Question about miniExtensions

Back in the day before other Airtable portals existed, MiniExtensions was pretty fantastic!

Many people still use MiniExtensions every single day, including many of my Airtable consulting clients.

However, as the years have gone by, I typically avoid MiniExtensions because they have gotten expensive, complicated, and haven't added too many new features.

These days, I typically recommend that people use other portal tools for Airtable.

Fillout's advanced forms for Airtable can be considered a "light portal". It is 100% free and it is absolutely fantastic for updating Airtable records from a form. It also offers hundreds of advanced features that Airtable's native forms don't offer! So, if you need your customers to update their own information in your Airtable system, Fillout is absolutely the way to go.

For a more advanced Airtable portal experience, the most popular Airtable portals are Noloco, JetAdmin, Softr, Pory, and Glide.

The one that I have the most experience with is Noloco. I give a brief demo of Noloco on this Airtable podcast episode. And I gave an entire one-hour webinar on Noloco called Building a Client Portal on Noloco powered by Airtable. The CEO of Noloco gave a demonstration of his product on this BuiltOnAir podcast episode.

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Thanks a lot for the info :slightly_smiling_face:

It helps a lot knowing that there are lot of people using them without any problems. We will definitely test them out and hopefully solve some of the problems we run into while building our workflow (mainly with permissions, but more advanced forms will sure help)

You’re welcome! 

p.s. If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

We actually did take a look at Stacker a bit, it would be perfect if we could combine both into one software :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

Ability to build a more user-frendly UI with Stacker and permission control is really good, but it lacks many of more advanced features of miniExtensions, especially if we talk about forms, adding items, linked fields etc.
MiniExtensions are really feature rich, from my first impression :slightly_smiling_face:

My only concern with miniExtensions are that are link fully public, I hoped that you could restrict access to them by domain or someway (like native Airtable share)

But there is no perfect solution in world of software, you always need to pickup between different pros and cons i guess

Updating this old thread from 2020:

I don't really recommend 2 of the products mentioned above. MiniExtensions and Stacker.

Currently, in my opinion, the best portals & form tools for Airtable are:

Fillout, Noloco, Softr, JetAdmin, Pory, and Glide

I give a brief demo of Noloco on this Airtable podcast episode. And I gave an entire one-hour webinar on Noloco called Building a Client Portal on Noloco powered by Airtable. And the CEO of Noloco gave a demonstration of his product on this BuiltOnAir podcast episode.

p.s. If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

oh really, i just applied with the company as tech support, do you think its a good place to work?

I've used them for years, AMA!