Airtable vs Tuple
Pricing
Airtable: Free tier, paid from $20/seat/mo (billed annually)
Tuple: From $49/user/mo
Description
Airtable: Spreadsheet-database hybrid for everything
Tuple: Pair programming app for remote developers
Pros
- Flexible as a spreadsheet
- Powerful as a database
- Great templates
- Low latency screen sharing
- Real remote control (not laggy)
- Built by devs, for devs
Cons
- Gets expensive with team size
- Can become unwieldy
- Mac and Linux only (Windows coming)
- Pricey for solo use
Details
Airtable is what spreadsheets should have been. Part spreadsheet, part database, all flexible. Founded by Howie Liu who noticed 90% of spreadsheets don’t even use formulas: people just organize stuff. Great for tracking anything from content calendars to customer lists to inventory. Bending Spoons, the Italian software company, completed its purchase of Airtable on 4 September 2026.
Tuple is what Screenhero was before Slack killed it. High-quality, low-latency pair programming that actually works. Built by Ben Orenstein and team, bootstrapped to millions in revenue. Used by engineers at Shopify, Stripe, and Netflix.
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