Overview
Glide builds internal business apps from a spreadsheet or a text prompt, using sources such as Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable and databases. Its agent can load your data and build apps, and Ask Glide answers questions about the business from live data. Apps share live data across desktop and phone, with row-level permissions, workflows and AI features. Outside agents such as Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT can connect over MCP.
Label: Vendor-described — Captured from the vendor's own materials. Not independently verified.
Best for
- Small businesses turning spreadsheets into internal apps for crews and staff
- Operations teams needing inventory, work order or field inspection apps fast
Key features
- Apps from Google Sheets, Excel or a prompt
- SheetSense reads formulas, lookups and notes
- Ask Glide answers questions from live data
- Workflows across connected apps
- Row-level permissions and SSO
- MCP access for Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT
What it does
- Build apps from a spreadsheet or text prompt
- Glide agent builds apps from your data; Ask Glide answers questions
- Workflows that update records across connected apps
- Row-level roles, SSO and audit log on higher tiers
- Connect outside agents (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) over MCP
- Glide Tables API for reading and writing rows
Use cases
Not mapped to a use case yet.
Drawbacks & cautions
- Free plan cannot publish apps, run workflows or use agent modes
- Public app publishing starts on Plus; premium integrations and MCP building are on Pro
- Extra credits are available on paid plans only
What users say
Trustpilot reviews of Glide are mostly negative: users like how fast simple apps come together but complain about the publish paywall, limited human support, lost work and billing issues.
What people like
- Quick to learn and build simple apps without coding uk.trustpilot.com
- Some reviewers found individual support agents fast and helpful uk.trustpilot.com
Common complaints
- Users build on the free plan, then hit a paywall to publish or share uk.trustpilot.com
- Hard to reach a human; chatbot support gives generic answers uk.trustpilot.com
- Lost work from auto-saved or AI edits with no easy rollback uk.trustpilot.com
- Reports of billing after cancellation and of bugs or instability uk.trustpilot.com
Scores are shown as each site published them on the date checked. They come from those sites' reviewers, not from us, and they never affect our rankings. Ratings based on fewer than 10 reviews are left out. The summaries are our own words, gathered Oct 22, 2026; follow the links to read the reviews.
Alternatives
- Base44 — No-code AI platform that builds apps, websites and AI agents from plain-language prompts
- Bolt.new — Chat-based AI builder for websites, web apps and prototypes with built-in hosting and databases
- Lovable — Build full-stack web apps, sites and internal tools by describing them in plain language
- Taskade — AI app builder and workspace for projects, AI agents and automations from a prompt
Evidence
| Fact | Label | Source | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| capabilities | Vendor-described | www.glideapps.com | Oct 22, 2026 |
| hasApi | Vendor-described | www.glideapps.com | Oct 22, 2026 |
| pricing | Vendor-described | www.glideapps.com | Oct 22, 2026 |
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