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kandi vs. Retool

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
kandi
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
kandi (pronounced like 'candy') is a platform that helps developers create applications faster by reusing the right libraries, code snippets, packages, APIs, and cloud functions. kandi makes it easier for developers by analyzing over 430 million knowledge items across all repositories, cloud and information sources and applying AI to help the developer choose the apt component that fits their need across technology, framework, domain, security, quality, support, license, and many…N/A
Retool
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Retool is a UI software component library presenting a fast way to build custom internal tools, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.
$10
per month per user
Pricing
kandiRetool
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Team
$10
per month per user
Business
$50
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
kandiRetool
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIt's a free offering—
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Community Pulse
kandiRetool
Considered Both Products
kandi
Chose kandi
Rather than searching for each library on GitHub, Kandi organizes it and produces the best libraries of a language and new libraries added to it regularly.
Retool
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Retool
We selected Retool because it offers the best balance of usability and power compared to alternatives like Appsmith, ToolJet, and OutSystems. It allows us to build much faster, with broad integrations and strong enterprise features like permissions and environment management. …
Features
kandiRetool
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
kandi
-
Ratings
Retool
6.8
Ratings
21% below category average
Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Platform Security00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Platform User Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reusability00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Platform Scalability00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
kandiRetool
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
kandiRetool
Likelihood to Recommend
If you use open source or open technology based custom application development, then kandi is a great place for you to find code snippets and libraries to build your use cases, extensions, migration and others
Verified User
Anonymous
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If you need to build an admin panel or any other backend system, Retool is the right tool for you.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Easy to use
  • 1-click install solutions
  • open source
Aryaman Aryaman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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  • Ease of use - someone with small amount of experience can use it.
  • Adaptability - you can build a lot of things with it.
  • Reliability - works quite well.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • more kits
  • plug-in IDE
  • more number of projects
Aryaman Aryaman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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  • Some Retool apps can become slow to load or refresh.
  • When multiple team members work on the same app, changes can overwrite each other or break functionality.
  • The UI/UX is pretty basic.
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Anonymous
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Because even though it is quite intuitive it is not the best tool I have ever seen.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Rather than searching for each library on GitHub, Kandi organizes it and produces the best libraries of a language and new libraries added to it regularly.
Aryaman Aryaman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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We selected Retool because it offers the best balance of usability and power compared to alternatives like Appsmith, ToolJet, and OutSystems. It allows us to build much faster, with broad integrations and strong enterprise features like permissions and environment management. Competing tools were either too limited, required more engineering effort. Overall, retool support has been decent too.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • None
  • It is free to use
  • It is an open source platform which requires no purchases
Aryaman Aryaman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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  • Good ROI to give our teams the data they need.
  • Some dashboards can be slow so it can take more time/ bandwidth.
  • As apps grow more complex, troubleshooting logic or query dependencies can be time-consuming.
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

kandi Screenshots

Screenshot of kandi helps develop applications faster through library and code snippets reuse. Developers can also develop incredible ideas from scratch with kandi kits and stay ahead on technology trends.Screenshot of kandi kits help develop applications for popular use cases from scratch. Through kandi, developers can also follow trending libraries, popular use cases, authors, learning resources and more across 500+ hot technology topics.Screenshot of With kandi developers build applications faster and better by reusing open-source components. We just didn’t stop at providing a platform where they can find millions of libraries and code snippets to reuse. We continuously take user feedback and tune our algorithms to recommend components that best suit the user’s needs and environments. We also recommend code snippets, install commands and FAQs that will help the developers build their applications. Further, we have implemented features to make executing complex solutions a 1-click for beginners and experienced developers. We have also added the ability for developers to stay ahead of complex technology trends in the digital and open source field. Together these capabilities help the developers jumpstart their application development.