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What is Airtable?

Airtable is a project management and collaboration platform designed to enable content pipelines, product management, events planning, user research, and more. It combines spreadsheet,database, calendar, and kanban functionality within one platform.

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Airtable is a versatile tool that has been widely adopted by various organizations and professionals across different industries. One such …
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7 out of 10
May 16, 2021
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Popular Features

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  • Team Collaboration (204)
    9.3
    93%
  • Resource Management (181)
    9.0
    90%
  • Task Management (185)
    8.3
    83%
  • Mobile Access (180)
    3.6
    36%

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free/Freemium Version
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  • $10 per month
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Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

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Product Details

What is Airtable?

Airtable is a collaboration platform designed to empower 30,000+ companies for content pipelines, product management, events planning, user research, and more.

The vendor’s value proposition is with the friendly interface, customizable grid, calendar, form, and stacked card views, and a fully flexible structure, Airtable empowers users to build workflows that work the way they want.

Airtable Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Resource Management
  • Supported: Gantt Charts
  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Workflow Automation
  • Supported: Team Collaboration
  • Supported: Support for Agile Methodology
  • Supported: Support for Waterfall Methodology
  • Supported: Document Management
  • Supported: Email integration
  • Supported: Mobile Access
  • Supported: Timesheet Tracking
  • Supported: Change request and Case Management
  • Supported: Budget and Expense Management

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While many options can carry a large price tag, there are tons of free project management software available. In this video produced by the TrustRadius team, learn why Airtable is one of the best free project management software on the market.

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Airtable Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Airtable is a project management and collaboration platform designed to enable content pipelines, product management, events planning, user research, and more. It combines spreadsheet,database, calendar, and kanban functionality within one platform.

Airtable starts at $10.

Smartsheet, Asana, and Trello are common alternatives for Airtable.

Reviewers rate Team Collaboration highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Airtable are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Airtable is a versatile tool that has been widely adopted by various organizations and professionals across different industries. One such example is a theatre production company that uses Airtable to manage a wide range of tasks, including project management, grant tracking, community building, fundraising, and more. Both internal and external team members rely on Airtable to keep track of project status, ensuring smooth collaboration and effective project execution.

Another use case involves a micro not-for-profit organization that utilizes Airtable for reporting, site management, application management, financial modeling, and storing digital assets. With Airtable being used across all functions of the organization, it serves as a central hub for managing crucial information and streamlining operations.

Additionally, Airtable proves to be an indispensable tool for communication teams who rely on it to document tasks, manage timelines, and handle requests. From marketing project management to asset management and calendars, Airtable provides the necessary tools for efficient organization and collaboration.

School districts also benefit from Airtable's capabilities as it helps them log and assign projects, track due dates, and manage media creation. Media teams specifically utilize the platform to create videos, custom courses, graphics, and more. By leveraging Airtable's functionalities, they can streamline their workflows and enhance productivity.

Furthermore, Airtable finds its place within UX teams who use it as a central repository for storing and organizing UX research, studies, and insights. Its collaborative features enable seamless collaboration with other departments, fostering knowledge sharing and driving innovation.

Overall, Airtable proves valuable in numerous domains such as content creation, website development, finance database management, client database organization, event management for live events and concerts in radio foundations or non-profit organizations. It assists in managing databases, outreach efforts, tracking assets or donations for non-profit organizations or keeping records of animal care in sanctuaries. The simplicity of data entry paired with powerful features allows users to easily track leads or student data in organizations or schools. Airtable's user-friendly and collaborative interface has made it the go-to solution for teams managing complex projects, streamlining communication, and ensuring efficient organization across various sectors.

Users of Airtable have expressed several recommendations based on their experiences with the product:

  1. Many users recommend taking advantage of the step-by-step initial walkthrough and exploring all the features of Airtable to fully understand its capabilities.

  2. Users suggest trying out Airtable's free trial to assess its functions and determine if it meets their needs before making an investment.

  3. Users highly recommend giving Airtable a try, as they believe it is worth the investment and can greatly enhance task/project management and team collaboration. They mention that the added benefits of a paid plan easily justify the cost, especially for organizations seeking a sleek, cloud-based suite.

These recommendations emphasize the importance of exploring and understanding Airtable's functionalities, testing out the free trial, and considering its value for task management and team collaboration.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Airtable to keep track of current, past, and incoming projects. It's used across the entire organization. It helps keep track of all of our projects, see who's working on them, when they're due, who the contact is, and so much more. It's been an incredibly helpful tool for our company.
  • Keeping track of project statuses
  • See who's working on which project
  • Add details to project statuses, like contact name, when it's due, etc.
  • More user friendly aspects
  • Tutorial
  • Maybe a more in depth set of instructions as well, as there are a lot of features
Airtable is well suited for companies who need to keep track of projects, their employee's workloads, internal projects, etc. It has so many capabilities, and once you get used to the tools, it's relatively easy to use. It's been great for our company on a multitude of levels! Great tool to have.
December 08, 2021

As good as you make it

Caleb Fortune | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used Airtable to both manage a multistage workflow with 10+ contractors as well as accept and track tasks in a larger corporate environment. This spanned both desktop and mobile usage. The multistage use required an easy to no training approach to remain effective with revolving contractors and even covered some basic reimbursement tracking needs. The corporate environment needed an ability to provide visibility across the company to project statuses, which was easily possible using their iframe embedding feature.
  • Managing rows as items
  • Flexible setup that gets the most out of the tool
  • Intuitive integrations
  • Logical behavior (Functions behave as expected)
  • Just works
  • Can get spendy
  • More features before paywall
  • More mobile functionality
Airtable is very well suited for a niche environment that finds other project tracking or collaborative tools to be limiting. The ability to build out a single pool of information to best suit each team member's visual or functional needs is amazing. While the setup time can be lengthy, depending on your particular needs, it is really worth it when it's finally ready.
Jason Vance | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Airtable is used in almost every aspect of our business. It's like the glue for all the missing pieces we always seem to be looking for. I use it as a CRM for personal and business. I use it to track and rate my cigars. It's used as an intake tool for new clients. We store all our email templates so they are easily sorted and found. It's used to manage our podcasts, ideas, roadmaps, tools we use, wishlists, and some expense tracking.
  • It lets me see my data how I want to see it. I can create different views and sort them in almost every way imaginable.
  • I can test ideas out quickly there in a simple roadmap type setup.
  • There are 100's maybe 1000's of templates prebuilt to use, but it can also come blank to create your own. So if you're stuck, you can find what you need.
  • It's a great tool to build other tools. As an example, we used it as a CRM while looking and testing others. It ended up that we just use Airtable now.
  • It's not cheap if you're using the premium with a team. You can do so much without the premium it's not worth it to have your whole team on the paid plan.
  • Sometimes I wish it acted a little more like Google Sheets. Though it has the capabilities it's still not a spreadsheet.
  • I would like to see it cleaned up on mobile. It's ok, but I don't like using it on my phone.
Airtable can solve a lot of problems in a simple way. Project management, CRM, poadmaps, cataloguing, staff calendars, client intake, inventory, etc. I think it's best when you are small and just starting out wanting to save some money. It can be used for a lot of things that make paying for it worth it. When it doesn't work is when you want really complicated solutions that you will need to find a specific solution for your needs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our marketing department uses Airtable to build content calendars for clients. We also use various templates within the software to manage retainer accounts, monitor capacity, and plan content for months ahead at a time.
  • Color coding various types of content makes it easy to see, at a glance, what is coming up for marketing initiatives.
  • Airtable has amazing templates built out to help you get started quickly.
  • If you don’t want to use a template, you have the freedom to customize the template for exactly what you need.
  • We are able to store user personas, keywords, types of content, etc. and access it all in one view.
  • It would be really helpful if Airtable had a stronger “onboarding” or “how-to-use” when sharing the table to a client or other user.
Airtable has completely replaced our need for other softwares that stored information. We can build out content for months at a time and reference it all in one place rather than using something like Google Drive where we’d have to have tons of tabs open at once. While it’s a great planning tool, it isn’t necessarily built for storing large pieces of content.
Christopher Cantrall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [Airtable] for almost any business process you can imagine. It’s our primary working database, our CRM, our scheduling tool, our performance tracker. You name it, we run it in Airtable.

Airtable helps us as a small business since we can’t always justify a bespoke solution. Instead, we can come up with creative solutions in Airtable without having to hire someone to build a custom tool.
  • Customization
  • Data linking
  • Intuitive UI
  • Data display
  • More formulas
  • Better data visualization
Airtable is my single favorite business tool. It does require some creative thinking, however. It will not magically provide a solution by itself, and you need to work with it. But it is by far the easiest way for someone without a deep technical background to establish a basic relational database.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses this tool as a collaborative space to share data. In our certain case, most of the data that goes in there is what we need to complete operationally throughout the year and also how we keep track of what gets done and managing our clients. It helps to keep us organized and accountable and assists us in working together.
  • Project management
  • Document storage
  • Forms
  • CRM
  • Task management
Airtable is not as good as a CRM or for task management, but to keep track of overall projects and to keep all of our data organized, it definitely works very well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Airtable is being used to keep track of all of our deliverables that we need to complete for clients. It helps us store client information as well as what we need to do for them. The whole organization uses it, but it is especially important for our client services and operations team to make sure there is a smooth transition and communication between these two teams.
  • Organization
  • Storage
  • Automation
  • Security
  • Roles
  • Access
Well suited for storing information. Not as useful for a CRM even though they do recommend that it can be used by this. It does lack a lot of features as a CRM.
Dylan DeClerck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AirTable is being used across our organization to keep track of and collect stakeholder information and data that's imperative for the operation of our organization. It provides us with the detailed information we need to make smart programming and business decisions.
  • Direct connection from forms to database
  • Easy to learn and use
  • Great for small organizations who are looking to grow
  • Data doesn't work well with our Google Suite products
  • Not sure when to use different bases and different sheets within one base
  • Social sharing isn't as customizable and shows up with AirTable branding
Works well for organizations who do not have the time or funds to implement a full-scale database system and are looking for an easy transition from Google sheets or Excel documents that allows them to handle more complex situations and datasets. It isn't as appropriate for those organizations who don't have 1,000+ contacts or rows that they need to keep track of all at once.
Lee'Ann Burgess | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Airtable is a truly versatile platform. You can use it for business and personal use. Whether you want to create a content calendar and see your content in different views (grid, list, kanban...and calendar view) or create a personal monthly budget - it’s super easy to implement and use. We use Airtable for a few different reasons. We collaborate with clients using a shared link of which ever table we are working on. We use it a lot for content and organizing that content. Also, when we do social outreach, we leverage Airtable to help us keep everything organized. Just wanted to add that I love that there’s an app for this where you can access your tables from your phone.
  • Easy to use and implement.
  • Clean UI/UX.
  • Extremely versatile and you can also export to excel if needed.
  • I don’t have much to add here because I don’t have any other needs that this doesn’t provide.
  • Maybe if there was a version that was not only a web app since some organizations can not use this for compliance reasons since it is a web application.
  • I feel even the free version of this is extremely helpful and has many features.
I can give an example where this was very useful.
Working with a client that is in the medical field, they wanted to be able to view and adjust/approve posts before they were posted. Viewing the posts in kanban view, they could get a full overview of the graphic with the content in one main view. It was easy to move the posts to different dates on the calendar view and get a clear visual on which posts are being post and when.
Jeremy Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed to find better duct-tape to model out and run a test on new business processes without spending money on writing an app or buying too much of the solution - essentially ETL with some reporting in the middle. We use it across the organization with ops, cx, and retail being able to stay in sync on a complicated process.
  • No code business process software.
  • Upgrade from google sheets.
  • Test app concepts without spending large amounts of cash.
  • Cost.
  • Can have a steep learning curve.
  • Sometimes not 100% reliable in production environments.
Appropriate:
  • Fast no-code solutions.
  • Gluing together multiple API-centric apps.
  • Building out lightweight databases to prove out ideas.
  • Replacing complex chains of Google Sheets.

Inappropriate:
  • Critical production environments.
  • Cost-sensitive orgs (much more expensive than Google Sheets).
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Airtable to organize social media planning and general project organization within my business. I mostly use it myself, but can also share the tables with people within my business and we can work on them together. Honestly, I have been shifting over some projects from Airtable to Notion - Notion has a similar setup with the tables, but I find it more intuitive and has more features.
  • Organization.
  • Colour coding.
  • Ability to move items around/flexible.
  • Some of the best features are paid only (I would prefer to have access to all features as a free user, but have a limit on number of tables or people instead).
Airtable is well suited if tables is all you want to do. If you'd like to take notes and have different types of calendars/graphs, I would suggest Notion.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to manage our budget, track expenses, and provide project financial details to our teams. We create our project reports through Airtable and use it to submit AP invoices to our accounting dept. Project teams also use it to manage other aspects of their projects from inventory to scheduling.
  • Sharing and distribution.
  • Privacy and security.
  • User friendly.
  • Editing and backtracking on mistakes.
  • Pasting from large Excel files.
  • Exporting to Excel.
It’s great for distribution of different filters of the same data via using different views. I can use one Airtable with a bunch of data and create views that are unique filters of the same data for different users and I can update just the base/master view and it automatically updates the others.
Bryan McAnulty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As we've moved from traditional project management systems to one that is specifically a kanban board, we felt like there wasn't a good space for other documents and spreadsheets that we might need to create. Google Sheets never felt like a proper solution for us, because we wanted something that was more of a lightweight database software, than a spreadsheet software. Airtable provides just what we need and is especially useful for our marketing team to plan and organize data and leads. It is powerful enough that it lets us create or visualize a new set of data, without having to consider building a mini web application to do it right.
  • Makes it easy to visualize table and spreadsheet data in multiple ways.
  • Enables less tech-oriented teams to build a solution for managing business data that doesn't require a separate web app to be built to do so.
  • Would like to see continued improvement and additions to the innovative blocks feature.
  • While it has some project management features, it is not the ideal project management tool.
Airtable is great for situations where a spreadsheet wouldn't be the most appropriate or useful way to manage data, and where building or implementing a separate complex database tool would slow the team down too much. Airtable allows for database creation and visualization without technical implementation.
Gil Parrish | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Airtable in place of other spreadsheet programs across our entire organization. Airtable allows us to create custom data in a very easy-to-use format. The tables (or "bases") as the program refers to them, follow a very intuitive process for creation and use. We don't have to re-invent a base each time we need data because we can simply clone and existing base or create one using the many templates available.
  • Airtable has a great dashboard that simplifies finding what you need!
  • There are great video tutorials with step-by-step instructions.
  • More example bases would be helpful.
  • Importing could be a little easier.
Airtable is extremely well suited for those who do not have a background using spreadsheets. It's very intuitive with a short learning curve. If you need to interface a database with some other element the program works well with Zapier. You can create almost anything with the combination of Zapier and Airtable.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Airtable for managing database spreadsheets, which is the best way to manage the data and tasks. Our organization uses it throughout all the departments. It addresses the major business problems of managing the data and CRM for managing customers and projects. All the uses can track the progress, and deadlines can be set accordingly.
  • Airtable is an excellent CRM tool. Helps in managing data in the form of spreadsheets and task management. All tasks are well managed with all details and deadlines.
  • It is used for Project Management, where all team members can track project progress and work within defined deadlines.
  • Another major strength is that data is managed by key values, one to one or one to many relations.
  • One significant missing functionality is the lack of communication modes for internal communication using Airtable.
  • Synchronization of data sometimes results in a violation of integrity.
  • Airtable has its application version for both android and IOS; IOS application needs major revisions as it has a lot of crashes.
Airtable is best suited, where multiple members are managing a single project. In this case, all members are working, and different commit versions. Also, each member needs to track the progress of another member, and a review of the deadline is essential for every task. In this case, Airtable is very well suited. Airtable report generation is in business format, i.e., ready to use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Airtable is used as a project management software among the developers in our application development department. Airtable facilitates the communication between our team and the supervisors. It is a great tool to assign tasks and monitor the progress of our projects. The customization spreadsheet is very useful in reporting data and pulling reports.
  • Useful for project management and data analysis.
  • Improved calendar feature.
  • A nice mobile application that is accessible at any time.
  • Using complex formulas.
  • It takes time to fully understand using the platform.
  • It needs better visualization tools, like making charts and graphs.
Airtable is suitable for organizing a database through its flexible spreadsheet system. It works very well for improving the flow of working for people who have report data, records, or codes on a daily basis. Overall, it makes project management easier and simpler when it comes to a group of people working together.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Airtable at our company as this is the preferred choice for one of our vendors. We use it in conjunction with them and we work on tracking some outstanding issues there. So we use it across 2 companies and within our organization as a result. It has been an interesting but challenging experience.
  • Beautiful UI
  • Good customer support
  • Responsive design
  • Very complex and cumbersome to use.
  • Confusing amount of filters and almost too much stuff in there.
  • Long onboarding.
I think Airtable would be fine to use within an organization that is relatively small and is using Airtable for project tracking within a department or two. I don't think it is a good product to use across multiple companies or with complex issues at hand. We have had a challenging time using it daily and it hasn't been intuitive.
September 21, 2019

Airtable works for me

Elaine Truesdale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Airtable as part of the Association of Natural Hair Care Professionals recruiting services. We use Airtable to organize our interview candidates. We also use it to communicate with clients about the progress of our recruiting and to share candidate information with client's HR team.
  • Airtable helps to track the progress of recruiting.
  • We can link candidate documents like resumes and portfolio with candidate data.
  • We can hold various team members responsible for their roles.
  • We would like it if Airtable did not require our clients to have a separate account in order to share the table.
  • It would also be nice if Airtable had a more robust search feature.
  • Airtable has a lot of features that could be more intuitive, but the help guides work well.
Airtable is good for project tracking. The Association of Natural Hair Care Professionals likes using Airtable for recruiting. We plan to use it for event marketing in the near future. We are recommending it to our video production partners for their productions.
September 20, 2019

Airtable is Amazing!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Airtable to organize my business, keep schedules, create lists for purchasing and to share with my employees.
  • Easy to use platform.
  • Amazing service.
  • Templates to help get you started.
  • Free plans are surprisingly great.
  • It would be nice to get more emails explaining things.
Airtable is perfect for anyone that uses spreadsheets in any kind of way. It offers more functionality than Microsoft or Google Sheets for a variety of business needs and plenty of other ways including things like grocery lists, school shopping, etc.
Raphael Sanguinete | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Airtable is used to make databases for differente purposes. We use it to make assets databases for our game production creation, pipeline and workflows. We integrate those databases so all information is in the right place at the right time. We use it to make financial sheets and reports too.
  • Great interface and user experience
  • Many ways to implement the database structure according to your needs
  • Different views for different uses make it a very flexible tool
  • The pricing of the paid tiers are expensive
  • Many limitations in the free and plus plans
  • The comments pane inside the cards is very limited
I think Airtable is suited for many scenarios. The tool is so flexible that you can use with a vast number of objectives. So, it's more a matter of how it will be configured and take the time to do it. It's important to see the limitations of the free and plus plans, and see if it is enough for your use.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Airtable is being used at my organization for individual consultants use and for team usage. We are using it internally to collaborate within our departments. We are also using it with clients to both collaborate with them as well as present them information in a table or spreadsheet format. We are trying to address a variety of problems with this. We would like to save time by using Airtable along with have a variety of customization options. We would like a variety of ways to present and classify information and would like something that is easy to understand and learn. Our final problem we are trying to address is a effective and efficient collaboration method for people who are located in a variety of time zones and locations.
  • Airtable has the best customization features out there. They allow you to customize you spreadsheets or tables in a variety of formats. They allow you to customize a variety of field types, field sizes and various colors.
  • Airtable has a great collaboration feature that makes it easy to share and grant access to tables and a variety of information.
  • Airtable has great compatibilities that allows you to directly upload spreadsheets from excel into a customizable table.
  • Airtable is easy to teach and understand quickly, and does not take time for someone who is not technically advanced to understand
  • I personally don't have any cons with Airtable this is one of my favorite softwares I have ever used
Airtable is great for a variety of uses. First, it is great for presenting client facing information in a variety of ways. As a marketing consultant I have used it for a variety of clients in a variety of ways. It is easy to audit data and organize a variety of numbers in a variety of ways. It is also great to construct ideas from and allows you to categorize a variety of topics or ideas. It is great for categorizing company or client information like tasks and who owns those, specific dates and a variety of content ideas and variations.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our micro not-for-profit organization uses AirTable across all our functions—reporting to the executive, dealing with the management of our 6,400sqm site, managing applications for space, roles and events, modeling financial feasibility and storing digital assets alongside timeline functions.

AirTable addresses our need for a flexible solution that has a low barrier for entry as all our staff need to be able to feel comfortable and fluent in their interactions.
  • Allows various users to interpret data specific to their own requirements. For example, our community manager and communications manager can source and distribute content from the same database.
  • Frictionless sharing of digital assets with media and other stakeholders.
  • Survey and user-friendly input systems attached to deeper levels of information that our team uses to guide strategic and operational decisions as well as for CRM purposes.
  • The differences between the membership tiers are significant and a great deal of functionality is added at the Pro Plan level
AirTable is well suited to workplaces with a high or total percentage of digital natives. Our workplace is able to intuitively customize and work with templates, experiment with functionality and understand the value of blocks.
Ricardo Jose Correia D'lucas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is responsible for the distribution and sale of food wholesale, therefore, using software like this to organize, sort and classify our information has been very helpful. You can manage your customer database masterfully in a reliable and productive way. Airtable allows us to establish links between the different fields and categories of our database and use it efficiently for the benefit of the company.
  • It's an easy to use platform.
  • It is quick to get information to others through links, or by exporting data in CSV files.
  • Spreadsheet appearance makes it easy to handle and manage information.
  • Integrates well with other productivity tools.
  • Payment per month is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses.
  • Easily puts your inventory in order.
  • The errors that may occur during the use of the platform depend on the knowledge of the information and its configuration, otherwise, I consider it an excellent platform to manage databases.
It is an excellent platform for managing customer databases, monitoring production and distribution chain projects, and inventory management.
Adam Farrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use spreadsheets quite a lot in our department. Airtable is a tool that combines the simplicity and flexibility of sheets with the possibilities that comes with databases. It gives endless opportunities to display almost any kind of data and relationships across different data sources. All data is accessible within a few clicks and without the hassle of setting up new spreadsheets.
  • Airtable excels in its ability to display complex data in a simple way thanks to predefined layouts.
  • It is extremely easy to switch between the grid and list layouts when necessary. This would require setting up a new spreadsheet every time.
  • The whole app is easily scalable as our requirements change.
  • The proprietary nature of Airtable makes the importing and exporting of data an occasional problem.
  • The learning curve for users with no database background.
  • The pricing model is restrictive.
Airtable is a genius solution for the restrictions of spreadsheets when the data needs to be accessed across several layers and presented in a 2D report. Airtable does this naturally without the need to export and modify the data into a database. It is a solution for any team that can benefit from multi-dimensional access to various data.
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Airtable is being used by 80% of the organization. Due to our company being a start-up, it is hard to invest in building a front-end for our SQL database. When we were solely using the SQL database, it was impossible to track changes made by some developers and, as a result, data was corrupted. Now, the SQL database only has 2 personnel with write access. The others only have read access. This is where Airtable filled in the gap. Airtable is capable of showing the history in each line, who made the changes, and what was changed. If needed, I can revert the changes.
Airtable is something like a database combined with Excel, and it has similar capabilities, like Google Forms, where I can create a customized form and publish it on a website for others to fill in. Once submitted, it goes into a table.
  • Within 1 base, you can link data from multiple tables and manipulate that data to calculate a summary of useful info. For example, if you have different teams working on different parts of a project, with each inputting their own set of data. The manager is able to work out a summary of the info and get a clearer view. That said, it is not an easy task to manipulate the data. You will need in-depth knowledge of database and excel.
  • You can create specific views of each table and provide those views to anyone. This is useful when you want to provide a summary of info (which constantly changes) to outsiders without providing them the detailed input of data. For someone with no knowledge of calculating the data from a SQL database, this is useful.
  • You can also create forms for people to fill in. This is similar to Google Forms. I like this Airtable form because it submits directly to the tables where data can be calculated and integrated with the rest of the tables.
  • One issue we face was the inability to link bases. So for any calculations to be made, all tables have to be from the same base. So this makes a base very big and potentially dangerous with multiple teams updating different parts of the same base in different tables.
  • If different bases can be linked, there can be more segregation of data and access. I hope this can be implemented in the future.
  • Viewing of a single base with multiple tables is messy. Unlike a SQL database where all the tables are in the left sidebar, in Airtable, the look is more like Excel, where each table is a tab. This gets unsightly when there are over 5 tabs.
I like Airtable because it allows for different views. I can allocate a particular view to a particular company without worrying that it exposes data from another view. This also helps when data is constantly being updated. Both outsiders and myself can update the data in a certain view without showing the entire database to outsiders.
Airtable combines the strength of Excel and SQL databases. For someone with little experience with SQL database, Airtable solves it by giving you an easy to use database.
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