Various ways to build with Retool

Use pre-built React components instead of starting from scratch

Retool gives you pre-built UI components packed with functionality like tables, buttons, and text inputs. Skip the frontend templates and build your own in minutes.

React

Calendar booking tool

Build a tool that allows customers book time on a calendar using the Google Calendar API availabilities.

API - Google Sheets

GUI for any SQL database

Retool gives you a multi-purpose, cross-platform SQL GUI so you can quickly build apps on top of your data.

The fastest way to build an admin panel

Save hundreds of hours with pre-made templates, integrations, and components.

React drag and drop app builder

Build a React app 10x faster in Retool — Save hundreds of hours with pre-made React templates, integrations, and components.

Build a Node.js app 10x faster in Retool

Save hundreds of hours with pre-made templates, integrations, and components.

Dashboard to track KPIs and metrics

Retool gives you chart components and the tools to manipulate your data and make it actionable

A fast and simple admin dashboard

Save hundreds of hours with pre-made templates, integrations, and components.

API

Attendance tracker

Build a student/classroom dashboard to track attendance, learning, and students' wellbeing.

Google Sheets - BigQuery

A fast and simple MongoDB admin client

Easily manage, explore, visualize, query your MongoDB data - and much more.

MongoDB

Simple GUI for DynamoDB

Build internal tools (e.g. admin panels, dashboards, and utilities) on top of your DynamoDB data faster than ever before.

DynamoDB

Build custom internal apps on top of Shopify

Retool makes it easy to build apps on top of Shopify. Join data across your Databases and APIs. Manage access to your app with granular permissions.

Shopify

Create a Frontend for Llama

Build a custom Llama front-end with Retool’s drag and drop UI in as little as 10 minutes. From chatbots to admin panels and dashboards, just connect Llama to Retool and start creating your GUI using 100+ pre-built components.

A fast and simple BigQuery admin console

Easily run queries, visualize your schema, auto-complete SQL queries, and much more.

PostgreSQL

A simple client for DynamoDB

Explore, visualize, and query your DynamoDB data through Retool's simple web based client GUI. You can also inspect your schema, run ad hoc analyses, save and share queries, and much more.

DynamoDB

The easiest way to use Google Sheets as a database

Build any application on top of your Google Sheets data 10x faster with Retool. Save hundreds of hours with our integrations & professional components.

Google Sheets

A fast and simple SQL admin

Build faster with a multi-purpose, cross-platform SQL admin.

PostgreSQL

A fast and simple MongoDB client

A straightforward MongoDB client so you can quickly build apps on top of your MongoDB data.

MongoDB

The fastest way to build a UI on any REST API

Drag and drop your UI on top of your REST API and save hundreds of hours.

API

Building Inspection Mobile App

Whether you're in property management or hospitality, you can build a mobile app to pull property data, sign documents, and upload property inspection photos.

Insurance claim manager

Build a fraud monitoring application to equip operations and customer support teams with the ability to look up a customer, view transactions in a table, and verify or freeze accounts based on suspected fraudulent activity.

PostgreSQL - MongoDB - DynamoDB

Know Your Customer (KYC) user explorer

Build a KYC user explorer and move new customers through the KYC compliance process faster than ever.

Construction Management and Punch List Mobile App

Build a Retool Mobile PMS app to manage check-ins, share cleaning routes with cleaning staff, and create work order fulfillment apps for your hospitality staff.

Rental subscription manager

Build a rental subscription application to invoice renters, charge the remainder of an item they choose to keep, process returns, and more.

PostgreSQL - MongoDB - MySQL

Transportation logistics tracker

Build a transportation and logistics app that acts as the control center for your rides.

MySQL

CRM for loan processing

Build a CRM (customer relationship management tool) to manage loans from a centralized application.

Stripe - API - PostgreSQL

Forbearance application processor

Build a tool to manage everything from forbearance application submission to approval.

PostgreSQL - API

Real estate agent listing approval

Build a dashboard to approve real estate agents for the Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

PostgreSQL - Google Sheets - MySQL - DynamoDB

Enterprise account management dashboard

Build an app that helps your customer success and sales teams navigate large accounts with ease.

MySQL

Investment portfolio manager

Build an app to manage unique portfolio investments within a single application.

MongoDB - MySQL - PostgreSQL

Customer finder

Connect to your CRM, payment processor, and anywhere else where customer data resides to surface relevant customer information in a single application.

Stripe - Salesforce - BigQuery

Video library

Build a content library app to sort, modify, and package video content by dimensions like an instructor, content type, expertise level, and paid vs. free video content.

MySQL - PostgreSQL - BigQuery - DynamoDB

Food delivery tracker

Build a customer support tool tailored to food delivery and two-sided marketplaces use cases.

MongoDB

Experiment tracking tool

Build a custom experiment tracking tool to keep tabs on the experiments you run and grow your business faster.

Google Sheets - MongoDB

Customer 360 dashboard

Build an app that allows customer support teams to view customers’ activities: what they bought, what was refunded, emails they opened, surveys they’ve given, and more.

DynamoDB

Inventory management dashboard

Build an app to see what's in stock, add SKUs, track the status of orders.

MySQL

Build a React dashboard 10x faster in Retool

Save hundreds of hours with pre-made React templates, integrations, and components.

Conversion funnel dashboard

Build a customer funnel dashboard to track aggregated conversion metrics and drill down to identify customers progressing through your conversion funnel.

MongoDB - PostgreSQL

Customer insights dashboard

Build a robust customer dashboard that acts as a centralized control center for business teams to view, edit, and configure customer accounts.

Firebase

Auto repair management dashboard

Build a central application to manage the status of repairs and all the moving parts associated with providing a detailed customer experience.

API - PostgreSQL

Loan approval dashboard

Build a tool to automate loan approvals by pulling in applicant information into an easy-to-use tool that simplifies loan approval management.

MongoDB - MySQL - PostgreSQL

Sharing economy inventory management

Build an application to monitor the inventory of shared goods across a 2-sided marketplace.

MySQL - MongoDB

Inventory Management Mobile App

Build an inventory manager mobile app with Retool Mobile. Track warehouse inventory, check order statuses, add SKUs, and place new orders — all in one tool.

Shopify product inventory sync

Build an app that refreshes product inventory across the 3rd-party eCommerce platforms and your Shopify website.

Stripe - MongoDB - Shopify

Refund processor

Give customer support agents (or whoever is processing a refund) a simple tool that connects your database and payment platforms to lookup orders and process refunds.

API - PostgreSQL

Field Service Dispatch Mobile App

Build a service dispatch app for scheduling field service, assigning technicians, tracking inventory, and job progress. Capture key onsite data in offline mode.

Returns and exchanges processor

Build an internal tool where your customer success team can process returns and exchanges from a single dashboard.

Stripe - API

Discount approval tool

Build a tool to validate, approve, and keep track of discounts and offer redemptions.

PostgreSQL

Loan disbursement tool

Build a tool to automate loan disbursement, maintain clean records, and pay out distributions with ease.

MongoDB - MySQL - PostgreSQL

QA Automation Made Easy

QA automation streamlines the testing process, saving time and resources while ensuring software quality and reliability. Use Retool to easily improve and scale your quality assurance automation process, saving valuable time for your organization.

Cloud services deployment manager

Rather than requiring your support team to access and troubleshoot each cloud service individually, you can use Retool to build a deployment management center.

API

Deployment Automation Made Easy

Deployment automation enables you to deploy your software in between testing and production environments in an automated way. Retool can help streamline your deployment automation efforts with Retool Workflows.

Python Automation Made Easy

Python's extensive libraries and frameworks make it a powerful choice for workflow automation. Use Python in Retool to automate workflows into your custom software.

Incident Response Automation Made Easy

Incident response automation is the use of automated processes and tools to detect, assess, and mitigate incidents efficiently. Retool Workflows can help streamline your incident response program so you can focus on fixing problems.

Build an Angular app 10x faster in Retool

Save hundreds of hours with pre-made templates, integrations, and components.