Retool vs. Webflow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Retool
Score 9.1 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
Webflow
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Webflow is a Website Experience Platform for modern marketing teams, used to visually build, manage, and optimize websites that offer both the consumer experience teams expect and enterprise-grade performance and scale.
$18
per month
Pricing
RetoolWebflow
Editions & Modules
Team
$10
per month per user
Business
$50
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Basic
$18
per month
CMS
$29
per month
Ecommerce - Standard
$42
per month
Business
$49
per month
Ecommerce - Plus
$84
per month
Ecommerce - Advanced
$235
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RetoolWebflow
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Up to a 30% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
RetoolWebflow
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
RetoolWebflow
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Retool
8.2
2 Ratings
3% below category average
Webflow
-
Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces5.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Security10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability9.92 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Retool
-
Ratings
Webflow
8.0
11 Ratings
1% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Retool
-
Ratings
Webflow
8.3
8 Ratings
8% above category average
API00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Retool
-
Ratings
Webflow
8.2
13 Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.813 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.813 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings8.612 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings7.810 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.613 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.413 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Retool
-
Ratings
Webflow
7.6
13 Ratings
3% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.612 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
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User Ratings
RetoolWebflow
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.1
(16 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(8 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
RetoolWebflow
Likelihood to Recommend
Retool
If you need to build an admin panel or any other backend system, Retool is the right tool for you.
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Webflow
It is totally excellent for landing pages and websites, especially when you are looking for something custom, yet quick!✨ It is less appropriate for websites that need user accounts, as it is has discontinued this feature recently. External plugins are available but that is just an added cost.
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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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Webflow
  • Easy to use and customize CMS.
  • Develop engaging CSS interactions and JavaScript animations visually.
  • Several competitively priced hosting tiers are available and all use AWS servers and Fastly CDN.
  • Code can be exported to be used with other CMS platforms such as WordPress, or E-Commerce platforms such as Shopify.
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Cons
Retool
  • Loading speed - not sure if this is just us, but in my experience, it's not the fastest loading platform.
  • More customization with colors and fonts.
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Webflow
  • The Content Management System needs improvement. In my experience, it's very difficult to organise all our content at big volumes. We want to create a resources section where we can categorize our content but there isn't an easy or intuitive way to do it
  • In my opinion, it's incredibly difficult to create tables in an article
  • You have to do custom coding for anchor links within an article and it's time consuming and, in my opinion, super annoying
  • Website designs are not responsive we need to keep designing a separate mobile version
  • In my opinion, Formatting content in articles is annoying compared to other CMSs like Wordpress, Shopify, Wix, Blogger, etc. Worst experience I've had.
  • Changes to the nav bar on the homepage do not reflect universally, we needed to do the same changes all over again for our blog and mobile
  • Content editors need to keep logging in every time they add content
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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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Webflow
With a little education, I find Webflow incredibly easy to use. As previously mentioned, the Webflow University video library is amazing so anything you need help with is already available. That said, I do feel like it is a relatively steep learning curve and would be even steeper for someone who is completely new to Web Development, which is why I gave it the score I did.
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Reliability and Availability
Retool
No answers on this topic
Webflow
In my experience, their customer service is an absolute joke, I tried reaching out to them they took forever. I had to keep following up with them as if they never received it in the first place. It’s a new platform, so guidance is needed. Tried the university they offer, in my opinion, it is completely useless, I would just completely move on from this website.
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Performance
Retool
No answers on this topic
Webflow
In my opinion, it is horrible, the rendering takes forever. I have the newest MacBook and the platform will still lag and slow down on me. I’m not a developer, I am a designer which makes it worst because I am using the features they are providing not extra coding features. In my opinion, it is a horrible platform really, stay away.
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Support Rating
Retool
No answers on this topic
Webflow
I haven't had to engage them from a support perspective; however, there is a considerable user community for tips/ideas/troubleshooting and the like. I believe the Pro plan supports additional resources but we didn't find that the cost justified the outcome. Overall the need for support has been relatively minor.
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Alternatives Considered
Retool
No answers on this topic
Webflow
A lot more design control and easier to create a custom site, and then also to scale that site going forward. There's a lot about WordPress I miss, though, when it comes to managing a blog—user permissions, SEO control, edit HTML version of posts.
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Scalability
Retool
No answers on this topic
Webflow
I feel it doesn’t perform the way it’s supposed to and it doesn’t have any beneficial factors to it. In my opinion, there is no reason to use a platform like this when Wix and Shopify, and WordPress exist. I believe Webflow is a platform that shouldn’t exist and it’s only popular because of the hype it received. I tried it and hate it completely.
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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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Webflow
  • Dramatically improves the speed of developing landing pages
  • Super intuitive even for less tech savvy users, which allows them to customize the needed blocks without requiring dev support
  • Saves $80 per month compared to Unbounce or InstaPages, while having almost 99% of the important features
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