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A fast and simple admin panel template

Easily connect to your datasource and get right to building Pull in your data quickly with growing library of native integrations to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, S3, Elasticsearch and more. Get right to building.

Drag, drop, and build your custom admin panel Every admin panel is unique, but they share a bunch of core elements like tables, search, buttons, and forms. Retool gives you these components out of the box with flexibility around triggers, styles, filters, and more. Easily drag & drop the components you need.

Build faster with 50+ drag and drop components Explore our library of 50+ components to quickly build a UI for your app with out-of-the-box components like tables, buttons, text inputs, and much more. Read, write, and update your data in minutes instead of hours.

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A fast and simple admin panel template

Components

Build from a handful of drag-and-drop components

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Table display the output of a query and control your table appearance and the visible columns.
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Text the simplest components out there — use text components statically as labels, or dynamically to display values.
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Button trigger actions that do things like run queries, export data, or open other apps.
[object Object]
Text Input take a text input to modify the parameters of a query — say the `ILIKE` in a SQL statement, or a URL parameter in a REST query based on the value of the component.
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Dropdown allow users to select one value from a list of options.
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Container organize your admin panel by using containers as top-level components and to nest other components.
Data source

Whether you're building a basic CRUD interface or refund management software, internal tools have the same building blocks: tables, text boxes, dropdowns, etc. Retool gives you a simple way to connect these building blocks with your own data sources so you can assemble any custom internal tool, fast.

Step 1 Create resource1. Create resource
Step 2 Read data2. Read data
Step 3 Connect data with UI3. Connect data with UI
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Using Retool, we've built internal tools for our retail and merchandising teams quickly, while maintaining our speed on feature development for our shoppers.

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