GlideReviews of glideapps.com

I was disappointed when I saw the app online - I like the original screen but I would have like to have learned how to make the text into a graphic on all pages Otherwise I like the product, probably my fault not the technology -

Easy to use. Fantastic results.

Well the continuous improvement on the toolset and the layout changes and additions make my development enjoyable.

I like the simple interface but am frustrated that the documentation does not match the app following the 3/20 move to glideapps. For example, the ability to adjust the look of the signin screen seems to be missing from pro accounts.

Hands down the fastest and easiest No Code platform out there (and we should know as we use Bubble, Adalo, Wordpress, Airtable etc in our organisation)! Everyone who can build a decent excel, can build an app with Glide (in the same time as you would build the excel. You can also use excel formula's within the Glide database btw). Vs Bubble etc, Glide uses UI/UX best practices out of the box so that your app has a coherent aesthetic whether you have design/CSS skills or not. You simply build screens by dropping perfectly designed interface elements on the canvas (you can make a few design choices), couple them with your database and you're ready to go! Animations between screens are standard too so no need to worry about that. Glide databases are also super easy to work with. A downside is that Glide is supposed to work smoothly only until 25000 rows of data (probably a bit more if you don't use computed columns too much) which is enough when you want to replace an excel but nothing for a more advanced application. However with the soon-to-come Big Table feature, you will be able to go up till 10mio of rows so we are looking forward to that. A smart feature of Glide databases is also that you can share them across apps. So it's super easy to build a big ecosystem of apps. For example, we have built a complete event management system with barcode scanning (the organisation we build it for hosts around 100 events a month and uses it successfully for 6 months now) and a separate ticketing app for event attendees, both using the same 'tickets' database. Most of the apps we have made we're ready to launch within 8 hours of development time and that's just crazy if you compare that with classic IT development. A very positive point of Glide is also that they are developing their platform really fast. Every month or so there's a new (mindblowing) feature. The last months for example they added a Google BigQuery integration, a new Big Table Database format (for larger datasets) and a bèta for more direct integrations within Glide (so that you don't have to use a webhook to Make or Zapier for some tools). These are really big additions and that they are adding them so fast makes me feel confident that the few things that the platform is missing will be added really soon. It is nice to know that in a year, the apps we will be able to build for our clients will be even more powerful. I believe that within this and a few year, Glide might be a whole ecosystem like Bubble or Wordpress is right now and this really helps us motivate our team to invest time in learning Glide. It seems pretty future proof right now! What are those things that are missing right now? A lot of it has to do with SAAS apps. Glide is not the best for SAAS right now. The use limit is quite tight (for 100usd/month you have a 500 logged-in user limit, on other platforms, there's no limit). Adding a native subscription and payment system (or integration with Stripe for example) would also help hugely towards SAAS. I would also love to have more flexibility towards data. The small limit on databases rows (it's not a hard limit) is really frustrating. I hope the Big Table bèta is going live really soon and that it can adopt all functionality of the standard Glide Tables. It would also be cool to be able to sync whole Glide Tables with external tools such as Google Sheets and Airtable in two ways (but with the Glide Table as the Master) so that you can even have more flexibility there to build further with other no code tools (I know you can do everything with the standard API's that are included with every Glide table but that's not 'pure' no code). Concerning performance, it would also be cool to be able to assign more power to a specific build. For example if you have build an app with lots of calculations and lots of rows and are seeing performance drop for that app, it would be cool to be able to add server resources for that app. Sometimes you can build an app more efficiëntly but sometimes you just need the pure power! Backups is also a feature that is missing right now. You can backup your app by copying it but that's not really best-practice I think as their's no standard way to restore your app in a standard way. Adding translation as a feature would also be cool. You can translate the app with the Weglot service but doing it in app would be nice. Finally, I love how glide lets you build beautiful apps out of the box. But it would be cool to be able to change more of the layout yourselves. The standard 'best practice' layout option should stay, but there should be an option to change everything if you would want to. If I want to build an app with a 12 column layout, this should be possible with Glide I think (as it is with Bubble, Webflow etc)... Contact us on flowcode.be if you would want a Glide app. If you can think it, we can make it!

They always get back to me within 24 hrs.

Glide is what we need for our school. Creating our own apps and pages gives us the opportunity to build out the platform we need for sharing educational content en gathering the progress of our students in an organized and sleek way. Glide also keeps improving with regular and valuable updates.

Quick to learn, fast to make, long lasting solutions. I can't code, but that didn't stop me making leading apps for booking platforms, CRMs, investor reporting, fund management, and more. Truth is, so many people still use a collection of spreadsheets and this is super messy. With Glide you can make something 10X better than a spreadsheet and 80% as good as a very expensive (time and money) bespoke salesforce setup or newly developed product.