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I’m trying to understand, and forgive me, maybe the core Retool product explains this better—how is this different from something like Capacitor/Ionic or React Native?

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Retool Mobile is built on top of React Native. We build a higher level of abstraction so you can build the UI / running queries much easier than building it from scratch, and still give you the option to write code and customize everything similar to building an app in React Native.

So what you're saying is that despite saying in your ad copy that you ship "native" apps, you ship the utter piece of crap that is React Native, and users will be faced with lists that stutter the moment there's more than twenty items in it because RecyclerViews are too complicated of a concept for RN.

Thanks for guaranteeing me consulting work on rewriting those apps in the near future I guess ?

All of those are a lot lower level. Retool focuses on drag-and-drop UI and making connections to databases and external services.

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