Its very cost-effective to start and connects naturally to Google ecosystem... best prototyping tool... prototypes are fully functional.
Entry level pricing is very attractive, but connecting to corporate data like on-premise SQL is pricey.
Agility to prototype and deploy small scale mobile apps
Simplicity, helpful community, value for money of "public" apps, use of Google Sheets to make hosting free and ability to use it's own features to build dashboards from the raw data, remote updating of forms.
Some instability and ongoing bugs especially when upgrades happen, per user licence for private apps (especially USD pricing for our client in Africa), design limitations.
Quick, cost effective implementations of data collection applications that can be updated quickly.
Quick app creation, fixed cost per user.
Can’t merge apps, cant dynamically add to enum lists that are drawn from another sheet, can’t code while working in Safari on an iPad (I have to keep a MacBook around for this one use!!)
Efficient field communication with employees, digital documentation, expense records, and equipment inventory and maintenance.
My first experience as a new user in UX design was dim, but the app-sheet team was very helpful in assisting me to set-up the app for my organisation with minimal skills set. The team was also there to help me learn about new features that i could use to enhance my experience during a time when our organisation was embracing NFC functionality, this was a great addition to our work. The platform in its self is very easy to learn, has no downtime and the resolutions are always recorded for reference this made our walk preferably easy.
Its sometimes hard to understand some features and how they interact with other features into the apps performance but the team is always ready to help and provide feedback.
Our main goal was to track the work for a team of customer support associates whose work solely was to visit customers daily and report any cases with our product as well as get their general feedback on how they would like us to improve our service, the app was really great since the set-up time and cost required as compared to building an app from scratch was reduced by 95% which in our case was great. The app has greatly contributed to our organisation since the data collected helps us understand our team better, find better ways to plan for resourceful as well as provide our customers with the best.This in turn has improved our efficiency by 63% since we started using the app.
AppSheet makes it very easy to create solutions for short or long term needs with little to no coding experience necessary. As a lifelong developer I found it to be plenty powerful, and its simplicity makes the applications easy to modify for those who are not developers at heart.
In a "it's both good and bad" category is that the system is constantly growing. New features are being added everyday and more powerful tools are being incorporated to aid in the development of your apps. This is also bad in that once in a while, a new feature will interfere with previous development. A small price to pay actually.
One application that was built was for a friend of mine that is a trainer. He can not afford a "developers" time to build a custom app, nor does he have the knowledge to do it himself. With AppSheet, I laid out the framework and he can use it for the low monthly "per user" cost. I also just completed a fast "response collection" tool for a major federal client of my companies.
It provides a great tool for checking out and checking in rental vehicles and ensuring that every detail is covered. It won't allow a renter to exit the procedure without answering all of the required answers. It allows for pictures so that I always have before and after shots which protects my company and the renter. I can use it for multiple purposes outside of check-out/check-ins as well to keep quality control on procedures and make sure that all of my fleet is cared for and maintained in accordance with procedures.
It could be difficult for someone not so great with spreadsheets. I have to handle the input, output, data changes, etc. myself. I have a small business, but fast paced so I like to leave my apps prepopulated for efficiency and I don't have anybody else on staff that can do it.
Reducing costs/expenses for damages not reported or found due to poor check in/check out procedures. This results in higher net profits. This also ensures that all of my vehicles are repaired and that the responsible party takes care of the expenses whether that is the renter or my company. Since the units are all consigned, it also ensures that all owners that their vehicles will always be returned to the condition in which they originally brought it to me. In short, quality control, safer equipment, happier owners, and happier renters are the end result.
Appsheet is a simple, flexible and fast way to develop apps
Enterprise pricing seems steep. We ended up developing an app in house to use across the enterprise rather than paying the yearly price for enterprise license.
Data collection in the field
The ability to improve google forms in several ways and the possibilities that this creates. The use of sheets from google docs helps a lot to create online data bases. it makes the process of app development very easy and you don't need special abilities to use AppSheet.
the way it's design is not complete user friendly. At the beginning it was hard for me to find the comando or actions I wanted to perform, it took me some practice to learn how the workflow is designed. I also think you can add command buttons and Thant the virtual with data calculations should be added to the sheet.
To use forms in research providing the participants to get immediate feedback. I was working in a form to get data from the subjects of research but I wanted to provide online feed back for them to know their results.