Does a online system like Access even exist?
Hi,
I've been looking for a system like access, basically the 4 mains: table, query, forms and reports with easy integration of scripting (not picky about which one). Something that has the free form design access has. I don't need responsive layout or at least I want to be able to make two version one for phone and one for desktop.
I want to be able to link reports to be initiated by forms for example. Build queries with variable fields that I can populate from form. Preferably without having to use code all the time.
Also some level of validation, masks, and the more standard input controls.
I don't need macros (I use code when need to expand in that direction)
I've created accounts with most Metabase, Airtable, Grist, Knack, Caspio, NocoDB, Baserow etc. Also looked into things like Retool, Ninox, FlutterFlow, Supabase, etc. but none even get close. Their AI assistants are nice though.
Tables are OKish but even then the relationships are not as easy to see.
Form and Query Builders are too limiting, huge margins, padding and a medium size form will need 3 pgdn's to fill, not to mention if i've got sub forms that i want to show or not as a table.
Reports are either pure tables with very few controls to filter and control with forms, or they focus on charts, gnat charts, pie charts, stock charts, dashboard stuff, kanban, etc. Not to mention if i wanted to print them (save as pdf).
I just want access for web with cloud database, it's a 30 year old product shouldn't be that hard to duplicate as a web application.
Has anyone seen something that does what access does?
Don't want things like lovable, and don't want to use AI (codex, Claude, etc) to code each one since modifying with prompts is not sustainable not to mention potential bugs plus deployment headaches, backups etc.
Editing AI spaghetti code is too slow too.