Airtable

I use this app for a dozen different things, professional and personal. I have gotten several friends hooked. I have used it to track favorite jokes in sitcoms, to recruit personnel, to do quantitative research, and to design a dictionary. I do all this in both mobile and desktop. The free version doesn't have a ton of visualization options (i.e. charts and graphs), but the user interface is so easy to learn, I got hooked on it. I used it daily throughout my research masters. For reference, I'm also using things like CSVs, light Python, Excel, Numbers, Sheets. There is a lot of overlap in functionality, but nothing has the user friendliness of Airtable, and the cloud integration is a huge bonus. It took me forever to realize I could use categories/groups and filters in Numbers, and they are not easy to set up. The clunky menu is hidden in the "Organize" sidebar, and it takes up the whole screen. I love that on Airtable my data is always available to me and I don't have to jump formats. I have toggled between both the free versions and the paid versions for years now. I would not hesitate to pay monthly for the sheer functionality. As far as the mobile app, I don't have much to say about how it differs from desktop. It is much better for quick checks or skimming through a few datapoints. I tend to use huge datasets (10,000+ rows) so the mobile app is nice when I just need to check a few rows. Like any spreadsheet app, it's not going to be nearly as nice as being on a desktop. They are constantly improving the experience, though, and I appreciate that.

As an organizational freak myself, I love the customization and abilities this app has to offer. I’ve recommended it to everyone, and even set it up for my husband to use on his phone. It’s a great app for organizing everything, which is exactly what I need. The thing I’d recommend to be fixed is the ability to add/select multiple attachments at once. This is my biggest con with the app. I add numerous photos to my Airtable records sometimes and it’d be way easier to be able to select MULTIPLE photos at once to add as attachments, rather than uploading one at a time. Also the ability for the photos to be uploaded with their original date of photo taken rather than the date of when the photo was added to the Airtable. Secondly, the ability to move items from one table to another. Instead of having to make a copy of all those items onto another table, the ability to move single items into another table. Some items I create are no longer relevant to that table and the choice to move it to a different table within the spread would be helpful. That would genuinely make the app perfect overall.

Airtable (on Mac OS, Web and PC) is one of the best and most well developed pieces of software on the market! I’ll bet you could find at least a half dozen uses for it no matter what your personal or professional needs are!! One of the best features of Airtable (along side being able to filter, sort and group information) is the ability to format the layout of your information into five different “views.” These “views” are extremely powerful and allow you to quickly access and manipulate data for practically any application, implementing virtually limitless workflows. However, the iOS app is terrible! The layout is extremely inefficient for screen real estate on a phone or tablet. The fact that you can only access 1 of the 5 “views” makes the mobile app almost useless. The features that you can use are very cumbersome and ‘pagey’ to navigate —making actions take a long time. Please support Airtable, but please also rate the app as the app and not the overall service. The AT team needs feedback like this to improve their mobile app(s).