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Very Beneficial But Needs Some Changes
Ive been using Airtable for several yrs now. I understand its a small company and has a small team of folks working but on the developing side for the paid plans I need/ would like to be able to streamline my work.
Ex. I create a table, first column I want it be names. 2nd table I create, I want it to be accounts and I want to be able to link the Names (1st table) to those accounts in 2nd table. The problem is the 1st COLUMN are always locked and cannot be changed. Why is that? I have to create some random identifier for 1st column then link starting on the 2nd column. Thats silly to me when Im trying to streamline the story throughout the tables. It throws me completely off and frustrates me that I can link anything to that 1st column on any of the tables.
Please give an explanation as to why that 1st column is LOCKED and CANNOT BE CHANGED 🤦🏽♀️. Whats the purpose of this.
Ive paid my yearly plan faithfully for the past 3yrs, coming up on my 4th year and Im considering to switch because of 1st column locked madness.Show lessMacMamaPro
Easy to use and not too cumbersome
I own a small flatbed trucking business and wanted a database accessible to drivers which lists past loads and the places we pick up from and deliver to.
We were able to create three lists and link them as needed. For example, a driver can look up a past load and our list will show details of that load such as special handling instructions. That list then has linked fields which show the pick up and delivery locations. When the driver clicks on one of those it has detailed directions, times which are available to load/unload, and even photos. This has been very helpful and Airtable made it very easy to do.Show lessBaddTrucker
Excellent
Lots of customization options without being fiddly. Simple, intuitive, exactly what I wanted from a spreadsheet app.
I’m using it to keep track of sales for my small business. I keep text fillable columns for customer name, address and notes; checkbox columns for project completion, paid, and mailed; and a price column which automatically calculates my total sales. I also have my checkbox columns set to keep track of percentage checked (so if anything is unchecked, the total will be listed as under 100% — I don’t have to scroll all the way through to check if I’ve finished everything). All of this was so easy and intuitive to set up. For my purposes, this app is pretty much perfect.Show lessNineasaur
Airtable is perfect, app needs some work
I’m very pleased with Airtable as a whole. It has robust features that can be customized to track everything, templates from both Airtable & the community and an easy to use interface. I have used Airtable for organizing inventory, tracking bills, habits tracking and even to plan my own wedding.
HOWEVER, the iOS app needs further development.
(1) Users can only work in 1/5 of the view formats on mobile — Grid views. Users should be able to work on forms, galleries, etc. Otherwise it cuts a huge portion of the features that make Airtable so valuable.
(2) There is not a way to edit a formula for a field on mobile. Similarly, you can not view a formula fields equation. Seeing what your field is calculating is essential to working in Grid View, the only available view to mobile
(3) You can not add multiple attachments to a field. Rather, you have to manually add them one by one. You also can not add additional options for select fields, limit fields to a view, etc. All of these features are available on the web.
If those three major items are fixed, the app would be as perfect as Airtable on the web is.Show lessAshlynhu
LOVE THIS APP, some suggestions....
As an organizational freak myself, I love the customization and abilities this app has to offer. I’ve recommended it to everyone, and even set it up for my husband to use on his phone. It’s a great app for organizing everything, which is exactly what I need.
The thing I’d recommend to be fixed is the ability to add/select multiple attachments at once. This is my biggest con with the app. I add numerous photos to my Airtable records sometimes and it’d be way easier to be able to select MULTIPLE photos at once to add as attachments, rather than uploading one at a time. Also the ability for the photos to be uploaded with their original date of photo taken rather than the date of when the photo was added to the Airtable.
Secondly, the ability to move items from one table to another. Instead of having to make a copy of all those items onto another table, the ability to move single items into another table. Some items I create are no longer relevant to that table and the choice to move it to a different table within the spread would be helpful. That would genuinely make the app perfect overall.Show lessSimply Claire
Great on desktop, useless on iOS
Airtable is an amazing product on desktop. I’ve built my entire workflow around it using it as a CMS to track posts on wordpress and social. The iOS app however is completely useless. The functionality is so limited that it’s hard to believe its the same product. It would take too long to list the things that you can’t do on the app. It’s most things that airtable does. I really hope they have a better iPadOS app in the works. There’s no way to tell however since they refuse to update their users on anything. They seem to be focused entirely on enterprise users and have lost all interest in the rest of us. I’ve been a huge advocate for them for a couple years now but I have started to lose confidence in the company and their commitment to their users.Show lessCrabby Comcast customer
Does what I want it to do
I’m still learning some of the features of this data base program, but for now, I’m just keeping an inventory of my various emergency kits, and camping equipment. It is doing an excellent job of keeping track of what’s in each kit, and letting me know what additional items I need, and when to replace expiring food items.
The program appears to have capabilities way beyond what I’ll be using, but I’m sure if I need to do anything more complicated, the program will be up to the challenge. I would recommend this data base app to anyone who needs to keep track of anything in an uncomplicated, but efficient way.Show lessInfoBill
iOS 👎🏻 | 👍🏻 Mac OS & Web
Airtable (on Mac OS, Web and PC) is one of the best and most well developed pieces of software on the market! I’ll bet you could find at least a half dozen uses for it no matter what your personal or professional needs are!! One of the best features of Airtable (along side being able to filter, sort and group information) is the ability to format the layout of your information into five different “views.” These “views” are extremely powerful and allow you to quickly access and manipulate data for practically any application, implementing virtually limitless workflows.
However, the iOS app is terrible! The layout is extremely inefficient for screen real estate on a phone or tablet. The fact that you can only access 1 of the 5 “views” makes the mobile app almost useless. The features that you can use are very cumbersome and ‘pagey’ to navigate —making actions take a long time.
Please support Airtable, but please also rate the app as the app and not the overall service. The AT team needs feedback like this to improve their mobile app(s).Show lessModern Music Productions
Wow—what an awesome app with a lot of potential!
I’ve been thinking of trying to write my own app to handle some business tasks since I couldn’t find anything that would really work well for me. But it’s been years and that hasn’t happened. I once again tried to find something better than the spreadsheet I’ve been using and came across Airtable. I’ve been totally blown away by it’s easy of use, speed and power.
The Mac Airtable does everything I needed and was so simple to set up. In addition it is doing things I didn’t expect to be able to do as well as things I didn’t even think of or know I wanted.
I’m already thinking about other uses and itching to dive into many of its other features.
The iOS app is useful and for many tasks is as good or maybe even better than the Mac app. However it’s missing some important features. I’m hopeful I can work around the ones that are more useful to me and that these features will become available on iOS soon.Show lessagildogs
A Far Cry from Desktop Version
On the surface, this app encompasses everything that one could want without delving into Microsoft Access and building databases. However, that’s where it stops. As others have mentioned, there is no offline support, the views become ungrouped if you built a base on the desktop first, and if you have paid for the yearly service, you will not get your money’s worth by using the iOS app because things like linking bases or even tabs within your base are not available. After speaking with customer support, they mentioned that the grouping feature is in the works (no ETA), offline support in the works (no ETA) and parity between desktop and iOS in the works, again, no ETA. Basically, the features that would make this a KILLER app, may or may not arrive.
On a different note, if you are using the desktop version, using anything but Google Chrome (my experience) does not group, sort or in any way resemble what you have intended it to be. The app is very ambitious but doesn’t get even remotely close to realizing it’s purpose and intent.Show lessblackpotus
