Airtable gaps

You’re thumb-typing barcodes and serial numbers into Airtable by hand

On a phone in a warehouse or at a check-in desk, Airtable’s browser form views can’t open the camera to read a barcode or QR code into a field.

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On a phone in the warehouse or at the check-in desk, you end up thumb-typing barcodes and serial numbers into Airtable one character at a time. Its browser form views can’t reach the camera, so every code turns into a squint-and-retype job, and a single wrong digit can sit hidden in your base for hours.

Air Fill runs natively on iOS, where the camera is already right there in your hand. Scan-to-field is in development: point the camera at a barcode or QR code, and the value will drop straight into the right field, read the same way every time.

When it lands, the scanner does the typing, and the number is correct the moment it’s captured.

How Air Fill fixes this

Scan a code and the value lands in the field In development Aim your iPhone camera at a barcode, QR code, or serial number and it drops straight into the field, exactly as printed.

Feels native, because every control is.

Airtable’s web form gives every field the same grey box. Air Fill gives it the control iOS would — cards you tap, a calendar you flick, a signature you draw.

Priority Low Medium High

Select cards Single-select becomes big, thumb-sized cards. Tap one and the form moves you on.
Company Email

Text fields Floating labels, and the right keyboard for email, numbers, and URLs — chosen from your field’s type.
On-site visit

Site address

Conditional fields Flip a switch and the fields that matter appear. Ask only what the answer needs.
Ratings & more Stars, sliders, steppers, duration — the native controls Airtable’s web form skips.
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S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Tue, Jul 14

Inline calendar Pick a date from a real calendar you flick through, right in the form.
Saved to the record as an image

Signature Collect a real sign-off with a finger or Apple Pencil, right on the phone.

The Airtable form complaints you know by heart.

Airtable has a lot on its plate. These are the form gaps we went deep on, answered on your own base.

“Lose signal, and the submission’s gone.”

Air Fill saves each entry on the device and sends it the moment you’re back online.
“The form logic never goes deep enough.”

Build the rules you need: AND/OR branches, section and submit gating, and calculations that update live.
“The inputs are basic, and there aren’t many.”

Sign on the screen, scan a barcode into a field, tap big choice cards, and search linked records.
“One form, and then you’re on your own.”

Form Flows runs a set of forms as one session and carries answers from each step to the next.

Long-standing, widely-reported limitations of Airtable’s own forms. Air Fill is independent and not affiliated with Airtable.

Airtable forms, and Air Fill

The same base, and a form that does more with it.

Capability	Airtable forms	Air Fill
Fill and submit offline	No—	Yes
Signature capture	No—	Yes
Native iOS controls	No—	Yes
Show fields only when relevant	Limited	Yes
Create linked records across tables	No—	Yes
Long forms as swipeable pages	No—	Yes
A log of every submission on your phone	No—	Yes
Update an existing record	No—	Coming
Collect without adding billable seats	No—	Coming

Your base, your token — Air Fill only reads and writes the fields you add to a form. Not affiliated with Airtable.

Start free, and move up as you need more.

Pro lifts the cap and turns on the Advanced track and Form Flows. Elite, coming for teams, adds the connected pieces like sharing a form with anyone and wiring submissions into your other tools.