Retool

Retool is a tool that will allow you to build automations without having to write a single line of code. It is a fan favorite among low-code platforms because of how easy to learn it is. Retool has templates available to help you build automations for almost any industry.

Retool Features

Fans of Retool love it for its most recognizable features: 

• UI Code Extending
• Programming Code Extending
• Customized Branding
• Application Templates
• Workflows
• Data Migration
• Data Synchronization
• Lifecycle Management

Retool Pricing

Retool has 2 products:

Cloud (they host)

• Free ($0/mo) for developers building apps, with no creator restrictions
• Team ($10/mo per user) for teams deploying apps to end users
• Business ($50/mo per user) for businesses managing internal tools across teams and at scale
• Enterprise (custom price) for organizations with advanced security, control, and support needs

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Self-hosted

• ‍‍Free ($0/mo) for developers building apps
• Started($10/mo per user) for small technical teams that want to explore Retool to build secure internal tools
• Enterprise (custom price) for organizations with advanced security, control, and support needs

Retool Integrations and Plugins

On the API side of things, you’ll find that Retool connects with various tools such as

• REST API
  
  

Retool integrates with the following platforms for flexibility and ease of use:

• Zendesk
• Twilio
• Stripe
• Slack
• Shopify
• GitHub
• Firebase
• Asana

Benefits

• Highly customizable platform
• Quickness to build and work.
• Flexibility to create whatever application you need

Drawbacks

Its drawbacks, on the other hand, are these:

• Limit on the number of users that can view/interact with your web-app
• Easy switch between staging and prod environments
• GCP integration is buggy

Retool Documentation and Support

Retool has a comprehensive knowledge base to help you learn how to use it. If you ever find that you need any help in using the app, and depending on which plan you go for, you will have good customer support available. It also has excellent ratings across the board. 

You’ll find that you have high control over your automation design, with its drag and drop based interface. You might also notice that Retool is sufficiently responsive and highly secure. You can use the following datases to fuel/feed your app, which means that these platforms can be used as a data source for your app: Google Sheets, Oracle, Mongo DB, Fauna, MySQL.

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