Glide
Turn spreadsheets into beautiful, intelligent apps
About Glide
Glide is a no-code platform that turns spreadsheets and databases into custom business apps without writing code. It combines a visual builder, AI features, and workflow automation so teams can ship internal tools, dashboards, and customer-facing apps in hours instead of weeks.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Extremely fast to build a functional app — many users ship working tools in under 90 minutes
- Intuitive visual builder accessible to non-developers and business teams
- Strong native AI features for text generation, document parsing, and sentiment analysis
- Excellent Google Sheets and spreadsheet integration with real-time sync
- Highly rated by users (4.7/5 across nearly 800 G2 reviews)
- Generous component library covers most internal tool use cases out of the box
Cons
- Walled-garden architecture — you can only build what Glide's components allow, with no code export
- Cannot publish native apps to the iOS App Store or Google Play (PWA-style only)
- Update-based pricing makes Google Sheets/Airtable significantly more expensive than Glide Tables for high-activity apps
- Free tier user cap (10 users) is restrictive for founders validating a product
- Workflows can be difficult for first-time users despite the visual interface
Key Features
Visual App Builder
Drag-and-drop interface with 40+ pre-built components for forms, lists, charts, and calendars.
Spreadsheet to App
Connect Google Sheets, Excel, or Glide Tables and instantly turn them into a working app.
Glide AI
Generate text, summarize content, analyze sentiment, transcribe audio, and extract data from images or PDFs inside your app logic.
Workflow Automation
Build automations on a visual canvas with conditional logic, triggers, and multi-step actions.
Data Source Integrations
Sync with Google Sheets, SQL databases, Airtable, BigQuery, and other CRMs/ERPs in real time.
Access Controls
Fine-grained role-based permissions and row-level security for sensitive business data.
Responsive Design
Apps automatically adapt to phones, tablets, and desktops without manual layout work.
Custom Branding
Theme, layout, logo, and color customization to match your company brand.
API Access
REST API for embedding Glide data and actions into other systems on Business and Enterprise plans.
Enterprise Security
SSO, data backups, and SOC 2 compliance available on Enterprise plans.
Pricing
- Unlimited drafts
- 1 editor
- Up to 25k rows
- 40+ components
- Glide Tables only
- Community support
- 100 personal users included
- 250 updates included
- 2 editors
- 1 published app
- 25GB file storage
- Workflows and Glide AI
- Google Sheets import/sync
- Unlimited personal users
- 500 updates included
- 2 editors
- 3 published apps
- 25GB file storage
- 50k high-scale data rows
- Workflows, AI, and integrations
- 30 users included
- 5,000 updates included
- 10 editors
- Unlimited published apps
- 500GB file storage
- 100k high-scale data rows
- Multiple data sources
- API access
- Unlimited apps, users, updates, rows
- Custom data sources (100+)
- SSO and data backups
- Account manager
- Priority support
Best For
Internal Business Tools
Build inventory, CRM, work order, and field sales apps for SMBs without hiring developers.
Operations Dashboards
Turn spreadsheets into real-time dashboards for logistics, procurement, and warehouse teams.
Customer Portals
Create branded client portals with role-based access for vendor management or service delivery.
AI-Powered Workflows
Use Glide AI to extract data from PDFs, summarize submissions, or auto-generate content inside business apps.
Rapid Prototyping
Validate app ideas with stakeholders in hours by wiring a Google Sheet to a polished UI.
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