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So a big reason I chose airtable was that it had an app, so that myself and my other user could input data in the field. Except now that I've spent dozens and dozens of hours building something with forms etc, I see that forms don't actually work on the android app...!

What's the work around for quick in-field form submission? That's a surprising oversight, and I see people have been complaining about this for years..

Airtable forms work just fine on mobile devices. (You just can’t edit the design of them in the mobile app.)

However, if you're looking for a more robust mobile form that provides HUNDREDS of features that Airtable's native forms don't provide, I highly recommend using Fillout's advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, control access to a form via SSO or email domains, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, create new linked records on a form, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Airtable forms work just fine on mobile devices. You just can’t edit the design of them in the mobile app.

p.s. On a related note, if you're looking for a MUCH more robust mobile form that provides HUNDREDS of features that Airtable's native forms don't provide, I highly recommend using Fillout's advanced forms for Airtable. It's free, too!!


On chrome, it redirects to the app, which you cannot open forms in (on android, at least). 

It does appear to work in safari if you request desktop site, which is pretty user unfriendly and not very easy to make it quick for someone to access the forms they need..

You are not using the right link. You need to use the “share link” of the form.

You are using the “internal link” which edits the form (which is also the same link for Airtable users who are logged into your system to access your form).

Instead of using the “internal link”, you need to SHARE the form by using the SHARE button, and then use that “share link” to share your form.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

It works fine but needs to be done through an interface. 

Hey ​@oreocereus!

As mentioned above, forms should work without any issue on your phone! Do make sure to be using the correct link.

However as mentioned by Scott you might also want to look into Fillout given Airtable’s native form limitations (you can find a comparison between Airtable and Fillout forms here).

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

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