Airtable Importer alternative: what to use now that it's closed
If you landed here, you probably opened Google Sheets, went to Extensions and found that Airtable Importer — the free add-on from Railsware that thousands of teams used to pull Airtable into Sheets — is now labelled [CLOSED] on the Marketplace. Railsware folded it into Coupler.io, its paid data-integration product. The other free listing, "AirTable 2 Google Sheet Sync", sits at two stars and has not been updated since 2024; recent reviews say it no longer launches.
So what should you use instead? It depends on how much you sync and whether you need it on a schedule.
Option 1: Coupler.io (from $32/month)
The official successor. It is a capable web app with dozens of sources, but the free plan is now limited to 100 rows and manual runs; scheduled Airtable → Sheets sync starts on the Starter plan at $32/month with a 5,000-row cap. Airtable community threads are full of people asking for something cheaper for simple one-way sync — which is the gap the tools below fill.
Option 2: Coefficient (from $49/month)
Excellent if you already use it for Salesforce or HubSpot and want Airtable alongside; expensive if Airtable is the only source you need.
Option 3: Basepull ($19/month, free manual plan)
Basepull is a Google Sheets add-on that does one thing: mirror an Airtable table or view into a Sheets tab on a schedule (hourly, 6-hourly or daily). It runs entirely inside your Google account as Apps Script and talks to the Airtable API directly, so your records never pass through a vendor server. The free plan gives you one manually-refreshed sync of up to 1,000 rows; Pro is a flat $19/month for unlimited syncs and up to 200,000 rows.
| Airtable Importer (old) | Coupler.io | Basepull | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Closed | Active | Active |
| Scheduled sync | Yes | $32/mo+ | $19/mo |
| Free tier | Everything | 100 rows, manual | 1,000 rows, manual |
| Data path | Direct | Via Coupler servers | Direct (your Google account → Airtable) |
| Views / hidden fields | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Migrating from Airtable Importer
- Note which base/table/view each of your old imports used and which tab it wrote to.
- Install Basepull, paste a read-only Airtable token, and recreate each import as a "sync" pointing at the same tab name. Basepull replaces the tab's contents on each run, so downstream formulas keep working.
- Run each sync once, then set the schedule. Remove the old add-on.