Airtable Reviews

Summary: Within my company we handle a large amount of data regarding projects and clients, so this platform has been able to handle all that data when we want to manage a project, make accounts or track any aspect that is handled within the company where a large number of employees and customers are involved. It has made it easier for me to have different work tables within the same platform and thus be able to work together with all the departments of the company, thus keeping the data in one place for more practicality and data management.

It has been possible to assign tasks from different departments to a single work table in order to unify and simplify the company's projects. In addition, that the clients have been satisfied by being able to be part of the entire project management process from its creation to its completion. There has also been good feedback when changes have had to be made or certain aspects of a project have to be improved, both as the head of a department within my company and the changes requested by the client.

Its versatility has allowed my company to meet deadlines, as well as power and improve the management of all our projects. I can say that since we used this platform there has been an increase in performance, planning has been improved and employees have less confusion when executing a task. All this is seen in real time so I have not missed anything when it comes to being aware of the progress of the projects that are active at the time, likewise I have not been limited when I have to edit things and add more details if necessary.

As for the return on investment, it has been a relief to have this tool since everything is in the cloud and we have not had to generate paperwork expenses. In addition, when any doubt arises, it does not call meetings because comments can be made within the same platform that allows feedback from the entire company to resolve said doubt.

Positive: + I have loved being able to order lists depending on the expiration date, others I also like that the status can be changed, for example: in progress, sent, etc. This in order to facilitate the work of what is finished and what is not and keep the workflow impeccable.

+ I have had a good user experience with its interface, it is quite didactic and simple to use since all its panel is well represented graphically depending on the functionalities. Also, I am used to Excel sheets so this made it easier for me to manage well within this platform.

+ It is nice to have templates which facilitates the work process depending on the type of management that is given to this platform. It is from project monitoring, calendar, launch monitoring, event planning, etc. In turn, it also adapts depending on the industry or work area in which it is located.

+ I can have different views that allow me to see the data in real time of my projects and thus be able to notice any mishap that is occurring at any time. This is highly valued for me because I don't miss anything that is happening within a project within this platform, so I keep everything organized without losing the workflow.

+ Its prices have been one of the best than other platforms, and I say this because of the variety of functions that can be used with this platform. I've generally seen other platforms limit themselves to project and task management, however, it doesn't have the wide variety of trackable properties that Airtable does. It also adapts to any area or scope of work to make things easier.

Negative: - It takes time to adapt when talking about full automation. You may need technical support for this work since to see an optimal result there are certain characteristics that must be understood when applying it in your day to day within your company.

- I really don't understand why there isn't a field customization, sometimes I wanted to create fields to add data and it hasn't been possible. The only way I have been able to do it is by contacting technical support to be able to perform said action. That feature should be by default in most plans if it is a workaround to add it.

- I would like to improve the integration with many applications. An example would be Google spreadsheets, since every change I made to the spreadsheet would be updated directly in Airtable and thus not have to pass everything manually once the work is done on another platform. This would also allow you to easily import what an employee does from a third-party platform that is not implemented in Airtable.

- Somehow I have not been able to connect data between databases, this was very annoying because at the end of the day I have to replicate data from one database to another manually and this hinders the day-to-day work since that is not automated process. Please, I would like you to fix this problem.

Summary: We feel more productive after using Airtable in our project division. It covers all the requirements of operations and marketing teams. With Airtable we have been able to eliminate every bottleneck we faced. I'm able to track every project status. Overall, Airtable is versatile work management software that helps to eliminate every bottleneck in the workplace.

Positive: First and foremost Airtable assists expand productivity and efficiency across all teams. It's very beneficial for the distribution of tasks. It also helps you in creating a blueprint for projects. Its Gantt graph and table view of tasks are truly excellent.

Negative: I don't like the customization part and the user interface is messy on certain pages.

Summary: Airtable can be a good replacement for spreadsheet services, especially due to the ready-made templates that make it easy for you to set up and get started with your objective very quickly.
The ability to works with external apps and integrations also improves the experience while doing so.
It's also free to get started using, which allows you to text multiple functionalities before getting into it long term.

Positive: The templates getting started is the best part of Airtable, Airtable sets up various use cases for you ranging from project management templates to Sales CRM and more.

Negative: I'm not sure that Airtable does any one thing extremely well, it does have a ton of functionality but eventually gets limited to more complex use cases limiting scalability.

Summary: Airtable is the most beautiful spreadsheet-style database editor I have ever seen. Easy to use and very visual.

Positive: Airtable is beautifully designed and so easy to learn and use. I like how visual this database app is and so versatile!

Negative: I wish users weren't restricted to table/grid/calendar views but that I could create an entire library with it (like with Notion).
I had to request support once and the listening skills (reading, really) were sub-par.

Summary: Airtable is amazing. There is a small learning curve, but once you realize how robust a tool it is for organization and collaboration, you will not be able to turn back from it.

Positive: I love Airtable. Anyone who enjoys using Excel as an organizational tool will love Airtable too! It has a few handy features that excel doesn't, such as being able to click and drag to rearrange columns, having ranked hierarchy of sorting by different fields, and being able to store attachments such as photos and invoices. Because of these really intuitive features, people who are intimidated or overwhelmed by spreadsheets will likely prefer Airtable to Excel. I use Airtable to manage my personal todo list, to build detailed shot lists that I share with our photographer, to manage my budgets, to keep track of missing assets, and any other task that comes up. All documents built on Airtable can be shared in a number of ways: viewable, editable, editable and sharable. This makes it a fantastic tool for collaboration. It was ESPECIALLY useful during the pandemic, but I cannot imagine not using it forever now.

Negative: Because my personal use of Airtable is so similar to what can be done with excel/sharepoint (it might not be for other users), it is hard to not make direct comparisons. While there are several features that Airtable has that make me prefer it to excel, there are some unfortunate limitations. When building a document in Airtable, whatever field you put as your first column is unmovable. It must remain there-- there is no inserting a new column to the left of it or dragging it elsewhere. That is the first value forever. If you have first-column-regret, it isn't hard to export the information and reimport it into a new sheet with your new desired column order, but you do have to go through these extra steps. And if you were storing attachment in the first sheet, those will have to be added back manually to the new sheet, and those will not be transferred by csv upload.

Summary: This software has been the closest to what we were looking for; we lacked organization and control in the activities. However, Airtable came at the right time to alleviate the project management processes and be a little more productive. We have complete control of the company with the workflow. I recommend it; I like this software too much to encourage quality and management of activities. You will have a highly professional approach, and you can be more efficient in projects; it works very well.

Positive: The projects are always well managed with this program; I have the certainty of getting any activity and evaluating it to get a systematic purpose that saves time and has fluency in my day-to-day work. Its price pleases me; I am thrilled.

Negative: I wouldn't say I like that this program contains a very overloaded interface of information or functions.

Summary: What we like the most is that it is an alternative option to the traditional Excel, which we consider more complicated to use. We fully recommend it as it has several extensions that can be adapted to spreadsheets. Likewise, it has partnerships with cloud synchronizers such as OneDrive. Although we consider that for its mobile version it does not simplify the work but does not hinder.

Positive: Airtable has been presented to us as a much simpler alternative to Excel. It gives us a spreadsheet with much simpler and more accessible options for modifying and creating formulas. It has allowed us to organize calendars with activities, create schedules for employees, create detailed projects with each of the activities to be performed and much more. At the same time, everything is synchronized to a cloud.

Negative: It has a version for mobile devices that lacks specific features for sharing documents compared to its version for computers. One of them is the lack of the ability to schedule an analysis of project progress, edit certain documents such as statistical graphs or synchronize pre-established schedules.

Summary: Although it lacks formatting and usability features for its versions to different devices, it is an excellent alternative if you do not want to use programs such as Microsoft Excel, for example, in addition to adding additional features such as variety of managements based on a spreadsheet, it is sharable through the cloud by different extensions such as OneDrive and Dropbox.

Positive: In terms of collaboration, this program provides us with a facility for collaboration and planning of projects and shareable tasks. It handles a spreadsheet to manage documents, projects, calendars, contacts, among others. It is a very useful tool as it offers the option to create databases for different uses.

Negative: In its version for mobile devices, it has a lower proportion of applicable elements than in the computer version, for example, the creation of analysis and reports or manage calendars and graphics editors. At the same time, it does not have workflow editor tools for any device.

Summary: The Airtable platform is well suited for collaborative representation, exchange and manipulation of data and information. Setting up different databases is fast and provides many templates and views to help make things as efficient as possible. It also provides administration and sharing tasks through the Kanban view. My point is that Airtable's communication option is not your best option, so if you have many communication needs, it's best to consider using one tool at a time.

Positive: It presents us with various views and ways to manipulate and collaborate with data. We use collaborative input templates to quickly create online databases. We use Airtable for some of our online collaboration needs, especially those related to project management and structured information collaboration. It's great at helping us organize and exchange information and data together. It works between spreadsheets and online databases, with a lot of templates and views.

Negative: To adapt to data processing and processing methods, some learning is required. Certain formatting restrictions (e.g. conditional formatting).

Summary: Airtable makes it easy for users to work on projects because of its spreadsheet nature making it more convenient and letting them do a lot more.
Assigning tasks has increased accountability by letting everyone know what needs to be done.

Positive: Every user has his own view preferences depending on his work.
The biggest strength of Airtable is how it lets its users to be able to track the progress of their projects, viewing every department and the task they are doing.

Negative: The process of highlighting cells is not easy and also copy/paste.

Summary: I enjoy the ease of this software and that I can still export anything to a file if needed. I love keeping certain documents connected to a particular category or "base" so that I can download them easily when I need them.

Positive: This app makes my life as an admin so easy! I keep a lot of important lists and documents to help me complete admin tasks for a consulting firm. I don't have to search through files on a drive to find what I need and it stays up to date if I want to share with others.

Negative: I do wish that you could color code rows in the spreadsheet view without using filters. In other spreadsheet programs you can simply click on the row(s) you want to be a certain color.

Summary: One Airtable to rule them all, we're taking the productivity apps to Isengard. No seriously, you can replace most of your existing workflow with just this one.

Positive: Airtable's one of those newer cloud based softwares that promises to give the functionality of countless other apps, and I gotta say it does so quite nicely. Whereas before you might have to jump around between separate apps for a spreadsheet, a calendar, a project management milestone tool, your favorite mass email software, or even a UI mockup software, Airtable somehow manages to provide it all.

Negative: With all robust software, there'll always be a learning curve. Airtable's isn't that steep, but it's still there. Airtable's pricing doesn't scale that well for mid-sized teams, but fortunately the free version is decent as long as you don't need to run too many automated workflows.

Summary: Airtable is a highly collaborating multi-benefit platform. This tool is very beneficial for everyone who is involved in projects, marketing, sales or management. The ease of organizing is what I think is best.

Positive: I love the ease at which Airtable organizes and handles my marketing, task and sales lead tracking under one roof.
It also helps with tracking expenses and timesheets.
I always liked its interface, it's very easy for newbie to navigate.

Negative: There isn't anything I don't like about Airtable.

Summary: Airtable is broad functional software that lets you perform multi business activities including project and expenses tracking. One thing I really liked about Airtable is that it helps me organize everything that helps me balance my activity and work.

Positive: We can automate workflow using its robust task action creator. Airtable can also be integrated with Trello and Mailchimp, which make campaign management easier and let me do the activity without jumping to another tool.

Negative: The downside of Airtable is its plan. It's on the higher side.

Summary: This was the tool we were searching for. It works very great. It provides us everything to make our business work organized and collaborated. I highly recommend Airtable, it gives you the best solution for you small and mid business.

Positive: It helps to create and manage databases from the Airtable dashboard.
Slack integration to stay organized.
Business inventory and assets management, work powerful.
Agile Project management.

Negative: I didn't face any cons. I will update if I face any.