How much does replacing Retool cost?

It depends on how many tools you're running and how complex they are — most rebuilds land in the range of a 4–10 week build. The free assessment gives you a fixed quote, and it's often an easy number to compare against years of per-seat licensing.

Do our tools go offline during the migration?

No. Your Retool apps stay live while we build. The new tools run in parallel against the same data, your team verifies them on real work, and we only cut over when everything checks out.

Can the new tools use our existing databases and APIs?

Yes — that's the normal case. Retool sits on top of data you already own, so we rebuild against the same Postgres, MySQL, or REST APIs your tools use today. Nothing about your data has to move unless you want it to.

What stack do you build on?

Our default is React + TypeScript with Supabase or Firebase — a mainstream, hire-anyone stack. Your new tools live in a GitHub repo your team owns from day one.

Will you tell us if we should just stay on Retool?

Yes — and sometimes we do. A quick admin panel over an existing database is exactly what Retool is for. Migration makes sense when the internal tool has become the operating system of your company. The assessment gives you that verdict straight, for free.

Outgrowing Retool?
Let's build internal tools you own.

Retool got your ops team moving — now per-seat pricing, developer-only edits, and UI limits slow every change. We rebuild your internal tools as custom software you own, in weeks.

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200+ products shipped · US-based team · free, no-pressure assessment

Sound familiar?

PER-SEAT PRICING STINGS

Retool was cheap when three developers used it. Now the whole ops team needs access, and every new seat is a line item you have to justify.

Custom tools cost the same at 5 users or 500

ONLY DEVELOPERS CAN EDIT

Every tweak — a new column, a filter, a status — waits on the one engineer who understands how the app is wired together.

An internal tool your team can't safely touch isn't really theirs

THE UI HAS A CEILING

Retool is fine for admin grids. The moment a tool faces customers or partners, the look and feel gives it away — and there's no styling your way out.

Customer-facing means custom UI, full stop

JS SNIPPETS EVERYWHERE

The logic lives in dozens of JavaScript snippets scattered through queries and event handlers. No tests, no types, no safe way to review a change.

That's code — it just isn't maintained like code

SELF-HOSTING IS A JOB

You went self-hosted for compliance or cost, and now you're patching, upgrading, and babysitting someone else's platform on your own infrastructure.

Running the vendor's software yourself is the worst of both worlds

YOUR OPS RUN ON RENTED GROUND

These tools are how orders ship and customers get helped. Business-critical operations shouldn't depend on one vendor's pricing and roadmap.

When the tool is the business, own it

Sometimes the answer is: stay on Retool.

We're not here to talk you out of Retool — a quick admin panel over a database you already have is exactly what it's for, and plenty of teams should keep theirs. But when the 'internal tool' has become the operating system of your company — the thing your ops team lives in all day, the thing customers touch — per-seat pricing, developer-only edits, and platform limits start taxing every process you run. That's when you migrate, and that's the assessment we give you, straight, for free.

What running your tools actually costs

	Staying on Retool	After migrating to code
Platform / hosting	Paid per-user tiers — every builder and end user adds to the monthly bill	Firebase or Supabase, typically $25–$100 per month
Adding users	Per-seat fees that scale with headcount, plus feature gates on higher tiers	Unlimited seats — headcount never changes your software bill
New features	Limited by stock components and JS snippets scattered through queries	Anything you can spec, your team or any developer can build
Ownership	The platform owns the runtime — you rent it	Your repo, your data, your infrastructure

Ranges reflect typical small-to-mid tools; your free assessment includes numbers for your actual tools and team size.

How the migration works

FREE MIGRATION ASSESSMENT

We look at your Retool apps, your seat count, and where it hurts — then give you a straight verdict: stay on Retool, migrate fully, or go hybrid — replacing just the tools that hurt while the rest stays put — with a fixed quote and timeline.

If staying is the right call, we'll tell you. For free.

MAP THE TOOLS

We document your queries, resources, permissions, and every JS snippet from inside the Retool editor — then map them to the same databases and APIs your tools already use.

Your new tools connect to the same data from day one

REBUILD IN REAL CODE

Senior developers rebuild your tools as production-grade React + TypeScript on Supabase or Firebase. Weeks, not months.

Same workflows your team knows — minus the seat meter

RUN IN PARALLEL

Your Retool apps keep running while your team works the new tools against real orders, tickets, and customers. You verify everything before anything switches.

Zero downtime, zero leap of faith

CUT OVER CLEAN

We hand you the GitHub repo, you cancel the per-seat licenses, and we stay on for post-launch support. You own every line from day one.

Your tools, your code, your infrastructure

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What you get

A CODEBASE YOU OWN

A GitHub repo in your name — standard React + TypeScript that any developer in the world can pick up. No vendor lock-in on the software your operations run on.

React + TypeScript / Supabase or Firebase / Your repo, your infrastructure

FIXED PRICE, UNLIMITED SEATS

One fixed quote for the build, then hosting measured in dollars. Add the whole ops team — your software bill doesn't move.

Know your all-in cost before you commit

A SENIOR US-BASED TEAM

The same senior US engineers who scope your tools design and build them — with a UI your team actually likes using, not just tolerates.

No offshoring, no juniors learning on your ops tooling

No-code apps we've already moved to code

A restaurant discovery and creator marketplace, migrated from Bubble to React + Firebase — then taken somewhere Bubble never could: a native iOS app with in-app subscriptions.

Bubble → React + Firebase + native iOS

See the live app →

A clinician scoring platform rebuilt from Bubble into production code with Stripe billing — now serving healthcare clients on infrastructure the founders own.

Bubble → React + Firebase + Supabase + Stripe

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People Cost

WORKSPACE

A workforce cost-planning tool moved off Bubble onto React + TypeScript and Firebase, with Stripe subscriptions carried over without missing a billing cycle.

Bubble → React + TypeScript + Firebase + Stripe

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The kind of software we build every week

SaaS · Client Portals

ClientHub

Branded client portal in a box.

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Marketplace · Home Services

LocalLoop

Hyperlocal marketplace for home services.

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B2B SaaS · Sales CRM

PipelineOS

A CRM that replaces messy spreadsheets.

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Field Service Management

ServiceGrid

Field operations, engineered for speed.

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Insurance · Document Processing

ReportFlow

Insurance claim docs, turned into structured reports.

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EdTech · Memberships

CourseStack

Membership platform for paid content & courses.

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A team of senior US engineers

Let's Build My App is a team of senior, US-based engineers who have worked together for years. No offshoring, no freelancer marketplaces, no juniors learning on your project. The same people who design your platform build it, review it, and ship it, so nothing falls through the cracks between teams who have never met.

200+

custom products shipped, and counting

100%

US-based senior engineers

35+ yrs

of combined software development experience

0

handoffs between teams who've never met

Outgrowing Retool?
Let's build internal tools you own.