--- title: "Umbraco CMS Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Umbraco CMS. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Umbraco CMS is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/umbraco-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Content Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/) / [Umbraco CMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/umbraco-profile/) / Umbraco CMS 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/umbraco-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/umbraco-profile/alternatives/) # Umbraco CMS User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 22 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 8 reviews (36%) - 4 stars: 12 reviews (55%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (5%) ### Most mentioned pros - It is always being updated with new features and ensures the security enabled is top-notch. - Free to use and customize-Easy to scale- Has strong community support- Great management features - Umbraco is mature and has wide community support. ### Most mentioned cons - The errors provide less than ideal guidance on how to address them. ## Umbraco CMS customer reviews Showing reviews 1-22 of 22 (page 1). ### Powerful .NET-based CMS with the possibility of using the cloud or your servers - 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 We have been using this CMS for many years and have used it for many of our clients' projects. There is also a two-week trial version that I think you should try and see how simple it is. It's Powerful .NET-based CMS with the possibility of using the cloud or installing on a local or custom web hosting server. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is completely open-source, dot NET-based, and works very fast and smooth. I like the form builder section which is very simple and various forms can be easily created and used. The file and image management section is also very simple. Files and images can be easily categorized and named in custom folders. Also, it has a professional community and support team. #### Cons The online Photo editor is not professional enough and must upgrade. CMS has good facilities and performance on the windows servers and Microsoft Azure, but Umbraco developers must think about the Linux version because most projects are managed by Linux servers. #### Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS It has great features and fair price, good community and professional support team. #### Reasons for switching to Umbraco CMS For a web project on Microsoft Azure, we needed a simple and open source CMS, it has all we need. --- ### Umbraco is an easy to use CMS that us great for people new and experienced. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ben E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We have been using Umbraco for some time now, and we are not looking to move away anytime soon. Having an easy-to-use CMS is very important as we onboard new people, and we have found Umbraco to be the perfect solution for this. It is always being updated with new features and ensures the security enabled is top-notch. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Umbraco is a great CMS that we use on all of our main 7 websites. We have found that it has been very easy for new people to be able to pick up using Umbraco, even when they don't have a large amount of experience using a CMS before. Overall, we have found it a lot easier to use than other CMS like WordPress as it is much more intuitive, especially with the flexibility of being able to move around sections easily. #### Cons While there is a lot that can be done with the editor, it would be great to get some more features that allow for more customisation overall. Flexibility in design would be great and allow us to make sure each website can stand out in its own way. #### Reasons for switching to Umbraco CMS A more standard solution across all of our websites that would allow anyone to be able to easily amend their content sections. --- ### Not my first choice when it comes to CMSs - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Sunaina K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, if you have in-house devs ready to roll up their sleeves and custom code stuff, Umbraco should work out just fine. But if you are looking for a CMS that 'just works' out of the box, you may want to keep looking. At least that has been my experience thus far. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros When you find your way around things, it is fairly easy to use. The pages can be updated fairly quickly and the WYSIWYG page editor is straightforward. What I liked the most was how quickly a page can be saved and published. But my list of gripes is probably longer than the stuff that I like. #### Cons Basic stuff that should come out of the box like rel canonical tags etc. have to be custom coded - at least for the sites I have encountered. The search functionality within the CMS is horrible. While carrying out some image optimisation, it was impossible to find the images with their URLs. I had to put in the exact filename to find those images. Even then it was a hit or a miss which was not ideal. And even with a CDN in use, it was hard to get good PageSpeed scores with Umbraco. #### Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS It was not my call! --- ### Best CMS for .NET Developers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I love using Umbraco CMS to build customer's and my personal websites. Umbraco is open-source, free and written in .NET. Now, with Umbraco 9, it also support ASP.NET Core, which is cross platform. Now I can deploy my Umbraco website on Linux as well. Which is pretty cool. Umbraco is mature and has wide community support. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Umbraco setup is very easy, all you need is SQL Server database. I also like Umbraco's media management. I can store my media either on Azure Storage or in AWS S3 bucket. This way I can scale my website horizontally. And the last thing which I like most is this is completely written in .NET, that's a blessing for .NET Developers. #### Cons Would love to see Umbraco supporting multiple database such as PostgreSQL and MySQL as they are open-source and free. #### Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS I built few POC projects using Umbraco CMS. It was solving all of our needs. It was easy to used and fast to operate. That's all were the reason, we went with this. --- ### Umbraco - a great CMS option for .NET - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Brian H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Umbraco can be built and extended with C# (using Visual Studio), utilizes MVC framework, and is simple to setup. The newest version of Umbraco is being built with .NET Core, so it will likely get faster and continue to stay relevant in today's Microsoft .NET tech stack. #### Cons Occasional hiccups when starting are not uncommon. The errors provide less than ideal guidance on how to address them. Building your own property editor is done with Angular JS (older and less used as time goes on). #### Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS Orchard I struggled to get working. It was slow and the content editing experience was not as good as Umbraco's. ButterCMS was looking like a good candidate and will likely be one that I try in the future for true headless CMS. Overall, Umbraco had the features I wanted, a fairly easy to customize backend, and the price (open source version) was right. --- ### Overall Review Of Umbraco CMS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Redley P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 2-10 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros -Free to use and customize-Easy to scale- Has strong community support- Great management features #### Cons -Steep learning curve, especially for people unfamiliar with CMS software.-There is no official support and no drag-and-drop functionality. --- ### Umbraco review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Georgina M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We used Umbraco as a system to build the Scouts website. It is extremely well labeled, clear and intuitive. I have found that members of my team who need to use the software for their role are able to pick it up and use it easily. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Umbraco is an easy to use system which I use daily in my role to build website pages, sharing information with members. Main features which I like the most are that the templates and content blocks are easy to build on for administrators with basic understanding of website building. The labelling is clear and there are a wide variety of content blocks available to add. I find that Umbraco helps to create content which can be accessed by everyone. Using F12 and the ability to see how the information is viewed by users on different devices extremely useful, as well as the ability to caption images on the site, to allow users with screen readers to understand the information. In the search facility, it's extremely useful for a membership Organisation like the Scouts to be able to use the SEO hide from searches function. This helps to ensure that the right information reaches the right group of volunteers. #### Cons A feature which I think could be improved would be the ability to select and copy entire blocks from one website page to the next. It would also be useful to have more built in analytics of pages, rather than having to use additional add-ons like HotJar. An improvement to the software could be to use AI to improve the search function. When tagging in codex and the SEO, I spend time adding incorrect spellings of words in order for the webpage content to appear in the search bar if a incorrect spelling is made. It would be helpful if the system could identify regular incorrect spellings and add these as TAGs, so this doesn't have to completed manually. --- ### UMBRACO is user friendly - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alissa L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Excellent! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros For the purpose of what my position needed to accomplish in Umbraco, it was easy for me to enter event details which would then post onto companies website. It was useful being able to categorize by year, then save the industry events accordingly. Entering the event details was extremely easy and even allowed us to enter the events hosts URL, which was then viewable on the company website. Anytime I needed to delete or edit an event, it was easy to do so. Depending on your needs, Umbraco may be able to help you. #### Cons Unless I didn't figure this out, it would have been useful to be able to save the event allowing you to return to edit it (not post to website). More specifically, when I entered an event and needed to add a new event host name, I couldn't just save the entry, go to the tab to create a new host name and return to complete the entry. Instead, I had to reenter the event details after I created the new hosts name. Another suggestion would be to add the option of alphabetizing under the tabs or lists. Other than that, everything else was on point. --- ### Umbraco is a great CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jeremiah S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have over 300 websites based on the umbraco CMS. They are currently continually evolving and developing it. Umbraco 9 will be .net core to add even more flexability #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Umbraco provides a lot of flexibility in setting up your website to give end users exactly how much or how little control and power over the content as you would like to provide them. It is very extendable with the ability to create about every type of web site you can imagine. It is built on microsoft .net currently which allows many developers to be able to dive in quickly to create solutions. #### Cons The learning curve is higher than some other CMS's out there but with that comes the extra ability to customize it more than other sites as well. The back end admin side is also light on Accessibility features at least up until version 8.14 or so. --- ### A CMS Dream - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rene S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Absolutely loved it and would choose to only work in this CMS if possible. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of use, visual architecture/understanding where you were editing at all times, ability to access back-end configurations but logic to understand where they were located/how it related to front-end was extremely helpful. Good separation of code / content areas. Excellent media management and CDN with dynamic updating when an image/media file was replaced. Automation and features easily accessible/intuitive. Best user interface of any CMS on the market. #### Cons The cache seemed to work differently (better) but within a larger IT framework the cache caused a lot of issues in workflows overall. Everything else was the best. #### Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS Cost and no annual lic fee --- ### Umbraco - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Charlotte B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Generally good. Easy to use, and quick. Sometimes experience errors and deployment failures when too many users are in at the same time. Syncing issues from prep to prod cause problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use and easier to train other colleagues to use #### Cons Basic functionality at times. Content pages could offer more features. Least thing i like is when you deploy to courier a set of pages, Umbraco isn't clever enough to understand what needs to be deployed in a certain order. Therefore links become broken and you have to re-link post courier and then courier again. #### Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS Easy to use --- ### Katastrophe - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Philipp W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Nicht zu empfehlen! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros Ich kann wirklich keine Vorteile erkennen. Es gibt andere viel bessere CMS #### Cons Das CMS ist wirklich nichts für alle die sich ein bisschen Benutzerfreundlichkeit wünschen. Der Aufbau ist absolut wirr und macht teilweise keinen Sinn. Wenn man ein Problem hat sucht man lange nach Lösungen, oft ohne dafür eine Antwort zu kriegen oder man muss sich wieder an den Entwickler wenden. Dieses CMS kann ich nicht empfehlen. Vielleicht wenn man sich gerne viel mit Entwicklung auseinandersetzt aber dann muss man sagen, ist der Ertrag den man für die Zeit und die Leistung reinsteckt jämmerlich. Von mir aus gesehen fehlen auch die absoluten Basics die ein "Freundliches" CMS haben muss. Überlegt es euch gut. Ich nerv mich schon seit Monaten weil ich für einen Kunden der Umbraco benutzt das Online Marketing machen darf. --- ### Built our new site using Umbraco and it was easy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kelly C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, learning Umbraco from scratch six months ago to using it constantly now has been actually quite easy. I'm sure there's lots more to learn, but I think it's been a good upgrade for us. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros What I liked the most was how intuitive it is. For the most part it was very straight forward to building our new public website using widgets and how it is structured. It is a much better CMS than our previous site. #### Cons It does have some interesting quirks, as most do. If you've made too many changes in a row things slow down and you need to refresh to keep it from randomly autofilling places you've already typed, but once you know what you need to do, it's not too bad. --- ### Great headless solution for SaaS tech looking to scale - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Daniel F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 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 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use and integrate with our tech stack #### Cons Could do with a better way for UX to create and deploy engaging and enriched content experiences without code --- ### Great CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jack A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use Umbraco to manage our websites and deploy content to thousands of users, it's reliable and fast! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We use Umbraco to manage our websites, it's a great CMS that makes managing a large and popular website slightly easier! #### Cons The system would really benefit from some additional plugins that allow for the backend to be easily customized by admins as user needs change. --- ### Primo approccio ad un CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mara C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Umbraco è stato il primo software con cui ho approcciato il mondo dei CMS e devo dire che mi sono trovata molto bene per la sua immediatezza in ogni suo aspetto. Tra i punto a favore di questa piattaforma ci sono sicuramente il fatto che sia open-source, sia scritta in .NET e sia gratuita. #### Cons Aggiungerei la possibilità di scrivere i testi anche in HTML. --- ### Dependable and Felxible - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Andrew P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Solid in performance (obviously a must for a CMS), but still very flexible. I worked on a project for a v large client who wanted to be able to make changes to their content from outside of Umbraco's ecosystem. Umbraco was flexible enough that we were able to develop a dynamic block and control this from our own external app. #### Cons As with most apps of this type it can sometimes take a while to get used to the flow of things. Umbraco isn't the most approachable here - but it's absolutely not the worst. --- ### CMS of choice - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ashley R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I am reviewing this solely based in being a content editor - I find this CMS incredibly easy to us. There are no licensing costs. Once given a demo, our clients find it easy to use. It is hands down, our development teams preference for coding in. And any time we've needed help, our CTO has had great support from the company. #### Cons I don't have any complaints about using Umbraco. --- ### Umbraco CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tom K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 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: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use and preview work as you go to make amends and collaborate with colleagues. #### Cons Can be slow at times and often won't work well if multiple users are performing similar tasks at the same time. --- ### Very Good Product - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Trevor K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We are using Umbraco to roll our a new digital banking platform. We are still in development, and it has proven to be stable. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Umbraco is a full featured CMS with many useful features. As knowledge grows with use of the product so too will utilization. The documentation and user forums are quite helpful. When building a site, it's preview function is useful to visualize how your site will look on different devices, quickly. #### Cons As this is a full featured products, the learning curve is a bit steep for beginners. --- ### Gets the job done - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Matthew T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 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 Easy to use, often self-explanatory. Always finding more and more helpful features. #### Cons Regular bugs when looking to upload images or deploy pages. --- ### Easy to use and great results - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Laura T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civic & Social Organization - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 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: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's much easier to use than a CMS I had used previously. The flexibility to create a range of different webpage layouts, without the need to do any coding is great, and the preview function is particularly useful. #### Cons I haven't come across anything I dislike so far! --- Umbraco CMS Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice