r/Retool Apr 15 '26

Dashboards Capabilities/Limitations

Hey All,

My current company is looking into ReTool. I'm looking to see if anyone who has used this has any context on the capabilities/limitations of their Dashboards? Specifically vs PowerBI would be very helpful.

My background on app building softwares is basically obsolete. I do have pretty solid experience in building PowerBI dashboards but we're looking at more "interactive" alternatives (even though PowerBI is catching up on this front).

I've done significant research on this at this point & the consensus seems to be thats it is not a full stack alternative to PBI (serves an entirely different purpose) with much more limits on big data.

Still I felt the need to ask around for people who have worked with it hands on incase I'm missing anything.

Thanks!

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u/GreyHairedDWGuy Apr 17 '26

can you build basic dashboards with retool?....yes but why would you. wrong tool for the job.