Rowhouse vs GridBuddy
GridBuddy Connect is a hosted grid with depth built up since 2010, and it reaches across systems. Rowhouse stays inside one Salesforce org, keeps your grids as metadata you own, and costs nothing per seat.
Which one, when
- You need one grid across systems: several Salesforce orgs, or Salesforce with Dynamics 365, Zendesk, SAP or ODataGridBuddy Connect. Rowhouse works inside one org and makes no callouts, by design.
- Your security team wants the grid, its queries and its configuration to stay inside your orgRowhouse. GridBuddy Connect is served from gridbuddyconnect.com, reaches Salesforce over OAuth, and keeps your grids in your account on Validity’s platform.
- You need to model the cost before you talk to salesRowhouse is $0. GridBuddy Connect’s listing showed $27.50 per user per month when it was last readable, on 6 October 2026.
- You run the original GridBuddy package and are weighing the move to GridBuddy ConnectEither way you rebuild. Validity’s migration guide has every GridBuddy component on your pages replaced by hand, and extensions changed. Compare the two rebuilds before you start one.
Where GridBuddy is the better choice
- Reach across systems. One grid over several Salesforce orgs, or Salesforce with Dynamics 365, Zendesk, SAP and OData. Rowhouse works in one org and does not try to solve this.
- Reach across objects. Related and unrelated objects in one editable grid, with cross-object filters. Rowhouse shows one object per grid, with fields of related records up to five lookups away and child tables under each row, but no unrelated objects.
- Depth built up since 2010. Tabbed workspaces, ready-made grids, user-defined grids and conditional formatting that reaches child records.
- Upgrades you do not run. The hosted platform ships a release about every two months, most recently 7.33.8 on 5 October 2026, with no package to upgrade and test in a sandbox.
- Undo and redo
- Row actions, flows and quick actions
- Field, object and sharing security
- Large lists
- Experience CloudComing soon
What your users would work in
A grid your team edits like a spreadsheet
Grouped by stage with sums, overdue dates in red, big deals in green — every rule set on the Grid Admin tab, without code.
Built on a tab in Salesforce
One editor for the grid, its columns, display rules, filters, actions and child tables, checked as you type. Everything you build is Custom Metadata in your org.
Rowhouse and GridBuddy, side by side
| Capability | Rowhouse | GridBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Editing | ||
| Inline edit | Yes | Yes |
| Mass edit: many cells, one save | Yes | Yes |
| Update a field across a selection | Yes | Yes |
| Inline create (add a row) | Yes | Yes |
| Delete from the grid | Yes | Yes |
| Undo and redo | Yes | Partial |
| Copy and paste Excel ranges | Yes | Not documented |
| Finding and shaping | ||
| Resize and reorder columns | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-column sort | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Row grouping | Yes | Yes |
| Subtotals and aggregates | Yes | Yes |
| Conditional formatting | Yes | Yes |
| Related data | ||
| Several objects in one grid | Partial | Yes |
| Parent and child expand under a row | Yes | Yes |
| Moving data | ||
| Export | Yes | Yes |
| Import and upsert | Yes | Not documented |
| Views and placement | ||
| Named, shareable saved views | Partial | Yes |
| Lightning page embed | Yes | Yes |
| Flow screen component | Roadmap | Not documented |
| Experience Cloud | Roadmap | Yes |
| Mobile | Partial | Partial |
| Actions | ||
| Row actions, flows and quick actions | Yes | Partial |
| Access, security and scale | ||
| Keyboard navigation | Yes | Not documented |
| Screen reader | Yes | Not documented |
| Field, object and sharing security | Yes | Partial |
| Shield Platform Encryption | Partial | Yes |
| Large lists | Yes | Partial |
Three years, at 25, 50 and 250 users
GridBuddy’s license is a per-user list price, so its cost grows with every person added. Rowhouse has no license fee at any size; what it costs is the time to run it.
Where your grids are kept
Grid configuration — held in the vendor’s cloud, outside your org.
Seven Custom Metadata types in your org: built in a sandbox, moved in a change set, kept in source control, and never overwritten by an upgrade.
Inside the org, or reaching in
GridBuddy Connect is a web application at gridbuddyconnect.com. Inside Salesforce, a small managed package frames it into your pages, and the grid reaches your records over an OAuth connection your admin sets up. That shape is what lets one grid join several orgs and other systems. It is also why your grids, workspaces, actions and grid users are kept in your account on Validity’s platform, and move between environments by file export and import.
Rowhouse is a Lightning Web Component calling Apex in your org, as the user, with no callouts. Each grid is a set of Custom Metadata records: built in a sandbox, moved in a change set, kept in source control.
Where Rowhouse is ahead
Limits you can check. GridBuddy publishes no row ceiling. Rowhouse loads 10,000 rows when a grid opens, up to 100,000 as you scroll, and publishes a benchmark at 50,000 rows with its script.
Undo, and a record of changes. GridBuddy documents a per-field revert, not an undo history, and no audit trail of grid edits. Rowhouse keeps 100 undo steps, where a 500-cell paste is one step, and can log every saved change with its old and new value.
The keyboard. Neither GridBuddy product documents a keyboard model. Rowhouse is built to the W3C data grid pattern, with ARIA grid semantics and spoken announcements for a paste, an undo or a save.
Checked 2026-10-07; due for a re-check by 2027-04-07. GridBuddy’s values are its vendor’s own published claims; nothing was installed or tested. Something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Rowhouse vs GridBuddy: questions
Is GridBuddy still sold?
Yes. Validity sells and supports it, and shipped GridBuddy Connect 7.33.8 on 5 October 2026. As of 7 October 2026 both of its AppExchange listings were private, and the GridBuddy Connect listing returned the error code SECURITY_REVIEW_REQUIRED instead of rendering. Validity has not said what that code means for buyers.
Does GridBuddy Connect run inside Salesforce?
No. GridBuddy Connect is served from gridbuddyconnect.com, framed into your Lightning pages, and issues its queries and saves against the Salesforce API over OAuth; Validity’s public documentation does not say whether record data is cached on its side. Rowhouse runs as a Lightning Web Component calling Apex in your org, with no callouts.
What does GridBuddy cost?
The original GridBuddy package lists at $24 per user per month. GridBuddy Connect listed at $27.50 per user per month when its listing was last readable, on 6 October 2026; the same listing priced the Salesforce connector alone at $2.75 and referred the required GridBuddy Connect Platform to Validity’s website, which no longer has a GridBuddy page. Rowhouse is $0, under the Apache-2.0 license.
Can I run Rowhouse and GridBuddy in the same org?
Yes. They are separate packages with separate configuration. A sensible split is GridBuddy Connect for the people who need one view across systems, and Rowhouse for everyone editing one org’s records.
Three things you can verify without asking us
Nobody should pay per seat to edit a thousand rows.
Compare it on your own data: install it beside the grid you have, and keep both until you are sure.