APITable Is An Open-source Low-code Solution and Airtable Alternative

APITable is a free open-source and self-hosted API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.

It comes with dozens of useful features which include team collaboration in real-time, automatic headless API dashboard, several data views, and automatic form generation.

APITable offers two editions: a self-hosted open-source free edition and an enterprise paid edition with advanced features that include SAML, Single-Sign-On (SSO), audit, database auto backup, data explorer, and watermark.

However, APITable requires a server with considerable hardware specifications. It is recommended to have at least 4 CPUs/8 GB RAM.

Note that the Native arm64 (Apple Silicon) container images is not ready yet and may cause bad performance.

Features

1. Rich dashboard
2. Easy to install using Docker
3. SQL-like query APITable will provide a Datasheet Query Language (DQL) to query your database-spreadsheet contents.
4. Real-time collaboration
5. Rich Database spreadsheet UI
6. 7 View Types: Grid View (Datasheet) / Gallery View / Mind map View / Kanban View / Full-Feature Gantt View / Calendar View
7. Full CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations
8. Fields operations: sort, filter, grouping
9. You can share and embed your tables easily in web apps
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11. API-first panels
12. Unlimited cross-table links
13. Move data between tables
14. Row and columns permissions
15. Built-in 10+ templates
16. BI dashboard
17. One-click auto-generated form
18. Shareable and embeddable page
19. Multi-language support
20. Integration with n8n.io / Zapier / Appsmith... and more.
21. Advanced permission options
22. Extensible Widget System with over 20 officials open-source widgets.
23. Customizable Graph & Chart & Dashboard
24. Customizable Data Column Types
25. Customizable Formulas
26. Customizable Automation Robot Actions.
27. Developer-friendly API
28. Rich DevOps and developer-oriented documentation

Use cases

1. Business intelligence
2. Web and mobile app backends
3. Team collaborations of spreadsheet
4. App Prototyping
5. Flexible Project Management & Tasks / Issues Management.
6. Marketing Lead Management.
7. Most flexible and connectable CRM.
8. Flexible Business Intelligence (BI).
9. People-Friendly Forms and Surveys
10. Flexible ERP.
11. Low-code and no-code platform.
12. Embed API Table into your own software UIs.
13. Visual Database with REST API.
14. Admin dashboard.
15. Central configuration management.
16. All-in-one enterprise database that connect all your software.

License

The open-source edition is released under the AGPL-3.0 License.

Resources

• Source code