Mental model | Price | 🤹 Flexibility | ✨ Simplicity | 🔒 Confidentiality | |
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Klaro Cards | Post-it™ Base | 10 € | 😃 | 😃 | 😃 |
Airtable | Database | 20 € | 😃 | 😡 | 😐 |
Airtable is a tool that combines the functionalities of a classic spreadsheet with the power of a relational database. It allows users to create, organize, and visualize data in a customized manner, with views such as grids, galleries, calendars, and kanbans.
Airtable is a database. Each table (the horizontal tabs: Bugs, Projects, Tasks, etc.) supports multiple views (the vertical entries on the left). The image below shows the grid view, which resembles a spreadsheet:
Airtable supports a wide range of views, including the Gallery and Kanban. As in Klaro Cards, user-defined fields can be displayed on cards, used for filtering, grouping, organizing, etc.
Klaro Cards offers the ability to display a Kanban where columns capture numeric or date intervals, a feature that does not exist in Airtable:
The dialog for viewing a record is not Airtable’s best-designed screen. Notably, the ability to write long texts is simply absent: