Airtable Reviews

Airtable combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the possibilities that come with a database, all within one tool. We have chosen it after a short evaluation. It is incredibly easy to use after a short training, making it a great tool compared to the typical spreadsheet-based apps.

Airtable is better because it has a free version. Free is always good for me. The others require payment. I don't like monday at all. Basecamp and Teamwork have been fair comparisons, but there isn't a free version that we can use. Overall, Airtable is still pretty good for the needs we have as a business.

Wrike is a very good platform for project management, however, it focuses more on marketing work which is not negligible, but for us it has worked better to manage with Airtable because it is made to manage projects using the primary information of the company that is none other than the database of our customers and our products, so we plan and manage better.

I have used Excel and Google Sheets in the past. Both are great spreadsheet software, but Airtable is unique in that it is both a spreadsheet app and a database. As a result, Airtable doesn't have all of the spreadsheet functionality of Excel, but in many other ways offers more flexibility and capabilities. I use pretty basic spreadsheets, so Airtable is great for me. I love the way Airtable looks, so it's become my go-to.

I actually use both Airtable and Monday for different purposes. I've found Monday to be the better collaboration/project management/dashboarding tool, while Airtable is better as a database.

As a whole, we elected to fully implement Airtable because of the vast amount of features and access controls for each user. Also, each user can create their own base and tie each one to the main Airtable base so teams can take an even deeper look into each project (with permissions set to do so). Hands down, Airtable blew Asana out of the water. It is intuitive and required virtually no training. Trello was just not what we were looking for.

Airtable is much more user friendly than Smartsheet in my opinion. Though Smartsheet has a lot of functionality as well, it comes off as cold and technical. Airtable is fun to use, and kind of addicting to be completely honest. I've also tried Sheets instead of Airtable, but nothing has matched up.

Airtable is a great price and has much more than competitors offer. Very easy to use!

Eventually we migrated to Lucidchart, which made it easy to make and print organization charts for a small business (50 employees).

The most similar tool we have used for this purpose is Microsoft Excel, and Airtable is so much easier to use than Excel. Instead of figuring out how to write a formula, create a custom list, or any other process that would allow Excel to do things like tag rows or link to other records, in Airtable we simply choose an option from a list, and that task is already done. We can also easily collaborate on bases without having to create a shared Excel document on a network drive, which is notoriously tricky. Airtable allows us to get to work on our projects without a lot of administrative overhead.

Airtable allows us to schedule out our planned social media posts for months at a time at no cost to our company. This is a distinct advantage over social media-specific tools we have used in the past. Currently, we use Airtable to plan our posts and Buffer to push them through to our three social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Asana can somewhat be used for this purpose as you can track clients by making each of these subtasks. However, you will not be able to compile all of these on one sheet like in Airtable. With the latter, we can download this as a CSV file and analyze it in Excel or put it in our database.

Airtable is less clunky than JIRA, and it's more collaborative.

I trialed around 7 products, which include 4 education products and 3 online products at least. I can't remember all of the pros and cons as it was a couple of years ago and I am now upgrading from a free plan to a paid one. Suffice to say, Airtable beat all of them hands down, for ease of use and flexibility.

We tried one other tool before trying Airtable, 2 years ago. I can't remember the name but it just didn't have the same ability to automate business processes with Zapier, it has since gone out of business.

Wrike is robust in its customization, but you are in charge of customizing it yourself. The cool thing about Airtable that they've created a multitude of ways you can immediately launch into a project management solution specific to your industry and needs. It shows that they truly want to be a solution that anyone can use.

Airtable is more flexible than most project management tools, which means that it can be applied to situations that don't fall within a traditional project management framework. It also makes it easy to get started on a database and then adjust and refine as you go. You don't have to build a lot of structure that you can't change easily later on.

Airtable is much more affordable than Smartsheet, and more capable than Google Sheets as far as related tables, integrations, data views, and team collaboration.

The only comparable product is Google Sheets, which has the easy to use spreadsheet and the ease of collaboration. Airtable far exceeds Google Sheets for its ability to upload into cells, and organize, use templates, etc., however, it does not completely replace the need for Google Sheets, especially for data sets and storage, sorting, or to be able to see more text at a glance.

I am very familiar with FileMaker Pro. I grew up on FMP. But unless you "grew up" with FMP, the learning curve for newbies is really steep. Also, we are a very small, start-up nonprofit and Airtable not only fits our immediate needs but it also will allow us to grow into the full robustness of this application for a far more reasonable cost.... bigger bang for the buck. Since I will be the one to train people on the use of Airtable, it is cost-effective in terms of my using my time and energy to show volunteers how to use the database.

Airtable has a nice mix of all of the heat features found in both Trello and Asana. I find Airtable to be a bit more attractive than Asana. Although that's mostly cosmetic, I find that visual appeal is imperative to use experience and increased productivity.