Retable

What Retable is

Retable is a no-code online spreadsheet and database app. Its site pitches it as a way to "turn your spreadsheets into smart database apps" and as an all-in-one platform to plan, track and analyze data with a team. The reader it is aimed at is an operations, marketing or project team that already lives in spreadsheets and wants forms, saved views, automations and access roles around that data instead of moving to a separate application.

The site does not say where the company is based or when it started. Its own blog calls Retable a newcomer among online spreadsheet apps, and its site is offered in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and Italian. Its navigation names 2 products side by side, an online spreadsheet and online forms.

What you build and how

Everything starts from a table. Retable describes its spreadsheet as something you can share with your team and your customers and edit in real time from a single collaborative platform. It also advertises no-login online spreadsheets that you can create with one click, which suits a quick shared list that someone outside your company needs to open without making an account.

The same records can be shown through 8 data views: grid, list, kanban, card, chart, calendar, map and form. The site frames this as turning a spreadsheet into a work management app. A project tracker can run as a kanban board, a content plan as a calendar, a list of venues or branches as a map, and the raw data stays in the grid for anyone who wants to sort it by hand.

Forms are built from the spreadsheet itself. The site says Retable creates online forms automatically from a table, lets you customize the form fields and shows responses in real time. That makes the database the intake point as well as the storage: a request form feeds the rows you already manage, with no copy and paste between a form tool and a sheet.

For AI, Retable offers a ChatGPT column type inside the table. The site says you can switch between ChatGPT models and use the column as an assistant to enrich data and pull insights out of it. The pages do not list what the column can be asked to do beyond that, so test your use case on a trial.

Automation comes in 2 layers. Retable has built-in automations and webhooks, and a public API on its plans. It also points to third-party connections: the site's navigation lists Zapier, Make.com, Pabbly, Albato, Pipedream and Latenode alongside an API entry. The use cases it names are practical ones: onboarding, handling IT requests and processing expense claims. The idea is that a status change in a row can trigger work somewhere else, and a person gets alerted without watching the sheet.

On the team side, Retable lets you manage teams inside an organization, assign roles and set specific access for each person. The homepage describes centralizing tasks, spreadsheets, workflows, data and teams on one work management platform, and it mentions ready-to-use project management templates and separate workspaces for each project. One user review on the site praises a large number of templates across marketing, sales, project management and remote work.

Moving in is meant to be easy. You can import Airtable and Google Sheets files, and migrate .xls and CSV files with several import options. For someone leaving a pile of spreadsheets, that import path matters more than any feature on the list.

What the pages do not describe is just as useful to know. They say nothing about publishing a finished app to the public web, a custom domain, native mobile apps, exporting code or self-hosting. Retable as presented is a collaborative database and work management workspace, not a front-end builder for customer-facing sites.

The evidence from the pricing and proof

The pricing section opens with "Get your one-month free trial. Then compare and choose a plan that's right for you." 2 plans are visible on the page.

Starter is listed at $0 with a 1 month free trial, for "teams that need to create custom business apps with their data." It includes unlimited workspaces and projects, basic, advanced and premium column types, unlimited collaborators per workspace, 50,000 records per project and 1 GB of attachment space per workspace. Automations and webhooks are included, along with a public API, but the automation allowance is small: 1 automation per project and 100 automation runs per project. The page does not say whether Starter stays at $0 after the first month, so confirm that before you plan around it.

Team costs $12 per month per user, with another $12 for each additional user, and the annual price is shown as $144 crossed out to $120 a year. It includes everything in Starter plus organization and team management, custom branding and add-ons to increase limits. The visible text does not show further tiers or what the add-ons cost.

Other claims on the homepage are the company's own. It says Retable can help you save 16+ hours a week by cutting manual workload, and it describes a community of 1200+ members where users ask questions, vote for upcoming features and reach the support team. User quotes on the page include a reviewer who found the database function "very straightforward to use" and was able to run an API from it straight away, and another who calls the customer support great. Those are testimonials chosen by the vendor, so read them as such. The pages state no security certifications, no hosting regions and no customer counts.

Who it suits and who it does not

A small team replacing a tangle of Excel files is the clear fit. A marketing group tracking campaigns, a sales team following leads, or an operations team running onboarding and expense claims can use tables, forms and a handful of automations without a developer. The 50,000 records per project and unlimited collaborators on Starter leave room to test with a real team, and the $12 per user Team plan is easy to budget.

It also works for a freelancer or founder who wants a database with forms and a ChatGPT column, and who is coming from Airtable or Google Sheets and wants an import path.

It is a weaker choice if the goal is a polished public app, a client portal with its own branding on a custom domain, or anything that must run on your own servers, because the pages describe none of those. The Starter automation limits are tight for busy workflows, and the AI feature is tied to ChatGPT models. Teams in regulated industries will need to ask the company directly about compliance, since the pages say nothing on it.