JL
Jean-Michel L.
Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing development platform with great service"
5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

As a non-programmer, I am amazed about what was possible to achieve without coding. We successfully build a registration system for several welfare organizations in the form of a web app. The learning curve was steep but once you go through the informational videos and with help of the support of the amazing Backendless team we were able to get it all to work. We always received quick responses and solutions for the issues we experienced. I think we are just at the beginning of the journey with Backendless because we are only just using a small part of all the possibilities there are with this platform. The fact that we can use a European server was a major plus for our business because of the privacy laws in our country. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Nothing really, we are very happy with the platform and the excellent support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you for the kind review, Jean-Michel! We're glad the EU server has been beneficial to you.

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MA
Mohammad A.
owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The best stack i have used over the years"
5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

The support is always there and they go a step beyond to help the customer with any issue they might face. any feature you think is needed just ask and they are always listening. I like how the security level and customization are setup. you have truly anything you could need at your hands with ACL.

the feature I use the most is codeless. it's so easy to visualize the whole flow of the logic with blocks and make changes as you see needed and you dont have to worry about missing a semicolon or a typo.

and the other great feature is the ability to integrate any node module. the sky is the limit here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Nothing really. I never faced a situation where I felt i can't achieve a goal because of Backendless stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you, Mohammad!

Alexey S.
AS
Alexey S.
Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great low code platform for any business application or just a POC"
5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

Gamification of learning process, video tutorials, forum with developers that help with difficult concepts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Frontend is a bit cumbersome, but solves the purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you for the positive review, Alexey!

MC
Marc C.
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing no-code/low-code platform!"
5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

As a software engineer and architect with 25+ years of experience, I am blown away by how powerful, comprehensive, feature-rich, and well-designed Backendless is, from end to end. From UI development, to API services, to the database, to overall performance and scalability, the platform supports and caters to every stage of the application lifecycle, as well as every level of expertise. Beyond offering an incredible platform, the team offers stellar support with fast turnarounds, as well as great training content. We've been developing our application(s) at lightning speed with Backendless and couldn't be happier with the one-stop platform. We're not looking anywhere else for our app development needs. Strongly recommended! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

It's hard to find anything we dislike about the platform, however I would love to see improved capabilities around multi-language support, client-side debugging, backend stored procedures, long-running tasks, and platform documentation. This being said, the team is super proactive with their roadmap, and very attentive to developer needs, so I expect we'll see nice improvements in the coming months and years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you so much for your kind words, Marc! We hear you on platform documentation, and we will be delivering much more documentation this month (May 2022) and going forward. We are particularly planning to expand written documentation on UI Builder and Codeless blocks, which should make mastering the intricacies of the platform much easier!

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Verified User in Education Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Money saver -+ Feature rich + Excellent support + Reliable system + Easy & fun to use"
5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

My company started using Backendless many years ago (from 2014). We used it for 2 big projects for about 8 years, both educational and games, targeted at teachers and children. (The apps were closed down recently, but to no fault of Backendless's - they've always been "faultless":-)

The things we love about Backendless:

- Very feature rich

- Proven track record

- Excellent and high quality support

- Reliable system

- Easy and fun to use

- Best of all: saves app developers a lot of time and money!

As a small development company without the budget and resources to develop and manage complex backend systems, Backendless was a huge headache and cost and time saver for us.

Since then they seem to have expanded their feature list to be even larger and have a visual no-code interface for building even front-ends. I can only imagine how much more this will help new individuals and businesses wanting a one-stop solution for developing everything from the front to the backend whether it be a mobile app or web app.

And to top it off, the CEO Mark and his team are really knowledgable and helpful so you know you're in good hands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

There was nothing we disliked about their products and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you for the kind words, Simon. It' been great having you as a customer for past, and hopefully future, projects!

Leonard L.
LL
Leonard L.
Graphic Designer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Takes time to learn, but great functionality"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

I like the range of functions available in the builder. It seems that Backendless can build just about any type of application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

I think that the design features in the builder can be significantly improved and the documentation isn't great, learning the codeless is still basically coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you for the review, Leonard! We understand that some would like to see additional written documentation for UI Builder, so it is something we are actively working on. Of course, we offer two complete UI Builder video courses on our YouTube channel (linked below), along with courses on Codeless development and User Management plus many other video tutorials. If there's anything that is not adequately covered in those videos, feel free to ask about it on our support forum and our team will be happy to help. Also, please leave suggestions for documentation you'd like to see so that we know what we can provide to help!

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RR
Ramon R.
Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Backendless review"
4/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

It's an end-to-end solution for my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

It could a bit more widgets and controls but the team is adding and updating the UI Builder frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you for the positive review, Ramon! We're working hard to add new components to our UI Builder, including 15 added in the last month alone (linked below). We're also opening up the marketplace to allow users to contribute their own, so we hope to see many more in the near future. Definitely keep checking on a regular basis!

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Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
AH
Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Quite disappointed in the performance and backend functionality"
0.5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

Really active customer support. Friendly and supportive community. Good idea about making the backend automated and easier to set up. Mostly using business logic, login functionality, and the database for the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Well, to be honest, we were not too thrilled about the performance of Backendless. The reliability of the service really caused us some problems along the way, when it simply did not work for some periods of time during our presentations, but then it would get back to work after a few hours. Now it seems to be maybe more stable, but I don't really have a lot of confidence due to past issues. Also, a lot of functionality I expected to be built-in, like, the ability to resend email confirmations for new users, etc. But I was constantly directed by customer support to implement my own business logic functions to achieve the desired result. So overall, somehow disappointed I would say :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Hi there. We are very to sorry to hear you had a few bad experiences with downtime on the platform and that it was not built to do everything you need for you with no development on your part at all. While we respect that these issues may be enough to make the platform not ideal for your use case, they hardly seem worthy of such a low review. We would be happy to discuss ways we can make your experience with the platform better, but unfortunately in order to achieve the best results, you will need to build some functionality yourself. We give you all of the tools you need to build nearly anything, if you have the time and desire to do the development. We do our best to make learning to use these tools as easy as possible, and our support team is quick to answer questions when they come up. We do hope you reconsider your evaluation as we feel it is very harsh given the relatively minor issues you described. We also hope you give the platform another look - if you are not currently still using it - as we are making improvements and updates very frequently.

LZ
Luc Z.
Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Perfect for startup businesses"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

UI Builder, it makes it very easy for a non-coder to build an application with a lot of complex logic and good design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Publishing to native app is difficult at the moment, and doesn't seem easily achievable for a non-coder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you, Luc! We're glad you have been able to build complex MVPs with our platform. We understand that publishing on mobile can be complex for a non-coder (particularly when using the Flutter shell), but all UI Builder apps are easy to make mobile responsive and will work well on any mobile browser. Additionally, we have the Backendless Viewer app (detailed in the link below) that enables you to publish your app to our native mobile Viewer app. Your users can then favorite your app in Viewer and it becomes a de facto mobile version of your app. I hope you give it a look!

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Verified User in Sports
AS
Verified User in Sports
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Fast deployment and scalable solutions for the backend"
4/5
What do you like best about Backendless?

The low setup time. Libraries are available for major platforms and we could get our app up and running in almost no time. The backend UI is easy to use and data modification is simple even in the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backendless?

Sometimes we feel limited in the possibility to optimize queries and so on. The predefined libraries make it not always possible to select between solutions. Since it acts as an abstraction on a DB engine not all features is accessible to the developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Fanchi of Backendless

Thank you for the review and feedback. If there are libraries or solutions that you need that are unavailable, we'd love to hear about it. Please post what you're looking for on our support forum (linked below) so our team can either offer a solution, or add it to our future roadmap.

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