--- 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) ![Verified User in Biotechnology](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Biotechnology") UB Verified User in Biotechnology Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/16/2021 "GWT is perfect for Java developers looking to create rich UIs" 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? It is very easy to create complex user interfaces using Java almost exclusively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? It doesn't give you the same flexibility as you'd get if using JavaScript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? Our staff is backend heavy so GWT allows us to develop quickly while understaffed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Srinu N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Srinu N.") SN Srinu N. Sr. SEO Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/4/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Out Standing Experience" 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Very easy to write and maintain code in Google Web Toolkit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Everything is fine, nothing dislike about google web toolkit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? writing and maintain code in Google Web Toolkit is very much easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") UG Verified User in Government Administration Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/29/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Have used GWT in a lot of projects either directly or within a framework." 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Using Java to generate JavaScript running on the browser. Ease of mixing JavaScript and Java code. The JavaScript generated is performant ready for production use. Ease in communication with the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? The time to compile code as project grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? It is possible to generate front end JavaScript code only by using Java. It is possible to run performant JavaScript user interfaces locally at the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anand K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anand K.") AK Anand K. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/9/2020 "Helps in designing better look and feel (UI) product" 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Very easy to design the UI. Validation was really easy. Easy to create reusable components. Cross browser components MVC based Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Slowness - Due to compilation of java code to javascript Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering GWT - Google Web Toolkit: Yes I would be recommending Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? Instead of building components from scratch, GWT can be used to design complex components ex table grid with sorting, index, filter It's easy for java developer since team member are much more confident on java Asynchronous APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sherif W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sherif W.") SW Sherif W. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/28/2019 "GWT at Webalo sites" 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? You don't need to dig into javascript but you can easily write Java code which is translated to javascript directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Some limitations happens when you need to modify in some javascript scope elements for example you can't do directly from java. Sometimes need native methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering GWT - Google Web Toolkit: If you don't need advanced JS technologies and depending on Java developers GWT is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? Webalo have 2 websites the web user agent and the administrative website. We can write a common Java code while using GWT elements for the web elements easily with Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/19/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Google Web Toolkit" 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? You can write your program in javascript in order to execute in any place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? The code that you execute is not the one you write. It is transcompiled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering GWT - Google Web Toolkit: Just Javascript Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? Improves performance and development costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/5/2017 "Easy way to build web application" 4/5 What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? Can easily introduces Java programmers to web application world. It allows you to build front-end and back-end with a single programming language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit? It's hard to add some useful native Javascript features. On the front-end layer you are forced to not use reflection and generics Java features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering GWT - Google Web Toolkit: Use it for web application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you? I used this framework to build a web application. I'm a Java programmer and I learned to use GWT in few days. 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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