--- title: "TYPO3 Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of TYPO3. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if TYPO3 is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/typo3-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Web Content Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/web-content-management/) / [TYPO3](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/typo3-profile/) / TYPO3 Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/typo3-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/typo3-profile/alternatives/) # TYPO3 User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 3.9/5 - Total reviews: 25 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.2/5 - Customer support: 3.3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4.0/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 4 reviews (16%) - 4 stars: 16 reviews (64%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (12%) - 2 stars: 2 reviews (8%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Really love the Typo3 CMS with its high-end customization features. - There is a lot of free resources and modules available in the community for it. ### Most mentioned cons - Compared to many other CMS on the market, this one is not simple to implement and the complexity of using it is somewhat big. - For me the biggest problems are the user interface, user experience (learning curve) and technical documentation of Typo3. - It's so bad that my company has had to invest tens of thousands of dollars into R&D to build our own extensions because we can't expect open source extensions to stay current with the T3 upgrade cycle. ## TYPO3 customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 25 (page 1). ### Create High-Quality Websites with free enterprise open source CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ali K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Typo3 is a versatile CMS. Often in most CMS's you start well and meet all your needs, but when your collection becomes very large and your facilities and expectations rise and growing, you will find that your CMS no longer meets your needs. This is not the case for Typo 3 and you do not need to change the CMS when your organization's going Big and along with the expansion of your business, it also supports special and professional features. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is a professional CMS with which you can create all kinds of websites from a small personal website to a multilingual website with specialized facilities for an international organization. The most attractive option is to be free and open source. You can customize everything in TYPO3 CMS and get help from different developers. Also, there are thousands of extensions available for it, and a great Access Feature when you need to work with several admins and groups it helps you to assign the right access to your team members. #### Cons There are not many templates for this CMS in the market and in most cases you have to implement your own template and design or hiring someone for that. #### Reasons for choosing TYPO3 A large directory of various extensions, Responsive support and great community #### Reasons for switching to TYPO3 As your organization grows, your expectations of a CMS will change and it must meet the specific and customized needs of your collection. We switched for personal customization. --- ### The Best Enterprise-Grade CMS ... As Long As You're a Developer - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Scott C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I found TYPO3 from a website called the CMS Matrix. I was looking for a CMS that had every single feature. TYPO3 was the only option as other CMSs either didn't have the feature or it wasn't even available as an add-on. I'm happy to report that I made the right choice. It's important to note that in North America, TYPO3 doesn't get much attention because documentation and/or promotion is limited, but it has survived the rise and fall of other CMSs like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, and of course WordPress (the blog with a million plugins). You can tell the attention to detail that's been put into TYPO3 by looking at it very structured code. As frustrated as I get with it, it truly is enterprise-grade. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros In the 17+ years of using this software, I have built my company around it. When I get pinned by a client asking if they can do something custom, I don't even need to think about it - the answer is always YES. It's infinitely more powerful, secure, and customizable than other CMSs, and with an open source base you can do anything you want. It can be simplified for small business customers or opened up for corporate accounts. #### Cons Being a German program, most support - which can be very limited - is in another language. Further, the upgrades are done without any consideration for extension developers. It is expected that developers have to redo their extension as opposed to TYPO3 supporting it. Lately, the changes in upgrades have become so sweeping that thousands of extensions are no longer compatible. It's so bad that my company has had to invest tens of thousands of dollars into R&D to build our own extensions because we can't expect open source extensions to stay current with the T3 upgrade cycle. I really don't know why it needs to come to such careless upgrades: again, it on;y happened recently and before this (i.e. v.8) TYPO3 was doing everything right. Also, TYPO3 uses a configuration language called TYPOscript that turns off a lot of people because it's a whole new world of proprietary code to learn. However, it saves on a lot. Lastly, frontend editing - probably the biggest feature that makes wix, squarespace, etc. so popular - has taken a back seat since v.8 when it was making huge strides with extensions like Aloha (which, you guessed it, are now obsolete because of the upgrade). #### Reasons for choosing TYPO3 TYPO3 has every feature either built-in or available as a plugin. The same can be said for others but unlike others, TYPO3 has many built-in. The backend layout makes sense and new users can easily visualize their site as a page tree just like Windows Explorer. We can increase/decrease the user interface by permission and/or skill level. We can integrate any design we want to code our own template relatively easily. --- ### Complex to implement and to use - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Pedro L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros It's somewhat stable but basically that's it #### Cons Compared to many other CMS on the market, this one is not simple to implement and the complexity of using it is somewhat big. Also, to create customizations in code it has a steep learning curve, which makes it not ideal for whoever wants to customize it --- ### One of the best open-source CMS platforms - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shivang M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I would recommend Typo3 for anyone looking to develop a versatile online website. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Typo3 is for the people looking for unlimited customizations. The platform can be customized and flexed according to the clients' requirements, and the community is also impressive. There is a lot of free resources and modules available in the community for it. It is secure and fast! #### Cons There is a reasonable learning curve for the developers as well as the users. Requires technical proficiency to work with. --- ### Flexible but difficult to use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Aurelie G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I liked my experience and the freedom I had using it. For my kind of usage it is good but I would not recommend for people who want to run a simple website quickly and easily. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I liked the freedom it gave me to create pages as I wanted, quickly and easily. It is also easy to maintain multi-brands and multi-languages websites. It can be adapted to any kind of business. #### Cons The UX is not attractive and it is difficult to use and explain to non-digital colleagues. They were afraid of using it. Another problem is that the Typo3 community is quite small, so it is more difficult to find help on-line. --- ### Powerful and quite flexible, yet far behind WordPress and other similar systems - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Codrut N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been using Capterra as a news editor since 2013, but it was not my choice - the system has been in place for years, the site that uses it has a huge collection of articles well indexed by Google, and switching to WordPress or anything else is a no-go. This piece of code has its highs and lows, but if I would be able to choose, I'd drop it in a second. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Typo3 is very flexible and quite popular. For the administrators of such a system, it is good to know that they get a modular piece of code that can be highly customized and proves to be quite reliable and very safe. #### Cons As a content editor for a Typo3-based website, things seem almost bearable at first sight. In some cases, this is the truth. However, for more advanced article types and in some particular situations, Typo3 proves to be an utter nightmare. To be more specific, its interface can be absolutely horrible - sometimes, there are at least three ways of doing something and none of those is intuitive - and there's not much in terms of help. Being used to WordPress, having to use Typo3 proves to be nothing less but torture. --- ### Highly Flexible CMS that provides advanced security. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Priyank S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Great CMS and is a perfect for businesses looking forward to grow their websites. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy customisation functionality and best CMS to build your website. TYPO3 is Free and open source CMS which provides several other plugins and is highly secure as compared to other CMS. #### Cons I like all the features but for small business owners this CMS is costly enough. So the pricing plans can be made cost effective and it requires the help of skilled person having technical knowledge. --- ### Great CMS for static websites - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great structure. Easy to use and learn others to use. Flexible. And very easy to move elements around - and swop them above/below each other. #### Cons For blogging and content websites it's not the ideal platform. For that I like Wordpress better. There writers easily can write content directly in the editor. In Typo3 you kind of need to do the preparations in a seperate document. --- ### An Old is Gold - 20's Best Website Content Manage System Software - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Varsha G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like the way they experienced and make this software tool very useful for the people who are not that much familiar with website coding and wants to manage the content of website. I would definitely recommend it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really like this tool in earlier era of website content management system software tool- when we were having static website with less features of dynamic feature like contact form etc. Another feature I like it that it make me a medium level of coding learner even I am not a developer. #### Cons Overall it's great to understand and manage, but the operation time is very high to use this tool. Usually when I operate content management task over it - it takes too much time to perform a very small task. --- ### Great opportunities with great effort - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Lukasz A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A good, solid, stable solution for very serious, corporate projects. However, is this my first choice? Definitely not. Unfortunately, the benefits of using Typo3 are generally not enough to compensate for the huge time spent on its implementation, configuration, customization, development and maintenance. But that's my opinion, so check Typo3 for yourself and make a decision whether to use it. It is a really interesting and advanced product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros What can you like Typo3 for? For flexibility and possibilities. It's more than a CMS, it's rather a CMF. It's really great. On the other hand, Typo3 is definitely not easy to use (and not for everyone). #### Cons With Typo3 I spent a lot of time on things that in other applications are very easy to implement. For me the biggest problems are the user interface, user experience (learning curve) and technical documentation of Typo3. --- ### Mon avis concernant le CMS Typo 3 - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jason M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros En tant que chez de projet, c'était facile de former mes clients sur l'administration des avec ce type de CMS #### Cons Je dirais plutôt la version responsive du backoffice qui, à mon goût, est à revoir et à améliorer. --- ### Un CMS complet et accessible ! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jean Baptiste G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros La segmentation des droits d'accès pour avoir un réseau de contributeurs, l'intégration facile des plug in et le plan de classement assez intuitif. #### Cons La rigité lorsqu'il s'agit de modifier le CSS et l'interface qui n'est très user friendly --- ### Une modularité sans limites - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Hamdi A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Globalement c'était une bonne expérience. en tant que Novice au début ce n'était pas facile de prendre en main le backoffice du site web mais une fois c'est maitrisé, tout est devenu plus simple et intéressant. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros L'administration du site web était conviviale et simple #### Cons L'aspect graphique du backoffice est assez vieillissant --- ### Highly powerful and flexible CMS. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Charmy S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros CMS is easy to customize as per your business requirements. #### Cons It requires a help of a developer, as without having a technical knowledge you cannot use it appropriately. --- ### I didn't get to the point of using it on a live site - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nigel R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used other for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I installed TYPO3 on my desktop localhost without a hitch. I got stuck at the stage of creating my first content on the new website. Most of the documentation I found was not clear and strait forward for me. However, TYPO3 looks like a really good content management system when compared with the available alternatives, and If I find more straight forward video tutorials I may use TYPO3 for my future web design projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Boasts a robust, high-speed content management system Open-source software that is free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. A moderately large user and developer community that provides support. #### Cons A steep learning curve compared to other content management systems. Poor support from the community. Specifically in the case of beginners. #### Reasons for switching to TYPO3 I was exploring a new alternative that was recommended by a friend. --- ### TYPO3, je suis aux anges - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Basile D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered J'ai aimé et je le recommande #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros J'ai le plus aimé la génération des actualités pour les blogs #### Cons Dommage que l'open-source n'est basé que sur PHP --- ### Versatile CMS Platform I have Even Seen - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jeet J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros One thing that I love the most about the Typo3 CMS is its easy to use and intuitive interface. Really impressive and smooth! Also, there are a number of extensions available in the market to add more features to this. #### Cons The documentation is no clear and can be confusing for the developers. --- ### Non è il mioglior CRM provato - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Paolo C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros E' vero che è open source, è vero che c'è un folto gruppo di programmatori sul web ma non è completo. Mancano un po' di funzionalità di base #### Cons Difficile da apprendere nel breve periodo. Consiglierei altro --- ### Give 100% security - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jaydip P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Provide security as I want but more costly #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Typo3 is secure compared to other CMS. They provide good security and large product group handled in that #### Cons Cost is more then other CMS, So normal or small business owners can't afford it #### Reasons for switching to TYPO3 Because of security data reason --- ### Flexible CMS for Building Sites - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Rahul D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The CMS is perfect for the businesses looking to scale up their websites. It is no suitable for non-tech geeks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Typo3 CMS is highly flexible and allows customizing the sites as per the requirements. The website can be shaped as per the requirements and it is too good for the bigger sites. #### Cons It can be complex to use with no technical knowledge. --- ### One of the best OpenSource CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Parth D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Amazing. Best for the businesses with in-house devs #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Really love the Typo3 CMS with its high-end customization features. The best part is that everything can be done using it and the backend is also quite intuitive. Amazing! #### Cons The community is very small and therefore, non-tech people may feel helpless in difficult times. --- ### Pretty nice! Good for small sites - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Vishal D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The Typo3 CMS is fully equipped with powerful features and functions. It is highly flexible. However, it can be complex for people having less technical knowledge. #### Cons It can be complex to use for less technical people. --- ### Bon logiciel - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Bediss B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Wholesale - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Les fonctionnalités de sécurité et les mises à jour régulières #### Cons La complexité relative de certaines tâches et le besoin de compétences techniques plus avancées --- ### Mon avis sur Typo3 - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rached B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros La modularité qu’il offre permet une personnalisation avancée de mes sites web #### Cons L’interface semble excessive pour des projets simples --- ### Un CMS qui fait le job ! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pierre S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Typo3 est un CMS très bien sécurisé ce qui peut être un critère de choix pour beaucoup.- Le fait que Typo3 sois un CMS rend la création de site internet relativement simple et adapté à des personnes n'ayant pas de connaissances en code. #### Cons - L'interface utilisateur n'est pas des plus adaptées, l'UX n'est pas très bonne non plus. Typo3 aurait besoin d'un rafraichissement. Il est frustrant de perdre du temps sur des problèmes qui aurait pu être régler très simplement avec d'autres CMS du marché. --- TYPO3 Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice