Base Captain and Softr
Written by Base Captain's founder. Checked on .
We build Base Captain, so we are not neutral. Every fact about Softr below is from its own pages, linked, on the date above; write to us if one is wrong.
In short
Softr builds portals and internal tools on top of your data, in Softr’s own databases or in the tools you already use, such as Airtable, Google Sheets or HubSpot. Base Captain is the software and its database in one, built and changed by asking.
The difference that matters most: Base Captain shows every change before it happens and can take it back with its data, and its field rules already hold on every request.
What Softr does well
- Your data where it is.
- Apps on Softr Databases or on data sources such as Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets, SmartSuite, Supabase and HubSpot. Softr’s page
- Portals.
- Portals for clients, vendors and your own team, with user groups and filters that show each person their own records. Softr’s page
- An AI co-builder.
- Describe what you need and it builds the database, the pages, the user groups and the theme. Softr’s page
- App history.
- A snapshot of the app every ten actions, or when you make one, to restore it from. Softr’s page
- Workflows.
- Triggers from the database, webhooks and schedules, with steps that wait for a person’s decision. Softr’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. Softr’s AI co-builder “makes the change directly. You see the result immediately.”
- 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. Restoring a Softr database snapshot “creates a new database and leaves the original exactly as it is.”
- 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. Field-level permissions are listed as “coming soon” in Softr’s documentation.
- 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.
- No code to read.
- Base Captain writes code for your base where a change needs it, and tries it before you apply it. Nobody on your team writes it or has to read it, even when something goes wrong; it is one click away on the change, and in its place in the base, for whoever wants to read or change it.
- Hiding a field from a role
- Softr: Coming soon
- Base Captain: Built, and it holds everywhere
- Going back
- Softr: App snapshots; a database snapshot restores into a new database
- Base Captain: The same base, with its data, within an hour
Prices
- Free
- $0
- 5 app users, 5,000 records
- Basic
- $19 a month billed yearly, $25 monthly
- 1 builder, 5 team and 5 client app users, 50,000 records
- Pro
- $99 a month billed yearly, $119 monthly
- 2 builders, 10 team and 50 client app users, 500,000 records
- Business
- $329 a month billed yearly, $395 monthly
- 3 builders, 30 team and 100 client app users, 1 million records
- Enterprise
- On request
- Set with Softr
Extra builders and app users cost more each month; each plan includes monthly AI credits and workflow actions.
Softr’s pricing page, checked on .
Choose Softr if…
- Your data lives in Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets or HubSpot and should stay there. Base Captain keeps the data in your base. 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.
- You want to lay out the pages yourself, block by block.
- You need single sign-on for your team.
Moving over
- Out of Softr.
- A Table block can download its data as a CSV or an Excel file; data in Airtable or Google Sheets comes out from there. Softr’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.
- Pages, user groups, workflows and permissions; ask the assistant for the ones you need.