--- title: GWT - Google Web Toolkit Reviews meta\_title: 'GWT - Google Web Toolkit Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how GWT - Google Web Toolkit works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.4 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # GWT - Google Web Toolkit Reviews & Product Details GWT is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. GWT is used by many products at Google, including AdWords, AdSense, Flights, Hotel Finder, Offers, Wallet, Blogger. It’s open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world. * * * Seller [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google) Discussions [GWT - Google Web Toolkit Community](https://www.g2.com/products/gwt-google-web-toolkit/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Material Design for Bootstrap](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Material Design for Bootstrap") Material Design for Bootstrap 4.6/5(25) ](https://www.g2.com/products/material-design-for-bootstrap/reviews) [ ![IHP](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IHP") IHP 4.5/5(210) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ihp/reviews) [ ![ASP.NET](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ASP.NET") ASP.NET 4.3/5(59) ](https://www.g2.com/products/asp-net/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/gwt-google-web-toolkit/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Alexandre R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alexandre R.") AR Alexandre R. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/20/2020 "A nice approach for a 2010 application, a bad toolkit for a modern website" 0/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? GWT did a very nice work on automating and making it easier to develop web-applications that did not reload much and seamlessly loaded data and updates in the background. It was the toolkit of choice to develop Google Gmail, Blogger, Inbox and many other apps. It was created on 2006 and Google maintained it until 2012. The toolkit was a very strong option by then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Unfortunately the project lost Google support on 2012, it went open-source, but still there are no new releases since 2017. That means that it is by 2020 3-years outdated and with accumulated bugs. Other than that fact, modern HTML 5, CCS 3 and HTTP/2 technologies are far superior to the benefits that GWT brings to a project. The toolkit makes the web-pages bloated with very hard to debug embedded Javascript, the compiling time is long and the toolkit is not easy to setup anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering GWT - Google Web Toolkit: I don't recommend using an outdated, not supported technology. Google stopped using and supporting it for a reason, there are better options nowadays. I recommend looking to Google supported technologies, by the year 2020, like Angular and Vue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? The GTW toolkit was used to create responsive and interactive websites without the need to reload the pages. It was easy to use by then (2008-2012) but the only other option was doing everything by hand or using jQuery or Microsoft Atlas Ajax technologies. So GWT was the most powerful and transparent Ajax solution by then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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