Streamline content reviews, ensure consistency, and speed up approvals with a customizable workflow tailored to your team's needs.


Build a content approval workflow that matches your team’s process. Add only the steps you need, and adjust as your requirements change.
Connect project management tools, document storage, and communication platforms with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a unified approval workflow.
Give each teammate just the right permissions for content reviews. Set up secure logins, user groups, and control access with no IT help needed.
Set up groups for content creators, reviewers, and approvers so each role sees only the tasks and workflows they need.
Set up groups for content creators, reviewers, and approvers so each role sees only the tasks and workflows they need.
Connect with Make, Zapier, or N8N to automate content assignments, notifications, and approval steps.
Approve or manage content from anywhere. Your internal workflow tool works perfectly on desktop and mobile.
Team members can log in quickly and securely with email, Google, or SSO—no IT intervention needed.
Protect sensitive content and approval data. Softr offers SOC2 and GDPR compliance for your workflows.
Reviewers ask AI about status, feedback, or approvals—getting instant answers, directly within your content workflow app.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Launch your content approval workflow in minutes with drag-and-drop blocks and templates.
Update steps, roles, or notifications as your approval process changes—no rebuilds needed.
Combine requests, reviews, and approvals in one place—no more juggling tools or email chains.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












A content approval workflow is a system where your team and stakeholders can review, give feedback on, and approve content before it’s published or shared. It keeps all communication about edits, approvals, and version history in one place, so you don’t have to rely on scattered emails or comments. This streamlines the entire process and helps ensure that everyone is aligned before content goes live.
Softr makes it easy to set up a content approval workflow that matches how your team collaborates. You can connect data sources like Airtable, Notion, or monday.com, and create a workflow where users can log in, review content drafts, leave comments, track progress, and give approvals—all in one centralized space.
You don’t need to write any code. You can start with a template or build your workflow from scratch, adjust the process steps, assign roles, manage permissions, and brand the platform to fit your organization. It’s quick to launch, easy to update, and flexible enough to adapt to your evolving content needs.
You can incorporate a wide range of features into your content approval workflow based on your team’s process. Some common features include:
\- User logins – so each collaborator can access their assigned content drafts
\- Custom dashboards – to track the status of content across review stages
\- Forms – for providing structured feedback or submitting new content for review
\- File sharing – for uploading and accessing draft documents or assets
\- Search and filters – to quickly locate content by status, author, or deadline
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – to display content items, feedback, or approvals
\- Comments or status updates – to keep all discussions in one place
\- Progress tracking or approval steps – to visualize workflow stages and bottlenecks
\- Calendar view – for managing due dates or editorial calendars
\- Permissions and roles – so reviewers, content creators, and managers only see what’s relevant to them
Everything is built using Softr’s drag-and-drop blocks, so you can add or modify features as your workflow evolves, all without coding.
No coding is required. You can build your content approval workflow entirely using Softr’s visual editor. Every aspect, from workflow stages to user permissions, can be customized without writing a single line of code.
Yes. You can manage multiple teams or stakeholders in a single content approval workflow. Each user only sees the content and approval items assigned to them, based on their login and role. This is especially helpful when you have several projects or departments involved in the approval process.
Softr supports a wide range of data sources, making it easy to connect your content approval workflow to your existing data. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. You can also bring in data from other sources using the REST API.
You’re not limited to just one. You can integrate multiple data sources into the same workflow app and display them side by side—so your content approval process can pull in data from both Airtable and HubSpot at once. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so any changes in your workflow or data source stay in sync automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how users experience your content approval workflow. You can customize the layout, navigation, and content to fit your team’s process and branding. Each page or block can be shown or hidden based on who’s logged in, so each stakeholder only sees content relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, such as reviewer, approver, or admin—and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, contributors might only see their own submissions, while managers can oversee all approvals. You can also create personalized views by filtering content based on the logged-in user.
This level of customization helps you keep the approval process clear, secure, and tailored to each participant’s needs.
Yes, you can. You don’t need to bring your data from somewhere else to start building your content approval workflow with Softr. If you’re starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates seamlessly with your workflow.
But if you already track content or approvals in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, you can connect those too. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in data from other sources. Either way, you have full control over how your approval data is structured and displayed in your workflow.
Yes, you can fully white-label your content approval workflow in Softr. You can use your own logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain to make the workflow feel like a natural extension of your organization. You can also remove all Softr branding, so reviewers and collaborators only see your team’s identity throughout the experience.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your content approval workflow. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page structure to match your brand or team's guidelines. You can also choose how each page is laid out, decide which blocks go where, and set what different users—like content creators, reviewers, or approvers—see when they log in.
To display your workflow content, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
\- Table blocks – to show structured data like submission lists, approval statuses, or revision requests
\- List or Card blocks – to highlight things like individual content items, steps in the workflow, or team members
\- Detail View – to show one submission or approval request at a time
\- Forms – for new submissions or collecting reviewer feedback
\- Charts – to visualize workflow progress or approval rates
\- Calendar blocks – to display deadlines or scheduled review dates
If your content or design needs change later, it’s easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your content approval workflow is hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr apps also give you full control over who can see and do what in your workflow. You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect sensitive content and feedback across your entire workflow.
For workflows connected to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr doesn’t store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You’re always in control of your data and who can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep your information safe.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one app with up to 10 app users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your content approval workflow needs more users or advanced features, you can explore Softr's paid plans for greater flexibility and scale: <http://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is built to make it easy to create fully functional, user-facing apps—like content approval workflows, client portals, and internal tools—without needing to write code or rely on developers. What sets it apart is how quickly you can go from idea to a working workflow, and how seamlessly it connects with your existing data.
Unlike some no-code tools that focus on mobile apps (like Glide) or are more dev-oriented (like Retool), Softr is designed for non-technical teams who want full control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build your content approval process on top of real-time data from tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded workflows that your team or stakeholders can log into.
You can customize everything visually—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes things like user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to patch together multiple tools to launch something polished.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations so you can connect your content approval workflow to the rest of your stack. You can automate tasks using Zapier, Make, and N8N, or trigger updates and notifications based on workflow actions. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced integrations.
Whether you need to send approval notifications, trigger automations when content is submitted or approved, or connect with external tools like Slack, Google Drive, or email, you can build it right into your workflow—without writing code.