Appsmith
appsmith.com · Low-code and internal tools
Open-source platform for building internal tools and admin panels.
47 items · 48 source threads · 2 source types · updated 2025-03
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Pain points 20
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| SAML/OpenID moved to the paid enterprise edition only A user of the open-source edition notes that SAML/OpenID single sign-on, a planned feature, was announced as enterprise-only. Affects: team on the open-source edition |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2023-01 |
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| Deployed apps and editor all stopped working on a self-hosted instance A company running internal systems and a customer portal on Appsmith found deployed apps and the editor unusable, with a constant spinner and no effect from restarts. Affects: company using Appsmith for internal systems and customer profiles |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 1 source | 2025-02 |
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| Working custom widget broke after a release A custom widget that worked started rendering blank with React errors after the latest release, and the reporter cannot debug it. Affects: developer using custom widgets |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-03 |
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| Community Discord support seems to be bot-only The reporter says they posted on the community Discord but only a bot replies, so they opened a GitHub issue instead. Affects: self-hosted production user |
Support | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-02 |
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| MongoDB insert works in edit mode but fails in deployed mode A user's MongoDB insert query with an image upload form succeeds in development but errors in deploy mode. Affects: cloud user with MongoDB insert form |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-07 |
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| Complexity ramps up fast when connecting several APIs instead of a database Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-03 |
| No way to reconcile Appsmith audit logs with app-level history for rollbacks Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-01 |
| Recurring 'secondary stale connection' errors with MySQL/MariaDB Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-10 |
| Open-source edition shows a 'made with Appsmith' ad that is paywalled to remove Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Pricing & plans | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-07 |
| Helm chart bundles everything in one stateful pod run by supervisord Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-07 |
| Docker-hosted app takes up to a minute to load pages Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Performance | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-05 |
| Input widget has many open validation issues Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-11 |
| Building a form bound to a database insert takes many manual steps Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-01 |
| Queries and JS are page-scoped, forcing duplication across pages Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-11 |
| Transforming API and query data for widgets is hard Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-11 |
| Workflows are paywalled so user cannot evaluate them before paying Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Pricing & plans | Annoyance | 1 source | 2025-02 |
| Random error toasts when switching between deploy and edit pages Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-06 |
| Table checkbox column ignores centered alignment Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-03 |
| Appsmith editor perceived as slow by a developer-oriented user Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Performance | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-02 |
| Small inline code editor is error-prone Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-11 |
Feature requests 24
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| SSH tunnel for MySQL connections Production databases usually sit behind a server, so an SSH tunnel is needed to connect securely. Affects: companies with databases behind a bastion |
Integrations | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2024-01 |
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| Expose window object to reach Web3 wallet extensions Internal blockchain tools need access to browser extension functions injected into the window object, such as wallet transfers. Affects: teams building blockchain internal tools |
Integrations | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2022-11 |
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| SQLite datasource support A user asked for a SQLite3 database integration, a widely used SQL datasource similar to existing ones. |
Integrations | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2022-01 |
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| Configure API URLs and parameters per environment (production vs staging) Apps need to call different API URLs and parameters in production and staging; a global environment-based configuration is requested. Affects: teams with staging and production |
API & developer experience | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2021-09 |
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| Infinite scrolling for server-side list widget A developer wants to load list data asynchronously with infinite-scroll pagination instead of page numbers. Affects: developers |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 2 sources | 2021-07 |
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| Support AWS DocumentDB instead of MongoDB Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-05 |
| Choose display and sort fields for Select columns, enabling currency sorting Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-04 |
| Support AWS IAM instance roles instead of static access keys Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Two-way messaging between embedded Appsmith iframe and parent app Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-09 |
| Wrap text in table cells instead of hover to read Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-07 |
| Reusable widgets that can be shared across apps Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-06 |
| Inline row editing in the table widget Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-04 |
| Deploy Appsmith under a URL subpath Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-03 |
| Version control to restore application state and review changes Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Collaboration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-02 |
| Move apps between instances and organizations Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Data export & migration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-02 |
| Custom CSS and styling for widgets Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-02 |
| SAML SSO for enterprise sign-in instead of Google OAuth only Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-02 |
| Import custom JS libraries such as jsPDF, axios and Firebase Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-01 |
| Native GraphQL datasource Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-12 |
| Allow custom widgets on the canvas Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-12 |
| WebSocket support for real-time dashboards Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-11 |
| HTML column type in the table widget Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-05 |
| Control tab order of inputs in form widgets Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-09 |
| Import API definitions from a Swagger/OpenAPI file Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-04 |
Workarounds 0
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Switching reasons 3
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Low-code builder slower than hand-coding a simple internal tool in React A full-time developer evaluated Appsmith and Budibase for quick internal tooling, made little progress, and rebuilt the idea in React in half the time. Affects: full-time developer |
UI & usability | Causes churn | 2 sources | 2023-03 |
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| Moved billing tooling off Appsmith to a custom Flask app A self-hoster moved from Retool to Appsmith for billing-related tooling but then decommissioned it in favour of a custom app that took about a month to build. Affects: self-hosting small team |
Other | Causes churn | 1 source | 2022-07 |
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| Internal-tool builders lacked multi-tenancy for a user-facing app A team evaluating Appsmith and similar tools for a user-facing product found them too oriented to internal tools and weak on multi-tenancy, so they went with Rails. Affects: team building a user-facing multi-tenant app |
Other | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-11 |
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