Zoho Tables July 2025 Update: Smart Creation, Smarter Automation

Zoho Tables July 2025 Update: Smart Creation, Smarter Automation

We’re excited to introduce a powerful set of updates across Web, Android and iOS/iPad apps. From AI-assisted base creation to advanced automations and mobile enhancements, this release is packed with features to help you build faster, automate better, and work smarter.


Here’s what’s new:

1. AI-Assisted Base Creation

Available on: Web & Mobile

Description: Describe what you want to build and Zia will create a base structure, including related tables and fields. You can generate and review up to 10 use case suggestions before creating the base.

Use Case: A marketing team enters: “Track content creation, reviews, and approvals.” Zia creates a ready-to-use base with linked tables for Posts, Review Cycles, and Approvals.

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2. Reports (Beta)

Available on: Web

Description: Visualize your data across tables with KPIs, charts (column, bar, line, pie), grids, and text blocks. Create custom dashboards to track performance and trends.

Use Case: A project manager builds a dashboard that displays project progress as a line chart, a KPI for tasks completed, and a grid listing overdue items.

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3. Scheduled Automations

Available on: Web

Description: Trigger automations on a defined schedule—hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or once. You can also set a start and end date to limit the automation period.

Use Case: A sales team sets up a weekly automation to notify teams on the weekly progress towards the target.

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4. Send Messages on Zoho Cliq

Available on: Web

Description: Automations can now send messages to users, groups, or channels on Zoho Cliq. This action can be triggered by all events.

Use Case: When a high-priority ticket is updated, a message is automatically posted to the #support-leads channel in Zoho Cliq.

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5. Include Records or Summaries in Send Email & Zoho Cliq Automation Actions

Available on: Web

Description: Add summaries or a list of matching records directly into the content of your notification emails or Zoho Cliq messages.

Use Case: A daily email lists all pending tasks and includes a summary of how many are overdue, giving the manager an instant context.

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6. More Colors for Bases and Select Fields

Available on: Web & Mobile

Description: Choose from 30 new base color themes and 20 additional color options for single and multi-select fields.

Use Case: A creative team assigns different colors to each project stage in a multi-select field, making it easier to scan views at a glance.

7. New Formula Functions

Available on: Web & Mobile

Description: New formulas including IF, IF-ERROR, EOM (End of Month), NOW, and ARRAYCOUNT  offer more flexibility in defining logic and calculations.

Use Case: A finance team uses EOM to calculate billing cycle end dates and ARRAYCOUNT to count the number of active invoices per client.

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8. Guest Mode

Available on: Android, iOS, and iPadOS

Description: You can now create and work with a base even without logging in or having internet access. Once you’re online and signed in, the base syncs to your account.

Use Case: A field surveyor collects observations offline in a rural area and syncs the data to their account once they’re back online.

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9. Siri Support

Available on: iOS & iPad

Description: Use Siri to create a new base with your voice. Just say: “Create a base in Zoho Tables.”

Use Case: A consultant quickly captures an idea while driving by using Siri to launch a base without opening the app.

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10. Apple Pencil Support

Available on: iPad

Description: Use your Apple Pencil to write directly into cells, tap on rating fields, and tick checkboxes—giving you a tactile, notebook-like experience.

Use Case: A teacher takes classroom poll and rates student participation using just their Apple Pencil on an iPad.

Learn more

 11. We are available on Zapier

Description: All triggers and actions of Zoho Tables is now available on Zapier. You can write zaps to extend your workflows in Zapier now.


We hope these updates help you streamline your workflows and improve how you manage your data. 
To stay updated on what's coming next, checkout our Roadmap page and explore all recent updates on our What's New page.

We have been continuously working on improving performance under the hood, and we will be sharing a detailed post on performance optimizations next week - stay tuned!   

Keep organizing, 
Team Zoho Tables.

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