# Real apps, real code: browse our new App Gallery

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👋 Hello, Retool community!

Until last week, building outside of Retool meant going through MCP. You’d send a prompt, and Retool’s own agent did the work. The CLI, now in public beta, hands that job to your own coding agent instead: Claude, Cursor, whatever you already run locally writes the app directly on your machine. Once it’s done, Retool takes over. Permissioning, resource connections, and deployment happen the same way no matter which agent wrote the code.

A vibe-coded app still touches production data, and speed doesn’t change what it needs to run safely. Whether your agent builds through MCP or writes code locally through the CLI, Retool enforces auth, access policies, and audit logging at the platform level, so your faster builds are also governed and secure. MCP will still be better for some use cases—we wrote about how to decide which tool to use on the blog.

Learn more about CLI in our announcement and docs.

And ICYMI: our CEO David Hsu was a guest on the AWS for Software Companies podcast earlier this month talking about all things vibe coding securely. Check it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your preferred podcast platform. We also covered his guest appearance on the WSJ’s Tech Council Summit on the blog.

🚀 What’s new

Browse our new App Gallery

We just launched a running collection of real apps built in Retool—dashboards, consoles, forecasting tools, and more—organized by use case. Every app is live, editable code running on demo data, (not just a screenshot) so you can click and edit each one to see how it actually works before you build something similar of your own.

AI visibility for Enterprise

A new centralized settings page shows AI credit usage and BYOK token usage, filterable by instance, model, user, and feature. Enterprise admins (and delegated users) can also pull the same data through the new Get AI credit usage API endpoint.

Manual file management for app building

Add or delete folders, frontend components, and backend functions directly from the Code tab, no need to prompt the agent or spend credits.

Embed apps in iframes

Apps can now be embedded in other apps, in classic apps, or on outside websites via iframe. Org admins set the Content Security Policy rules that control which pages are allowed to frame your app.

New AI models

GPT 5.4 Mini, GPT 5.4 Nano, and GPT 6 Astra through OpenAI, Claude Fable 5.1 through Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock, and Gemini 3.8 Flash through Google and Vertex AI are all now available for AI resource queries.

🛠 Check out the changelog to see everything we’ve shipped.

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🗓 Events

Find us IRL in October:

Oct. 13: CIO 100 Leadership Live (Chicago)

Oct. 15: Snowflake World Tour (NYC)

🎥 Watch on demand

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📚 Bonus Content

The governance playbook behind flaschenpost’s 120 minute delivery promise

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🌍 Trending in the Community

Today is the last day to submit in the Built with Retool contest. Submit as many times as you’d like, and keep an eye on your Reddit messages to see if you’ve won.

A couple of builds already caught our attention on r/Retool this month:

RelayFix, a webhook recovery console → Ok_Assistance_8249's tool diagnoses, validates, and replays only the webhook events safe to retry.

An app that plans work across AI tools → EmuNo6554's "AI Capacity Control Tower" assigns tasks across AI tools and adapts when one goes offline.

TRAXSORS → Much-Significance685 built a manufacturing traceability dashboard for botanical skin care, tracing a product from batch to ingredient cost and stock on hand.

Submit your own for a chance to win a $100 gift card!

Not a member yet? Join the community—it’s not the same without you. 🤗

See you next month!

Kelsey McKeon

Content @ Retool

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