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Baserow is an open-source no-code platform for creating databases and apps. It offers a user-friendly UI, collaboration, customization, open-source benefits, no vendor lock-in, scalability, data ownership, API-first design, frequent updates, active community, privacy emphasis, and detailed docs.

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Chief Enthusiasm Officer

Easy migration from other applications and the lean and clean interface. The support has been outstanding.

Engineer

The free tier is super generous, making it an easy recommendation for many clients to just test the waters first before committing to the product full on.

Managment

Love how the forms work as well as public sharing, it's just better than Airtable's setup here. Something nice about the cloud-based version.

Consultant

I enjoy using Baserow and am happy to be part of the community. Open-sourcing your own product is not always easy in terms of intellectual property and old-school business mindset.

A great basic product that needs slight polishing to be outstanding.

Founder

Feature parity with competing applications (e.g. Airtable) can create an (somewhat unfair) sense that Baseerow is "missing something.

Nice and supportive community. Application builder is evolving now.

The worst feature by far is typography. The emphasis is on the structure rather than the content.

Software developer

The availability of a number of templates that align to the Projectneeds is welcome and the User Interface design is welcome.

Owner

The form structure is here straight forward I love how simple and intuitive is to set up.

Operations Manager

Baserow is elegant, super fast and intuitive to use.

Managing Director

The slow community support and the fact that premium payers don't get premium support. Can't create sort filters with Lookup columns :/ Sometimes issues with file uploads that it does not work always.

Cost effective from free to 5 USD per month. Simple and clean interface.

Medical doctor

I have the link saved in my reminders on the main page of my phone and I use it everyday. It’s so easy to use and doesn’t require for me to open the website everyday to look for what I need.

One limitation of Baserow.io is its relatively limited advanced functionalities for complex data handling or manipulation.

Developer

Cost effective and has a clear roadmap for features.

Design Engineer

I love that I can have a database created without much work and it also has a full fledged API available for me to use the data in an app.

Ease of use and integration with other software.

Firebase

Database first !

Hi Renaud, thanks for your review! Glad you're enjoying the open source and self-hosted nature of Baserow. We'd love for you to jump into the Baserow Community and let us know what features you're looking for to be an even better solution for you. See you there! -Hiram

A powerful Airtable alternative

Hi Miguel, thanks for reviewing Baserow! Going from zero to hero in such a short time frame is exactly what we aim for. Jump into the Baserow Community to give us more detail on how we can improve the import/export process, and let's make it happen. -Hiram

Easy To Use

Hi Christopher, thank you for sharing your review with us! Glad to have you along for the ride as we work towards those ambitious roadmap goals. Thanks again! -Hiram

Excellent tlTool for Multi Variable Cataloging 

Hey Juliana, thanks so much for your review! Glad to hear Baserow is making it easy for you to manage your catalog and streamline your workflow. We've taken note of your feedback surrounding card view and how you use Baserow on the go so we can improve your experience in this regard. Feel free to reach out with more suggestions, or pop them into the Baserow Communtiy (community.baserow.io). -Hiram

I absolutely love using Baserow.io for managing my data and building custom applications! It's an incredibly powerful and user-friendly platform that has transformed the way I work.
The intuitive interface makes it a breeze to create databases and start working on projects right away, even without advanced technical skills.
Baserow offers extensive customization options, allowing me to tailor everything to my exact needs. The real-time collaboration features are seamless, enabling my team to work together efficiently.

Recommended! Very good!

Hi Volker, thanks for your review and recommendation!  Love to hear that Baserow has transformed the way you work. We make it a huge point of emphasis to make sure that Baserow is flexible and you can tailor to your exact use cases. If you'd like to share any databases or applications that you've built, we'd love to see them in the Baserow Community. -Hiram

A very positive experience so far using the free tier to create an inventory for managing an estate.

Baserow for Non-profit

We appreciate your feedback regarding Application Builder, James! It's super helpful for us during this beta period so that we can roll it out with the features that our community's looking for. Sounds like things are running smoothly on the Database Builder side for you. Great to hear! -Hiram

Perfect solution for a small business that needs a database, wants an inexpensive and scalable solution and that wants to control its data.

Best Open Source Self-Hosted Airtable Alternative

Hey Daniel,

Thanks for your awesome review! We've got tons of exciting new updates every month, so keep an eye on the roadmap and feel free to jump into the community with your feature suggestions. :)

- Hiram

Use Baserow instead of Google Form

Hi Yoann,

Thanks for taking the time to review Baserow! Glad it was easy to deploy and easy to understand.

Data governance and security don't have to come at the expense of efficiency, so it'd be great to understand more about your processes and how Baserow could actually help you work more efficiently.

Feel free to jump into the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io), and I'm sure we or other community members would be able to help you come up with some useful workflows that could free up your resources.

- Hiram

Perfect System

Hi Pedro, thanks for your review! We strive to make Baserow flexible, extensible, and customizable, so if you're finding any use case limitations, we'd love to hear them. Chances are that we can remove them and/or find workarounds. Thanks again for sharing! -Hiram

Very good. I'm rooting for this platform to succeed in the long run.

Baserow: The Low Code Base we all wanted

Hey Jacob,

Really appreciate your input and in-depth review! Glad that the templates are helpful—we have new ones (and updates to existing ones) with every release, so keep an eye out on those.

We're going to take some notes regarding your suggestions around user access control. Security is a huge point of focus for us, which includes RBAC and granular permissions for both internal and external collaborators.

Would also love to hear more about how you're using Baserow in conjunction with Notion and ClickUp, and learn how you'd envision an integration or "use [Baserow] inside of those" as you mentioned.

I'd encourage you to jump into the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io) so that we can discuss with the broader team and better understand to see if we can hopefully make something happen.

- Hiram

One of the best database apps!

Hi Fati, thanks for your review! Glad you're making use of Baserow. Question: is your form set up correctly? Forms are used for data intake, so you should absolutely be able to add new values directly from the form. Pop into community.baserow.io if you need some help! -Hiram

Great, API is working better compared to Airtable. It was a deal breaker. 

Wonderful for using it as a database 

Hey Chandan, appreciate you taking the time to review Baserow! Glad Baserow's speedy API is doing wonders for you. We have lots of devs working with the API in the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io). Feel free to jump in anytime. -Hiram

Exploring my Baserom

Hi Kim, thanks for your review! Awesome to see that you're self-hosting Baserow. We're always working on making it even easier to self-host, especially for non-technical folks. Stay tuned for more developments on this front. – Hiram

One of the best databases out there 

Hi Raj, thanks for the note! We strive to lead in all the areas that you mentioned. If you have UX suggestions, we're always open to hearing them. Drop us a line in the Baserow Community and let's discuss. Thanks again! -Hiram

Very easy to use, The learning curve is short

The best free option

Glad you're enjoying Baserow, Daniel! Thanks for your review.

Adel review 

Hi Adel, thanks for reviewing Baserow! Glad Baserow's features are letting you collaborate effectively. If you or your team ever need some help getting started, we have videos, written guides, and even monthly webinars. Hopefully you can take advantage of these resources! And of course, we're always available to lend a hand. -Hiram

Using Baserow is just a pleasure : the interface is neat, you can integrate it smoothly with workflow automation tools and take advantage of it's open-source philosophy by self-hosting it.

An open-source and low-code database management tool

Hey there,

Thanks for your recommendation of Baserow! We know performance, speed, and reliability are integral, especially when dealing with large amounts of data, so it's great to hear that your experience has been in line with what we set out to achieve.

- Hiram

Baserow functional modern database approach

Hey Domingo, 

Appreciate your recommendation of Baserow. 

Glad you and your team is making good use of Baserow's self-hosted solution to stay compliant with all necessary policies and requirements. 

We have real-time collaboration, and changes to the database are always reflected instantly. I may not be fully understanding what you're referencing here when it comes to live data view, but we're happy to look into it for you if you pop your question into the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io). 

- Hiram

Review on Baserow

Hi, Harish! Thanks for your review. Glad to hear you're finding Baserow easy to use and navigate. We'd love to hear some concrete improvement suggestions for the UI on the Baserow Community. Start a thread and let's see what we can do! -Hiram

I've only used for a couple of months, but have been very pleased overall so far. We were looking for an Airtable replacement tool and this is by far the best we've seen.

A nice alternative to Airtable!

Hey Rob,

Thanks for your review—glad Baserow has fit into your team's tech stack nicely. 

Good news—native automations are coming! In the meantime, I'm sure the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io) would love to help you get some more powerful automations up and running through Zapier, n8n, Make, or something else. 

Here to help as always. 

- Hiram

Coming from portable I see a lot a potential overall experience is decent 

One simple solution

Hey Ivan, thanks for taking the time to review Baserow! Sounds like you're big on forms, and would like more UI customization options for forms, correct? I hope you've also tried out Survey, which is a cleaner interface version of Form view that displays one question at a time, rather than seeing the entire form at the same time. If you have any more suggestions for how your experience can be improved, we'd love to hear about them in the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io).

Baserow has become a central repository for company information like, The employee list, where IP Scan logs go, converted google sheets are stored, and my favorite part is the data is accessible from SQL Server. Amazing product!

Baserow user just dabbling

Hi Kenneth,

Great to hear that Baserow is helping you meet your business needs!

We have some resources in our community and blog for helping you make the best choice when it comes to the right platform for your business, so be sure to take a look at those—I trust you'd find them helpful.

Of course, if you need help with anything else, we're also happy to chat.

- Hiram

Very nice and easy to understand. I created a lot of functions and it will be usefull for the project management.

High potential database

Hey Samuel, appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with Baserow! Awesome to hear that you've got a lot of functions working together to manage your projects and data. Interested to hear more about your issue identifying identical data on import. Would you mind popping this (and your other questions) into the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io)? This'll help us understand your use case better and figure out some solutions for you. -Hiram

over all support is very good. sadly, without the certain features we cannot sign up. in order for baserow to excel, it must: offer all the airtable features, for less $, or offer better platform for the same (or more) $. 

Great effort. needs many improvements. 

Hi Mazin, thanks for taking the time to review Baserow and sharing your feedback. Much appreciated. As a heads up, views can be embedded into an iframe (a good example of this in action would be our baserow.io/templates page). We also have Gallery view, which is similar to what I believe you're looking for regarding "card format." For the other stuff, I may not be fully understanding, but I highly recommend jumping into the Baserow Community (community.baserow.io) so that you can share screenshots/GIFs of what you're looking for in Baserow. Once we have a better understanding of that, then we can start the process of fitting it into the roadmap. :) -Hiram

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