Retool Overview

Retool enables rapid development of custom internal applications, enhancing team efficiency by tailoring software tools to specific business needs. Designed for developers, Retool simplifies the creation of scalable solutions, accommodating growing business demands. Its platform supports a community of thousands, fostering collaboration and sharing of best practices. Retool stands out by allowing users to quickly build and deploy apps, reducing development time and costs. This capability is particularly valuable for businesses looking to streamline workflows and improve productivity without extensive coding.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Workflow Management, Social Media Management, Sending & Publishing Communications, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Retool.

Other use cases:

  • Onboarding
  • Merchandising
  • Proposal & Quote Management
  • Engaging And Following Up
  • Measuring Net Promoter Score
  • Collaboration
  • Promotion Management
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Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Improve ROI are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Retool.

Other priorities:

  • Grow Market Share
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Retool Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Retool works with different mediums / channels such as Promotions. Social Media. Offline etc.

Retool's features include Recording, Dashboard, Personalization, etc. and Retool support capabilities include 24/7 Support, Email Support, Chat Support, etc. also Retool analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"Retool is incredible. It's been a critical for our ops from the start, and is the reason we’re able to scale so quickly. And the on-prem version with access controls & audit logs makes it easy to meet our compliance requirements." - Pedro Franceschi

Retool, Lokalise, Troop Messenger, Fyle, Sentry, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Collaboration and Productivity. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Retool is the fastest way to build internal software using building blocks. Apps and workflow automations can be instantly created to connect to databases and APIs.

Popular Business Setting

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Top Industries

  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • Computer Software

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Retool is popular in Financial Services, Internet, and Computer Software and is widely used by Small Business, Mid Market, and Enterprise.

Comprehensive Insights on Retool Use Cases

What Are the key features of Retool for Workflow Management?

How does Retool address your Social Media Management Challenges?

How can Retool optimize your Sending & Publishing Communications Workflow?

How can Retool optimize your Onboarding Workflow?

19+ more Business Use Cases

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Retool solved their Collaboration and Productivity needs. Cuspera uses 1073 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Collaboration and Productivity needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
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Pedro Franceschi

Co-founder and CTO

Brex

Retool is incredible. It's been a critical for our ops from the start, and is the reason we’re able to scale so quickly. And the on-prem version with access controls & audit logs makes it easy to meet our compliance requirements. Testimonial By Pedro Franceschi
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Duncan Winter

Head of Product

LeadGenius

Engineers tell me it'll take a day, but it always takes a week. Retool gives me every tool I want, in just a few hours. It's changed the trajectory of our business. Testimonial By Duncan Winter
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David Mausolf

VP of User Acquisition

Fox

With Retool, we were able to shorten the time to build a custom Facebook marketing tool from 6 months to just 40 hours. Testimonial By David Mausolf
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Retool testimonial

Pedro Franceschi

Co-founder and CTO

Brex

Retool is incredible. It's been a critical for our ops from the start, and is the reason we’re able to scale so quickly. And the on-prem version with access controls & audit logs makes it easy to meet our compliance requirements. Testimonial By Pedro Franceschi
Retool testimonial

Duncan Winter

Head of Product

LeadGenius

Engineers tell me it'll take a day, but it always takes a week. Retool gives me every tool I want, in just a few hours. It's changed the trajectory of our business. Testimonial By Duncan Winter
Retool testimonial

David Mausolf

VP of User Acquisition

Fox

With Retool, we were able to shorten the time to build a custom Facebook marketing tool from 6 months to just 40 hours. Testimonial By David Mausolf

Case Studies

Manufacturing

CASE STUDY Zeus

Retool helped Zeus, a global manufacturer, connect data across its operations. Zeus replaced manual spreadsheets with custom Retool apps. Production planning time dropped by 92%, from two days to fou...r hours. On-time delivery improved by 15%. The company saved $83,200 a year on data management. Over 1,000 employees used the new system within three months.

Food & Beverages

CASE STUDY DoorDash

Retool helped DoorDash build internal tools much faster. Before Retool, DoorDash engineers spent months building and maintaining tools. With Retool, they now build tools in just 30-60 minutes. Retool... made it easy to automate manual work and fix permission issues. DoorDash has built over 40 tools using Retool, saving time and improving operations.

Information Technology and Services

CASE STUDY Avo

Avo enhanced data security, saving hundreds of engineering hours and streamlining customer data access, improving operational efficiency significantly.

Health, Wellness and Fitness

CASE STUDY Orangetheory Fitness

Retool helped Orangetheory Fitness replace their legacy CRM and build apps for over 1,600 franchisees. Orangetheory needed faster ways to deliver studio management tools as their network grew. With R...etool, they created flexible apps for lead and member management, improved developer productivity, and enabled actionable analytics. They now deliver new features in 1/10th the time, supporting global studios with just two developers.

Hospital & Health Care

CASE STUDY University of Texas Medical Branch

Retool helped the University of Texas Medical Branch build AutoTox, an AI-powered app for toxicology testing. The challenge was slow, manual patient testing, limiting reviews to 50 cases per week. Us...ing Retool, the team created a custom app in five weeks that connects to medical records and uses GPT models for reports. Results include a 66% reduction in patient testing time and a 10x increase in cases reviewed weekly, from 50 to 500. The app improved efficiency and diagnostic accuracy for the pathology team.

Retail

CASE STUDY Holland & Barrett

Retool helped Holland & Barrett speed up its digital transformation. The data team used Retool to build internal tools for processing and reporting on company data. They created a self-service govern...ance tool used by over 200 senior decision-makers. The tool lets users update work, add comments, and track progress. Retool enabled fast, cost-effective tool development without hiring more staff. The team also added generative AI features to automate manual work and boost productivity.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Retool

What is Retool?

Retool is a tool development platform intended to help build custom business tools without having any programming language knowledge. It provides a complete set of powerful building blocks out of the box. It assembles apps in 30 seconds by drag-and-drop building blocks and connects them to databases and APIs to build its tools.

It empowers to work with all of data sources seamlessly in one app, it is stored by the users and when a query is run, the Retool backend proxies the request to the backend. It creates interfaces to display and manipulate data faster and more accurately with custom workflows, enabling businesses to focus on their product and expertise while giving their operation development teams the tools they need to succeed.

Key features include dragging and dropping from pre-built components, connect to most databases or anything with a REST, GraphQL or gRPC API, can write JavaScript almost anywhere inside of Retool, also a native API for directly interacting with components and queries via JS, and more.

What is Retool used for?

Retool is a Collaboration and Productivity Software mainly used by its customers to Enhance Customer Relationships and Improve ROI by Workflow Management, Social Media Management and Sending & Publishing Communications .

What are the top features of Retool?

Recording, Dashboard and Personalization are some of the top features of Retool.

Who uses Retool?

Retool is used by Financial Services, Internet and Computer Software among other industries.

What are Retool alternatives?

Lokalise, Troop Messenger, Fyle and Sentry are popular alternatives for Retool.

Where is Retool located?

Retool is headquartered at 292 Ivy St, San Francisco, California 94102, US.
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Peers used Retool for workflow management and social media management

Retool Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Analytics

4.60/5

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Custom Reports

4.41/5

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Analytics

4.60/5

Read Reviews (29)
Custom Reports

4.41/5

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Retool Integrations

Retool integrates with a wide range of software applications through its robust data import and export capabilities.

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Retool News

Product

Retool Automates Over 100 Million Hours of Work, Announces Agents to Drive More Return on AI - Business Wire

Retool announced that its platform has enabled companies such as AWS and Databricks to automate over 100 million hours of work. The company introduced Agents, a new feature that leverages large language models to automate complex business processes. Agents can be monitored and managed in real time, allowing developers to ensure performance and business value. This release targets the gap between AI investment and realized business outcomes.

Retool Expands Low-Code Platform to Support External Apps - Timesnext

Retool launches "Retool for External Apps," expanding its low-code platform to create secure and efficient business apps for external use.

Retool Profile

Company Name

Retool

Company Website

https://retool.com/

Year Founded

2017

HQ Location

292 Ivy St, San Francisco, California 94102, US

Employees

11-50

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Financials

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