Could you spend a couple of minutes to describe the advantages of Airtable over Fieldbook or Ragic? I've been gripped by indecision regarding which tool to use, and hence use none of them.
Fieldbook co-founder here, thought I would weigh in. I agree with Howie that he doesn't spend much time using Fieldbook, since we already have many of the features he mentioned.
IMHO Fieldbook has the best user experience anywhere for building and working with a real relational data model, including many-to-many relationships, sophisticated queries, and aggregated reports. We've done a ton of iteration with real users and hundreds of usability tests to make these features natural and intuitive.
But there's no need to be gripped by indecision! Just try them both, it's free. That will tell you which one works best for you. Message us in-app if you have any questions, we're happy to help you get set up!
It seems cool. Have you consider letting us trying the demo without asking for credential? The login form have stop me since I do not want to be contacted by your sales.
I had heard of airtable and checked it out and thought: this is exactly what I have needed this whole time. It is a much slicker version of SmartSheet.
And then I just found out about Fieldbook through your comment and it looks really good too. It's the only other product I've seen that is in the ballpark.
And then both founders are right here on HN pointing out more features.
To be honest, I haven't spent a lot of time using Fieldbook or Ragic. That being said, we spend an insane amount of time/effort making sure that Airtable delivers a first-class product experience. In fact, the first couple years of Airtable's existence involved myself and my cofounder Andrew--who previously PMed the redesign of Google Maps--building countless prototype variants to get the UX right, doing a literal hundred user studies with people from all sorts of industries/roles to understand how the full range of how they used spreadsheets, databases, and other products, and researching the prior art by talking to the creators of past products in the space (i.e. MS Access, Excel, Coghead, Podio, Dabbledb, etc).
We think Airtable is to spreadsheets/Access/Filemaker what Slack is to email (and fwiw, Slack itself uses Airtable http://bit.ly/2m58l4U ).
Specifically, our product offers the following (which to my knowledge Ragic/Fieldbook do not):
x IMO a much more intuitive design
x Native Android, iPhone, & iPad apps, as well as an electron desktop app ( airtable.com/downloads )
x Ability to create multiple views on the same table, each of which preserves its own filter/sort/visibility settings
Multiple view types, including grid, grouped records, calendar, kanban, public forms, and gallery: http://bit.ly/2ky3WLB .
x Inline collaboration i.e. @mentions in text fields, record-level comments
x Many more useful field types
x Visual revision history and snapshots
x More integrations, such as with Zapier (see Zapier's writeups http://bit.ly/2lfGr79http://bit.ly/2l3dZqG ), Slack, native calendars via an iCal feed, and Dropbox/Box/Gdrive/Evernote.
x Greater capacity and smoother performance.
x Full realtime sync for all changes, including schema modifications.
x Lots of little things, like the ability to perform date calculations relative to today (i.e. a filtered view or formula that shows all projects due within 7 days from today and is automatically updated as time goes by), private share-links and embeds to give people access to a read-only view of Airtable without making them sign up for an account, inline document previews (e.g. view a text-copyable inline version of a .DOCX file)
Over 30,000 organizations already use Airtable--this includes tech cos like Airbnb, Box, Wework, and Tesla; non-tech cos like Atlantic Records and Penguin Randomhouse; educational institutions like CMU, Rice, and Stanford. We're growing our team and continuously releasing new enhancements to improve the product experience for all users.