Retool | The fastest way to develop effective software.

Build any business software, remarkably fast

Stop wrestling with UI libraries, hacking together data sources, and figuring out access controls. Start shipping apps that move your business forward.

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A complete set of
powerful building blocks

All business software is made up of the same building blocks: Tables, Lists, Charts, Forms, Wizards, Maps and so on. Retool provides those blocks out of the box so you can spend your time assembling your UI, not inventing it from scratch. Instead of hunting down the best React table library, you can put together your app in a few minutes by dragging and dropping.

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Drag and drop tables, forms, charts, and more to assemble your app quickly.

Components

Table

Display and filter your data easily. Advanced features like calculated columns, server side pagination, and more.

Connect to anything

Connect to most databases or anything with a REST, GraphQL or gRPC API. Retool empowers you to work with all of your data sources seamlessly in one app.

How you store your data is up to you. By default, nothing is stored in Retool. When a query is run, the Retool backend proxies the request to your backend. No more ETL-ing data around!

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Read or write data with queries

No need to worry about storing isFetching in Redux or handling errors from your backend. Retool manages all the hard stuff. Read in data from MongoDB, join it to Postgres with SQL, and POST the result to Stripe's API. You only write the things that are custom to your app, like the SQL queries, POST requests, or data transformers.

How to write queries

Read data

Join data

Create an invoice

// Find users created between January and June
db.users.find({
  "created_at": {
    $gt: new Date('2020-01-01'),
    $lt: new Date('2020-06-01')
  },
  "status": "billable"
})

Built for developers

Retool is highly hackable, so you’re never limited by what's available out of the box. If you can write it with JavaScript and an API, you can build it in Retool.

You can write JavaScript almost anywhere inside of Retool. Just wrap an expression with double brackets like {{ Math.max(select1.value, 10) }} and it’ll execute as sandboxed JS. Using Transformers, you can write larger, reusable blocks of code for manipulating data. There’s also a native API for directly interacting with components and queries via JS.

Write JavaScript in Retool

Connect your queries and logic to prebuilt components like tables and dropdowns. Manipulate data with JavaScript anywhere.

Features

Customize

Import

Debug

Custom components

If you can build it in React, you can use it in Retool. Define your custom component via JS and use it in any Retool app.

Deploy and share securely

Retool comes with the security, reliability, and permissioning built in.

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Host on-premise

You can host Retool on-premises, behind your own VPN, and in your own VPC. Deploy via Docker or Kubernetes.

Deploy Retool on-prem

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Revision history via Git

Sync Retool apps to a Git repository, so you can manage Retool apps as code. Oh, and choose what version is deployed in a nice GUI.

Set up Retool Git syncing

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Fine-grained access controls & audit logs

Granularly control what users can access which apps and which resources. And after they use the apps, query what they did via the audit logs. (Which you can then build Retool apps atop of.)

Control user permissions

Illustration of using Okta SAML SSO with Retool.

SAML SSO and 2FA

Sign in with the services you already use, including Google, Okta, Active Directory Federation Services, and other SAML-based identity providers. Import groups and use them inside of Retool.

How to set up SAML

Build any business software, remarkably fast