Retool Mobile

I’ve been using Retool for several months on my desktop and I’m OBSESSED. It’s an incredible tool for speeding up the development of internal tools, and proving to others in your organisation that blue sky productivity thinking is actually achievable. When I discovered that they’d released a version for native mobile app development I was super excited, it may be early days but it doesn’t disappoint. In just a couple of hours I was able to build a simple barcode scanning app that lets me scan the barcode of a book and in the background looks up the book’s details and adds an entry to my Notion database. There are so many potential use cases, even with fewer features than for desktop it’s already an incredibly powerful tool! Can’t wait for some more theme customisation options and features for the accelerometer, GPS, etc!

We’ve used the web version of retool for years and just started with the mobile app. So so much better for when you’re away from your computer. If I could give 6 stars I would!

Retool is a great piece of kit, we’ve recently implemented it in our business to manage large pieces of data in a great system. So, given that i am out and about a lot, Ive downloaded the app. Trying to log in with the same credentials as those i can access the website with proves unsucessfull on every occasions. Really disappointed

Not significantly easier to build apps for than Swift. I don’t see the point in settling for a much worse user experience, no good offline support (even on the expensive plan that “supports” offline), and ridiculous workarounds to reload data, delete selected rows, etc. Maybe for someone who ONLY knows JavaScript and SQL this could be useful, but there are so many workarounds required to build an app with basic CRUD functionality, I don’t see the point. I’m not even good at Swift — I’ve been using JS much much longer — but this is ridiculous. Even a cross-platform React-type framework would be easier to work with and result in better apps. Even a web-only app would be better. I wish there were a low-code platform that resulted in apps that weren’t a substandard user experience.

The first time you have

I will be there

Didn’t seem to load or do anything