Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AirQL: An Airtable API with OAuth2 access control and permissions
Hey there! At our company, Bit Complete [1], we use Airtable a bunch for managing operations. We really like how easy it is to throw up a form to collect information, or to build automations for offline processing like aggregations. One challenge we kept running into was how to build more complicated interactive apps using the API, while maintaining fine-grained access control to Airtable data. Airtable ties identity to API access control via API keys, which makes it very hard to build apps with realistic access control needs. So we built AirQL! [2] It’s a utility layer between Airtable’s…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AirQL: An Airtable API with OAuth2 access control and permissions launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Airtable Blocks▲877500,000+ brands use Airtable to enable real-time collaboration, automate repetitive tasks & manual work, and streamline business processes in minutes. Join them.
2018 · airtable.com · its alternatives →
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Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
2014 · airtable.com · its alternatives →
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Airbook 2.0▲917hey hn — we’re hoshang & vishal, co-founders of airbook. it’s an ai-native workspace to build notebooks, dashboards, or even lightweight data apps — all from one place (https://www.airbook.io) we used to run ops and analytics at saas startups and constantly found ourselves juggling 10 tools just to get one thing done - exploration in a notebook, kpis in a dashboard, and re-usable scripts or apps hacked together elsewhere. it was slow, fragmented, and repetitive. with Airbook, you can connect to your database, warehouse, or even directly to saas tools if you don’t have an etl in…
2024 · airbook.io · its alternatives →
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Turn your Airtable into an app in minutes
2020 · stacker.ai · its alternatives →
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Switchboard▲768Hey HN this is Daniel, I'm excited to share Airtop with the community! Airtop enables AI agents to seamlessly browse and automate any website — even ones with complex authentication like MFA or OAuth. Whether you need to scrape, interact with dynamic content, or automate tasks across multiple browsers, Airtop's cloud-based infrastructure makes it scalable and accessible. Why Airtop? — AI-Driven Web Automation: Automate interactions with any site through natural language commands even if they include human-in-the-loop scenarios. — Authentication Ready: Airtop handles websites requiring…
2022 · airtop.ai · its alternatives →
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Connect Airtable to OpenAI API without using 3rd party tools
2023 · invertedstone.com · its alternatives →
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Softr 2.0▲1,151Build web apps & portals from Airtable, no code required
2021 · softr.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're Lennert and Rauf. We’re building Airweave (https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave), an open-source tool that lets agents search and retrieve data from any app or database. Here’s a general intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFI-7SYGQ48, and here’s a longer one that shows more real-world use cases, examples of how Airweave is used by Cursor (0:33) and Claude desktop (2:04), etc.: https://youtu.be/p2dl-39HwQo A couple of months ago we were building agents that interacted with different apps and were frustrated when they…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Airbolt AI▲79Hi HN! We love the "backend-less" stack: Stripe for payments, Supabase for data, Clerk for auth. But the moment we add AI features, we're forced to spin up a backend to hide API keys, implement per-user token-based rate limits and graceful degradation, etc. So we built Airbolt. What it does: Drop in our SDK and start making OpenAI calls directly from your frontend. Your keys are AES-256-GCM encrypted on our servers, never exposed to the client. We provide token-based per-user rate limits and origin allow lists to address inference abuse. Short-lived JWTs and bring-your-own-auth are coming…
2025 · airbolt.ai · its alternatives →
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🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative. Contribute to nocodb/nocodb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Retable▲756Airtable alternative - one tool to replace them all
2024 · retable.io · its alternatives →
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Airvues▲67Build web apps using Airtable databases without writing code
2021 · airvues.com · its alternatives →
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A no-code tool for creating sites using Airtable
2020 · pory.io · its alternatives →
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Shareables▲155Hey HN, 1 year ago I shared the project I'd build, Shareables. A tool to connect Airtable to visual templates Over the last year, I've been inspired by the use cases people have for Airtable. I've seen food truck directories, pet medical logs, you name it. I'm excited to share the new Shareables designer mode, where you can create completely custom micro-sites (powered by your Airtable data) with a simple drag-and-drop editor, which lets you style to create unique designs and layouts for any use-case, business or personal I would love for you to give it a go. 1. All you need to do is, head…
2024 · shareables.ai · its alternatives →
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As a software engineer, I've experienced firsthand the challenges of working with the Airtable API. As more non-technical users began using the platform in our growing business, the need for engineering to automate processes and sync data into Airtable grew. However, keeping track of process failures and ensuring that no unresolved failures slipped by was difficult and required significant effort. That's why I created Airwalker, a toolkit that improves the reliability of processes using the Airtable API and helps you correct issues quickly and with minimal effort. Here are some of the…
2023 · airwalker.io · its alternatives →
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NoCodeAPI 2.0▲475Connect with third-party application APIs without code
2020 · nocodeapi.com · its alternatives →
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Run API requests without leaving Airtable
2020 · datafetcher.com · its alternatives →
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Flairtable▲92Frontend safe Airtable. Secure and scope your API key.
2020 · flairtable.com · its alternatives →
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Write, edit, and run short scripts in Airtable
2020 · airtable.com · its alternatives →
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