Easily build a front-end on your SQL database
Build your front-end faster with a multi-purpose, cross-platform SQL GUI and 50+ pre-made front-end components.
Industry
Software as a Service•
End users
Engineering•
Components
Table
Text
Text Input
Dropdown
2+
Components
Build from a handful of drag-and-drop components
Table display the output of a query and control your table appearance and the visible columns.
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.
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.
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
Connect to any SQL database with native integrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle DB, Redshift, BigQuery and more. Skip using different GUIs for different SQL DBs and get it all together in one place.
1. Create resource
2. Read data
3. Connect data with UIRelated use cases
What you can build with Retool
Ismail Ceylan
Co-founder, Software Engineer at Zeplin
Retool lets our engineers move significantly faster and focus on customer-facing features. We build lots of tools for both support and success in Retool, all of which are used daily. It's one of my favorite pieces of software!