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Baserow
What Is Baserow?
Baserow is the open platform to create scalable databases and applications without code. With its intuitive interface and flexibility, Baserow empowers teams to manage data with ease. Real-time collaboration allows for seamless teamwork and productivity. Baserow offers powerful data management features, including multiple tables, views, and relationships.
Baserow can be self-hosted, ensuring compliance with legal and data regulations, and is both HIPAA and SOC2 compliant.
Baserow's open source nature ensures business continuity at the turn of any event. It also means that it's infinitely extensible, allowing you to build on top of it to fit specific business requirements or increase its functionality.
Whether you're a startup, a nonprofit, or a large enterprise, Baserow provides the tools to build powerful, scalable applications tailored to your needs. It's time to take control of your data and unlock your team's potential with Baserow.
Who Uses Baserow?
Enterprise or public sector entity with 500-10,000 employees, with 50-100 weekly users in Product, IT, Engineering, Operations, HR, or Marketing teams.
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Reviews of Baserow
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Superb open source project management tools
Comments: I love using Baserow, it helped my team to manage the task.
Pros:
Baserow provides open source version, which helped a lot for nonprofit companies to manage their team and projects.
Cons:
- There is no desktop version of baserow. - Cannot add WYSIWYG page on an item/task
Baserow Response
10 months ago
Hi FX Bayu, thanks for taking the time to review! We don't get a lot of requests for a desktop version of Baserow, but if our community members are interested, it's something we can look into. In the meantime, there are some solutions that turn web apps into "native" apps using wrappers. Suggest looking into that if it's of interest. Regarding views: Baserow has Grid (table) Kanban (board), and Calendar views available. Lastly: Be sure to enable rich text formatting when creating a Long Text field. That should help! –Hiram
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Baserow is excellent
Comments: Overall the experience is very positive and there are people behind committed to making Baserow better.
Pros:
Baserow is simply excellent and we use it to manage all our marketing in one central place. It offers us an easy way to create a database, collect data and trigger automations via Make.com. Its a great and better alternative than Airtable. Also the fact that there is a self-hosted option, make this really attractive. We keep discovering new ways of using Baserow as we go, and we plan to use it as our central database to manage all kinds of activities.
Cons:
At some times it might be a bit cumbersome to understand how it works or to find the exact solution to your problem. However, we kept trying and thanks to the Baserow Community and their Support we always could figure it out.
Baserow Response
4 months ago
Hey Cyrill, thanks for your glowing review. It's awesome to hear that Baserow is allowing you to manage all your marketing in a single location. Appreciate you taking the time to review us—means a lot. Cheers!
Baserow Review
Pros:
Categories are flexible, the interface is easy to read, easy to collaborate with other in the company, less expensive than competitors
Cons:
We need a mobile version, capability to create more Views, and an easier Search function.
Baserow Response
10 months ago
Hi Jamie, thanks for your review! Baserow is mobile friendly on the web, so you can use it on any browser. With that said, if our community feels that that a native mobile app would be helpful, it's something we can dive further into. More views are coming (see the roadmap), and it'd be great to hear how we can improve search. Drop us a line in the Baserow Community and let's discuss! -Hiram
The best database
Comments: Excellent application for small and medium.business as well as new developers
Pros:
Really great tool due to its simplicty and also the constant evolution. Simce the start ive been excited about that
Cons:
Baserow still does not allow copying bases
Baserow Response
3 months ago
Hi Jader, thanks for your recommendation and review! It's possible to copy databases—simply click on the ellipses next to the database and then click 'Duplicate.' That'll do it. - Hiram
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Good, and improving
Comments: I believe a lot in Baserow, it's clearly not perfect yet, but it's far more reliable than Airtable for many use-cases (anything that is "backend-powered"). The product team is doing a good job, the tech team has mostly made great design decisions. Stuff could be better, but they're listening to their customers. I like to compare Baserow to Airtable, because they're very much alike UI-wise, and are meant for the same people, those who aren't necessarily deeply technical but who know how to design a DB. It's much more simpler than Supabase/Xano, and with the recent addition of the App Builder (Beta), it will become even better and usable by many more people.
Pros:
- I love the fact it's open-source - Easy to deploy on self-hosted server - API is great and well designed - UI is good, although not as good as Airtable - Writing Formulas is a pain (UX can be improved) - Lookup/Rollup behave strangely with relationships - App Builder is the future
Cons:
- Airtable UI is better/faster - Airtable provide more features (sync tables)
Baserow Response
11 months ago
Hey Ambroise, thanks for your feedback and review! I'll be sure to pass this on to the rest of the team so we can address some of these proposed improvements. If you have any specifics, feel free to reach out directly, or pop them into community.baserow.io where we can drill down further. Thanks again!
