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Sai P.

Content and Retention Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/31/2022

"Use case from a Marketer's Point of view."

4/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

Firebase is very easy to use and helps in the design and development of highly scalable and efficient android applications.I use Firebase to export app events to google ads and then run in-app event-focused campaigns on these events. Results have shown that these campaigns garner high better quality audience than the campaigns optimised on third-party analytics attribution platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

Firebase provides basic data analytics functionalities and can not be considered the most accurate source of truth for user journey optimizations based on data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Firebase:

Firebase can be a great choice if you are starting with your app development as its documentation is detailed and elaborate and the support team helps in immediate doubt resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Firebase solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Firebase for its Real-time analytics dashboard that gives us real-time sessions, app open and other metrics data. It also helps us identify the crash rate and stability of different app versions and compatibility with various mobile devices and models. This is a significant step as it helps us in setting up our marketing campaigns with precision after removing low-performing device models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/27/2023

"Mature data streaming solution, needs improvement in toolchain"

4/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

Data streaming works really well out of the box. Takes care of network fluctuations and drops automatically. Pricing is really good compared to others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

Reliability issues in service, even paid plans don't have immediate support system making it less optimal for live events. Can scale to great strengths with advanced in-house solutions but not out of the box. Managing multiple shards cloud functions is a big mess. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jorge N.

Principal Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/13/2022

"Firebase is a great set of tools to build scalable applications"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

It has a lot of tools that help little companies to start building great applications without the necessity to spend a significant amount of money and effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

It would be nice to improve the ANRs and Native Crashes detection. Some tools are also very useful but they are as expensive as useful too. The performance tools are improvable too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Avez P.

Team Lead

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/4/2023

"Firebase review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

The all-in-one service from google for your small/mid-size organization provides all the features needed in application development, like Real-time DB, Crash analytics, cross-platform SDKs, Mobile application distribution and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

They should be more specific in terms of the crash logs. Apart from this, all good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Siva K.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2023

"UI"

5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

Super easy to deploy to the server (much better than AWS in this). Great, easy to use UI and advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

The main disadvantage is the search facility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Anirban S.

ex Senior Manager - Marketing

Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/23/2022

"Very reliable notification pushing tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

The best part of Firebase is that I can preview the push notification before sending it, which ensures that there are no changes of mistake. Also, the analytics (notification performance) visualisations are nearly real time and start showing up as soon as the notification is pushed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

The only point of dissatisfaction with Firebase is that I cannot upload images directly unless I upgrade to a higher and very expensive plan. So, this feature should be made inclusive in the normal Premium plan itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Firebase:

Try pre-scheduling notifications as sometimes on-spot sending lags a bit if too many notifications are in the pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Firebase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Earlier we used internal tools for handling the in-app push notifications and it had both high bounce rate and low open rate. Firebase has helped us to increase the number of deliveries of push notifications by several times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nalin A.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/23/2022

"M y Experience with Firebase"

5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

It is a cloud-based service that provides many features. I mostly used an in-app messaging service with my mobile application. This service is completely free. Other services also have a free tier and can be used these service with limitations without paying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

If you plan a production-level application with a lot of traffic Firebase might be expensive. Need to pay a high amount of money to consume their services. When comparing other cloud services Firebase has a small number of services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Firebase:

I have been using AdSense for 3+ years now. You can create an account easily no need credit or debit card. The special thing is can be used many services at free of cost. If you are going to make a proof of concept app this platform provides a lot of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Firebase solving and how is that benefiting you?

I created a mobile application and need in-app messaging capabilities. Most existing services are paid but Firebase's in-app messaging service is totally free. So it gives more benefits for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Satya V.

Growth Product Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/11/2022

"Powerful tool for app development and real time user activity"

4/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

Firebase is easy to operate and we can perform analysis on various cohorts of users in the overview dashboard itself. We can continuously monitor the sanity and regular flow of our events in the events section and see the performance of various app versions and the crash percentages in different mobile devices too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

Attribution is only available for ads run through Google ads and not for other media sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Firebase:

Firebase is a great app development tool and can also be used for analytics and sending notifications by early stage startups as it is almost free of cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Firebase solving and how is that benefiting you?

Firebase is our android application development platform and therefore it acts as our core database for all app-related event firing and integration with ad platforms. It helps in top-level analysis of installs coming through the play store (organic) and the ones that are attributed to Google Ads. The real-time dashboard shows us active users on the app and also gives some visibility about week-on-week retention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Swati R.

Digital Marketing Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/9/2022

"User experience as a Marketer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

Firebase is an excellent tool while beginning with the app-building journey. Through the means of real-time dashboards, it gives a fair and exact understanding of Daily Active Users and media source level retention and acquisition data. Firebase can also come in handy if you do not have any CRM tool in place as it helps in setting up notifications for small data sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

Attribution is not very accurate and there is a huge ingestion lag of almost three days. Overall firebase is not a very reliable app analytics tool if the DAU or MAU is of the count of millions. Also, Facebook doesn't send its data to Firebase and hence it is challenging to attribute data to the right media sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Firebase:

Firebase is the best app analytics tool for startups with limited access to funds, therefore it provides good analytics at a contained cost so if you are considering Firebase for your app's SDK integration and analytics then definitely go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Firebase solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Firebase for app analytics and media source level attribution, monitoring real-time active users, user split mapped to their acquisition source (organic and google). It also helps us with a user-level split across different app versions and sends alerts in case of app crashes. The best part is free version has almost the same benefits as the paid version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Martin M.

Senior Android Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/31/2023

"Awesome for testing distribution"

5/5

What do you like best about Firebase?

Its console, distribution system and remote properties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Firebase?

Error handling is not the best, but is not that bad as others as testflight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.