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A user-friendly database that fills a gap in the market
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable makes it easy to create a visually appealing database with various view/sort options, functions, and attachments. I feel this visual aspect is unique in the market and sets Airtable apart from its competitors. It is intuitive to use, even for those new to Airtable. The attachment field and various view/sort options- especially the calendar view- are my favorite features, as they are much easier to set up in Airtable than they are in similar software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Airtable does not support as many formulas as standard spreadsheet softwares, and I find myself missing that functionality. While I understand that Airtable is meant to be a database and is not meant for complex calculations, I feel there is room to add a few more features. I also find that the plan pricing doesn't work for me as an individual user. I use several of my bases daily and would gladly pay for additional features, but the features I'm interested in aren't available in the plus plan and I cannot justify the price jump for the pro plan. The verbiage also leads me to believe that these paid plans are meant for teams rather than individuals.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I primarily use Airtable bases to keep track of my home inventory for insurance purposes, but I also have several bases set up to track various aspects of my life (productivity, health, wardrobe) as well as a few that serve as collections (books/media consumed, recipes, etc.). I was drawn to Airtable in particular due to ease of attaching images to entries and ability to quickly display my entries in various ways depending on how I want to filter my data; it would require a lot of effort on my part to achieve the same visuals in standard spreadsheet softwares. Airtable ultimately saves me time because I can spend my time inputting data rather than tinkering with formulas and view options.
Airtable, a database for teams big or small
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable stands out for its user-friendly interface, making it an accessible database for my team and me to find specific information. We can easily share this information with internal and external stakeholders. Moreover, Airtable consistently introduces new features and updates without compromising its core product.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you’re not tech-savvy, Airtable can appear quite intimidating. Another aspect that I struggle with is the pricing. It quickly becomes quite expensive if you want multiple users to have more permissions than “read-only.” This barrier has unfortunately prevented us from adding all of our team members and tagging them for updates or tasks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage a growing team, and Airtable simplifies the process of sharing essential documents, logins, contact information, billing details, and more. It’s like the internal workings of our company!
Great platform
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is a great platform for keeping data in one place. Unlike excel it is easy to view everything in one central location. I love that there are so many types of data fields that I am able to make it work for whatever I am doing. It is easy to use, has a fresh, clean and visually pleasing design. It is very capable for both complex and simple use. I really love the automations whicih help create so many efficiencies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Airtables is such a great platform; there is not much that I don't like. The free version is great to use, although there are several features in the paid versions that I would love to have access to, but unfortunately, the paid plans are a bit too costly. Airtables does have an app. However, I think it would be cool to see an app developed for sharable views. At the moment, I create a shareable view and then paste the link into a shared document so that employees have access to the information they need. For example, company policies and procedures, industry stnadards and regulations, leave request forms, risk assessment forms, and incident reports. These are currently all separate links; however, if there was a way to centralize them within an app that the employees could log into to instantly access all shareable views, this could be very helpful for our business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtables has given me a central location to store all the vital information of my business. The shareable views also helps me allow access to this data without having to worry about it being changed or deleted.
Easy to get started, scalable and always developing
What do you like best about the product?
I found it really easy to learn and get started with and the help articles generally showed me how things worked and, where applicable, the logic to keep in mind. Airtable is really adaptable and as powerful as you'd like to make it.
What do you dislike about the product?
There wasn't an automatic form view to balance the rows. Though you can create loads of forms for different needs, the creation of them is a bit fiddly. I also found lookup fields bringing other fields from another table along sometimes really helpful but sometimes messy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We went from using a spreadsheet and a bunch of disparate Word files saved in different places in Dropbox to having an adaptable database with Airtable that pulled everything we needed together in tidy ways. By creating different views for different purposes and a bit of automation, we saved masses of time, had much more clarity and could share selections of automatically updated information with other people as needed. Integrations with other software also added to the quality of our work with Airtable.
Intuitive, flexible tool with a dynamic breadth of capability
What do you like best about the product?
Our team was able to self teach on getting onboarded and we quickly got most of our organization on board. At its core, it's easy to get into, but the capability is a mile wide if you continue to dig.
What do you dislike about the product?
The proofing tool could use some work. This was perhaps the biggest sticking point for our team in getting universal adoption. If they worked on upping that capability, they'd be ready to take on just about any PM software out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team needed to be able to prioritize what we were working from a higher level than task-based, and Airtable has allowed us to self manage so much within our own team to not only assign work, but to be able to prioritize projects against one another.
Airtable is a useful tool
What do you like best about the product?
I love that my team is able to organize and draft all the projects we have going out months in advance. Everything is in one place and easy to organize and understand after you learn the basic functioning.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think that sometimes there are so many tools that it can get confusing when first learning how to use it and create projects within the system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allowing us to see projects and ideas not only from our immediate team but the other teams we have to work with.
Airtable is amazing!
What do you like best about the product?
Endless customizations are possible. The Zapier connection also allows you to connect and sync data from other places. There are also built-in automations that can trigger all kind of things. The interface allows you to be able to look at data from all different views, which is a game-changer. It also updates very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I can't find much that I dislike. They are constantly innovating and coming up with new solutions and way to use the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to manage our employees, deliveries, event, contacts, reviews, ordering and more. It's endless what it can do and make our lives so much easier.
Time saver for data manipulation
What do you like best about the product?
I love Airtable for quick data manipulation like merging two spreadsheets or just reformatting data consistently each month. I have a bunch of bases that take reports as inputs, I paste them in, change view and everything is properly formatted/calculated. It saves me so much time on mundane tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
My one bugbear is that when pasting the table into an email, sometime the last row of the table is formatted in a different font. I haven't figured out why yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it to manage table based inputs that I need to manipulate regularly. Monthly invoices that need to be coded to each department are simplified into copy and paste.
Formatting data for migrations between systems is much easier with Airtable than excel.
Formatting data for migrations between systems is much easier with Airtable than excel.
Very Great to Use
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and the collaborative features
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I dislike about Airtable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable is helping solve the issue of time managament and prioritizing
So helpful in everyday business
What do you like best about the product?
There is no real learning curve. It's so simple to start using and even the tech challenged can jump right in and benefit from the functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are constantly adding new features (which is good), but it can be challenging to keep up and find time to learn the new features outside of the basic functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I no longer have to write complicated code to tie worksheets together - Airtable does it automatically. I can track data, and all the linking relationships easily saving me a lot of time.
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