What is Retool?
Retool is the ultimate low-code development platform, expertly designed to significantly accelerate the creation of custom internal tools and essential business applications. It powerfully enables a wide spectrum of users, from seasoned developers and IT departments to business professionals, to effortlessly build robust, functional applications with minimal hand-coding. With Retool, users can leverage a powerful drag-and-drop interface and a rich library of over 100 pre-built UI components to visually construct their application’s frontend. A core strength of Retool is its remarkable versatility in data integration: it seamlessly connects to an extensive variety of data sources, including databases, REST APIs, GraphQL, and third-party SaaS applications, allowing teams to quickly pull in and work with data from disparate systems. By abstracting away much of the boilerplate code and infrastructure management, Retool allows users to focus on building custom logic using JavaScript, SQL, or Python, thus dramatically speeding up the development process and delivering powerful solutions efficiently.
Use Cases And Features
- ✨ Rapidly assemble custom UIs using a drag-and-drop interface and over 100 pre-built components.
- 🔌 Effortlessly connect to all your data sources including databases, APIs, and SaaS applications.
- 💻 Enhance applications with custom logic by incorporating JavaScript, SQL, and Python code.
- 🚀 Automate essential business processes and custom logic, triggered via webhooks or on a schedule.
- 📱 Build powerful native iOS and Android mobile applications for seamless field operations and mobile workflows.
- 🧠 Integrate native AI functionality to create intelligent tools and automate tasks with AI agents.
- 📊 Efficiently create admin panels, dashboards, and CRUD applications for data management and operational oversight.