Retool is an enterprise-grade app builder that lets teams rapidly create, deploy, and govern internal and customer-facing applications, mobile apps, AI agents, and workflows by combining natural-language prompts, a visual canvas, and code for full customization and security.
Retool: Build internal software faster with AI
Retool is a platform that lets you build custom internal tools quickly while staying secure and scalable. With AI-assisted app generation, a flexible development environment, and enterprise-grade governance, you can move from idea to production in record time.
Why choose Retool
- Build at the speed of thought with AI-enabled tooling
- Governed, enterprise-grade platform from day one
- Connects to your data wherever it lives and ships to cloud or self-hosted deployments
- Scales from a single app to an organization-wide toolkit
- Designed for developers and non-developers alike, with strong collaboration and control
What you can build
- Admin panels that consolidate access, data, and actions across systems
- Data dashboards and write-back apps that stay in sync with your data sources
- AI-powered apps that connect to LLMs and private models, with guardrails and governance
- Custom tools tailored to your team’s unique workflows and branding
Core features
- App builder that blends AI, visuals, and code
- 100+ extensible React components and a full IDE
- Natural-language prompts to generate queries, logic, and UIs
- Code-first capabilities with SQL and JavaScript
- AI-assisted development
- AppGen for AI-enabled app creation
- AI primitives and actions to automate common tasks
- Visual canvas for rapid experimentation and prototyping
- Human-in-the-loop governance to productionize safely
- Rich data and integration layer
- Connect to 70+ systems, databases, data lakes, and cloud services
- Supports write-back, data transformations, and complex queries
- Integrations with popular SaaS apps and external APIs
- Security, governance, and compliance
- Granular RBAC, data-level permissions, and SSO-ready auth
- Audit logs, versioning, and self-serve governance across environments
- Self-hosted options for on-prem or private VPC deployments
- Deployment and scale
- Cloud or self-hosted deployment options
- Independent workspaces, environments, and modules
- Platform APIs and workflow triggers for automation at scale
- Collaboration and reuse
- Share components, queries, and apps across teams
- Source-control-friendly workflows and environment management
- Portals and embedded apps to extend internal and external experiences
Use cases by teams
- Data teams: turn warehouses and databases into governed, actionable apps; write-back analytics with safety and governance
- Operations: automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and connect disparate tools
- Engineering and platform teams: ship apps with central governance, visibility, and security
- Financial services and manufacturing: compliant, scalable internal software that integrates with core systems
Why enterprises trust Retool
- Production-ready from day one: secure, auditable, and scalable
- One platform to manage, orchestrate, and extend
- Flexible pricing and deployment models to fit growing teams and compliance needs
- Trusted by thousands of teams, including large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies
How it works (in short)
- Connect: bring in data from databases, APIs, and SaaS apps
- Build: design with visuals, code, and AI prompts in a single, unified workspace
- Deploy: push production-ready apps to cloud or self-hosted environments
- Govern: apply governance, security, and observability to sustain scale
Builders (per-seat) ( Per Seat )
I was skeptical about no-code but Bubble proved me wrong. I built a B2B client portal with complex permissions, Stripe billing, and real-time notifications. The learning curve is real — give yourself 2–3 weeks — but once it clicks, you're unstoppable. Performance has been solid at our scale.
Coming from Webflow, Bubble felt overwhelming at first. The editor UX isn't as polished, and performance on complex apps can feel sluggish. That said, nothing else lets you build a full database-driven app without code. The community forums are excellent — almost every problem has been solved by someone.
Used Bubble to ship our MVP in 6 weeks, which was genuinely impressive. But once we needed real capacity, the jump from Growth to Team ($29 to $529/mo) was brutal for a bootstrapped startup. The server unit model is also confusing to reason about. Would love a mid-tier option.
Real apps built with Bubble by the community. Click any card to see full details.
Bubble now suggests the next workflow action based on your current logic using an embedded AI assistant — dramatically speeds up building complex multi-step flows.
Completely redesigned responsive layout system with per-breakpoint controls. Existing apps auto-migrate with one-click. Mobile apps now build 3× faster.
Team plan subscribers can now create development branches, make changes in isolation, and merge them back — similar to Git branching. Long requested by professional teams.
Fixed significant performance degradation on apps with 1M+ rows caused by query planner regression. Apps now load 40–60% faster under heavy data loads.
Rebuilt plugin API with TypeScript support, better error handling, and a new sandbox testing environment. Developer documentation fully rewritten.