63 posts — Explore a range of tutorials, articles, and resources about Retool, the powerful platform for building internal tools quickly and efficiently. Learn how to optimize your workflows, integrate with APIs, and unlock Retool’s full potential. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced user, find everything you need to master Retool and enhance your app development process.
Airtable and Google Sheets are great no-code options for small datasets, but they have their limitations. We identify their main drawbacks and consider why a SQL database might be a better option.
Built on PostgreSQL, Retool Database is a database with the power of SQL but an interface as simple as a spreadsheet. In this post, we discuss its best use cases.
In this article, we discuss how to make great multi-page applications with optimal performance and effective UI.
In this article, we discuss the functionality and limitations of the Retool sidebar frame, provide a couple of different layout ideas, as well as some UI tips and tricks for using the sidebar in internal apps.
In this study, we’ll look at how Red Roots Capital experimented with SaaS software, before landing on a custom solution in Retool - built by Bold Tech - where they can not only track and file receipts for their accounting team, but they can do this on the go from a custom-made mobile app.
Bold Tech has worked with Bilt since 2021 to build internal admin dashboards and tools on Retool. Using on a mixture of PostgreSQL, Redis Cache, and other APIs, here are some of their apps.
When Chartio announced it was being deprecated in March 2022, Blue Valet & Bold Tech had a mammoth task of migrating 50 internal apps to Retool in just a matter of weeks. Here is how we did it.
In this tutorial we will walk you through some different possible CRUD layouts in Retool, what they are good for and not-so-good for, as well as give you our top tips and tricks to achieve best practice (and avoid worst practice) when it comes to layout.
In this article, we walk through how to connect the Google Drive API to your Retool environment, pull your files into an application, and create new ones.
Most Retool apps are based on some kind of CRUD interface, and we think that with form inputs, a little goes a long way in turning an unfriendly UI into an optimized, beautiful user experience. Here’s a couple of simple tips to help make this happen.
Hybiscus and Retool are a dream team, providing beautiful and dynamic PDF reports in a matter of minutes. In this tutorial, I’ll walk through how to sign up for Hybiscus, set up a Hybiscus Resource in Retool, connect it to an application and get started making some stunning, automated reports.
In the first instalment of Bold Tech’s UI sessions, we are tackling busy component enemy no.1: the button, to bring you some top tips for making better use of this powerful component, as well as some handy and innovative tricks to improve your UI even more.
The Release Manager (or versioning) in Retool is a useful feature for splitting up your work into shippable units and version-controlling your apps. We clear up how it works, and how to work with versioning to avoid any crucial mishaps.
DocuSign is a brilliant way to electronically sign and manage key documents between different users and devices, here's how to integrate it into your Retool app.
Using Retool’s “Query JSON with SQL” query, we create a filter panel that streamlines the experience for the end user. We will focus on setting up a filter container with a bespoke UI to help your users sort and find data in tables more effectively and with fewer clicks.
