike about the product?
The backend data storage is linked to Sheets which is a significant dependency. It grows slow when the backend is full, which slows down the entire process related to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used the tool as a backend for the KYC database and the front end for KYC decision-making. Multiple dashboards run parallelly at the same time helped the business grow, and we have moved to the latest version of the same


    Mason R.

Great tool for small businesses

  • December 23, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Retool is excellent for making quick apps to manage the internals of a small business better. The best part about Retool is how it can connect to existing data sources, keeping a single source of truth for essential data. We connected directly to our website's already existing product database to give our sales team a clearer view of all of our products.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to find things to dislike about Retool, most problems are just minor annoyances. For example the Table component can't be displayed as an infinite scrolling table (such as AirTable or Google Sheets) and must be paginated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool gives our team better tools to view our products, add internal notes, and display sales. Our sales team can easily filter products, for example, to find products released after a specific date. We also have a Retool app for displaying the sales that we have made, which includes beautiful graphs and charts to see how our business is doing. Retool has been able to save the precious time of our staff and give us a better sense of our company's status without having to chart sales figures manually.


    Cooper W.

Retool powers billing and customer operations workflows

  • December 16, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like the extensibility of Retool. It allowed us to build a very intuitive sales dashboard that gives insight into customer account usage, payment details, and hosts several integrations for us as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool itself can be slow oftentimes, and I've found that it can sometimes take a while to refresh or get stuck on a certain page. Overall those are not huge pains but worth noting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our problem was not having one consolidated place to see insights on our customers' usage and hold all of their billing information associated with their account. We were able to design the system so it hosts all this info and allows us to turn certain features on/off for our customers.


    Computer Software

Amazing tool to get dashboards up and running!

  • November 18, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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.


    Health, Wellness and Fitness

A great tool to build tools

  • November 16, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Retool makes it super easy to create internal tools, database & API interactions very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this time, there is nothing I dislike about Retool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Retool as a database query tool. It's super easy to grant access with SSO.


    Computer Software

Retool is clutch for any startup trying to build as quickly as possible

  • November 11, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Best part of Retool is how easily anyone (technical or non-technical) can build custom internal tools in a visual dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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.


    Computer Software

Great tool for account management

  • November 09, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
User-friendly, easy to search multiple fields
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular. Maybe more visibility into usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is being able to have visibility into customers' usage with our products.


    Computer Software

The Tool Meets &n Exceeds My Expectations!

  • October 26, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The amount of customization and features are great for our needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing immediately comes to mind as I'm not the most advanced user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Retool to help create our software product demo instances; it's beneficial for my work and customers.


    Pranay K.

Retool - making business complexity easy

  • October 16, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Response time - this is the best thing that I like about retool. The way it executed any program is commendable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Refresh time. If you're in hurry then it's your bad luck. It teaches you how to be patient with business tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating multiple user segments, creating coupons, dashboards, creating collections, and many more. Taking daily business to new heights.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for an application developer tool, Retool should be given the first chance.