Airtable forms can only create, never update

An Airtable form makes a brand-new record every time — it can’t edit one that already exists.

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An Airtable form only knows how to create. Every submission spins up a brand-new record, so there’s no way to reopen the one you already have and fix a typo, add the detail you were missing, or move a status along. The record you want to edit just sits there while a duplicate lands next to it.

Air Fill is building the piece that closes the gap. We’re working on opening an existing record and letting you update it in place, right from your phone, so a correction is a quick edit instead of a fresh entry and a cleanup later. Keeping the record’s attached files through that update is in development too, so nothing you’ve already uploaded goes missing when you make a change.

The plan is simple: one record, edited when you need to, and the files that belong to it staying put.

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.

Preview these controls in

Auto Light Dark

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.

“One form, and then you’re on your own.”

Form Flows runs a set of forms as one guided session, carrying each answer forward to the steps that need it.
“Lose signal, and the submission’s gone.”

Air Fill saves each entry on the device and sends it the moment you’re back online.
“A form can only ever make new records.”

Open an existing record instead, change what needs changing, and only those fields are written back.
“The form logic never goes deep enough.”

Build nested AND/OR rules, show a field only when it’s empty, and hide whole sections or hold Submit until the form is right.
“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 or create linked records.
“You submit, and nothing tells you it landed.”

Get a push the moment a record is created — or send it on to a webhook or an Airtable automation.

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.