Retool now supports Azure OpenAI for use with Assist. Admins on the Enterprise plan can configure Assist to use Azure OpenAI as the single model provider for Assist-powered interactions.

Retool designed Assist to use two AI providers by default: OpenAI and Anthropic. Using both providers enables Assist to optimize for speed and quality. However, some customers may need to consolidate AI services with a single provider. To accommodate these customers, Enterprise organizations can configure Assist to work with a single provider.

Retool now supports Amazon Bedrock for use with Assist. Admins on the Enterprise plan can configure Assist to use Amazon Bedrock as the single model provider for Assist-powered interactions.

Retool designed Assist to use two AI providers by default: OpenAI and Anthropic. Using both providers enables Assist to optimize for speed and quality. However, some customers may need to consolidate AI services with a single provider. To accommodate these customers, Enterprise organizations can configure Assist to work with a single provider.

Retool released some updates and improvements to the Assist experience:

• You can now prompt Assist to write a README for your app. When you're editing an existing app, Assist can also use information from existing READMEs to learn about the app context and improve the quality of changes.
• Assist automatically names apps. When you use Assist to create a new app from a blank canvas, Assist provides a descriptive name.

These changes are live on Retool Cloud. Refer to the edge release notes for information about what features are available to self-hosted organizations.

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.

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.

Retool updated the custom component support library to version 1.9.0, which adds a new verbose option with deploy and sync commands. When running into unknown failures, you can add the -v option to deploy and sync commands to print more detailed errors for help with debugging.

This library is automatically included as a dependency of the custom component collection template repository. Existing users can run npm update @tryretool/custom-component-support to get the latest version with these updates.