--- title: Bower Reviews meta\_title: 'Bower Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Bower works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.6 review\_count: 24 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Bower Reviews & Product Details Bower is a package manager for the web. * * * Seller [Bower](https://www.g2.com/sellers/bower) Discussions [Bower Community](https://www.g2.com/products/bower/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/bower/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Harness Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harness Platform") Harness Platform 4.6/5(313) ](https://www.g2.com/products/harness-platform/reviews) [ ![UserVoice](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "UserVoice") UserVoice 4.5/5(243) ](https://www.g2.com/products/uservoice/reviews) [ ![JFrog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JFrog") JFrog 4.2/5(162) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jfrog-2024-03-28/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/bower/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 24 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![M Haroon B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "M Haroon B.") MB M Haroon B. Senior Frontend Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/5/2020 "Great tool for managing static resources" 2/5 What do you like best about Bower? Its a great robust tool for managing frontend static assets and libraries that could be a nightmare in some of the projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Bower? Umm. It should be as comprehensive as npm as mostly we're using bower side by side with npm. If bower can handle what npm does also. That'd be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Bower: Its a great, easy to learn package manager. Must give it a try at least. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Bower solving and how is that benefiting you? Package management getting all the things at one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ZM Zan M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/1/2020 "Not the best tool for the job anymore" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Bower? I liked the new idea on how to handle packages. It was one of the first frontend package managers for javascript I used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Bower? I think it lacks features, the usage is a bit cumbersome (importing through script tags for each package) no option for tree shaking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Bower: Use yarn instead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Bower solving and how is that benefiting you? I usee to use it for frontend development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Lester James I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lester James I.") LI Lester James I. Senior Frontend Developer Outsourcing/Offshoring Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/21/2019 "It's a traditional way of managing your front-end package dependencies." 1.5/5 What do you like best about Bower? It was helpful in it's time before the rise of npm, yarn and webpack. You could separate properly libraries only pertaining to front-end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Bower? As far as I know, it doesn't automatically installs all the dependencies that are required by the packages referenced in your code. Which is inconvenient as it puts the burden of dependency management to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Bower: I would say bower is limited in it's capability but can still perform what it was designed to do, and that is managing frontend dependencies. If you think your project is within the boundary of just doing that, then go ahead, but it's relatively okay for a pet project. I wouldn't advise using this anymore for big projects as even the developers themselves have stopped maintaining the library! So you won't be getting any support you may need in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Bower solving and how is that benefiting you? Bower installs the libraries and puts it in my frontent project public folder, which isn't ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Bower? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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