<p><strong>Introducing Glide Organizations</strong></p><p>Many of the world’s largest companies have their own internal mobile apps, used only by their employees. Our dream at Glide is to give the superpower of creating internal apps to anyone, so today we’re giving every person in your company software development superpowers with Glide Organizations.</p><h2><strong>Internal Apps – Built from Spreadsheets</strong></h2><p>Your company does not have a spreadsheet budget, a spreadsheet team, or a tedious spreadsheet development process. Everyone in your company simply makes spreadsheets whenever they want to.</p><p>With a Glide Organization, you can invite your colleagues and start building apps to explore new ideas, solve problems, and improve the way you work.</p><p>Create an employee directory, a budget tracker, dashboards, inventory apps, room reservation apps, time trackers—anything you might already have a spreadsheet for. Or copy a ready-made app from the <a href="https://www.glideapps.com/templates">Template Store</a> and customize it for your company.</p><p>Now you can replace expensive software that should have been a spreadsheet in the first place, with a Glide app.</p><h2><strong>The Backstory</strong></h2><p>Spreadsheets are the most successful programming tool of all time. For over 40 years, people have used spreadsheets to explore new ideas, build businesses, organize their lives, and even <a href="https://glide-c1c59ae2ea4c.intercom-clicks.com/via/e?ob=bZB4bJiDIIr7TF9hHN5vEFBW5sZ%2FLVaB0OT2Q4eXMPOtXwMQ7LmBnXCKSJFHv6Ox&h=0933858966ac899467cf4930aac6be72ffd603f7-lphimnhs_26847450562&l=e28720d777b68644e2b36864dbbefdcea2262f02-3161879">make music</a>. The success of spreadsheets is due to their remarkable balance of simplicity, flexibility, and power; they’re simple enough that anyone can learn the basics in minutes, they’re flexible enough to adapt to new problems, and they’re powerful enough to solve problems people care about.</p><p>Our dream at Glide is to make creating software more like creating spreadsheets—easy enough that <em>anyone</em> can create software to explore an idea or solve a problem in minutes. At the same time, using software should <em>not</em> feel like using spreadsheets–it should be fast, familiar, impossible to break, and beautiful.</p><p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.glideapps.com/orgs">glideapps.com/orgs</a> or <a href="https://go.glideapps.com/o/0/create">create an org now.</a><br></p><p><br></p>

Introducing Glide Organizations

Today we’re giving every person in your company software development superpowers with Glide Organizations.

<figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="padding-bottom:56.206088992974244%"><div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IOQAh0bVdi0"></iframe></div></figure><p>Over the last few weeks we've seen hundreds of new apps published — dedicated to helping people deal with the Coronavirus crisis. We’ve been inspired and moved by the developers behind these projects and the impact they are having on communities worldwide.</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2319px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5e9ddc9d21c514a587c6360d_Group%2089.png"></div><figcaption><a href="https://covid-apps.glideapp.io/" target="_blank">COVID Glide Apps</a></figcaption></figure><p>The Glide community has been adding many of these to a <a href="https://covid-apps.glideapp.io/" target="_blank">dedicated app</a>.&nbsp;We caught up with just some of these amazing folks and asked them about the story behind their apps. Here are just a few 👇</p><p>‍</p><h2>COVID&nbsp;19&nbsp;Educational Resources</h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1673px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5ea05408f64360405e85eb38_Group%20148.png"></div><figcaption><a href="https://covid19edresources.glideapp.io/" target="_blank">covid19edresources.glideapp.io</a></figcaption></figure><p>As COVID 19 forced schools to shut down around the world, Lynne, a digital learning specialist took on the challenge of collating remote education resources for a rapidly growing audience.<strong><br></strong></p><p>With the help of Kyle, a <a href="https://www.glideapps.com/experts" target="_blank">Glide Expert</a>, Lynne released an early version of her app and immediately the teaching community starting contributing to it.&nbsp;<strong><br></strong></p><p>Now with the help of over 80 volunteers across the globe - Lynne’s crowd-sourced app helps thousands of educators share resources and information on remote learning. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/abXV4RodDrY" target="_blank">‍<strong>→ Watch the video here</strong></a></p><p>‍</p><h2>Quarantine Film Festival</h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1673px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5ea053e69dcad38112554b54_Group%20147.png"></div><figcaption><a href="https://qff.kawokio.com/" target="_blank">qff.kawokio.com</a></figcaption></figure><p>Brian Jagger and his team were heading to a big film festival when the COVID-19 lockdown started. As the lockdown started, he and some of the sponsers started to make plans for a virtual film festival. <br></p><p>From that came the Quarantine Film Festival app - an app that sources film submissions from anyone in the world and showcases them in different categories.&nbsp;<br></p><p>User’s can set up a profile, submit their homemade films and view other people's submissions in many different categories.&nbsp;<br></p><p>The finalists films will then be streamed live and Brian &amp; his team will also be hosting a live awards show - all from within the app.&nbsp;</p><p>‍<a href="https://youtu.be/2pwxDv_25Kw" target="_blank"><strong>→ Watch the video here</strong></a></p><p><br></p><h2>Dida Academy</h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:3346px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5ea050ef7d2f328bd87f2433_Group%20146%20(1)-min.png"></div><figcaption>* not real student data</figcaption></figure><p>Dida Academy is a self directed learning centre for homeschooled students. Teachers at Dida support students through mentorship, project planning, workshops, and field trips. As soon as the Covid 19 lockdown started, Holly Phillips built an app to keep students connected with the school &amp; each other.&nbsp;<br></p><p>Holly started making the app on a Monday and was onboarding students by Wednesday. Dida now runs their program entirely using Glide &amp; Zoom. </p><p>‍<a href="https://youtu.be/aCVHks2n5yY" target="_blank"><strong>→ Watch the video here</strong></a></p><p><br></p><h2>COVID&nbsp;19 Toronto</h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1673px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5ea05685a3abf80cdcdd5444_Group%20150.png"></div><figcaption><a href="https://covidto.glideapp.io/" target="_blank">covidto.glideapp.io</a></figcaption></figure><p>With the COVID-19 Pandemic enforcing strict social distancing protocols in Canada, Zahra knew she had to build a better way of tracking resources and connections for her community. With the help and effort of her co-Torontonians, this app evolved into a huge crowd-sourced project, providing much needed resources to her city. </p><p>The app has now been made into a <a href="https://go.glideapps.com/o/0/templates" target="_blank">Glide template</a> and has been used to do the same in <a href="https://covid19londonuk.glideapp.io/" target="_blank">London</a> and a number of other major cities! </p><p>‍</p><h2>Come CDMX</h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1673px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5ea0542ced9165306ff62fba_Group%20149.png"></div><figcaption><a href="https://comecdmx.glideapp.io/">comecdmx.glideapp.io</a></figcaption></figure><p>Many of Mexico City's restaurants are not on listed on delivery services like&nbsp;Deliveroo &amp;&nbsp;Uber Eats. With social distancing measures in place, many of these were in real danger of going out of business. Jesús Vargas built <a href="https://comecdmx.glideapp.io/">Come CDMX</a> to help restaurants et their patrons know how to order for carry out or delivery. </p><p>With thousands of users and over 1,300 restaurants listed, the app is now being endorsed and shared by Mexico's tourism board and sponsored by American Express. </p><p>We hope you enjoyed hearing from these awesome Gliders as much as we loved speaking with them. If this inspired you, <a href="http://glideapps.com">try Glide for free</a> and let us know what you make by tweeting <a href="https://twitter.com/glideapps">@glideapps</a>.<br></p>

Glide apps for communities in crisis

Hear how people from all over the world are using Glide apps to help their communities get through the COVID-19 pandemic. 

<p>We debuted <a href="https://www.glideapps.com/">Glide</a> nine months ago, and have been blown away by the apps people have created so far. From sports teams to doctors, from politicians to protestors, from students to seniors, it’s amazing to hear from people who never thought they’d build an app. <strong>Today, we have some exciting news to share about our progress, a few customer stories, a new Pro product, and a powerful new feature inspired by spreadsheets.</strong><br></p><p>‍</p><h2>What is Glide?</h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2736px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5dbb38fc3d9535b3e8cf2f71_Image%2013.png"></div><figcaption>A simple shop, created from a Google Sheet.</figcaption></figure><p>As a reminder, Glide makes it easy for anyone to build apps without code, using basic spreadsheet skills. Pick a spreadsheet, and Glide creates a great-looking, easy-to-use mobile app to display and edit its data. You can share Glide apps instantly with a link, and apps update as your spreadsheet changes. Glide apps behave just like any other app, enhancing spreadsheet data with essential mobile features like chat, comments, search, and familiar layouts.</p><p>‍</p><h2>Glide apps reach one million users</h2><p>Tens of thousands of people who aren’t programmers—we refer to them as “non-technical software developers”—have built Glide apps for their businesses, teams, schools, churches, social groups, and even for their families. <em>These apps have now reached over a million users.</em></p><p>‍</p><h2>Dark apps rising<br></h2><p><em>“I’m not a developer—why would I make an app?”</em> you might wonder. We know how strange the idea sounds—the idea that “normal people” who aren’t software developers would build apps. When you browse the App Store, perhaps <em>none</em> of the apps strike you as apps you would make, even if you could.</p><p>We feel the same way! Glide apps are quite different from App Store apps—they are often special-purpose apps, shared privately within a group or organization. We call these apps “dark apps” because they do not see the “light” of public app stores.</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:3800px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5dbb2e6bbe2d9380f913b0f2_Product%20Shot%202%20(Directory%20app).png"></div></figure><p>Examples of dark apps built with Glide include employee directories, conference apps, concierge apps for VIPs, apps for political campaigns, and even an app built by a sheriff to catch a thief—all used by a limited audience or for a limited time. Like spreadsheets, dark apps are fit-to-purpose, filling the cracks where off-the-shelf solutions cannot. For example, one popular Glide app was just a list of five phone numbers that could be dialed with a tap. This particular app has no place in the App Store, but for any given company, it could be invaluable on employees’ phones.</p><p>For example, <strong>Marves Industries</strong>, a manufacturing company in Hildebran, North Carolina, has around 100 employees on their manufacturing lines. Kelly Consuegra, their HR Director, was looking for a better way to connect and communicate with everyone. “We wanted an app for scheduling, announcements, and HR communication,” she said. “We were amazed at how easy it was to develop our app in a few hours without knowing any programming code and how effective it's been in modernizing our workflow.</p><p>‍<strong>CityWide Apartments</strong>, the number one leasing agency in the St. Louis area, runs its operations on spreadsheets, as many businesses do. “As the largest leasing agency in [our] market, our sales team was accessing multiple spreadsheets from their cell phones. This was cumbersome,” remembered Aaron Griffing, IT Manager. Today it’s all accessible from a single Glide app on their phones. “We now have a Glide app with a beautiful and branded interface... it’s become the most-used app on our sales team’s phones!”<br></p><p>We loved hearing from the <strong>Marin County Sheriff’s office, </strong>which has become a surprising hotbed of mobile innovation. They’ve used Glide to create an employee directory, an emergency services app for the public, and even apps for the community to submit crime-solving tips (unfortunately a prolific bike thief is still at large). Sergeant Fred Marziano, quickly became a fan: “Glide’s simple and intuitive user interface has allowed us to reach out to the communities we serve in a manner that was previously unreachable due to excessive costs and technological resource limitations.”</p><p>‍</p><h2>Introducing Glide Pro<a><br></a></h2><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="padding-bottom:56.206088992974244%"><div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hCk16z8iSKE?rel=0"></iframe></div></figure><p>Today we’re launching <strong>Glide Pro</strong> for customers who need even more from their apps. Glide Pro apps can handle more rows of data, authenticate private users, and store more files in the cloud, all for $19/month per app. This is a precipitous discount on traditional app development, which often costs well over $100k per app. Glide remains free for basic apps and you can learn more at <a href="https://www.glideapps.com/pro">glideapps.com/pro</a>.</p><p>‍</p><h2>Our big bet: The Data Editor</h2><p>The key insight behind Glide is that the vast majority of apps can be created without code by building on top of the most popular no-code software-creation tool of all time: spreadsheets. There are estimated to be over a billion spreadsheet users worldwide, dwarfing the popularity of the world’s most popular programming languages.</p><p>‍</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:528px"><div><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c562f7cc3ddd3c593e6cac0/5dbb339b0611d7733b3560f4_excel.png"></div><figcaption>Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWKxFxyyrQ" target="_blank">Saving the World from Spreadsheets</a></figcaption></figure><p>Today we’re announcing Glide’s Data Editor, a spreadsheet-like interface within Glide that displays your app’s data and adds special columns that perform calculations normally requiring custom code or arcane formulas. The Data Editor allows anyone with a basic understanding of spreadsheets—and we mean <em>basic</em>—to create beautiful, useful apps that display, organize, edit, and react to information in sophisticated ways, without writing a single line of code.</p><p>‍</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="padding-bottom:56.206088992974244%"><div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AcBir5E8apo"></iframe></div></figure><p>For example, if you want your CRM app to send personalized emails to your customers, you can use the Data Editor’s Template column to merge customer data into a message template, then connect the message to an email action in your Glide app. All without writing code or formulas.</p><p><br></p><h2>Glide is funded by top early-stage investors and CEOs of the best tools for developers and designers</h2><p><strong>To build on our momentum, we’ve raised $3.6M from First Round Capital, Idealab, SV Angel, the CEOs of GitHub and Figma</strong>, and others to make Glide the greatest productivity tool since spreadsheets. Our focus in the coming months will be helping customers bring Glide to work with features that allow teams to collaborate on apps and discover apps made by colleagues. We will also continue to improve the experience of using apps built with Glide, so that even if your apps are made for work, they won’t have to feel like it 😉</p><p>‍</p><p>Thank you,</p><p>David &amp;&nbsp;The Gliders</p><p>‍</p>

Glide Goes Pro

Glide Pro takes your apps the next level with support for 25,000 rows, 10GB of file storage, custom branding, and private login for authorized emails.

<p>Today Apple released iOS 13, a major software update for the iPhone. Headline features include a system-wide Dark Mode, a new Photos app, a swipe keyboard, 2x faster app launches, and <a href="https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/">hundreds of other improvements</a>.</p><p>We've tested beta versions of iOS 13 for the last couple of months, and we're excited to report that iOS 13 also brings many significant enhancements for <a href="https://go.glideapps.com?signUp">Glide apps</a>.</p><h3>Improvements to Glide apps in iOS 13</h3><h4>Improved 'Add to Home&nbsp;Screen'</h4><p>iOS 13 has a nicer share sheet, which makes it easier to add Glide apps to your home screen from Safari.</p><h4>Quitting Apps</h4><p>When you need to quit an app, you can toss it off the top of your screen with a satisfying flick. Previously, Glide apps had an uncanny immunity to this gesture. In iOS 13, Glide apps can be tossed away just like any other app and this will fully quit them.</p><h4>Improved Multitasking</h4><p>In iOS 12, Glide apps would flash white and show their splash screen when switching to them. Now when switching among Glide apps and other apps, Glide apps smoothly resume without any flash or splash screen, just like any other app.</p><h4>Addresses open in the new Apple Maps</h4><p>Tapping an address or map view in a Glide app opens the new Apple Maps app, with improved Look Around and more detailed maps.</p><h4>Faster Tapping</h4><p>iOS 13 optimizes tap detection in a way that makes every tap in a Glide app register faster. This is most noticeable when switching tabs in Glide apps—every tap feels snappier.</p><h4>Improved Link Handling</h4><p>Tapping a link in a Glide app will open an in-app browser. There are many fixes in iOS 13, as well as Glide itself, that make this experience more reliable.</p><h4>Call Indicator</h4><p>When a call is in-progress, a green indicator draws behind the clock in your status bar. In iOS 12, tapping this indicator within a Glide app had no effect. Now it returns you to the in-progress call as expected.</p><h4>Visual Viewport API</h4><p>Glide doesn't take advantage of this yet, but iOS 13 allows Glide apps to accurately measure the position of the keyboard, and precisely rearrange the app interface around it. This enables a better and more typical chat experience, where the message field rests above the keyboard and grows as you type (just like in iMessage), rather than the quirky behavior Glide apps have now, where a full-screen message composer opens when writing a chat or comment. This will allow us to create a much better Chat experience in the coming months.</p><h3>Dear Apple:&nbsp;Our Wishlist for iOS 14</h3><h4>Push Notifications</h4><p>On Android, Glide apps are able to receive push notifications but iOS doesn't allow this. Our dream is for iOS 14 to allow Glide apps to receive push notifications.</p><h4>Open Glide Apps from Spotlight and Links</h4><p>If you have a Glide app on your home screen, the only way to open it is to tap its icon. It will not open if you launch it from a Spotlight search, or tap its link in Twitter, iMessage, Safari, etc. We would love it if opening links already added to your home screen (Apple calls these 'Web Clips') would return you to that app, just as other apps resume when opening their associated links.</p><h4>Camera Access</h4><p>There's a Web API that allows live access to the camera (<a href="https://pwascanit.com">see demo</a>), but this API is disabled for Glide apps once they've been added to your home screen. We'd love to be able to use this API on the home screen to create QR code scanners and other camera apps.</p><h4>'Add to Home' from anywhere, not just Safari</h4><p>You cannot add a link opened within an app (e.g. you've tapped a link in Twitter) to your home screen—first you must reopen the link in Safari, and only then can you 'Add to Home'. We'd love if users could add Glide apps to their home screen from Twitter, Chrome, Slack, etc., without opening in Safari first.</p><p><a href="https://go.glideapps.com/?signUp">Create your own app</a> from a Google Sheet with Glide, today.</p>

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