TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Retool

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ARetool 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

    Mathematica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AWolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.

    $1,520

    per year

    Pricing
    RetoolMathematica
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $10
    per month per user
    Business
    $50
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    Standard Cloud
    $1,520
    per year
    Standard Desktop
    $3,040
    one-time fee
    Standard Desktop & Cloud
    $3,344
    one-time fee
    Mathematica Enterprise Edition
    $8,150.00
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RetoolMathematica
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network.
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    RetoolMathematica
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Retool and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Retool
    6.7
    3 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    -
    Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Security6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform User Management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reusability6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Scalability7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Retool and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Retool
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    6 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Retool and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Retool
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Retool and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Retool
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.3
    8 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Retool and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Retool
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    RetoolMathematica
    Small Businesses
    Zoho Creator
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AppSheet
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle APEX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    RetoolMathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RetoolMathematica
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Wolfram
    We are the judgement that Wolfram Mathematica is despite many critics based on the paradigms selected a mark in the fields of the markets for computations of all kind. Wolfram Mathematica is even a choice in fields where other bolide systems reign most of the market. Wolfram Mathematica offers rich flexibility and internally standardizes the right methodologies for his user community. Wolfram Mathematica is not cheap and in need of a hard an long learner journey. That makes it weak in comparison with of-the-shelf-solution packages or even other programming languages. But for systematization of methods Wolfram Mathematica is far in front of almost all the other. Scientist and interested people are able to develop themself further and Wolfram Matheamatica users are a human variant for themself. The reach out for modern mathematics based science is deep and a unique unified framework makes the whole field of mathematics accessable comparable to the brain of Albert Einstein. The paradigms incorporated are the most efficients and consist in assembly on the market. The mathematics is covering and fullfills not just education requirements but the demands and needs of experts.
    Mathematica is incompatible with other systems for mCAx and therefore the borders between the systems are hard to overcome. Wolfram Mathematica should be consider one of the more open systems because other code can be imported and run but on the export side it is rathe incompatible by design purposes. A better standard for all that might solve the crisis but there is none in sight. Selection of knowledge of what works will be in the future even more focussed and general system might be one the lossy side. Knowledge of esthetics of what will be in the highest demand in necessary and Wolfram is not a leader in this field of science. Mathematics leves from gathering problems from application fields and less from the glory of itself and the formalization of this.
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Wolfram
    • It allows straightforward integration of analytic analysis of algebraic expressions and their numerical implemented.
    • Supports varying programmatic paradigms, so one can choose what best fits the problem or task: pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even (with a bit of setup) object-oriented programming.
    • The extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering make it very easy to not just get 2D and 3D renderings of final output, but also to do quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate results and/or debugging results.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Wolfram
    • Should include more libraries and functions.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Machine Learning.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Data Science.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Retool
    Because even though it is quite intuitive it is not the best tool I have ever seen.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Retool
    No answers on this topic
    Wolfram
    Wolfram Mathematica is a nice software package. It has very nice features and easy to install and use in your machine. Besides this, there is a nice support from Wolfram. They come to the university frequently to give seminars in Mathematica. I think this is the best thing they are doing. That is very helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are using Mathematica in their research.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Wolfram
    We have evaluated and are using in some cases the Python language in concert with the Jupyter notebook interface. For UI, we using libraries like React to create visually stunning visualizations of such models. Mathematica compares favorably to this alternative in terms of speed of development. Mathematica compares unfavorably to this alternative in terms of license costs.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Wolfram
    • Easy to solve huge mathematical equations, so it saved time there
    • Doing analysis and plotting graphs is also another plus point
    • Learning is very slow, and it took lot of time to learn its scripting language
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots