Glide turns spreadsheets and databases into actual apps, which sounds like magic but is surprisingly practical. Connect a Google Sheet, Airtable, or SQL database and Glide generates a polished, mobile-responsive app interface that stays in sync with your data. Their AI can now generate entire apps from a text description, making it one of the fastest ways to digitize a manual business process without writing code.
Main Features
- Data-Driven App Builder: Connect Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, or SQL databases and Glide instantly generates a functional app interface with data-bound components that stay in sync.
- AI-Powered App Generation: Describe your app's purpose in plain language and Glide AI builds the schema, screens, and workflows automatically, ready for you to customize.
- Polished UI Components: Drag-and-drop cards, lists, tables, charts, forms, maps, calendars, and image galleries. All mobile-responsive with clean, modern design out of the box.
- Workflow and Logic Automation: Set up automated actions like sending notifications, updating rows, calling webhooks, and running computed columns triggered by user actions, schedules, or data changes.
- User Roles and Permissions: Define role-based access per screen and data row. Control exactly what each user type sees and can edit, with public, private, and team-level sharing.
- Integrations and APIs: Native connectors for Airtable, Google Sheets, SQL databases, and Google Analytics. Extend with webhooks, REST APIs, Zapier, and Make for custom workflows.
- Template Library: Hundreds of pre-built templates for CRMs, field service apps, inventory trackers, employee portals, event management, and dashboards. Customize and launch in hours.
- Glide Solutions: Glide's professional services team builds fully custom enterprise-grade apps for you, from scoping and design to deployment and training, in weeks.
Who Should Use It?
- Operations Managers: People digitizing manual processes and paper-based workflows without IT help.
- Small Business Owners: Owners building custom CRMs and inventory trackers on a budget with tools they already use.
- Field Service Teams: Teams needing mobile apps for inspections, deliveries, and work orders in the field.
- HR and Internal Teams: HR departments creating employee portals, onboarding apps, and team directories.
- Department Leads: Non-technical managers building dashboards and workflow tools without involving IT.
- Companies Needing Client Portals: Businesses that need custom partner dashboards and client portals delivered quickly.
- Spreadsheet-Heavy Teams: Teams replacing spreadsheet-based workflows with proper app interfaces that are actually pleasant to use.