Changelog

Retool is excited to announce Assist, your AI-powered partner for app development. Prompt Assist with natural language directly from the app IDE to generate apps, make changes to existing apps, and ask questions about Retool.

Assist can:

• Generate full-stack apps from a prompt using your live production data. Retool scaffolds apps based on your real databases and resources.
• Respect all existing org policies by default—SSO, role-based access control, and data-level permissions. Apps remain secure and access-controlled without any manual configuration.
• Edit components, queries, and styles of your existing apps.
• Answer questions about an existing app, including about the purpose of the app and how it works. Assist can also answer questions about Retool in general.
• Deploy AI-generated apps to production without leaving Retool. Hosting, versioning, and monitoring are built-in for cloud and self-hosted deployments.

Retool has released several improvements to the README experience for web apps:

• The README is now located at the top of the Pages or Screens list for easy access.
• You can now use AI to generate a README automatically based on the components and logic of your app.

Previously, app READMEs were found by clicking the title of the app. If your app has an existing README, you can now find it in the Pages tab.

You can now see the output of an agent run with the Result (sync) return type when using the Invoke Agent block in workflows.

• The Result (sync) type is the default setting. This returns the direct result of the agent's output.
• The Run state (async) type returns the agentRunId, agentId, and status only. It does not include the output of the agent.

Newly created apps now have their Max width value set to 1200 px by default. This change improves usability and responsiveness.

Existing apps are unchanged. If you want to adjust the maximum width of your app, navigate to the App Inspector and adjust the Max width setting in the Spacing section.

The Fullstory integration for session replay is now generally available.

When enabled, data about user interactions with apps are reported directly to Fullstory for you to review in detail. You can then analyze app analytics, evaluate impact, and review interactions with session replay. This integration is useful for monitoring user activity across different apps, and using advanced analytical tools like heatmaps and funnels to identify usage patterns, debug errors, and improve the overall user experience.

Enterprise customers can send page load and query traces to Datadog and Sentry using Retool's performance monitoring integration, now in public beta. Customers can respond proactively to regressions and troubleshoot more quickly by creating dashboards and alerts to monitor the performance of their apps and use the spans themselves to help pinpoint where to take action if their apps are degraded.

Internationalization (i18n) is now generally available for organizations on the Enterprise plan. This allows you to localize Retool app content and data.

Free and Team plan users can now create public links to share apps externally. Anyone with a public link can access the app, so this option should only be used for apps that don’t require authentication or contain sensitive data. Public links were previously limited to the Business and Enterprise plans.

You can now use the Copy as Markdown button on most pages of the Retool documentation to copy the contents of the page to your clipboard in Markdown format. This feature is intended to give you easy access to a version of the content that you can paste into an LLM for more accurate answers to questions about Retool.

Retool now supports managing permissions using role-based access control in public beta. You can create roles with granular permissions so groups can manage certain organization settings without full administrator access.

Role-based permissions offer much greater access control than Retool's existing group permissions functionality. For example, a Design team may need access to your organization's branding settings to ensure the Retool organization follows branding styles and guidelines. Rather than give the team members admin access, role-based permissions allow for granular control over what specific settings they can access.

Once you configure the necessary roles to control access, you can apply them to any number of groups. Retool will eventually transition away from per-group permissions to role-based access controls as the method with which you manage permissions.

To enable this feature, navigate to Settings > Beta and enable Permissions v2.