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Both importers live in the Import menu on the Helm bases home.

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Import from Airtable

The Airtable import recreates an Airtable base in Helm — tables, fields, and records, including the links between tables.
  1. Create an Airtable personal access token at airtable.com/create/tokens with the data.records:read and schema.bases:read scopes
  2. In Helm, open Import → Airtable and paste the token
  3. Pick the base, then choose which tables to import (all are selected by default)
  4. Start the import and watch the progress — larger bases take a few minutes
What comes across:
  • Tables, fields, and all records
  • Field types are mapped to their Helm equivalents (selects keep their choices and colors, attachments, ratings, dates, and so on)
  • Linked records between imported tables are preserved — links to tables you didn’t select are kept as plain text with a warning
  • Computed Airtable fields (formula, rollup, count, lookup) import as text snapshots of their current values
  • Views are not imported — recreate the views you need in Helm
Your Airtable token is used only for the import and is discarded when the job completes.

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Import from a spreadsheet

The spreadsheet import turns a CSV into a new base with one table.
  1. Open Import → Spreadsheet
  2. Upload a CSV or TSV file, or paste cells copied from Excel or Google Sheets
  3. The first row becomes your column names; column types (text, number, checkbox) are detected automatically
  4. Confirm to create the base
Limits: up to 100 columns and 10,000 rows per import. Native .xlsx and other binary spreadsheet formats aren’t supported — export as CSV first.