What is Retool?
Retool is a low-code platform that offers the ease of visual programming with the power and flexibility of real code. With Retool, you can stop wrestling with UI libraries, hacking together data sources, and figuring out access controls. Retool is the fast way to build your own custom internal tools and apps that move your business forward.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
84 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 98%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 100%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 92%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 94%
- Service Experience:
- 98%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+96 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Retool?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Backend Coding and Scripting
Application Security
Cross-Platform Deployment
GUI Application Designer
Audit Trail
Vendor Community and Marketplace
Application Inventory and Dashboard
End to End Lifecycle Management
ALM Integration
Role-Based Access Management
Templates
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Retool Reviews
Cyril S.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2025
Effective and data focused
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Retool from other similar products?
Retool is highly data focused and allows you create dashboards and control accesses. My organization is able to tweak and create dashboards to provide solutions instead of onboarding other platforms to solve that problem. This in turn helps us save cost.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Being able to create dashboards and integrate with external providers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be very slow, especially when querying large data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Pretty good platform for a small organization.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Mansi K.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Electronics
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2025
Great product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Retool from other similar products?
By its highly customizable drag-and-drop interface, which allows its users to build internal tools quickly without having heavy coding. It integrates seamlessly with databases, APIs and third party services, providing easier connection and management of data from different systems compared with many other platforms.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is its drag-and-drop interface, which allows its users to build internal tools quickly without having heavy coding. It integrates seamlessly with databases, APIs and third party services, providing easier connection and management of data from different systems compared with many other platforms.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One major drawback is that it is rather overwhelming for newcomers because of sheer number of features. It may take sometime to fully understand how to use all the tools well.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I'd say go for it if you need to build custom internal tools or dashboards quickly. It's really useful if your team works with multiple data sources or APIs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Altruistic
- Acts with Integrity
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
- Charges for Enhancements
Ramgopal V.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Best LCD Platform for Quick Development of Apps
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Retool from other similar products?
The platform serves as our focal point when discussing digital transformation. In addition, we can quickly prototype several apps to see if our company needs them. If a project is properly structured, low code can help it be completed more quickly. I found that using Retool made it easier for me to design applications quickly, especially for mobile devices.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The application lifecycle management of the platform is great, particularly with its CI/CD capabilities. It offers excellent learning pathways and documentation, making learning simple and accessible to everybody. With a few pre-made connections, Retool may be integrated with a wide range of other systems and databases. It is always actively pushing new tools and working through the forum to collaborate with all of the members. It features a sizable community with several forging components where we can quickly acquire answers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Smaller clients should not utilize it since they are not prepared to pay a significant amount to the server. I've had some problems with header injection. I believe that open support cases are not thoroughly resolved by support personnel.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would gladly suggest this program since it allows me to work on many apps with ease and saves me a ton of time. Retool has excellent usability. It keeps up with the rate at which business and technology are changing.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
