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

"Using Retool, we've built internal tools for our retail and merchandising teams quickly, while maintaining our speed on feature development for our shoppers." - Eddy Kim

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

How does Retool facilitate Workflow Management?

How can Retool enhance your Social Media Management process?

How can Retool optimize your Sending & Publishing Communications Workflow?

How can Retool enhance your Onboarding process?

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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Eddy Kim

Engineering Manager

Verishop

Using Retool, we've built internal tools for our retail and merchandising teams quickly, while maintaining our speed on feature development for our shoppers. Testimonial By Eddy Kim
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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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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

Eddy Kim

Engineering Manager

Verishop

Using Retool, we've built internal tools for our retail and merchandising teams quickly, while maintaining our speed on feature development for our shoppers. Testimonial By Eddy Kim
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

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

Information Technology and Services

CASE STUDY DoorDash

50% Reduction In Onboarding Time For New Merchants

Construction

CASE STUDY EquipmentShare

Achieved A 50% Reduction In Time Spent On Building Internal Tools By Using Retool.

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.

Consumer Services

CASE STUDY Finn

"Reduced Onboarding Time From 2 Weeks To 1 Day, Saving Over 90% In Time.";

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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 ★

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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.

Data Export

4.35/5 ★

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Data Import

4.26/5 ★

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Software Failure Risk Guidance

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Overall Risk Meter

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Retool News

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

Social

Financials

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