Why our customers choose DronaHQ vs Retool

According to them, DronaHQ is easier to use, the user interfaces are richer and responsive which can be accessed on an end user portal as well as a mobile app and the usage based pricing lets you add unlimited users and doesn't become a non starter for usecases which start small.

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DronaHQ vs Appsmith vs Retool – A detailed technical comparison

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Rich and Responsive

Web + Mobile apps

Unlike Retool, every app that gets built on DronaHQ is by default accessible over web and mobile. Users get a choice of using them on an end user portal as well as a mobile app.

Internal apps for handy quick transactions, on field use are the need of the hour.

Integrating data

Integrate data without knowing JS

Unlike Retool where users need to dive in and write JS for everything, DronaHQ provides an easy point and click interface to binding data to controls from every datasource making the learning curve that much smaller.

For complicated operations we support all excel formulas and only when push comes to shove we open up the world of JS.

Event based Actions

Visually build Actionflows with blocks

On click of a button, page load and for many more such events, DronaHQ provides a visual flowchart based interface to build the actionflows, however complex they maybe.

These actionflows support serverside as well as clientside operations which makes building stunning experiences possible

Usage based pricing

Unlimited users across all plans

Data says that most of the users who use low code platforms start building small usecases for their users and then start growing in complexity and features. This means Retool becomes a non starter with a user based pricing.

DronaHQ has unlimited users across all plans which lets you start small and grow gradually.

DronaHQ forms are more powerful

DronaHQ has more powerful form controls with offline support and advanced conditional logic and rules and validations and native support like barcode scanners etc. for field form usecases

Almost all internal tools need forms and DronaHQ scores hands down over Retool here.

DronaHQ out of the box add-ons

DronaHQ provides add-ons like Business process workflows, Automations, and PDF creator out of the box which means more usecases are covered without leaving the platform.

All mature apps need these and Retool Alternative DronaHQ provides a single click access.

DronaHQ supports multiscreen app development

DronaHQ lets you create multiscreen apps, forms, and internal tools, contrary to Retool’s single-page applications.

The most important feature of any multiscreen application is the ability to navigate from one screen to another based on a logical expression and DronaHQ gets the edge here over Retool.

DronaHQ offers multiple screen types

DronaHQ supports building different screen types like Page, Menu, Popup, Tray on top of which you can add UI controls, layouts, actionflows to perform tasks.

These screen types are instrumental to navigating and presenting the right information at the right time.

DronaHQ Sheets - Inbuilt no code Database

DronaHQ provides an inbuilt database called as Sheets which doesn't require SQL or any other query language to connect.

Apps where dropdown masters and other data which needs to be updated over the air or intermediate form submissions need to be saved are typical usecases.

Custom Internal Tool UI Control Designer

DronaHQ layouts and designer for building aesthetic UI

Though these are internal tools, there are times when you need to design an aesthetic pixel perfect UI and Retool fails to provide you an editor which does that.

DronaHQ provides layouts with all visual CSS properties as well as a drag and drop control designer.

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