SmartSuite vs Airtable Which is best for you?

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.

Can Smart Suite have a view that gets rid of the table mechanics? That is, if I wanting to see who is past due, can I get with in a very simple screen? Are there triggers available for specific conditions?

Hugely helpful video. Thank you!

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

does smartsuite have a geo-locate ability ... the ability to see on map where you created a record...... that would be a big hit

when connecting two tables in smartsuites....Parent/child link..... 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 person..... 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 person...... big miss on airtable to allow an option to show most recent record first

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

Really good video, thanks.

Happy to the the smartsuite time around

phil book on the back.... nice :)

Is there a way in smart suite to give a person external to my company - say a contractor who I do not want on a team - access to a record and have them alter one or two fields to say a task is done - or leave a note -but not have them as a team member - Airtable lets you do this

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

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!

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

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.

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

can you review Coda too?

Are you allowed to say in what this programme is worse than AT?

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!!!

Super helpful, Gareth!

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.

We can't run a script in smartsuite?

Grab those 35$ enterprise licence right now before VC start asking for more and this become the legacy plan. I have seen way too many cool solutions that became 5X more expensive couple of years after. Clearly Airtable is going that way too. All new cool features will be on the enterprise plan only.

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

Does smart suite have calendars like air table?

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

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