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Terrible app
Airtable on the computer is my absolute best software friend. This app is trash. It constantly refreshes, even while you're actively using it, which loses your spot in the scroll or whatever record you had open if you were in the detailed record view. You can't collapse grouped records. The group name also doesn't hover, so if you have lots of items or perhaps two groupings, one within the other, you may have you scroll up to remember what group you're in. Frequently, when I edit a record's open text or a single or multiple select, it will either not fully take the edit, or it will look like the edit didn't take, then I open the record view again and it's there, just not displaying (shows blank instead). I've also lost many minutes of scrolling through a view and checking boxes that then went back to unchecked, which I think would be such easy data to save. You also can't see interfaces on mobile. Basically the app is bad at editing and viewing data, and those are the core useful features of Airtable. I hope they prioritise getting this app to work so that I can use this as much in the field as I use the desktop version when at my desk.Show lessbelroiz
Best app I use DAILY for work.
I’m the manager & dispatcher for an electrical contractor. I’ve used Excel sheets my whole life & realized that not many people find Excel sheets efficient because they simply don’t understand how to use it. I have colleagues who are NOT tech savvy & can’t figure a lot of things out even if their life depended on it. Well I introduced AirTable & let me tell you how great it’s working for everyone. A lot of problems have been eliminated, we’re all able to communicate effectively through AirTable & it’s been such a relief to find something that EVERYONE in my office can use. I recommend AirTable to any company. There’s always a feature they have that you don’t know you actually need that will benefit you greatly.Show lessmmmariiee
I really like Airtable
I find Airtable easy to use and amazingly flexible. I have used it at work, where the ability to up- and download tables as CSV was very handy; just knowing I can use something I started in some other base without having to redo all the work is very comforting. I particularly like the ease of attaching pictures and URLs. I cannot think of enough good things to say about this product. I have tables with more than a thousand entries and I have not yet hit the paywall. For another base, I recorded all the beads I had and now I can check on the phone while I'm in the store to find out whether I already have that color; I can store the numbers of the beads I used with a picture of the a finished project. A wonderful app for anyone. You will find yourself looking for more uses for Airtable; it's that much fun.Show lessRhyolight
Such a disappointment as a mobile app
Airtable on desktop is a powerful tool with many options. But mobile users are third-class citizens. Not only do many of the most basic features not work well on mobile (eg, it’s difficult to delete records, there’re way to few ways to navigate large quantities of data, many view types are unavailable and views look totally different on mobile), even more simply don’t exist—like the powerful Interfaces tool which users could use to fix the hobbled mobile views. In short, if you plan to use Airtable for anything even remotely complex or repetitive on mobile, think twice. And the web app is pointlessly dysfunctional on Safari for iPad and iOS. I wish I knew when I started developing things for our company; I ended up having to get Chromebooks for my team in order to fill the gaps below MacBook size and cost.Show lessbut, wait, i can count!
Some truly obvious shortcuts make all the difference in the UI
Happy to change my rating once these requests are addressed but til then this is app for app’s sake.
1) no ability to adjust font size. So much wasted space.
2) when you click into any task, too much white space because the field header is the row above the field entry… they should be columned where the field is on the left and the field entry on the right. More data on the screen, less scrolling…
3) in any table view, no collapsing for groups??
4) whatever the groups are should all be collapsed as a default so you can navigate to and click easily to that section
5) the column widths are not smart. Same width for everything. If there are fields where the fields are short in the desktop view, make it short in the mobile. White space…
6) no gantt in mobile???
7) no ability to manually sort users??? Just this random list of people to find? Of all the development shortcuts…
8) for the views, all should be collapsed to easily find the view you want. And then once you add that it should remember your last uncollapsed header.
9) for kanban, too much white space because the field header is the row above the field entry… they should be columned where the field is on the left and the field entry on the right. More data on the screen, less scrolling…
10) we should be able to create a menu of default tasks, so when we create a new task it will fill in many fields automatically as to be more efficient.Show lessASH::::::
Crashes a Lot
This app really struggles to resume from a backgrounded state. My family is using it to track a sick pet’s healthcare. We often launch it (on our completely different models of iphone) only for it to hang, then freeze on a solid screen of the background color of the base. The app has to be force-quit and then the workspace/base re selected.
There are other issues: when quickly logging something, for example a date/time, that picker modal sometimes disappears before someone can pick something, creating an empty log entry one has to find and delete.
All these little bugs add up to a lot of inconvenience and make us wonder why we are doing this instead of Sheets or something more stable.Show lessAlana Post
Keeps resetting, makes work take SO much longer
I love Airtable itself but the app is a mess. Great concept if it weren’t for how long each card takes to load and how often it resets. I work in social media so I open dozens of cards a day and it takes ~20–30 seconds for each to load so I can write a caption in it, after which I have to go back to the main card with master links which also loads slowly, then when I open the side bar to tag my editor on each card that takes time to load too. And often it crashes or send me to the browser, and half the time the browser asks me if I want to open the card in the app and even if I say no it still redirects me. And often the app resets itself or something because the card will take its 20 seconds to load and then will close out so I have to click it again (currently stuck in a crashing cycle and can’t get in so that inspired me to write this review now.) Makes work drag out so long and makes me get distracted because sometimes if a card is taking so long to load I use that as an excuse for a break.Show lessMuslim parent
Powerful and useful
//GOOD:
— app is a perfect world powerhouse blending the best of spreadsheets and databases into one single app
— clean and organized interface; looks great in every way
— so much data can be beautifully and efficiently organized; it does so much that it has become one of the most used apps on my devices
//BAD:
— struggles to connect every time I open the app... with status graphics continuing to spin; I almost always have to force-close the app; all is well when I reopen, but the connectivity issue will resurface the next session
— no dark mode
— IMO, there is almost always a way to reorganize anything to make it better; while I appreciate the last update (it looks nice), I have found my finger having to take many round trips between the top of the screen to the bottom; this feels like an inefficient way to maneuver; many apps have moved to bottom-only menus and I hope that Airtable moves in this direction (requires less movement from the fingers and keeps them out of the way)Show lessTroy W
Limited Features and Poor Performance
I love Airtable — I use it for so many things. However, after several years, the mobile app is still a frustrating experience.
Limited Features:
I get that it doesn’t make sense to offer ALL functionality on mobile, but all the basic record and base options should be available at this point. At the least, we should be able to:
Create and edit formula fields
Create and edit lookup / rollup fields
Limit linked record fields to a view
Ability to copy/paste field values, including non-string data types
Performance Issues / Bugs
Frequent base crashes - not the whole app. Often after linking records, the base closes and brings you back to the Home Screen.
Frequently, selection fields do not display new selected values until after relaunching base. This happens for linked record fields, single selects, multiple selects.
For linked record fields, the UI often does not update when creating a new record to link to, selecting, creating, or removing an existing linked record (pressing the [x] or swiping to unlink), even though the backend has been updated. This can result in accidentally creating duplicate new records or accidentally unlinking the wrong record.
Sluggish and unreliable. Table data and linked record views take ages to populate (and sometimes don’t until you reopen the base)Show lessFjordPrefect
Just the right amount of everything!
I love this app a little more than I should. I can’t get enough of it. I use Airtable to plan so many different tasks/projects throughout school, work, and even my personal life. My favorite aspect is definitely the personalizable templates. All of the templates I’ve used so far have had automatic inputs that have really helped me figure out how I want to use/organize the template for my own work/content. It also allows you to use the template as a blank slate if you work better that way. I love it!Show lesstiffnick1207
