A powerful Airtable alternative
User friendly. Enterprise ready.
3 million users. 190 countries.
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Smartsheet is an online, collaborative work execution platform that is better than Airtable in scalability, reporting, integrations, automation, and security. Start a free 30-day trial and see why 96% of customers recommend Smartsheet to colleagues!
Smartsheet vs. Airtable, according to thousands of customers
See how Smartsheet compares to top project management vendors like Airtable, Asana, monday.com, and Trello in the latest G2 Grid® report.
✔ 92% of enterprise users rated Smartsheet 4 or 5 stars
✔ Smartsheet has a 96% satisfaction score, compared to 94% for Airtable
✔ Smartsheet scores significantly higher than Airtable in critical project management abilities like Gantt, time and expense tracking, and planning
Smartsheet is among the very best resources for project managers to track and control tasks on a daily schedule.
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Scalable deployment
Make changes across your entire Smartsheet portfolio at once
Smartsheet Control Center allows you to automate project provisioning, manage global updates and reporting across your portfolio, and archive your completed work within minutes.
In Airtable, you have to manually start with a template, copy an existing template, import a file, or start from scratch.
Smartsheet met our needs for a platform that would serve the whole company, including support of BYOD and mobility for employees. We've also proven that you don't always need a large-scale project management system. A spreadsheet-based system becomes powerful because it is easy for employees to use.
Robust project management
Edit Smartsheet dashboards with drag and drop widgets
Smartsheet offers robust project management capabilities that PMs love, including dependencies, critical path, resource management and more. Smartsheet training is also PMI certified.
Airtable offers fewer project management capabilities.
It's been a tremendous help for me when I'm reporting to the executive team. I can easily show the task lists that demonstrate that the team has thought through every detail for each event. Plus anyone on the management team can drill down, and view documents at any time if they want to find out what we're doing.
Enterprise-grade integrations
Smartsheet offers 50+ pre-built direct integrations with leading enterprise apps, as well as a host of premium solutions, and an open API to build custom integrations.
Many of Airtable’s integrations require a 3rd party Zapier account to connect.
With Smartsheet for Jira now, all of our reports are in one place. It's really helped with a lot of the redundancy that I was facing.
Rule-based automation
Automate updates, requests, reports, and more with Smartsheet
Smartsheet has advanced, rule-based workflow automation capabilities to help teams work more efficiently.
Airtable’s automation features focus on data generation using formulas, filters, and blocks.
Government ready
Built on AWS GovCloud (US), Smartsheet Gov is the only work execution platform listed in the FedRAMP marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors.
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