Retool Overview

This is a summary of the comprehensive capabilities and benefits of Retool based on over 1073 insights from peer reviews, customer testimonials, and expert opinions. We included citations from these sources so you can read the full content at the original source if you wish.

Retool, AlisQI, Time doctor, Sentry, Fyle, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Collaboration and Productivity. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

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Retool supports business activities such as:

  • Workflow Management
  • Social Media Management
  • Sending & Publishing Communications
  • Training & Onboarding
  • Merchandising

Retool can help you with many business goals, such as Enhance Customer Relationships, Improve ROI, and Grow Market Share. It can help manage these activities if you use Promotions Social Media Offline etc. for these needs. As a solution, Retool's capabilities include Recording, Dashboard, Personalization, etc.

Retool was founded in 2017. Financial Services Vertical is its biggest customer base.

Reviews

"I tell every technology leader I talk to that they should look at Retool as a way to reduce the burden of building admin UIs and democratize that kind of stuff across their company. " - Dean McRobie

Cuspera Reviews

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Retool solved their Collaboration and Productivity needs. Cuspera uses 1073 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Collaboration and Productivity needs.

Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Improve ROI are the most popular business priorities peers achieved using Retool.

Other priorities:

  • Grow Market Share
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Use Cases

Peers recommend Workflow Management , Social Media Management , Sending & Publishing Communications , as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied while using Retool.

Read Peer Reviews and Expert Experience for Business Use Cases

BUSINESS USE CASES RATINGS CUSTOMER AND EXPERT EXPERIENCES
Workflow Management with Promotions

4.74/5 ★

Read Reviews (19)

"...Given the proper tools, citizen developers can automate manual and repetitive workflows using drag and drop functions or by copying and pasting scripts...." Codeless Future Myths & Reality
Social Media Management with Social Media, Offline and Point Of Sale

4.83/5 ★

Read Reviews (14)

"...Generally building connective tissue between analytic stores like databases and operational systems like Google AdWords or social media accounts...."
social media analytics

4.67/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)

"...Analytics Dashboard...."
managing social media account

4.55/5 ★

Read Reviews (5)

"...Generally building connective tissue between analytic stores like databases and operational systems like Google AdWords or social media accounts...."
Sending & Publishing Communications with E-Mail, Chat and Slack

4.59/5 ★

Read Reviews (12)

"...We didn t send an email about it or anything: whenever engineers would talk to each other about building internal tools, Retool would come up and new teams would try it. ..." Case Study Doordash
PEER EXPERIENCES
Workflow Management with Promotions

4.74/5 ★

Read Reviews (19)

"...Given the proper tools, citizen developers can automate manual and repetitive workflows using drag and drop functions or by copying and pasting scripts...." Codeless Future Myths & Reality
Social Media Management with Social Media, Offline and Point Of Sale

4.83/5 ★

Read Reviews (14)

"...Generally building connective tissue between analytic stores like databases and operational systems like Google AdWords or social media accounts...." Peer review by Benjamin R., CEO and Principal
social media analytics

4.83/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)

managing social media account

4.83/5 ★

Read Reviews (5)

Sending & Publishing Communications with E-Mail, Chat and Slack

4.59/5 ★

Read Reviews (12)

"...We didn t send an email about it or anything: whenever engineers would talk to each other about building internal tools, Retool would come up and new teams would try it. ..." Case Study Doordash

19+ more Business Use Cases

Our AI advisor, Wyz, harnessed 1073 insights from peers and experts to help you assess how these Retool use cases fit your Collaboration and Productivity needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS

Dean McRobie

CTO

CommonBond

I tell every technology leader I talk to that they should look at Retool as a way to reduce the burden of building admin UIs and democratize that kind of stuff across their company. Testimonial By Dean McRobie

Rohan Chopra

Director of Engineering

DoorDash

Investing in internal tools used to be a difficult and polarizing trade-off; Retool helped us to shift that paradigm by making tools a quick and painless part of any project, saving us countless hours of operator and engineering time. Testimonial By Rohan Chopra

Pedro Franceschi

Co-founder and CTO

Brex

Retool is incredible. It's been a critical for our ops from the start, and is the reason we’re able to scale so quickly. And the on-prem version with access controls & audit logs makes it easy to meet our compliance requirements. Testimonial By Pedro Franceschi
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS

Dean McRobie

CTO

CommonBond

I tell every technology leader I talk to that they should look at Retool as a way to reduce the burden of building admin UIs and democratize that kind of stuff across their company. Testimonial By Dean McRobie

Rohan Chopra

Director of Engineering

DoorDash

Investing in internal tools used to be a difficult and polarizing trade-off; Retool helped us to shift that paradigm by making tools a quick and painless part of any project, saving us countless hours of operator and engineering time. Testimonial By Rohan Chopra

Pedro Franceschi

Co-founder and CTO

Brex

Retool is incredible. It's been a critical for our ops from the start, and is the reason we’re able to scale so quickly. And the on-prem version with access controls & audit logs makes it easy to meet our compliance requirements. Testimonial By Pedro Franceschi

Case Studies

COMPANY CASE STUDIES
Case Study Doordash

Doordash builds tools in just hours with Retool

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Case Study CommonBond

CommonBond democratized internal tooling with Retool

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Retool

What is Retool?

Retool is a tool development platform intended to help build custom business tools without having any programming language knowledge. It provides a complete set of powerful building blocks out of the box. It assembles apps in 30 seconds by drag-and-drop building blocks and connects them to databases and APIs to build its tools.

What is Retool used for?

Retool is a Collaboration and Productivity Software mainly used by its customers to Enhance Customer Relationships and Improve ROI by Workflow Management, Social Media Management and Sending & Publishing Communications .

What are the top features of Retool?

Recording, Dashboard and Personalization are some of the top features of Retool.

Who uses Retool?

Retool is used by Financial Services, Internet and Computer Software among other industries.

What are Retool alternatives?

AlisQI, Time Doctor, Sentry and Fyle are popular alternatives for Retool.

Where is Retool located?

Retool is headquartered at 292 Ivy St, San Francisco, California 94102, US.

Popular Business Setting

for Retool

Top Industries

  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • Computer Software

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Peers used Retool to Enhance customer relationships and Improve ROI

Peer and Expert Opinion on Features

for Retool

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FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Recording

4.34/5 ★

Read Reviews (83)
Dashboard

4.66/5 ★

Read Reviews (60)
Personalization

4.16/5 ★

Read Reviews (11)
Templates

3.86/5 ★

Read Reviews (9)
FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Recording

4.34/5 ★

Read Reviews (83)
Dashboard

4.66/5 ★

Read Reviews (60)
Personalization

4.16/5 ★

Read Reviews (11)
Templates

3.86/5 ★

Read Reviews (9)

IT and Other Capabilities

for Retool

  • Low
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  • High
CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Export

4.35/5 ★

Read Reviews (162)
Data Import

4.26/5 ★

Read Reviews (132)
CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Export

4.35/5 ★

Read Reviews (162)
Data Import

4.26/5 ★

Read Reviews (132)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
24/7 Support

4.35/5 ★

Read Reviews (102)
Email Support

3.45/5 ★

Read Reviews (5)
Chat Support

2.31/5 ★

Read Reviews (2)
Phone Support

1.58/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
24/7 Support

4.35/5 ★

Read Reviews (102)
Email Support

3.45/5 ★

Read Reviews (5)
Chat Support

2.31/5 ★

Read Reviews (2)
Phone Support

1.58/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Analytics

4.60/5 ★

Read Reviews (29)
Custom Reports

4.41/5 ★

Read Reviews (177)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Analytics

4.60/5 ★

Read Reviews (29)
Custom Reports

4.41/5 ★

Read Reviews (177)

Software Failure Risk Guidance

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for Retool

Overall Risk Meter

Low Medium High

Top Failure Risks for Retool

Vendor Profile Details

Company Name

Retool

Company Website

https://retool.com/

Year Founded

2017

HQ Location

292 Ivy St, San Francisco, California 94102, US

Employees

11-50

Social

Financials

SERIES C