Best developers to replace Airtable with your own app (2026)
DISCLOSURE · I'm Mark Shcherbakov and I run lowcoding.dev, which is on this list. Nobody paid to be listed. Every other provider's price and facts come from their own website or partner listing, linked at the bottom and checked on the date above.
If Airtable still fits and only needs fixing, hire an Airtable partner such as Flow Digital, Rapid Indigo or flowmondo. If you've hit record limits, per-seat bills or automations that keep breaking, hire someone who builds your own app on a real database: Scroll if you want an audit first, 2V Automation ($6,000–24,000 per project) or RapidDev ($13,000–25,000 fixed) for bigger projects with a team, or lowcoding.dev for a fixed-price first version in a week from $1,990.
If someone on your team is technical, a sync tool such as Whalesync (from $16 a month) can copy your bases into Supabase while Airtable keeps running, and you build the screens yourself.
If you only read one part.
- A fixed price and a working first version in a week, small team
- lowcoding.dev
- Stay on Airtable and make it work better
- Flow Digital or Rapid Indigo (Airtable Gold partners)
- An audit before deciding whether to migrate
- Scroll
- A bigger fixed-price rebuild by a team
- RapidDev or 2V Automation
- Do it yourself, technical person in-house
- Whalesync + Supabase
7 options, compared.
| PROVIDER | BASED IN | BEST FOR | PUBLISHED PRICE | FIRST VERSION | WHO OWNS IT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lowcoding.dev | Tbilisi, Georgia (remote) | Small teams that want one process off Airtable and working on a real database within a week | From $1,990, fixed before work starts | 1 week | Runs in your accounts; you own the code and data; no fee to leave |
| Scroll | Paris, France | Teams that want an audit before deciding whether to leave Airtable | Not published; every project starts with an audit | Not published | Supabase on hosting you choose (they offer EU hosting) |
| Flow Digital | Brooklyn, New York, US | Staying on Airtable and getting it designed and connected properly | $297 for a 75-minute implementation session; project budgets listed from under $1,000 | Not published | Your Airtable workspace |
| Rapid Indigo | Oxford, UK | Science and professional-services firms making Airtable their data backbone | Project budgets listed from $5,000 to $10,000 and up | Not published | Your Airtable workspace |
| flowmondo | London, UK | UK firms that want Airtable, Zapier and Make built and monitored by one team | Not published on its site | Not published | Your Airtable and automation accounts |
| RapidDev | Boston area, US | A bigger rebuild with a team, fixed price agreed up front | $13,000–25,000 fixed for internal tools, CRM-lite builds and admin dashboards with 1–3 integrations | 6–10 weeks | Says clients own 100% of the code |
| 2V Automation | Lisbon and New York | Businesses past $1M in revenue that want a costed plan before any build | $2,000 discovery week (1–20 people), then fixed projects of $6,000–24,000 each | Plan after one week; 3–6 weeks per project | You keep the plan whether you build with them or not |
Swipe the table sideways for all columns. Prices and facts from each provider's own page, checked 14 November 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom of the page.
Five things checked for every provider, ours included.
Published price
A price or budget band on the provider's own site or Airtable partner listing. If none is published, the table says so.
Leave or improve Airtable
Whether the provider moves you to your own database or makes Airtable itself work better. Both are fair answers; they suit different teams.
Time to a first version
As each provider states it. Where they don't state one, we don't guess.
Who owns the result
Where the new system runs and who holds the code, the data and the logins.
Proof you can check
Partner directory status, review counts on that directory, named case studies.
- Order follows the quick picks, not a score. lowcoding.dev is first because I know its facts first-hand; check whether its "best for" is your situation.
Each option: what it is, what it costs, and when it's the wrong pick.
01lowcoding.dev
Tbilisi, Georgia (remote)Best for: Small teams that want one process off Airtable and working on a real database within a week
I build the new system next to your base, in your accounts: a database, a screen for each role, and the automations as one workflow with alerts and a log. One process moves first; you switch when it runs on your real data. Next stages are priced in writing.
- PRICE
- From $1,990, fixed before work starts
- FIRST VERSION
- 1 week
- WHO OWNS IT
- Runs in your accounts; you own the code and data; no fee to leave
- PROOF
- Arrenda1: moved from Airtable to Supabase; investor payouts on Airtable and Make cut from 3 days to about an hour
Not a fit if: You want to stay on Airtable, or you need several developers working in parallel from day one.
02Scroll
Paris, FranceBest for: Teams that want an audit before deciding whether to leave Airtable
Audits your bases, builds the Supabase schema in parallel, syncs the data and switches teams over view by view. Airtable stays active until the new system is validated. Interfaces in Next.js and automations in n8n where needed.
- PRICE
- Not published; every project starts with an audit
- FIRST VERSION
- Not published
- WHO OWNS IT
- Supabase on hosting you choose (they offer EU hosting)
- PROOF
- Says 300+ projects since 2021 (their claim)
Not a fit if: You want a fixed price up front without an audit stage.
03Flow Digital
Brooklyn, New York, USBest for: Staying on Airtable and getting it designed and connected properly
Airtable base design, implementation, training, extensions and integrations. Works with clients across time zones.
- PRICE
- $297 for a 75-minute implementation session; project budgets listed from under $1,000
- FIRST VERSION
- Not published
- WHO OWNS IT
- Your Airtable workspace
- PROOF
- Airtable Gold Services Partner; also lists Zapier, HubSpot and Softr certifications
Not a fit if: You've decided to leave Airtable for your own database.
04Rapid Indigo
Oxford, UKBest for: Science and professional-services firms making Airtable their data backbone
Connects finance, operations and CRM data in Airtable and builds reporting on it.
- PRICE
- Project budgets listed from $5,000 to $10,000 and up
- FIRST VERSION
- Not published
- WHO OWNS IT
- Your Airtable workspace
- PROOF
- Airtable Gold Services Partner, 31 reviews on its Airtable listing, 2–15 employees
Not a fit if: Your budget is under $5,000, or you want to leave Airtable.
05flowmondo
London, UKBest for: UK firms that want Airtable, Zapier and Make built and monitored by one team
Builds Airtable-based systems and integrations, with monitoring of connected apps.
- PRICE
- Not published on its site
- FIRST VERSION
- Not published
- WHO OWNS IT
- Your Airtable and automation accounts
- PROOF
- Airtable Gold Partner and Zapier Platinum Solutions Partner; says 975+ customers (their claim)
Not a fit if: You want to move off no-code tools rather than build more on them.
06RapidDev
Boston area, USBest for: A bigger rebuild with a team, fixed price agreed up front
Rebuilds the system as custom software with a real backend.
- PRICE
- $13,000–25,000 fixed for internal tools, CRM-lite builds and admin dashboards with 1–3 integrations
- FIRST VERSION
- 6–10 weeks
- WHO OWNS IT
- Says clients own 100% of the code
- PROOF
- Publishes its own Clutch rating and case studies
Not a fit if: Your budget is under $13,000, or you need something working this month.
072V Automation
Lisbon and New YorkBest for: Businesses past $1M in revenue that want a costed plan before any build
A week inside your operations, then one process at a time: n8n automation, custom internal software or AI agents.
- PRICE
- $2,000 discovery week (1–20 people), then fixed projects of $6,000–24,000 each
- FIRST VERSION
- Plan after one week; 3–6 weeks per project
- WHO OWNS IT
- You keep the plan whether you build with them or not
- PROOF
- Certified n8n Expert Partner
Not a fit if: Your business is under about $1M in revenue (their stated focus).
Tools if someone on your team will build it.
Airtable itself is $20 per editor a month on Team and $45 on Business (billed annually). Staying is often right while few people edit and the base stays small.
- Whalesync: two-way sync between Airtable and Supabase while you build, from $16 a month (Starter, billed yearly).
- Softr: portal and app screens on top of your data, from $19 a month (Basic).
- Noloco: internal apps on your data, from $65 a month billed annually ($79 monthly).
What moving off Airtable actually involves.
Arrenda1, a leasing company in Mexico, started with a document-upload form that I shipped in one week. When they asked for a full client onboarding flow with KYC and credit-bureau reports, the data moved from Airtable to Supabase so it could grow. V1.0 of the full flow was in testing about 11 weeks after kickoff.
For a US private investment firm, Airtable and Make ran the monthly investor payouts behind Bubble portals: the run went from about 3 days to about an hour, and $9M+ was paid out in a year. Airtable was the right tool there. The lesson I took from both: move when the data model or the users outgrow the base, not because a newer tool exists.
- Linked records become real relations in the new database; plan these first.
- Formula and rollup fields become code or database views; list every one before you start.
- Attachments move to file storage with the same record links.
- Automations become one workflow with error alerts and a log, instead of many separate triggers.
- Run both side by side until the new system works on your real data, then switch.
The builds behind this page.
Arrenda1 · Querétaro, MexicoLeasing applications moved from Notion and Drive into one onboarding system
A document-upload portal shipped in one week grew into a full client onboarding system for a Mexican leasing company: KYC, credit-bureau reports and HubSpot-driven documentation stages, on Bubble, Supabase and Make.
- 1 week
- from brief to a working document-collection form, fully documented
- ~11 weeks
- from kickoff to V1.0 testing of the full onboarding flow
US private investment firm · USAMonthly investor payouts cut from 3 days to about an hour
Before: Every month the firm paid distributions to thousands of investors by hand: pull balances, calculate each payout, push the bank transfers, notify each investor. One run took about 3 days, and investors couldn't see their own data. After: Investor and admin portals run the payout as tracked steps with a full log. The monthly run takes about an hour, $300–500K goes out every month, and more than $9M went out in a year.
- 3 days → ~1 hour
- monthly payout run
- $9M+
- paid out to investors in a year
Questions to ask any provider, including me.
- Will you move us off Airtable, or improve what we have? Which do you recommend for us, and why?
- Where will the new database and code run, and whose accounts are they in?
- Does Airtable keep running until the new system works on our real data?
- How do you handle linked records, formulas and attachments?
- What is the fixed price of the first stage, and what does it include?
- Who fixes things after launch, and what does that cost?
Frequently asked.
How much does it cost to replace Airtable with your own app?
Published prices on 14 November 2026: a 75-minute Airtable session is $297 (Flow Digital); Airtable partner projects start around $5,000 (Rapid Indigo); fixed projects run $6,000–24,000 (2V Automation) and $13,000–25,000 (RapidDev). lowcoding.dev starts at $1,990 for a first build covering one process, with next stages priced in writing.
How long does an Airtable migration take?
It depends on how many bases, linked tables and automations you have. Stated timelines: a first working version in 1 week (lowcoding.dev), 3–6 weeks per project after a discovery week (2V Automation), 6–10 weeks (RapidDev). Moving one process first keeps the rest of your work on Airtable meanwhile.
Can we keep using Airtable during the move?
Yes, and you should. The new system is built next to the base, data is synced or imported, and you switch once the new one runs on your real data.
When should we stay on Airtable?
When few people edit the data, the base is well under the record limits of your plan, and automations rarely break. Then an Airtable partner who tidies the base is cheaper than a rebuild.
What do we move to: Supabase or something else?
Supabase is a common choice because it is a full Postgres database with logins and an API, and it charges for usage rather than per seat. What matters more is that it runs in your account and you own the data.