Tables market gap analysis

[jancborchardt]

Market analysis, focusing on the most common "tables" software solutions.

Feature	Nextcloud Tables	Microsoft Lists / SharePoint	Airtable	NocoDB (open source)	Baserow (open source)
More field types like tags/select, person, file	❌ Planned for v1		✅	✅ Column types docs	✅ Field types docs
Different views	❌ For v2	✅ Views overview	✅	✅ Screenshots	✅ Views docs
Add table/view as an app in top bar	❌ For v2	❌	❌	❌	❌
Templates	✅		✅		✅
Template directory	❌ Possibly use app store, with a new category "Templates"		✅ Templates		✅ Templates
Ability to embed tables elsewhere	❌ Could do it similar like Calendar embedding		✅ Embedding docs		✅
Integration with other apps	Other Nextcloud apps (Calendar, Tasks, Notifications, etc.)	Check what SharePoint does here	❌ No other internal apps	❌ No other internal apps	❌ No other internal apps
Integration with 3rd party apps	❌ Maybe more look at automation and Flow integration		✅ Marketplace	✅ App store docs	✅ Plugin docs
Import from others	❌ Could be done via a "Microsoft integration" app like the other migration apps		✅ Importing guide	✅ Import from Airtable	✅ Airtable importer (beta)
Mobile app	❌	✅	✅	❌planned	❌

Additional notes

• Microsoft Lists is more specifically similar to Airtable or Tables
• Google AppSheet is specifically for building apps from the data → version 2. But their interface and templates list might be helpful to check requirements.
• SeaTable is a partner organization of Seafile, but not open source
• Microsoft Power Apps is very similar to Google AppSheet
• Anytye is related but very experimental
• Notion has interactive tables with different views
• Monday also does a lot of table-based organization
• AppFlowy is a Notion alternative which also has interactive tables
• Other apps in the no-code space https://www.producthunt.com/topics/no-code

[jancborchardt]

@datenangebot these are the notes from our gap/market analysis, and we could see it as an ever evolving document. :) It seemed like you use SharePoint and/or Lists a bit more, so feel free to fill in the blanks too, or add links to issues.

[juliusknorr]

One comment regarding the views is that there might have been some confusion about the wording. The comparison above lists views as different layouts (table/grid/form/kanban) however the planned approach for v2 as far as I understood @datenangebot was more to have views in terms of limiting/filtering visible/editable data for now. E.g. a view on a table could show only the entries created by yourself. For clarity this could mean for a vacation request process table you would have one view for your own vacation requests, the team lead could have a view to see all entries of the team members.

[datenangebot]

One comment regarding the views is that there might have been some confusion about the wording. The comparison above lists views as different layouts (table/grid/form/kanban) however the planned approach for v2 as far as I understood @datenangebot was more to have views in terms of limiting/filtering visible/editable data for now. E.g. a view on a table could show only the entries created by yourself. For clarity this could mean for a vacation request process table you would have one view for your own vacation requests, the team lead could have a view to see all entries of the team members.

Yes, Julius you are right. The "other" views thing I call view-mode and should be set in the view config later on. The views are on the roadmap for v1, the view-modes for v2.

[juliusknorr]

All right, thanks for clarifying 👍

[almereyda]

For knowing about the FLOSS No code scene, feel free also have a look at what these do:

• Focalboard: Open source alternative to Trello, Asana, and Notion
• Budibase | Build internal tools in minutes, the easy way
• The Open Source Firebase Alternative | Supabase
• Grist | The Evolution of Spreadsheets
• Quadratic: data science spreadsheet with Python & SQL
• Saltcorn - open-source no-code
• Directus: The Modern Data Stack, Democratized
• APITable | Incredibly Simple and Powerful Work Management OS

Edit: Adding relevant links as I find them.