kintone vs Airtable: Which is a better fit?

Tara J.: My name is Tara, and I'm a homeless services provider in [inaudible 00:00:05], and I would rate Kintone at a five out of five. Before we were using Kintone, we were using Microsoft database. And it wasn't working because mostly none of us knew how to change anything, so we could enter information. But if we needed to modify the data we were collecting, we were kind of out of luck, so Kintone provided an amazing solution for us. Well, initially we were connected with a local gentleman who was kind of new working for Kintone as a nonprofit sales coordinator. And when he shared with us about kin tone, we weren't sure that we were really interested in changing away from what we had, because we felt comfortable with it, even though none of us could really use it. But in seeing a brief demo, we were sold on how easy it was to navigate, so we didn't really pursue any other options; we just knew that Kintone looked like it would be a great resource for us. It was super easy to get started with Kintone. At first, we were a little intimidated because the program, I should say, is really, really powerful. And we were like, "Wow, are we sure that we need all of this?" But it was significantly easier than using the Microsoft product that we'd been using previously. So once we kind of jumped in and figured our way out a little bit, we were in love. And now, most of us can pretty much use the software and create apps on our own. I totally recommend anyone reach out to Kintone and ask for information from them. Their customer service is amazing, they're a really well-run organization. We started out talking with a local nonprofit representative, and he answered all of our questions, and got us started, and then provided us with excellent support through the whole process.

Onome D.: Hello, my name is Onome. I am an artist and facilitator. I am a solopreneur and I give Airtable four out of five stars. Prior to Airtable, I was using Google Drive as my content library, and I find Airtable to be better suited to the job. Well, it just so happened that I was able to receive a template for doing my content management system that made it easier for me to figure out how to organize my content in a fairly straightforward way. It was a bit of a learning curve, even with the template because I mean, there's so many options and so many customizations. So I'd say overall it's a pretty steep learning curve. In my case, having a template made a bit of an easier entry point for me. But even with that entry point, it was a little difficult to understand how to add new columns and customize the database. So I'd say it's a little bit of challenge. I would say that though Airtable has worked just fine for my purposes as a solopreneur, it's better suited to a team of people just because it has so many potential moving parts. And the way in which it is customizable, I think it would be better suited to a team of people, like a group of archivists or a group of social media content managers, that kind of thing. Those teams would be the ones that would best be served by a software like Airtable.