Retool Portals and Retool Embed

In plain words

Retool Portals and Retool Embed are tools for building internal applications and customer-facing interfaces. Portals allows teams to create branded web applications without extensive coding, while Embed enables developers to integrate custom interfaces directly into existing applications. Together, they serve businesses and developers who need to quickly deploy functional applications for internal operations or customer interactions.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Retool started six years ago as a frontend builder for internal tools. Since we launched, we’ve worked with tens of thousands of companies across every vertical—from two-person startups all the way to Fortune 10s. We focused on making it as fast as possible for developers to build internal apps so that they don’t have to start from scratch to build the same patterns of admin panels, CRUD apps, frontends for APIs, automations, etc. To date, millions of applications have been built in Retool to help internal teams move faster and operate more effectively. But beyond internal tools, there are also massive amounts of external custom software being built for customers, partners, and vendors.…from retool.com

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