SmartSuite vs Airtable 🤔 Which is best for you?

Which is best for you? Airtable or SmartSuite? This video breaks down three key areas to consider: The software, the price, and the consulting communities of these two amazing no-code options! 👇

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Table of Contents: 📖 👇

00:00 - What this video covers
02:01 - Part 1: Software Differences
02:32 - Linking Differences
06:06 - Permission Differences
10:44 - Automation Differences
15:01 - Interface/Dashboard Differences
17:44 - 3rd Party Connections
18:58 - Part 2: Pricing
22:22 - Part 3: Consulting Communities
24:32 - How to Get More Help!

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[kenjiekirimi]

Great showdown video. Smart suite has great potential for mass market now that Airtable wants to focus on enterprise customers. I love the use of humans in the UI

[I_Mackenzie]

Thanks for the vid Gareth. Well explained. Do you have a video on how to migrate from Airtable to SmartSuite?

[mhbcgn]

I like that smart suite is so approachable and I saw the CEO even commenting your videos

[cottagekeeper]

Interesting review. I’be been using Airtable for years and have found their competition lacking. This video really makes me think AT has some competition that will help them get better at serving their customer base. I received a survey last week from AT and was shocked at the questions, it seemed they genuinely wanted to hear my perspective. Going to check out SmartSuite. Thanks for the review!!!

Happy to the the smartsuite time around

[cheryltreharne]

One of our biggest issues with Airtable is the option to take payments without a long winded and multi software approach will smartsuite be able to do anything that can deal with this

[ChristineBenton]

I rebuilt two of my AT bases in SmartSuite last week as I felt I should give some real time to it to explore. I really like some things about Smartsuite. The interface is amazing and I'm excited about some capes like invoicing. But I find a few things annoying. While I can clear the view of the automatic fields they create in each app, the fields still show up when I'm linking to that app and deleting them takes longer than with AT. Also, when I create a new field, I have to go back up to the top of the box to name the field; I think it's way easier and more intuitive in AT. Finally, data entry is taking me much longer in SS. And the linking sometimes takes a few refreshes to show up. I'm keeping an eye on SS as it may be the thing for me in 2024 but for now I need the speed in set-up and data entry of AT. I'm just too impatient at this point. I did, however, see the webinar that Gareth hosted for SmartSuite on their website and will check that out.

[informify]

We started working with SmartSuite due to the impressiv task, timetracking and resource allocation possibilities (that actually wasn't covered in this video). However, I've found the UI to be impractical (takes way to much space and isn't as graspable as in airtable) and a another big downside is that the product it self has been bugging. Pasting/importing data just won't work in bulk the way it should. As impressive as SmartSuite looks on the project side I'm still not convinced.

[yifeifan]

Great video! Just out of curiosity, is this video sponsored by either of the companies?

[thinkingtooloudm.stewart]

Thank you for the review. Now that AIRTABLE has killed their 10/mo/seat plan there is only the FREE plan at 1, 000 records/base (<-- they dropped the limit) I've been looking for something to replace AT. It looks like SmartSuite has that mid-range small/independent user price point. Hooray. Ok. Off to give SS a try. Than you again.

[tomm]

Great comparison, just what I was looking for. For Smartsuite, is a licensee/seat needed for a user with only assignee permission?

[RocknRollCEO]

Brilliant comparison video. Two excellent solutions and great teams. But I love what SmartSuite are doing and the way they're doing it. The solution UI and UX is as close to perfection as you can get for a newly launched platform. And from the CEO "downwards", just a wonderful bunch of people. Looking forward to the increase in direct integrations, specifically with Make, and F'insweet Wized for Webflow.
Avi's solution presentations remind me of myself 15 years ago : ). Top man.
Cheers, Gareth.

[Nick-btef]

Gareth,
I am really liking a lot of things you can do in SmartSuite!
Can you do possibility do a comparison video on the performance of each with large data sets?
Say 40, 000+ records with 200-300 fields in each table/app to see how each preform in desktop & iOS mobile. Airtable has improved within the last year or so, but would be interested to see how SmartSuite compares before possibly making the switch.
Love your videos.
Thanks!

[greginfla]

when connecting two tables in smartsuites....Parent/child and you sort the child table to have the newest records listed first? I have created a meeting app.... one table is contract in and the other table is the topic of meetings I had with Airtable doesn't have a option to link newest records first.... so for me to see what the last meeting I had with a person I have to scroll down all the entries I have for that big miss on airtable to allow an option to show most recent record first

[paulbird]

In Smartsuite you mentioned the linking to other apps (tables) in other solutions (bases) and then the permissions can be set the apps, how do the permissions work if part of the app is data pulled from a different app with different permissions set.

[neb]

If there were extensions in SmartSuite like page design I might move over. But I cant get over the fact that you cant highlight cells to copy in SmartSuite which is a basic thing you can do in google sheets or airtable

[desuki]

What no code mobile app builder that can work well with Smartsuite? For airtable there is softr and glide. I'm keen to explore smartsuite due to link capability to other bases / solutions. I'm building crm and wanna use this as database

[qrona]

Hello Gareth! Thanks for this informative video. Keep up the good work.
Although something is still really unclear to me. I do really need your help.

Short: Should I use smartsuite instead of clickup + Airtable and especially why should i do so? What are the pro‘s and cons?

Long:
I was setting up notion but realized it‘s not really a project management but more a knowledge storage app.

So i am at ground zero again.

I really want to track everything. 2 most important for me is Data and Project management, followed my knowledge management like notes, links, SOP‘s.

So i was thinking about a combination of clickup and airtable. Today i stumbled on Smartsuite and was wondering if this maybe is the best way to go because it seems its like both tools in 1, which would be easier to handle, easier to teach employees and the possibility of errors due the connection of 2 apps would be gone.

[mhbcgn]

Also Gareth, not sure if you can confirm but smart suite is GDPR compliant whereas Airtable is not afaik. Huge factor for us right now as a company based in EU

[techcavetoday]

Does smart suite have calendars like air table?