Airtable 4+

I discovered Airtable last week and after testing it out, I LOVE it. It’s easily customisable and replaces my reliance on a spreadsheet to maintain my inventory. The only issue is that the app is so limited. I can’t duplicate a record which is frustrating when I purchase 20 different things from the same supplier on the same date etc. This means I have to either duplicate the record on a desktop (in which case, why use the app) or I have to manually enter the same information 20 times. This is incredibly frustrating.

Another gripe I have is that I can’t customise the first column in the base or freeze the first two columns. A picture is very important for my inventory and I need to either customise the first column to allow addition of a picture as or freeze the first two columns so that when i scroll across, I can relate the information to the exact item. Freezing columns is available on the desktop version but not the app which means that when I’m out and about, I have to constantly scroll back and forth.

There are other limitations in the app such as the inability to select multiple records to delete/copy or the lack of gallery/calendar/kanban view, but those aren’t as exasperating for me as the previous two I mentioned. It’s a shame because desktop version of Airtable is an incredible tool and so versatile while the iOS app is so restricted. If we were talking about the desktop version I’d give it 5 stars but for now, the iOS app only gets 3.

I nearly gave up using airtable after feeling hard to use it as it’s slightly different from how Microsoft suits work, but I am super happy now that I did not give up. Once you get used to it, you will realize that airtable is way superior.

We started off by making a small invoicing system, but now, Airtable replaced our big CRM database which used to cost us a few thousand dollars a month.

Not only that it reduced our expense, it also reduced our workload. Things are done correctly and faster now with airtable. Data is shared securely with clients and we don’t have to send data around by email. Everybody is happy with it.

I can see that Aitrable is using funds at the right place. Things are improving all the time. Thanks for all your work and I hope that you will make your enrolling process friendly to other language users near future!

AirTable lets me do so much to enable me to keep control of all my work in progress and multitude of materials. It’s a very polished product...and I’ve been using databases as a software designer for over 30 years.
But...some of the more sophisticated features that I use to cost materials and projects can’t be setup in the iPad version. Which means I still have to use a computer to do that. Very annoying.
When that’s resolved, this will be the best database product I’ve ever used!!!