Retool's #1 Alternative

Retool vs DronaHQ:
Why switch over?

Using Retool means creating separate apps for web and mobile, making do with standard designs, and getting stuck with user-based pricing. In contrast, DronaHQ offers richer and more responsive user experiences with apps that work both on the web and mobile. Multiple pricing options help scale apps to unlimited users.

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Why DronaHQ is a better Retool alternative

In addition to multiple pricing plans that suit diverse business use cases, DronaHQ offers critical software development capabilities that help teams deliver truly enterprise-grade applications.

Rich UI experience on DronaHQ
Rich and responsive UI
Unlike Retool that only supports single screen apps, every app that gets built on DronaHQ comes with capabilities like:
  • iconlist Default native mobile app
  • iconlist Multiscreen apps
  • iconlist Smooth transitions
  • iconlist Menus
Real Apps and Rich Designs on DronaHQ
Superior app experience
DronaHQ empowers you to build rich experiences with pixel-perfect designs for web and mobile including:
  • iconlist Multilingual apps
  • iconlist Dynamic themes
  • iconlist Dark mode apps
  • iconlist Frontend actions
SSO on DronaHQ
SSO in Business Plan
Retool offers limited SSO & branding options only in enterprise tier. DronaHQ's business plan includes essential features:
  • iconlist Custom SSO
  • iconlist Custom branding
  • iconlist Data environments
  • iconlist Custom UI
24X7 Engineering Support on DronaHQ
24 x 7 Engineering support
DronaHQ offers engineering support from our product specialists and developers to co-build apps, resolve your technical queries and onboard!
  • iconlist 24 x 7 Developer Support
  • iconlist Community
  • iconlist Rich Docs
  • iconlist Onboarding support
Retool Migration Story

Clevertap saves 50% on subscription fees with DronaHQ's dynamic licensing

Clevertap swiftly transitioned over 70 essential internal tools from Retool to DronaHQ within 30 days, saving over 50% in subscription costs thanks to dynamic licensing models, and achieving better ROI for custom application development.

Clevertap saves 50% on subscription fees with DronaHQ's dynamic licensing
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Comparison between Retool and DronaHQ

DronaHQ offers multiple pricing plans including usage-based and developer-only (unlimited users) options. Users get core app development features like SSO, Environments, Custom app domain and Branding, right from the Business plan itself.

With Retool, many features come as standalone accessible by additional purchases that make scaling the apps complicated and expensive. Critical app functionality can only be achieved in Retool’s enterprise tier.

Web & Mobile o/p

Action flow builder

Powerful UI controls

Dynamic themes

Engineering hours

Multiple SSO

Custom SSO

Git sync

Multiple instances on self-hosted

Data environments

Add-ons

Licensing

DronaHQ
Web & Mobile o/p
One app for web as well as mobile ✅
Action flow builder
Visual interface ✅
Powerful UI controls
Native & advance
Dynamic themes
Customizable themes ✅
Engineering hours
50 hours ✅
Multiple SSO
✅
Custom SSO
Business plan onwards ✅
Git sync
Business plan onwards ✅
Multiple instances on self-hosted
Business plan onwards ✅
Data environments
Unlimited
Add-ons
Automation, PDF Creator, Database, Storage
Licensing
User based, usage based, developer-only
Retool
Web & Mobile o/p
Different apps needed to be built for mobile & web
Action flow builder
Custom coding, no visual interface
Powerful UI controls
Custom coding
Dynamic themes
❌
Engineering hours
❌
Multiple SSO
❌
Custom SSO
Only in Enterprise plan
Git sync
Enterprise plan onwards
Multiple instances on self-hosted
Enterprise plan onwards
Data environments
Limited
Add-ons
Automation, Databases
Licensing
Only user based plans
See what top brands say about DronaHQ

Switching to DronaHQ was the right choice for our future growth and sustainability.

DronaHQ’s flexible licensing options offered the scalability we needed without user-based pricing constraints in Retool. Their seamless integration with AWS RDS PostgreSQL, .Net-based web services, and support for .Net Identity not only met our needs but exceeded our expectations!

– Chief Technology Officer @ Nutrition Data Management Company

Scales internal operations 10x faster

“Going with DronaHQ was an easy decision, it is helping us cut down the time to launch tools from a few weeks to a few days. Support for unlimited end-users was cherry on top.”

Suyash Katyayani
Co-Founder & CTO

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Mobile apps for field force

“Where we’ve really enjoyed success with DronaHQ is that we can turn things around, now, from an idea to a real thing in five weeks, which for us is wonderful.”

Andrew Scott
Global Solutions Owner

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Very smooth UI building experience

“The DronaHQ platform is helping us enable our backend engineers to build UIs, utilize existing APIs and backend services and essentially become full-stack engineers.”

Jamshed Jahangir
Mulesoft Developer

1 million+ users use apps built on DronaHQ platform

Apps built for various roles, verticals, and industries like FMCG, Banking, Finance, Retail, Manufacturing, IT Pharma, Automotive, Tech.

Powerful Forms on DronaHQ

DronaHQ forms are more powerful

DronaHQ has more powerful form controls with offline support, advanced conditional logic, rules and validations, native support for barcode scanners, file upload, signature pads, etc.

Almost all business operations need forms and DronaHQ scores hands down over Retool here.

Powerful Addons on DronaHQ

DronaHQ out of the box add-ons

DronaHQ provides add-ons like Automation, Database, Storage* and PDF Creator out of the box which means more use cases are covered without leaving the platform.

All mature apps need these and Retool Alternative DronaHQ provides a single click access.

Visually Design Action Flows on DronaHQ

Visually design actionflows

On click of a button, page load and for many more such events, DronaHQ provides a visual flowchart-based interface to build the actionflows, however complex they may be.
These actionflows support serverside as well as client-side operations which makes building stunning experiences possible

Multiscreen Apps on DronaHQ

Multiscreen, multiple screen types

DronaHQ supports building different screen types like Page, Menu, Popup, and Tray on top of which you can add UI controls, layouts, and actionflows to perform tasks.

These screen types are instrumental to navigating and presenting the right information at the right time.

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Purpose-built with love for both Business and IT teams

DronaHQ empowers everyone to build beautiful looking, mobile responsive internal apps and tools on top of Databases or APIs without writing code.
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