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Thank you for sharing your ideas. In the past few months, you've submitted over 150+ ideas through our Product Ideas form. We know you've invested significant time providing this feedback, and we want to show you where it's landing. This post reflects the themes we're seeing most often and provides insight into what we're working on.
About this post: We'll cover the most requested features, what we've shipped, what's in progress, and what we're considering. Our roadmap evolves based on customer needs, technical factors, and market dynamics, so plans may shift. But we want to keep you informed about our current direction.
Ready? Let's dive into what you've been asking for and what we're building.
First, a quick note re: the recent UI updates supporting our platform evolution.
We've rolled out updates to Airtable's UI as we continue to expand our platform's capabilities. For longtime users, we recognize these changes, particularly in the data layer, represent a meaningful shift from what you're used to.
These updates are part of Airtable's evolution as we refine the user experience and add powerful new features. While the new UI structure is the foundation moving forward, we're continuously improving based on your feedback. We recently updated the view sidebar hover functionality to help with navigation, and we're actively listening to understand how these changes impact your specific workflows.
For builders spending time in the data layer, the visual changes are most noticeable. The good news: your end users' interface experiences remain unchanged. We appreciate all of the detailed feedback you’ve shared as it helps us deliver the best experience possible – and please continue using our Product Ideas submission process for sharing ideas, thoughts, and feedback.
Key Topics
1. AI-Native Airtable
You asked for: Make building with Airtable faster and easier across the entire app creation journey.
Major initiative: We've integrated AI throughout Airtable to help you build faster. Omni is your building assistant—describe the app you need, and it generates working solutions using Airtable components. You can use Omni to add fields, tables, automations, interfaces and more – add components individually or generate the entire app. Omni also helps with data analysis and can switch seamlessly between building, editing, and analyzing.
Field Agents unlock an army of agents ready to work in your apps. Set them up to process forms, extract insights from documents, conduct web research, or even generate images. This means you can deliver more sophisticated solutions to your users without writing code. All plans include AI capabilities.
If you’ve been using AI within Airtable over the last year, you’ll notice that Omni is the next evolution of Cobuilder and Assistant combined into a unified experience, plus new capabilities like adding and editing records in bulk. Similarly, Field Agents is the next evolution of AI Fields, packed with more context and tools that allow agents to take more complex actions.
2. Enhanced Linked Records
You asked for: Better parent-child relationships and self-referential record management.
What's new: Same-table backlinks have launched (thanks for the shoutout
3. Custom Visualizations
You asked for: More color options and visual flexibility for data organization. Enhanced timeline views with flexible date ranges and better visualization options.
Our approach: We've shipped enhanced Gantt timeline features for interfaces, color formatting for number fields and a dark mode beta. We're balancing requests for more built-in color options with maintaining visual consistency and accessibility. PS - more visual customization options are coming soon. Watch a demo with an example of what will be possible to create with custom interfaces for a sneak peak of what’s to come.
4. Form Upgrades
You asked for: Smarter, more flexible, and more powerful forms.
Update: We've shipped visual upgrades, title customization, and validation features. With Omni, you can now create forms just by asking.
5. Enterprise Scale & Governance
You asked for: Support for larger datasets and enterprise-grade controls.
Updates:
- HyperDB is now generally available, supporting hundreds of millions of records
- Sandbox environment for safe production changes
- Enhanced admin roles and custom terms of use
- Working toward even greater row support with new architecture improvements
6. Mobile Experience
You asked for: Full-featured mobile companion apps.
Current focus: We're shipping 5+ new mobile Interface features across iOS and Android, including Kanban views, improved navigation, and performance enhancements.
7. Platform Integrations
Your need: Deeper connections with your existing tools.
Coming soon: We're upgrading our integrations platform to accelerate new connectors. Email-triggered automations and enhanced sync capabilities are already live.
8. Performance & Reliability
Behind the scenes: While not always visible, we're investing heavily in platform performance:
- Significant improvements to permissions performance
- Ongoing work to support mission-critical operations at scale
Recently Shipped (Last Quarter)
✅ Multi-level filtering in Interface Designer
✅ Portals for external collaboration
✅ Omni and Field Agents
✅ Forms: Dynamic filters for computed fields
✅ Number field color formatting
Be sure to bookmark our What’s New page for ongoing updates… or even sync the data into your base!
Join the Conversation
Keep ideas coming and please submit through our Product Ideas form. Every submission is reviewed by our product team.
Questions? Feedback on the product ideas submission process and/or feedback on this Playback post? Drop them in the comments. We're here to listen and learn together.
