No-code databases and spreadsheet-database apps in 2026
5 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Airtable has the most readers, about 5.1k a month. 3 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. APITable leads with 16k stars, ahead of Grist-core. 3 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: AGPL-3.0 (1), Apache-2.0 (1) and GPL-3.0 (1).
Commercial no-code databases and spreadsheet-database apps
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Airtable Airtable
500,000+ brands use Airtable to enable real-time collaboration, automate repetitive tasks & manual work, and streamline business processes in minutes. Join them.
Complete system Production-ready A team has outgrown spreadsheets and wants linked records and simple apps without developers.
5.1k readers a month Since 2012 Commercial -
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Coda Coda Project
Coda is an all-in-one platform that blends the flexibility of docs, structure of spreadsheets, power of applications, and intelligence of AI.
Complete system Production-ready A team wants docs and simple operational apps such as trackers in one flexible workspace.
144 readers a month Since 2019 Commercial -
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Quickbase Quickbase
Unleash the creativity of your teams to quickly improve any process. See why thousands of the world’s best businesses build what matters on Quickbase. Try it free!
Framework or platform Production-ready An operations team at a midsize or large company needs relational business apps it can build itself with IT governance.
116 readers a month Since 1999 Commercial -
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Smartsheet Grids Smartsheet Inc.
Personalize workflows, predict outcomes, and move faster with Smartsheet – a platform built for the way you work.
Complete system Production-ready Teams want shared tracking tables with approval workflows and already use Smartsheet.
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Knack Knack
Build robust applications with our No-Code AI App Builder and premier app builder platform. Try Knack for free today!
Framework or platform Production-ready A small organisation wants a database-backed web app with user logins and no developers.
Commercial
Open-source no-code databases and spreadsheet-database apps
Complete systems you can adopt 3
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APITable apitable
🚀🎉📚 APITable, an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.
Complete system Usable You want a self-hosted Airtable alternative with an API on every table and can run a Java plus Node stack.
★ 16k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 2 months ago -
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Grist-core gristlabs
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.
Complete system Production-ready Your team has outgrown spreadsheets and wants Airtable-style structure that can be self-hosted.
★ 12k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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Mathesar mathesar-foundation
An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface that lets users of all technical skill levels view, edit, query, and collaborate on Postgres data directly. 100% open source and self hosted, with native Postgres access control.
Complete system Usable Non-technical colleagues need to work with data in an existing Postgres database and you want them to use the real tables, not a copy.
★ 5.2k GPL-3.0 Svelte Active, pushed 6 days ago
Compared head to head
Also under internal tool builders and low-code platforms
Open-source licenses
- Network copyleft: 1. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Permissive: 1. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Strong copyleft: 1. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
Languages
TypeScript 2 and Svelte 1.
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