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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.

GERALD

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

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 November 2023

SYNCFUSION REVIEW

PROS

I used syncfusion. It has the best Data tables(Syncfusion Datagrid) evever

CONS

A bug with syncfusiondatagrid table serach function which was later fixed

Craig

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

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

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2023

Community Edition has really helped the business

PROS

The tool set is comprehensive and will save you a lot of time in development.

CONS

Some of the documentation is out of date and when doing something complex, you need to contact support for help. Support are pretty active in getting back, but still when under a deadline this can be frustrating.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

The Community Edition is free and we are a small business and have turnover of less than £100k. This means the competitors are just too expensive too consider. That said our business is now growing and when we do hit the community edition limits, then there will be no question that we will use the paid licences as it would be impossible to remove the Syncfusion components.

Richard

Market Research, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

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

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2023

Powerful product. Plan for lots of back-and-forth with customer support.

PROS

Many components, highly customizable, powerful features.

CONS

Documentation seems sparce for a number of use cases. Though I take painstaking effort to clearly lay out my requests to customer support, I often feel they have either not thoroughly read my comments or have not tested and validated that their responses solve the issue, leading to weeks of back-and-forth with customer support.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

Syncfusion was less expensive, appeared to have all the components we needed, and could run on VueJS

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

Software was old and clunky, expensive, and required jQuery.

Minh

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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 November 2023

A good product

Syncfusion team support me good enough and I had an occasion to use their product fully , with well documents. Their tools are powerful for me to work on Visual Studio, run well with Nuget, remind me every time new version release. Very professional and quality products, cross many technologies and platforms. Highly recommend.

PROS

The code was written in the most elegant way. Reading its source is easy to understand.

CONS

I can not search the related topic correctly with Guide center. But the ticket works, and I got the right support

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

( The form doesn't mention about ReoGrid and DevExpress SpreadSheet ) I got an issue with: - extends classes for further work - license cost - non-frequently-update version ( Reogrid )

Leon

Program Development, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2024

Vue - Syncfusion Review

PROS

Huge amount of components to chose from and great customization

CONS

The little and incomplete Documentation regarding the components for vue 3's composition api

Gerhard

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used monthly for less 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

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2024

My experience with Essential Studio

PROS

Large feature set, multi-platform, long term availability (for example, Windows forms still supported). Support is great.

CONS

The nuget packaging is sometimes quite complicated.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

For a one person part time developer, DevExpress Tools are too expensive. The Syncfusion community version is perfect.

Harihar

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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 February 2024

Developer Essential Studio

A very recent Member was not just able to easily set-up, configure Grid and DropDownList of Syncfusion components to my React App but also further connect it to Java SpringBoot App & MySQL as a full stack development and perform successful CRUD operations.

PROS

Ease of set-up, configure and the out of the box UI.

CONS

Can't expect more but I still need to explore.

Andrew

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 April 2020

Xamarin UI controls

I’ve used the Syncfusion controls when I worked at other companies so I knew what I was getting into. I felt very confident in the controls, ease of integration and quality of the technical support team. By using these controls I’ve been able to get my apps out the door much faster than before.

PROS

Integration is a breeze. The software is well designed and is rock solid. One of the best additions to the software are two apps you can download, Syncfusion Controls Explorer and Essential UI kit. The Controls explorer does a great job of showcasing various controls and illustrating different ways the control can be used. The other app, Essential UI Kit provides me with both a jumpstart for getting certain screens up and running but also a real work example of how the controls can be used. As an independent developer, I don’t have the luxury of hiring a full-time designer nor the flexibility of time to see how the control works. These controls allow me the ability to get my app up and running faster than before.

CONS

The grid control still needs work. It’s great for presenting data, but if you’re looking for more flexibility when entering values directly within the grid, you’ll be disappointed. The richness of options available to you just isn’t there. Knowledgebase on the website needs work. You can drill down to a specific control, say, Xamarin.Forms -> SfDataGrid however if I search for "Initialize" it searches the entire product line. Really frustrating and makes the feature rather useless.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

I ran a development shop with a team of 50 developers. I always promoted the idea of developers building apps on the side with support from the organization. Not only helped the developer expand their knowledge and skillset, but also help the company. Experience the developer gained by writing these apps was invaluable to us at a later point in time. Syncfusion understands this concept. Their software is free for independent developers with sales under a certain threshold, and in return, the developer brought the experience of using these controls to their full-time job—a win-win for both of us.

Vincent

Education Management, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

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

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2020

Expensive and poor support but best available solution

I had to rely on their support team for almost everything when it came to integrating the scheduling component into my software because the documentation was really poor. There is a lot of documentation but the problem with it is that it just doesn't explain how to use anything. You'd find a reference to the problem you're having, and the documentation tells you what this thing is supposed to do but doesn't tell you how to implement it. At times it just seemed like it was written from the perspective of somebody who already knew how to use everything and that's obviously not very useful. The good thing is the support team is always willing to help (though I always had to wait until the next day for an answer) but the bad thing is that sometimes they didn't read my question carefully and ended up giving answers to questions I wasn't even asking. It was at times frustrating to deal with support (and I think the language barrier might've been the issue), but credit to them they were always polite and willing to help. I just wish I didn't need to call on them for everything. They also have a support chat and a few times I had a good guy who was able to be helpful, but other times the person answering the chat was almost useless, redirecting me to tier 2 support for even simple things. One guy even told me "Chat support is only a triage. We don't actually help you."

PROS

I got Syncfusion primarily for the scheduler component and having looked at other options, this was the best front end solution I could find for my software. It's not perfect, but it's very good in terms of functionality and user interface. I think my clients will enjoy using this scheduler.

CONS

It's a bit awkward to implement and the documentation is very poor. As for the scheduler, it comes with built in popup windows for creating and modifying events, but trying to get their styling to match my own was a nightmare because they did not use the same classes for every window, and not even the same classes for every button. It was surprising how inconsistent they were with their styling and that made it impossible to create consistent spacing and styling to match the rest of my system, so I ended up blocking all the popups and creating my own but this also was not easy or obvious. I had to contact support several times just to figure out how to use my own popups.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

It had the best scheduling component in terms of functionality and the way it looks and works for the end user.

David

Industrial Automation, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

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 2020

SyncFusion Blazor Components Review

I really like the product suite. I find that I can do almost everything I need to do using their out-of-box experience.

PROS

I like having the large number of components in the bundle as it reduces the number of third party components I need to complete my projects. I also like how rapidly SyncFusion rolls out updates to their products and the quality and speed of response of their technical support.

CONS

I am not sure if this is SyncFusion Blazor specific or something inherent with Blazor itself, but the lack of Support for GUID in their dropdown list and other things like their event callbacks require that I change my GUIDs to string types in my models and then have to map them back to GUIDs for CRUD to the backend. Also, I really wish they had a good Step / Wizard component. I currently have to use Radzen's Step component for my WIzards and there are often CSS conflicts between Radzen and SyncFusion. If they do not add one, I will most likely have to create my own custom Step (Wizard) component before the project is finished.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

SyncFusion seemed to have much more resources and support. After switching, I am satisfied with SyncFusions speed at which they provide support and problem resolution.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

SyncFusion was more robust and seemed to have better support at the time we decided to switch. I believe that SyncFusion was on Blazor before Telerik, which might partially explain the disparity.

Olafur

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 May 2020

Feature-rich easy to implement product with amazing customer support

This products solves almost all our needs along with the standard ui and productivity components on the platforms that we deliver solutions on. We are almost entirely an angular/typescript, asp.net core and Xamarin shop. This makes our life much simpler and the less complex and we are able to deliver multi-platform solutions quickly to the customer and make our own customer service more responsive.

PROS

This products solves almost all our needs along with the standard ui and productivity components on the platforms that we deliver solutions on. We are almost entirely an angular/typescript, asp.net core and Xamarin shop.

CONS

Sometimes the documentation and examples leave something to be desired but the very quick and responsive customer support more than compensates for that.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

Syncfusion is more feature-rich, simple to use and consistent along the platform that we use, Angular, Asp. net Core and Xamarin.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

Syncfusion is more feature-rich, simple to use and consistent along the platform that we use, Angular, Asp. net Core and Xamarin.

Sabrina

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 February 2020

Great components outstanding support

I'm using both the WPF components and the Web components, both on ASP.Net MVC and .Net Core, The use of these components reduces dramatically the development time and they have a great support for tasks as exporting to excel, word, html, and importing from external source, they have great PDF management and Visualization components and Great components to manage Word and Excel documents.

PROS

The good documentation, many samples, easy to apply on our software, but most of all the outstanding support from the company that supplies a sample to solve a problem or any How To question. Is very attentive when a possible bug is pointed out and if it is a bug a fix is provided in a scheduled time.

CONS

the only thing I don't like much is that upgrading the desktop projects when I upgrade the libraries is a time consuming task. But I don't think there is a way to avoid this.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

At the time (2013) The WPF components of Infragistics where too complex to adapt to our applications and very time consuming.

Donovan

Program Development, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2021

Syncfusion Review

Overall, I very much enjoy the software. While there is functionality found in other software of this type but not present in Syncfusion is a bit unfortunate, I however much prefer the implementation of the Controls from Syncfusion, and implementing said missing functionality to controls is easy and very much doable. I find Syncfusion to be quite polished.

PROS

I very much liked the built in functionality with a majority of the Controls it includes. In areas where functionality was not available, but needed for development, it was easy to incorporate custom functionality into the controls through control events, and via JS if needed.

CONS

I feel some additional Demos or documentation is needed for some controls and their functions/features. I found myself in a few spots where I needed to do something, and based on reading the documentation I'm lead to believe it can be done, but no indication as to how. This results me in heading to user submitted questions looking for answers, and those tend to be very relevant to the Users needs. Of course this all isn't helpful with examples, but ultimately it could be called pet peeves as its functionality that not overly important but nice to haves.

Alex

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 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 February 2021

Great developer suite with unique components

We are very happy with Essential Studio, it has always evolved fast with every new technology, developing a lot of components with a good quality and excelent customer support.

PROS

Essential Studio has a huge library of components, many of them unique or not very common in the market. The customer support is great and always helping solve our issues.

CONS

The documentation has to improve because would allow the developers to find issues faster without asking to customer support. I thing that just making every customer support ticket public unless expressly asked by the customer would add a lot of Q & A besides improving the documentation.

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

Huge component base and great customer support and very good value for the price

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

I was looking for a specific component for diagramming and then found that the other components where as good or better than what we were using so we switched to Essential Studio

Hans Rudolf

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used 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

4

Reviewed April 2020

Great Product

PROS

the uniformity of all libraries, competence and reality relevance of the libraries, code examples and templates....

CONS

announcements of new modules (and in 1 or 2 cases taking back of new releases) could be better announced and longer in advance.....

Reason for choosing Essential Studio

broader coverage of our needs and modules

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

the bigger and more relevant libraries

Ricardo

Accounting, 501-1,000 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

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2023

Review

Support aside, very good.

PROS

Lots of components availableGood documentation (albeit in some specific cases, lacking important information only available by contacting support)

CONS

My main issue is with customer support.They promise updates to queries in 24 hours, but very often they take 2 or even more days without any type of update. Just saying they are lookin into it would be enough, but not update of any type is very annoying.Chat support is almost useless. Almost every time I use it it would have been better to create a ticket from the start, as they seen to only have very basic knowledge on the products.

Manolo

Information Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

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

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2020

SDS

PROS

The product has a lot of components and a lot of customizations. at first it costs a little to use, but support is excelent. It is the reason why I prefer this product to another. Excel, doc and pdf library are fantastic!

CONS

Some components, pdf viewer, file explorer are complicated to use, so I use other components

Lars

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:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2023

Blazor Components

We've had a good experience. As mentioned the Blazor compononent enabled us to bring first version of a green field application to test a lot faster than we would have been able to without. Moving forward, we find ourselves in some case replacing some Blazor components with own development. Many Sf components still remain

PROS

The Blazor component suite offered is a host of fully feature components that significantly sped up our entry into a green field hosted Blazor Webassembly application

CONS

Some feedback from developers mentioned in some case to much configuration of components in 'magical strings'

Arup

Research, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

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

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2023

Essential Studio Feedback

PROS

We are using React JS components. I like the wide list of components /controls available in the library.

CONS

We are facing many challenges while integrating the Synfusion ReachJS components in our applications. Many of the times we are facing very fundamental issues with the library and many of the use cases are not tested properly before rolling out for the product usage. We are keep raising a lot of tickets to resolve the issues but it is impacting our time and the quality of our application.

Craig

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2023

Customer Service: The differentiator

PROS

I'm a backend/functionality developer. I want to be able to stay in my area of expertise, but also build out an application framework with UI components that will at least serve as a prototype, if not become the productionalized application.I looked at many toolkits, and to be honest, it is hard to differentiate on functionality alone. Several companies offer similar products.But syncfusion's real edge is their customer service. First they have several links to documentation, youtube videos, and coded examples. If this doesn't have the help you're looking for, they have a forum which someone from Syncfusion will often reply to first. Finally, if you have a more 'official' issue, you can log it with their tech support. I've always gotten good answers from them so far. If their controls cannot do the functionality natively, they'll show how to do it by augmenting the solution with CSS or Html.This makes all the difference in the world when the tools themselves are common. I'll always gravitate to the company that helps me get going in their solution the fastest.

CONS

Some of the controls don't have as many native events as I'd like to see.

Reasons for switching to Essential Studio

While Radzen was free, they simply didn't have the level of support that Syncfusion has.If I had the level of UI expertise necessary, I might have stayed with Radzen on cost alone as their controls are nice also.Again, support is the differentiator.

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