Glide Reviews

Glide and Bubble are popular choices for businesses looking for a no-code platform. However, it’s important to understand their differences to make an informed choice that aligns with your business’s needs. Firstly, Glide and Bubble take a different approach to data sources. Glide lets you connect your apps with Google Sheets, Airtable, and Excel databases and offers an internal data solution, Glide Tables. Glide may be the logical solution if you already rely on these data sources. Compared to Glide, Bubble connects with data sources via an API Connector plug-in, allowing you to connect to any external database. You can also create a database within Bubble. 

The platforms also have a slightly different focus. Glide excels in building internal and mobile apps, for example, inventory management, filed options, event management, and customer and employee portals. To do this, Glide offers a user-friendly platform based on templates, enabling you to create an app in minutes. While...

Softr promises a simple and powerful way of building apps and websites using the same simple interface. The main focus of Softr when it comes to pulling in data is from Airtable, which can sometimes be restrictive, but there is, of course, Google Sheets, which is more flexible. Unlike, Glide, Softr had numerous integrations from the start, offering options like Google Analytics all the way to Clarity. Despite all of this, the apps it creates are not as responsive as Glide’s, and to make things more difficult, there is a limited number of automation options. On the positive side, it does offer quality template options compared to Glide (but not a lot of them, since Glide has over 400), which can help you get started quickly.

Glide is a no-code app-building platform that can utilize your spreadsheets and databases to create apps. It can utilize data from sources like Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable or Glide Tables and help you create an app out of the data with just a few clicks. With...