Essential Studio

RATING:

4.4

(514)

About Essential Studio

With support for over 1,800 software components and frameworks, Essential Studio streamlines the creation and implementation of high-performance UI components for web, desktop, and mobile applications. As a comprehensive UI creation suite, Essential Studio allows enterprises and startups to create UI components for .NET MAUI, Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, UWP, JavaScript, Xamarin, Blazor, Vue, Angular, React and many more. Essential Studio includes component controls for Datagrids, Charts, Listviews, Diagrams, a calendar scheduler, a PDF viewer, and more. With a fully-featured predictive analytics library, businesses are able to develop predictive models using R/SAS and deploy predictive analytic solutions for .NET applications. Using a PPML execution engine, Essential...

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Essential Studio Pricing

o A subscription license that covers a team of up to 5 members is available for just $395 per month. Transferable license and portal included.  o A subscription license that covers a team of up to 10 members is available for $695 per month. Transferable license and portal included. o For teams of more than 10, Syncfusion's sales team will be happy to prepare a custom quote. o Syncfusion offers subscription licenses that are suited to every organization's structure and needs. In addition to the Team Licenses described above, Project, Division, and Global subscription licenses are also available. For the very latest pricing details, please visit https://www.syncfusion.com/sales/products! Last updated: March 6, 2023 

Starting price: 

$395.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

Essential Studio

Essential Studio Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Essential Studio

1 - 5 of 512 Reviews

User Profile

Ray

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2020

Complete, robust, fully functional web UI

Overall it's a great product. It does everything Telerik Kendo does but is cheaper and therefore a better value.

PROS

The Syncfusion Grid component is as good or better than any other on the market. It has every feature you could want: paging, sorting, filtering, sizing and reordering columns, exporting to PDF, CSV, or Excel. And they have just about every other rich web component you think of: Calendar, sortable list, embedded rich text/HTML editor, charts, maps, you name it. And best of all, their free community license includes ASP.Net MVC so you can develop rich MVC web UI applications. And also includes Xam

CONS

Although they have extensive documentation, they so many components that do so many things, that not every feature has specific programming examples, so you sometimes have to figure things out through trail and error. And although the MVC components all have tons of methods and parameters you sometimes have to write JavaScript to make it work the way you want. So you need to be a strong programmer.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

The free community license version of Synfusion is way better than Telerik Kendo's open source product. Kendo is JavaScript only and Synfusion gives community users their whole platform.

Lee

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

Software development partnership made in heaven.

Great company to work with and it feels like the Syncfusion team are an extension of our own team. If you need components for your application development no matter what language, there is probably something in the tool set. I made the decision to use Syncfusion a long time ago and have never looked back. As development trends change and new languages come along Syncfusion are always there with up to date tools for the job.

PROS

Having a huge number of components ready built and fully customisable at hand is amazing. Saves so much time and they help make applications look great. The support from Syncfusion is probably the best support I have received in my time being a developer.

CONS

I think sometimes the documentation could be better. It is not always easy to find the help you need to perform a specific task but this is always countered by top notch support.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

At the time Syncfusion were the only company offering PDF support. Along with all the other components that covered all aspects of development, whether web, windows, office integration.

Kevin

Higher Education, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2023

Suitable for start-ups

Generally great.

PROS

Lots of great features and they don't want an arm and a leg before you can use them.

CONS

Windows Forms code is all in the designer which makes it very difficult to focus on/find the useful parts.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

Better controls, better support

Abigail

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2021

Product with a lot of bugs and bad support

PROS

Includes a lot of features, and add new features. Has some free books.

CONS

The documentation is very bad. Include only very basic and unreal samples The support is very bad I spent one year with some errors with the report component. They fix one bug with the report and added 5 or 6 errors. I moved to Devexpress and after some years they still continue working with the bugs. I tested xamarin and the demo includes a lot of errors. I tested angular and got a lot error several weeks and support doesn't help me.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

The bad support, documentation, samples and a lot of bugs.

Krunoslav

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2024

Excellent product

PROS

I mostly use Blazor, Xamarin a MAUI components. Lot of components, simple to use, lot of examples, excellent documentation and excellent support. It's fascinating that even though I'm using a community license, the support is like having a paid license. Every client is important to them.

CONS

As for the components from Essential Studio, I have no complaints.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

I switched because of price. Meanwhile, I realized that in addition to excellent components, they have even more excellent support.