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Build front-ends on REST APIs
Retool makes it easy to build admin panels, dashboards, frontends, and other GUIs on top of your REST API endpoints.
Easily connect to your REST API
Connect to your REST API, pull in your data, and get right to building. Explore our native API integrations with S3, Firebase, Firestore, GCS, GraphQL, gRPC, Lambda, and more. Connect to multiple data sources and build frontend apps to interface with your data, not just visualize it.
Build your internal tools fast
Retool is a fast way to build fully featured internal tools on top of your existing REST APIs. You can build admin panels and dashboards in a few minutes instead of hours (or days). Build your front-end quickly with our drag & drop user interface builder. Write JavaScript where necessary to build custom functionality, and create a front-end that you can use right away with our integrated IDE.
Build faster with 50+ drag and drop components
You can use any of Retool's library of 100+ drag and drop components – think tables, buttons, text inputs, etc. Connect those to requests to your endpoints via Retool's query GUI, and you've got yourself a working frontend tool in no time.
Dean McRobie
CTO at CommonBond
I tell every technology leader I talk to that they should look at Retool as a way to reduce the burden of building admin UIs and democratize that kind of stuff across their company.
Supported operations for REST API
Read documentationGET
Include headers, URL params, and cookies.
POST
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies. Our GUI lets you define your body as structured keys and value or raw JSON.
PUT
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies.
DELETE
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies. By default, only runs in response to a user interaction.
PATCH
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies.
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What you can build with Retool
View all templatesRetool provides the building blocks for any internal tool
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.