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The easiest way to use Google Sheets as a database

Build any application on top of your Google Sheets data 10x faster with Retool. Save hundreds of hours with our integrations & professional components.

Build custom applications on Google Sheets quickly Google Sheets is good for storing data, but bad for building interactive user interfaces. Connect your sheets to Retool and easily build rich user interfaces with our drag & drop application builder and out of the box integrations.

Build apps on Google Sheets faster with 50+ professional React components Build your front-end CRUD application faster by choosing from a library of 50+ pre-built UI components packed with functionality like tables, buttons, and text inputs. Don't build your entire front-end from scratch. Save hundreds of hours.

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The easiest way to use Google Sheets as a database

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Build from a handful of drag-and-drop components

[object Object]
Table display the output of a query and control your table appearance and the visible columns.
[object Object]
Text the simplest components out there — use text components statically as labels, or dynamically to display values.
[object Object]
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.
[object Object]
Dropdown allow users to select one value from a list of options.
[object Object]
Container organize your admin panel by using containers as top-level components and to nest other components.
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Connecting Retool to Google Sheets takes just a few minutes, and lets you to build user interfaces quickly on top of the data in your spreadsheets. For example, you can pull in data from your Google sheet, then run an API request for each row. Or, you could populate a blank template model in Google Sheets with data from your database.

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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