Base Captain and Glide
Written by Base Captain's founder. Checked on .
We build Base Captain, so we are not neutral. Every fact about Glide below is from its own pages, linked, on the date above; write to us if one is wrong.
In short
Glide turns spreadsheets and other data into apps for the desktop and the phone, built with an AI agent. Base Captain builds the software and its database from what you tell it, or from your spreadsheet, and changes it when you ask.
The difference that matters most: every Base Captain change is a version you can go back to, with its data, not only while you are still editing.
What Glide does well
- From your spreadsheet.
- Apps on Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable and other sources, or on Glide’s own tables. Glide’s page
- Desktop and phone.
- The same app on both, with its data in sync. Glide’s page
- Workflows.
- Triggered by the app, a schedule, a webhook or an email, with steps that pause for a person’s approval. Glide’s page
- Row owners.
- Each user downloads only the rows they own, free on every plan. Glide’s page
Where Base Captain differs
- Every change shown first.
- You ask in plain words, and the change comes as a card that says what gets added, who sees it and how many records it touches, and any data it would drop. Nothing changes until you apply it.
- Going back includes your data.
- Before each change to how a base works, a copy of its data is saved. Within an hour the base can go back to it, data and all; later, a new change undoes it and keeps the records entered since. Glide’s agent can revert its changes, and “this only works before you leave the Builder.”
- Rules the database enforces.
- Which records each role sees is enforced by the base’s own database, and a field hidden from a role, or one it may not change, stays that way everywhere: on the screens, in downloads, search and totals, and for the assistant and every agent. In Glide, which rows reach a user is set by row owners, and its documentation says “conditions are not security features.”
- A history you can undo.
- Every change is recorded with who made it and how. A change can be undone from the history, and a deleted record restored.
- Everything out at once.
- Every list downloads as an Excel or CSV file, and a builder downloads all of the base’s data in one zip file, with its files, whenever they like.
Prices
- Free
- $0
- Limited credits, 2 team members, no published apps
- Basic
- $25 a month
- 100 credits, 2 team members, 2 published apps
- Plus
- $50 a month
- 250 credits, 3 team members, 5 published apps
- Pro
- From $125 a month
- Starting at 5 team members, 250 credits plus 50 per member (500 at 5 members); unlimited published apps
- Enterprise
- On request
- Set with Glide
These are GlideOS’s plans. Glide Classic, the earlier product, has plans of its own.
Glide’s pricing page, checked on .
Choose Glide if…
- Your data should stay in a Google Sheet or an Excel file that your team keeps editing.
- You want an app on your team’s phones quickly, and to design its screens yourself.
- You need connectors to many other services. Base Captain connects to other tools through webhooks, in and out, and through the MCP servers of services such as Notion, Linear or Stripe, which you or the assistant set up, and takes payments through Stripe and PayPal.
Moving over
- Out of Glide.
- Export a Glide table as CSV from the Data Editor; data in Google Sheets or Excel is already a spreadsheet. Glide’s page
- Into Base Captain.
- Put each table on a sheet of one workbook and give it to the assistant: it proposes the lists and the links between them, then brings the rows in.
- What stays behind.
- Screens, workflows, roles and row owners; ask the assistant for the ones you need.