Rowhouse vs RavenApps Grids
RavenApps Grids is a native Lightning grid from a small London company, and it reaches across objects further than Rowhouse. Rowhouse groups, pastes and undoes, with no seat price and no edition limit.
Which one, when
- You need parent, child, grandchild and unrelated objects in one editable gridRavenApps Grids. 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.
- Users group and subtotal lists, paste ranges from a spreadsheet, or undo before they saveRowhouse. RavenApps documents no row grouping and no undo, and takes pasted cells through its 500-row import dialog and nowhere else.
- You need more than two grids or two users in production without a per-seat contractRowhouse. RavenApps’ free edition stops at two of each, and its terms let the vendor withdraw or change it without notice.
Where RavenApps Grids is the better choice
- Reach across objects. Nested and polymorphic subqueries, related grids that drill into child and grandchild records, and unrelated objects joined through variables. Rowhouse is behind here.
- Release pace. Fifteen documented releases between January and September 2026, including dependent picklist editing, Excel workbook export and a spreadsheet import with upsert.
- A free sandbox with no clock. Every sandbox runs the full Pro edition with no user or time limit, so an evaluation needs no trial request.
- Things Rowhouse does not do yet. RavenApps edits rich text in the cell and places grids on Experience Cloud pages in its Enterprise tier.
- Undo and redo
- Copy and paste Excel ranges
- Row grouping
- Subtotals and aggregates
- Keyboard navigation
- Large lists
- Experience CloudComing soon
- AI features (in part)Coming 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 RavenApps Grids, side by side
| Capability | Rowhouse | RavenApps Grids |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | No |
| Copy and paste Excel ranges | Yes | Partial |
| Finding and shaping | ||
| Resize and reorder columns | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-column sort | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Row grouping | Yes | No |
| Subtotals and aggregates | Yes | Partial |
| 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 | Yes |
| Views and placement | ||
| Named, shareable saved views | Partial | Partial |
| 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 | Yes |
| Access, security and scale | ||
| Keyboard navigation | Yes | Partial |
| Screen reader | Yes | Not documented |
| Field, object and sharing security | Yes | Yes |
| Shield Platform Encryption | Partial | Partial |
| Large lists | Yes | Partial |
| AI features | Roadmap | Partial |
Three years, at 25, 50 and 250 users
RavenApps Grids’ 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 (SOQL string plus JSON columns, filters, sorts and summaries stored on Grid custom-object records in the subscriber 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.
Two native grids, two different bets
Both are Lightning Web Components calling Apex in your org. RavenApps bets on reach and on shipping fast. Each grid is a SOQL query and JSON column definitions on a record of its own custom object. Advanced features mean writing that JSON by hand, which two of its reviewers mention, and each conditional-formatting rule is a formula field you add to the object.
Rowhouse bets on the spreadsheet: ranges, paste and fill down, 100 undo steps, three levels of grouping with subtotals, and grids kept as Custom Metadata.
The free edition, read closely
RavenApps’ free edition is real and is advertised on its listing: two active grids and two users in production. Its terms call it a trial with no end date that RavenApps may withdraw or change at any time without notice. Free and Pro cannot share an org, and an org cannot move back from Pro to Free. Pro’s price page adds 15% for support and maintenance and a ten-user minimum purchase, which an FAQ on the same page contradicts.
Rowhouse has no edition to outgrow. Its Apache-2.0 license grant is perpetual and irrevocable.
Checked 2026-10-07; due for a re-check by 2027-04-07. RavenApps Grids’ values are its vendor’s own published claims; nothing was installed or tested, and RavenApps’ terms bar competitor access and benchmarking, so this comparison is documentary only. Something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Rowhouse vs RavenApps Grids: questions
Did you test RavenApps Grids?
No. RavenApps’ terms bar competitors from using the product and from benchmarking it, so this page rests on its listing, user guide, release notes, price page and terms.
Is RavenApps Grids free?
In part. Its free edition allows two active grids and two users in a production org, and its terms call that edition a trial RavenApps may withdraw or change without notice; Free and Pro cannot run in the same org. Pro lists at $12 per user per month, billed yearly, and the vendor’s price page adds 15% for support and maintenance. Rowhouse is $0 under Apache-2.0, with no edition limit.
Are both built on Lightning Web Components?
Yes, and both run inside your org, so data residency is not the difference. RavenApps’ user guide says its grid is built on Salesforce’s lightning-datatable component. Rowhouse draws its own table.
Can I run Rowhouse and RavenApps Grids together?
Yes. A paid RavenApps org can run Rowhouse beside it: RavenApps for the cross-object grids and portal pages, Rowhouse for the long tail of plain editable lists that never justified a seat.
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.