# FinalBuilder Reviews **Vendor:** VSoft Technologies **Category:** [Other Continuous Delivery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-continuous-delivery) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About FinalBuilder Automating your Build process is simple with FinalBuilder. With FinalBuilder you don't need to edit xml, or write scripts. Visually define and debug your build scripts, then schedule them with windows scheduler, or integrate them with Continua CI, Jenkins or any other CI Server. ## FinalBuilder Reviews ### 1. Sr. Systems Engineer with 15 years of experience in SysOps/DevOps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denis K. | Sr. Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Granular customization of deployment scenarios and projects. Ease of integration with other tools and Cloud platforms. You don't have to be a "DevOps Guru" to run and even maintain and debug your or anyone else's builds. FinalBuilder's logging feature is superb and extremely helpful in debugging process because it logs the output from all tools it calls during the build process. Also, logs from previous builds are archived. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** There's quite a learning curve before one could master FinalBuilder. Therefore, creating a build project could be fraught with errors and oversights for novice users of FinalBuilder. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use FinalBuilder for deployment of multiple code versions to various Dev and QA environments as well as Production. Provide Dev and QA department members with limited access to build projects for adjustments/tweaks and other purposes. There's a great deal of other purposes and business needs that FinalBuilder solves (and makes lives of all participants of the software development life cycle a lot easier), such as version control, task automation, automated software builds etc. which, in my opinion, is a set of must-have features that should come standard with any other alternative tools/software. ### 2. A powerful automation tool - highly recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek V. | Head of Investor Relations & Global Distribution, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** We used FinalBuilder to automate a highly specialised XML workflow. Formerly, this workflow would have required an enormous amount of manual labour. The problem with manual labour, as everyone knows, is that it is highly error prone. The game designers on our team would regularly "bork" the XML files by doing too many manual edits under pressure. We could not change the XML schema due to it being consumed by 3rd party tools, so we were forced to work with this less than ideal situation until we hit upon the idea to use Final Builder to automate everything. A few tweaks, some research into the FinalBuilder documetnation, and viola, a highly functioning tool! We could now perform the same task flawlessly in seconds, that formerly took up to 30 minutes and was highly error prone. No more anxious game designers, and the programmers could focus on more productive work. We also used FinalBuilder to automate our build pipeline processes later on, as it had already proved itself quite nicely during our testing with the XML automation. The main comment I would make is that the FinalBuilder interface is very intuitive and very well documented, with plenty of tips and examples that make putting together complex workflows like XML schema rewrites a breeze compared to using command-line utilities or other build tools. The wonderful "block by block" flow tools allow even non-programmers to easily change the workflows and designs once a more experienced developer has written the initial workflow. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** I think Final Builder's UX design could be updated a little bit more for 2020 with a cleaner design. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** XML schema workflow rewrites of complex XML documents that cannot be screwed up. Automation removes human error. The main issue was to replace command line tools with somethign more intuitive. ### 3. FinalBuilder, the hidden gem **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David I. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** FinalBuilder is comprehensive with more than 600 available actions. It is integrated with several version control products and can be used for enterprise automation. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** For some reason, it is unknown to many developers and DevOps. I used to have it as part of Delphi and used it only for building my applications. Years later, after the boom of the SDLC, agile development, and continuous integration, I started using it as a crucial part of my toolchain. **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** Beware of the name as it is misleading. FinalBuilder is much more capable than just a build tool. It is an automation tool which happens to be capable of building several kinds of applications. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not using it right now because it doesn't belong to the company toolchain. Still, I used it for years on several companies as the primary build tool, and many times for deploying the applications according to the local SDLC. For some time, we used it paired to FinalBuilder Server until VSoft replaced it with Continua CI. The included actions were especially useful during deployment to remote servers, replacing old-style automation tools. ### 4. The team adapts to FinalBuilder quickly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jin L. | Analyst Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** The features that support integration with various platform from native SDK to Windows batch. This enables the team to switch to FinalBuilder for the complex build process which touches different languages and resources. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** It is still not on cloud yet so dedicated machines are needed. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are moving from a manual outdated build script to a visualised, mature and reliable build tool. ### 5. I used FinalBuilder for a almost one year **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reema A. | Independant ICT Consultant / Trainer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Good in manipulating files and folders Good in open network connection **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** -It does not have all the programming features for other modern programming languages - It really supports PowerShell but not easy to use other scripting languages like VB script or Javascript -Online help is not very helpful **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** It is very useful if you dont have programmers. But need good training first **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Deployment of software releases to different clients' environments via networks. -FB is very good to open netweok connections, reading and writing files and folders ### 6. An awesome tool for build and deploy of web applications. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikith Reddy G. | Senior Associate, Technology Strategy, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** This tool can be used to automate tasks. Perfect tool for build and deployment for on prem applications. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** No using it in the recent times. Not sure about its compatibility with the cloud solutions. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to solve for integrating TFS Build with FinalBuilder Deployment. It was fantastic. ### 7. Well worth it, I would definitely recommend it to you! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo P. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** I’m happy with G2 I was skeptical at first, but I would recommend it. You are able to archive almost everything and save it **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** It’s a expensive, also Commandline build fail at times **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** Try it it’s going in the right direction **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m actually experimenting with it my company doesn’t rise it ### 8. I am using finalbuilder since 5+years for our system build and deployment. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** I am the actions finalbuilder provide to do easy programming stuff. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** I don't see any downside using finalbuilder tool. I am very happy using this tool. **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** I recommend ing to other to go for use. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am doing automation using finalbuilder like build, deployment and patches using scheduling and continuous integration. ### 9. Best software to build your application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roland B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Graphical scripting. Yet flexibility. You can achieve almost anything **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** Well I am using Delphi. And there could be situations where commandline build fails where Delphi IDE is successful. It is rare. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** The core is to build a system reliable. So same result all the time given the same input. ### 10. Very powerful build management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Flexible nature Tidy user interface Easy to use **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** I never really came across anything I didn’t like **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** It may seem expensive but once you look at it’s features the price is actually reasonable **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Final Builder to build a complex system developed in Delphi ### 11. Why Final Builder **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Its very intuitive GUI and powerful features for DevOps and Builds **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** GitHub integration is missing and CLI options needs improvement **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated builds, Automated Testing & DevOps ### 12. Brilliant design and feature set. Essential for any software company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rod W. | Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2017 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Comprehensive feature set. Flexible design for all build objects. Great error logging and control of execution flow. There is no build scenario that we cannot build with FinalBuilder. It handles everything we throw at it. With scripting support built-in to each object, it's infinitely flexible. Great UI and constantly under development. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** Not much to dislike. FinalBuilder ticks all the boxes for us. **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** Do it. FinalBuilder is a comprehensive solution for building software with a great interface, flexible design and great integration with other products. Great support from the team behind it, and all at a reasonable price. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous builds of complex software including desktop, web, web services, installer packages, database integration and updates, file management etc. What used to take hours manually, or by using previous products is now automated and fully error-trapped for complete end-to-end software building. ### 13. Decent experience with FinalBuilder **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about FinalBuilder?** Continuous integration. Build process is smooth. **What do you dislike about FinalBuilder?** I think there's a big learning curve to getting into automating build processes. **Recommendations to others considering FinalBuilder:** You should give it a try. It's at least worth trying and comparing to the other tools out there. **What problems is FinalBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm trying to build more automation into the deployment pipeline. It's easier to keep the whole process in one place. It's nice to see the reports of the build results. ## FinalBuilder Discussions - [What is FinalBuilder used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-finalbuilder-used-for) - [View FinalBuilder pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/finalbuilder/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-02+18%3A47%3A33+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9ba8138a-e2e9-4d7d-8ceb-4db89f38058b&secure%5Btoken%5D=51b3db939f5c2dc58253673d2d5f5905527104ef559362c6db5074894fc37055&format=llm_user) ## Top FinalBuilder Alternatives - [GNU Make](https://www.g2.com/products/gnu-make/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (18 reviews) - [CMake](https://www.g2.com/products/cmake/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (17 reviews) - [SCons](https://www.g2.com/products/scons/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (17 reviews)