Retool Overview

Retool enables rapid development of custom internal applications, enhancing team efficiency by tailoring software tools to specific business needs. Designed for developers, Retool simplifies the creation of scalable solutions, accommodating growing business demands. Its platform supports a community of thousands, fostering collaboration and sharing of best practices. Retool stands out by allowing users to quickly build and deploy apps, reducing development time and costs. This capability is particularly valuable for businesses looking to streamline workflows and improve productivity without extensive coding.

Use Cases

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

Other use cases:

  • Onboarding
  • Merchandising
  • Proposal & Quote Management
  • Engaging And Following Up
  • Measuring Net Promoter Score
  • Collaboration
  • Promotion Management
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Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Improve ROI are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Retool.

Other priorities:

  • Grow Market Share
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Retool Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Retool works with different mediums / channels such as Promotions. Social Media. Offline etc.

Retool's features include Recording, Dashboard, Personalization, etc. and Retool support capabilities include 24/7 Support, Email Support, Chat Support, etc. also Retool analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"With Retool, we were able to shorten the time to build a custom Facebook marketing tool from 6 months to just 40 hours." - David Mausolf

Peer review evidence (same sources as the product rating summary)

"...It's easy to create entire dashboards and workflows, and you can make such impactful changes very easily...." Peer review by Administrator
"...Dashboards for analytics...." Peer review by Kevin F.
"...Data Aggregation and Publishing...." Peer review

Retool, Lokalise, Troop Messenger, Sage Expense Management (formerly Fyle), Sentry, 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.

Retool is the fastest way to build internal software using building blocks. Apps and workflow automations can be instantly created to connect to databases and APIs.

Popular Business Setting

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Top Industries

  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • Computer Software

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Retool is popular in Financial Services, Internet, and Computer Software and is widely used by Small Business, Mid Market, and Enterprise.

Retool Customer wins, Customer success stories, Case studies

How can Retool enhance your Workflow Management process?

How does Retool facilitate Social Media Management?

What solutions does Retool provide for Sending & Publishing Communications?

Why is Retool the best choice for Onboarding?

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.

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
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David Mausolf

VP of User Acquisition

Fox

With Retool, we were able to shorten the time to build a custom Facebook marketing tool from 6 months to just 40 hours. Testimonial By David Mausolf
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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
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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
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Retool testimonial

David Mausolf

VP of User Acquisition

Fox

With Retool, we were able to shorten the time to build a custom Facebook marketing tool from 6 months to just 40 hours. Testimonial By David Mausolf
Retool testimonial

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
Retool testimonial

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
 

WISE - Professional Training & Coaching - Small

New York, USA

Retool helped WISE build internal tools to manage a fast-growing community. WISE used Retool to create user and partner management apps, automating approvals and onboarding. The team launched a self-...service B2B signup flow, reducing manual work. Retool's integration with Firestore and Stripe enabled quick app development. WISE saved weeks of engineering time and streamlined event management. All operations now run from a single, easy-to-use platform.

 

ThePowerMBA - Education - Medium

Madrid, Spain

ThePowerMBA used Retool to automate financial reporting, saving over 40 hours each month. Before Retool, the team manually processed data from multiple payment providers, which took days and was pron...e to errors. With Retool, they connected their MongoDB database to create real-time dashboards for revenue and cashflow. Team members now access accurate, up-to-date analytics and visualizations. This shift enables faster, data-driven decisions and supports ongoing business growth.

 

Solera Health - Health, Wellness And Fitness - Medium

Phoenix, USA

Solera Health used Retool to replace slow, custom React apps for internal tools. They centralized workflows and improved security by deploying Retool on Kubernetes with single sign-on. The team built... dashboards for provider management and customer service, letting non-technical staff access and update data easily. Feature requests that once took a week now get addressed the same day. Retool helped Solera Health save developer time and deliver better support to patients and partners.

 

Snowflake - Information Technology And Services - Large

Bozeman, USA

Retool helped Snowflake automate user access reviews, cutting hours spent on compliance workflows by 65%. Before Retool, Snowflake's security team managed reviews manually across 30 siloed systems, l...eading to errors and wasted time. With Retool, they built internal apps that unified workflows, integrated with Snowflake, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Okta, and Active Directory, and eliminated manual ticket creation. Managers now track and complete reviews in one place, reducing audit risks and saving hundreds of hours each quarter.

 

ShareChat - Internet - Large

Bangalore, India

Retool helped ShareChat cut engineering costs by 20%. ShareChat used Retool to let teams build custom internal tools faster. The operations team built a Creator Ops Management app in just 9 days, spe...eding up creator onboarding by 20%. Over 50 people use this app to onboard 50,000 creators each month. ShareChat now has 500+ Retool apps and 900 monthly users, boosting productivity across teams.

 

Teya - Financial Services - Medium

London, UK

Teya used Retool to combine 10 back-office tools into one dashboard. Agents now find merchant data in one place and respond to customers faster. The new dashboard lets agents update merchant info and... handle requests without switching tools. This freed the tech team to focus on building core merchant products. Teya plans to automate more tasks with Retool as they grow.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

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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.

It empowers to work with all of data sources seamlessly in one app, it is stored by the users and when a query is run, the Retool backend proxies the request to the backend. It creates interfaces to display and manipulate data faster and more accurately with custom workflows, enabling businesses to focus on their product and expertise while giving their operation development teams the tools they need to succeed.

Key features include dragging and dropping from pre-built components, connect to most databases or anything with a REST, GraphQL or gRPC API, can write JavaScript almost anywhere inside of Retool, also a native API for directly interacting with components and queries via JS, and more.

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?

Lokalise, Troop Messenger, Sage Expense Management (Formerly Fyle) and Sentry are popular alternatives for Retool.

Where is Retool located?

Retool is headquartered at 292 Ivy St, San Francisco, California 94102, US.
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Peers used Retool for workflow management and social media management

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Analytics

4.60/5

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Custom Reports

4.41/5

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Analytics

4.60/5

Read Reviews (29)
Custom Reports

4.41/5

Read Reviews (177)

Retool Integrations

Retool integrates with a wide range of software applications through its robust data import and export capabilities.

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Retool News

Partnership

Retool Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Drive Enterprise AppGen ...

Retool and AWS have entered a strategic collaboration to enhance Enterprise AppGen, focusing on improving internal software development with AI capabilities.

Company

Retool Blog | Announcing Retool's new London office | Retool Newsroom

Retool has opened a new office in Kings Cross, London, to enhance support for its EMEA customers. This expansion reflects Retool's commitment to its nearly 2,000 customers in the region, focusing on local customer service and business development. The office will also facilitate the addition of new resources and local language capabilities to better serve its clientele.

Product

Retool Automates Over 100 Million Hours of Work, Announces Agents to Drive More Return on AI - Business Wire

Retool announced that its platform has enabled companies such as AWS and Databricks to automate over 100 million hours of work. The company introduced Agents, a new feature that leverages large language models to automate complex business processes. Agents can be monitored and managed in real time, allowing developers to ensure performance and business value. This release targets the gap between AI investment and realized business outcomes.

Retool Profile

Company Name

Retool

Company Website

https://retool.com/

Year Founded

2017

HQ Location

292 Ivy St, San Francisco, California 94102, US

Employees

11-50

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Financials

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