Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good product with excellent service"
4/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Ably's support has been great for us. We have a shared chat channel where all representatives from Ably are active, and they've always helped us promptly when questions and issues arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

The SDK by default throws quite a few errors that are up to the user to handle in a correct way, which makes it more complicated than expected to get to a watertight setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ben L.
BL
Ben L.
Founder & Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ably powering real time scoring on lavercup.com"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

The reliability of Ably to deliver real-time scores to our millions of fans of the Laver Cup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

I don't have any dislikes about Ably Realtime at present. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johan B.
JB
Johan B.
CTO
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Ably enables Mentimeter's real time Audience Engagement Platform"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Ably's real-time infrastructure is very reliable and scalable which enables us to focus on our core product and growing user base. It provides fast access for all our users across the globe for a reasonable price and includes usable features like "Presence" which powers our collaborative editor feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Ably fulfils all the requirements we have for our real-time infrastructure today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erik G.
EG
Erik G.
CTO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ably is a great realtime messaging platform!"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Ably is a great product being versatile and scalable. It delivers our messages in real-time for a wide range of applications and implementations. Also, super friendly people who are there for us! :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Sometimes the pricing plans become a little bit stiff-legged for us. On the other hand, there are great price planning tools available, where we can check prices for any usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tommy W.
TW
Tommy W.
Backend Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Nice Custom Service. Stability is good."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Stability. I think the service provided by Ably is very stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

None. I feel great about Ably real-time service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal  C.
KC
Kunal C.
Technical Program Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great app for realtime messaging"
4/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

The best thing about Ably is that it is straightforward to use, and I can implement it so quickly. As a user, I can read the Ably documentation and implement the functionality right away. Also, customer support is effortless. They are very responsive and easy to reach out to. Overall, I can say ABly is the easiest way to implement Pub/Sub messaging in your application. I definitely recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Although I think everything is good. But, there is one small suggestion from my side. There is no sample code provided for implementation in Vue.JS. I created my application using the Vue.JS framework, but I couldn't find any detailed examples for Vue.JS. Most of the examples were given for React only. I think if Ably can add some good code snippets for Vue.JS as well. It will be great. Apart from this, everything is good! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neeraja V.
NV
Neeraja V.
Senior Developer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Multi-language Platform Support - Ably Realtime"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Ably Realtime helps me by providing cloud PaaS for my application build and development in my infrastructure. It resolves my latency issues, code durability, and data integrity with its real-time resolutions. Connecting with Ably is seamless, and requests can be published in our dedicated channels in which we define which customers receive what type of notification services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

I don't have anything, in particular, to be mentioned as a feature I dislike in Ably Realtime. It provides me with a platform where I can easily type in my code deployments and test out the outputs in its platform console before moving it to my production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashley F.
AF
Ashley F.
Mentor
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Rock solid reliability and innovation for realtime updates and syncing"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

The fact that Ably provides global distribution. 100% message delivery guarantees and state synchronization across devices allows us to concentrate on developing our core app as we know the realtime fundamentals are taken care of.

Ably’s interoperability across protocols and clouds is excellent because it means we can easily implement and integrate technologies that meet the unique requirements of each Guild or professional network.

As a result, Guild can scale and integrate faster without the overhead of managing our own realtime infrastructure. But most crucially, we were able to quickly get to market and meet the expectations of our users, which simply would not have been possible without Ably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Nothing to be honest, the richness of features allows us to add functionality that our users require. For example, some of our customers in highly regulated industries need to be able to record and save interactions for compliance reasons. Ably provides a managed integration that streams communications straight to cloud-based storage servers for analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
EP
Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great customer support"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

We use Ably for a realtime gaming application for the education market and like the payload size, the speed, and the great customer support. Support is proactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

No real issues. We need to be careful not to hit the hard limits in our plan but Ably has helped us size the right plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GW
Gary W.
IT Infrastructure Team Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Ably"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Ably has always been helpful when I've had questions both providing internal resources who can help solve issues and providing good, detailed support pages and responding to questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

It would be nice to be able to tweak some of the automatic alerts we get from ably. This isn't a major criticism of ably itself as the alerts are useful but it would be a nice to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.