Retool vs. ServiceNow App Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
ServiceNow App Engine
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
ServiceNow App Engine aims to bring creator workflow apps to production quickly for mission-critical tasks. Design with best-practice guidance and templates within a holistic low-code dev experience.N/A
Pricing
RetoolServiceNow App Engine
Editions & Modules
Team
$10
per month per user
Business
$50
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Quote
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RetoolServiceNow App Engine
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
RetoolServiceNow App Engine
Features
RetoolServiceNow App Engine
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Retool
6.9
3 Ratings
20% below category average
ServiceNow App Engine
8.2
10 Ratings
3% below category average
Drag-and-drop Interfaces5.02 Ratings8.49 Ratings
Platform Security7.22 Ratings8.410 Ratings
Platform User Management8.02 Ratings8.210 Ratings
Reusability6.02 Ratings8.59 Ratings
Platform Scalability8.33 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Visual Modeling00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
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User Ratings
RetoolServiceNow App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(3 ratings)
6.8
(7 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(2 ratings)
7.6
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
RetoolServiceNow App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
Retool
Works well in: Connecting directly to databases and APIs holding candidate data. Allows teams to easily drill into records from different data sources. Quick to build dashboards. It wouldn't work well without a team to actually get it set up. There is limited design/ branding, making it look very basic. Your team requires training because data can be overwritten easily. Having some knowledge with your whole team is super important, and if you work with contractors or non-tech people, this can be a huge issue.
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ServiceNow
Well suited - for someone who enjoys minimal coding with maximum throughput. For organisations who look for IT solutions basis customer a priority. Very well suited for creating tickets for incidents, changes etc Not well suited - for small scale organisations where the customers are less and managing them is easy
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Pros
Retool
  • 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.
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ServiceNow
  • Workflows
  • Notifications
  • Management
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Cons
Retool
  • 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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ServiceNow
  • Not much for this tool, just the deep setting to new users.
  • Managing multiple project data.
  • Huge amount of data migration to new user.
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Likelihood to Renew
Retool
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now
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Usability
Retool
Because even though it is quite intuitive it is not the best tool I have ever seen.
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ServiceNow
Since people can handle the tool without any development background, this was really helpful and can be adopted by anyone, as reusability functions and drag-and-drop features are very easy. Many in-built features and functionality for integrating other applications are handy and adaptable.
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Reliability and Availability
Retool
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
Almost 100% available on time
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Support Rating
Retool
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support
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Implementation Rating
Retool
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.
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Alternatives Considered
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. Competing tools were either too limited, required more engineering effort. Overall, retool support has been decent too.
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ServiceNow
ServiceNow App Engine is best among all the competitors. Its integration is best with Outlook and ERP, its SLA management is best, and very organized filters are very useful. Categorization of tickets is something that is very useful. It's very easy to search the tasks/order with limited keywords and very easy to customize. The best part is we can simply reply on mails using ServiceNow App Engine and keep a proper log of the tickets.
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Scalability
Retool
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
It is scalable but not reliable
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Return on Investment
Retool
  • Major impact - ability to build a backend system is huge.
  • Major impact - used every day by multiple people.
  • Major impact - ability to be used by less technical teammates.
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ServiceNow
  • We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
  • By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.
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