I’d like to see the iOS app be treated as a first-class, native app. The app itself is done fairly well - it runs smoothly and mostly meets my needs for browsing and adding to bases (minus a few key features, for which there are already feature requests). But the iOS app is not treated as a first-class citizen in the iOS ecosystem, and this is evident in two things that I’d like to see fixed. When hitting a URL for a table or a record, Safari opens to handle the URL, as usual, but it ultimately resolves to a page on the Airtable site suggesting I download the Airtable app… but I have the Airtable app. So there is a link at the bottom that says “Already have the app? Open in app.” – most web apps that have iOS native apps as well preform this redirect on behalf of the user, so that the user doesn’t have to click an extra link to view their content in the native app. Great, so I tap that link, and my Airtable app opens to the last table I was on when I last closed it, spins for a bit, and then just stays on that last table I was on, even though the record link I originally hit was for a different base/table. I’d like to see this changed so that working with table/record URL’s in the iOS ecosystem always treats the iOS app as the target for those URL’s, and then successfully opens the table or record requested. Shortcuts integration. Right now all I can do in Shortcuts is “Open App: Airtable”. Super disappointing. Anything else I want to do I have to do via the API, and at the end of it all, I can’t ask Shortcuts to take me to my newly created record in the native app because of issue #1 described above. I’d like to see the Airtable iOS app donate a slew of useful actions to the Shortcuts app. Airtable is an incredible productivity tool, and Shortcuts is the new, definitive productivity hub in the iOS ecosystem. Please update the iOS app to behave like a true, fully-functional, native iOS productivity app. ... View more

Being able to adjust row height and wrap text within the fields would be really useful for some applications where long text is required. Some applications lend themselves to scrolling through long lists of text and quickly identifying and editing records, which cannot be done efficiently in an “expanded” record view. The new gallery view is nice for photos and things but still really not appropriate for chronological long-text entries that need to be visually scanned by scrolling. ... View more

Unless I’m missing something, there doesn’t seem to be a way to modify forms beyond adding or removing fields. It would be great if we could make even basic HTML/CSS changes (background colour, alignment etc), add labels or at least be able to lay things out differently. As a working example, I’d love to create a form for the first stage of a finance application. Part of this would require a table which would be filled out something like this: Credit Card | $50 /month repayment | $3,000 balance Personal Loan | $240 /month repayment | $15,000 balance There are a minimum of 5 rows in this table that users must complete. With the current form restrictions that means adding 10 questions which is a LOT of scrolling and makes it feel very cumbersome: If you have a credit card, what is the current balance? $3,000 If you have a credit card, what is the minimum monthly repayment? $50 And so on. I’m currently trialling the pro version which does add some great features but this one still appears to be lacking. Thanks! ... View more

I think it’s insane that there’s no way to group your bases within a workspace. It’s just a big ol’ base dump that grows more unwieldy by the day. All I want is to organize these by folders. Has someone figured this out yet?? ... View more

It’d be great if the primary field for a table could be defined as consisting of multiple fields. For example, I have a “Movies Watched” base containing a table listing movies, and another table listing viewings. The viewings table has a link to the movies table and a date. Each viewing record can be uniquely identified by the combination of the movie and date. At present, since there is only one primary field, and that field cannot be a lookup, I have to set the primary field as a formula concatenating the movie lookup and date to create a fake composite field. A (simpler) alternative would be allowing the primary field to be hidden - as if the primary field is a formula based on other fields (such as in this instance) the data making up this primary field is already displayed elsewhere, and any fields used to create that primary field cannot be hidden if you want to be able to (easily) edit them. ... View more

I desperately want to be able to bold things and less desperately want to anchor links. I’m moving my entire team to Airtable because Airtable is awesome (the linking bases! it makes tracking things so easy!), but it’s really hard to format long text that’s …extra long without any style options. Thanks! ... View more

Love the long text field rich text options. Can we extend markdown to formulas as well? Why The usage could extend way beyond this, but my use cases are summary fields using rollups and formulas. Right now it looks like this: But as ‘Satuses’ scales to track more complicated lists, I’d like it to look more like: Complete 001: Modeling (someone’s name) 002: Modeling (someone’s name) Incomplete 003: Modeling (someone’s name) 004: Modeling (someone’s name) The bold formatting really makes a difference from a readability standpoint. Monospace or tab characters \t would also be lovely to ensure consistent formatting. ... View more

In Gallery View, you can customize what attributes of any given record show up on the card. In Calendar view, you just get the name of the card. I’d like to be able to, when you click a record in calendar, see a couple other attributes of my choosing with having to fully expand the record (some of these records have a LOT of attributes, and I only need to see one or two specific, consistent ones in calendar). ... View more

Please add an OCR engine for images and files along WITH ability to search text of attachments. Normal search engine should be able to find text in files such as *.xls, *.doc, *.txt evernote like OCR engine should be similar to evernote’s. evernote like OCR engine should be able to search through image and PDF attachments User should be able to UPLOAD/CREATE files that can be OCR’d by one (or both) of these methods: the ability to upload multiple images to one record and have every image in that record OCR’ed. Said upload should be able to be done from both a camera and a file picker. the ability to upload multiple images into a single file (ie create a pdf or something similar). Said upload should be able to be done from both the camera and from a file picker. Said pdf-like-file should be able to be searched with the evernote like OCR engine. Use cases: Airtable would make an AMAZING receipt scanner app IF it had an OCR engine like evernote. Also, it would make a great document storage app that would beat google drives capabilities if it would be able to OCR pdf files with an engine like evernotes. would also fill void of why some people use Adobe Acrobat on android- to store / create docs that they can reference later for legal purposes. Use cases from other users on airtable: Text and table formatting one might keep a database of excerpts from academic papers, and link relevant things in their project to those excerpts. Or say someone OCR’d a bunch of documents (contracts, receipts, whatever). They can upload the picture version, sure, but it’s not searchable, Barcode/QR support in Mobile app(s) In addition to barcode and QR, would you ever consider OCR? I’d love to use Airtable to take stock of the 500 cars I have in my dealership, and if the camera scanner had OCR built in as well as barcodes and QR, I’d be able to zap in the license plates. One More Note About the OCR Engine The reason I keep mentioning evernotes OCR engine is because it doesn’t make singular judgments about how to covert an image into text…instead it takes the user’s search string and finds any portion of an images that could match the search criteria (within a certain % of confidence). This is perfect for receipts and pictures taken with a camera where the image capture environment is not very well controlled. ... View more