Glide
APIGlide is a no-code platform for building mobile and web apps from spreadsheets and databases with drag-and-drop componen
www.glideapps.comLast updated: April 2026
Glide is a no-code platform for building mobile and web apps from spreadsheets and databases with drag-and-drop components and automated workflows.
About
Glide is a no-code platform that enables anyone to build beautiful, functional mobile and web applications directly from their existing data in Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, BigQuery, or a built-in Glide Tables database. By providing a visual app builder on top of familiar data sources, Glide makes app development accessible to business users, operations teams, and citizen developers who want to create custom tools without engineering resources.
The data connection is where Glide apps begin. After connecting a Google Sheet, Airtable base, or other supported data source, Glide automatically reads the columns and data types and provides a starting point for the app interface. Columns become fields in the app, rows become items in lists, and relationships between sheets or tables are available for navigation between related records.
The app building interface in Glide uses a component library that covers all common mobile and web UI patterns. List views display collections of items with configurable sorting and filtering. Detail views show all fields of a selected item with edit capabilities. Form views enable data entry with validation. Charts and visualizations display numeric data graphically. Maps show items with location coordinates on an interactive map. Custom Screens enable drag-and-drop layout design for complex interfaces.
Computed columns in Glide enable deriving new values from existing data without modifying the underlying data source. Math expressions, template strings, lookup columns, rollup aggregations, and conditional if-then logic are available as column types that calculate values from other columns. This computed layer enables building sophisticated app logic without touching the underlying spreadsheet.
Actions in Glide define what happens when users interact with the app. Built-in actions include creating rows, editing rows, deleting rows, navigating to another screen, showing notifications, and making API requests to external services. Custom actions combine multiple actions into reusable sequences that can be triggered from any interaction.
User-specific features in Glide include role-based visibility rules that show different screens and fields to different users based on their email address, role, or other data attributes. This enables building multi-tenant apps, admin vs. user interfaces, and permission-based access controls.
Positioning
Glide turns spreadsheets and databases into functional mobile and web applications without writing code. Point it at a Google Sheet, Excel file, Airtable base, or SQL database, and Glide generates a working app with forms, lists, detail views, and user authentication — all editable through a visual builder.
Where Glide excels is in the speed-to-value ratio: a functional internal tool or customer-facing app can be live within an hour. The platform handles responsive layouts, user roles, conditional visibility, computed columns, and integrations, making it powerful enough for real business workflows while remaining accessible to non-technical builders.
What You Get
- Spreadsheet-to-App Conversion
Connect a Google Sheet, Excel, Airtable, or SQL database and Glide auto-generates an app with appropriate UI components. - Visual App Builder
Drag-and-drop editor with pre-built components for lists, forms, charts, maps, calendars, and rich detail pages. - Computed Columns
Add business logic with spreadsheet-style formulas, if/then conditions, template columns, and relation lookups directly in Glide's data editor. - User Roles & Permissions
Row-level security based on user email, with configurable visibility rules for screens, components, and actions. - Integrations & API
Connect to Zapier, Make, Slack, Stripe, and send emails or webhooks from within app actions.
Core Areas
Internal Tools
Build inventory trackers, approval workflows, CRMs, and operational dashboards for teams that live in spreadsheets.
Customer-Facing Apps
Create portals, directories, booking systems, and service apps with custom branding and user authentication.
Field Operations
Deploy mobile-first apps for field teams to collect data, manage tasks, and report from anywhere.
Rapid Prototyping
Validate app ideas quickly by building functional prototypes backed by real data in hours rather than weeks.
Why It Matters
Millions of business processes run on spreadsheets that should be apps — they lack user permissions, mobile access, validation, and professional interfaces. Glide bridges this gap by meeting teams where their data already lives and wrapping it in a proper application layer.
For companies that can't justify hiring developers for every internal tool, Glide empowers operations managers, team leads, and business analysts to build exactly what they need. The apps aren't throwaway prototypes — they handle thousands of daily users in production.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
Log in to write a review
Related
Forest Admin
Forest Admin is a developer-first admin panel platform that auto-generates a back office from your database schema with full customization via code.
Rowy
Rowy is an open source platform providing a spreadsheet UI for Firebase Firestore with cloud functions, automations, and field type extensions.
Estuary
Estuary Flow is an open source real-time data integration platform for building low-latency CDC pipelines between databases, APIs, and data warehouses.