Linking records in a form is clumsy

Picking or creating a linked record in an Airtable form is slow and limited.

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Adding a linked record inside an Airtable form means scrolling a long list, hoping the record you need already exists, and bailing out to create it when it doesn’t. For a table with real relationships, that turns a quick entry into a chore.

Air Fill handles linking the way you’d expect on your phone. You find and filter the records you’re linking to, and create a new one right there when it’s missing. Build a record and its linked records together, and they all save in a single submit. And you can narrow a linked field to only the records that actually qualify, so respondents pick from the right set every time.

Linking stops being the slow part.

How Air Fill fixes this

Here’s the rest of what Air Fill does.

Air Fill feels native, because it is.

Airtable’s web forms give every field the same grey box. Air Fill makes your forms work like iOS intended.

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.
July

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—	Yes
Add a new choice while filling	No—	Yes
Show or hide whole sections by logic	No—	Yes
Get alerted the moment a form comes in	Limited	Yes
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, Form Flows, edit mode, and submit alerts. Elite, coming for teams, adds sharing a form with anyone and client hand-off.