I’m producing a video for my YouTube channel teaching about the “Personal Use” feature of AppSheet and other alternatives for sending emails. While researching this “Personal Use” functionality, I came across documentation that doesn’t explicitly explain what actually works or doesn’t work when using this feature.
The documentation pages only state that there’s a limit of 3 users for Personal Use access, but this leaves many questions unanswered:
Do scheduled bots work?
Can I send emails to people other than the app owner?
Can I use other ‘paid’ features? If so, which ones?
My questions arise because, since the limit is 3 users, what would actually change if the app were deployed to make this Personal Use functionality truly useful? Because if nothing changes, except the app’s “status” to deployed, wouldn’t it be better to continue using the app as a prototype and have a limit of up to 10 users?
It would be great if this documentation page were updated.
I’ve not found a good use case for Personal Use. My sense is this option was added in AppSheet’s very early day and forgotten or abandoned and never removed.
Good morning, and thank you for keeping this on our radar. I know you are eager to get a response on this, and I appreciate your patience while the team finishes their review.
The team had to balance some heavy foundational work over the last couple of weeks. However, please know that your request is in the pipeline.
I’ll make sure to follow up and get back to you as soon as the review concludes.
After 76 days since the request, and another 50 since the last response, the page still hasn’t been updated with information that should have been clearly stated years ago. I give up.
