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Are you part of the InstallShield team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Revenera InstallShield is the fastest easiest way to build Windows installers and MSIX packages and create installations directly within Microsoft Visual Studio. * * * Seller [Revenera](https://www.g2.com/sellers/revenera) Discussions [InstallShield Community](https://www.g2.com/products/installshield/discuss) Overview by Jeremy McGuire Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Finstallshield%2Freviews%3Ffilters%255Bnps_score%255D%255B%255D%3D2) ## User Insights Average based on 22 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ashish T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ashish T.") AT Ashish T. Lead Software Development Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/5/2021 "Very easy to create setup and release patches: InstallShield" 4.5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? Really very easy to write install, upgrade and repair logic, I like this at most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? As a software engineer, I didnt see any drawback as such. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? I was creating a POC for one of the small project to install and make upgrade patch to end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/15/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ankush K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankush K.") AK Ankush K. Lead Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/5/2021 "Best tool to create and update windows installer" 5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? I am using this tool for the last nine years, and it has all the customization and capabilities to handle complex application configurations. The tool will help beginners to learn and understand things from Microsoft docs as well. It has a good UI option to manage customization for beginners. Installshield is very easy to manage customizations using tables. The most powerful, capable, and widely used solution among installation developers worldwide. A quick and easy solution for creating reliable MSI installations. Installshield supports MSIX as well. Create Windows Server App Packages (WSA) from MSI Projects.Build InstallShield Projects in an Azure DevOps Pipeline Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? License cost is one of the downsides of installshield, which is one factor when deciding on a tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering InstallShield: Installshield is a perfect tool to capture and edit windows installers. Beginners can learn rapidly with help links and start working with InstallShield. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? Capturing and creating installer of legacy Apps Solving conflicts and permission issues Adding custom action for cleanup Upgrade old products using upgrade table itself Use VBScript for custom action and popup. Create Advanced Bootstrappers with Suite Installations. Create Traditional Installations and Microsoft App-V Packages from the Same build Process. DLL, EXE, VBScript, and JScript Custom Actions Advanced UI Editor Create Windows Installer Patches (MSP) Automated Patch Design\ Build InstallShield Projects in an Azure DevOps Pipeline Build InstallShield Projects in an Azure DevOps Pipeline Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Legal Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Legal Services") UL Verified User in Legal Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/14/2022 "One of the best platforms I used for designing installers." 4.5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? I used two types - Basic MSI and InstallScript. The best thing that I have known about this platform is the installer that's being designed can be tweaked the way desired. The SQL server screen designed the way is best. I did come across a bug in the SQL server screen of a old designed installer. But referring the community helped me fixing it easily without spending much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? Cannot change the design of multi-instance screen. As there are other out of the box screens already present but they can be tweaked not similar in the Multi-instance case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? Inbuilt SQL server screens is an absolute benefit in Server side applications and this can be used with minimal configuration as most of that has already been done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vinay S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vinay S.") VS Vinay S. Technology Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/21/2021 "InstallShield is an amazing tool to create installers with wide range of types and customization." 4.5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? It gives the user ability to customize the installation and the option to use inbuild or custom functionality. It also provides the functionality for the multi-instance installer, which is currently unavailable in any of the other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? The IntelliSense needs to be enhanced more as it would be more helpful during writing code and checking for errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering InstallShield: InstallShield is the best product currently to create and manage installers., It provides various options to the user to create different types of installers based on the requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used the InstallShield for Creating the installers for our product. We have provided the installers with the functionality of the multi-instance installation. Also, we have implemented the Upgrade, Modify, Hotfix functionality to the user. We have made it easy for the user to manage the installation part of their system in the best possible way. Upgrade and modify the installation without the need to remove and install again. Also, multi-instance has provided the ability to the user to install multiple instances of the application on the same Windows system. Due to this, the user base of our application has drastically increased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Saket .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Saket .") S Saket . Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/4/2021 "Amazing packaging tool. Loads of features to play around. Excellent release management system." 4.5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? 1.Installshield according to me is one of the most feature rich and extremely fast packaging tool. 2.I used it to create installers for my company's windows product. Easy to learn. 3.Also the installscript functionality was very useful to create my own custom functions. 4.The language itself was very easy , quite similar to C. 5.The product i used to make installer were having its all requirement fulfilled by Installshield(IIS,Windows services,registry,text file,ini,xml edit,SQL,upgrade installers etc.) 6.Regular updates. Hence.Installsheld never gave me any reason to look for another packaging tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? 1.The windows service creation module should allow the property name to be used in the identity field of the service to automate the name for all the services I create. 2.The whole interface can seem quite complex to the new users as the features are pretty extensive. Nevertheless, this is a good tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering InstallShield: Installshield is gonna fulfil all requirements for all windows based applications, so in my opinion, one does not need to look further. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? I used InstallShield to create the installers for the below-mentioned products. 1. IIS-hosted application. This application was hosted in IIS, had four app pools and virtual directories, had ten windows services, used registry, interacted with SQL server database. Also, after completion, specific changes were needed to be made inside the config files related to SQL or log level attributes. 2.Upgrade installer - This was the upgrade installer that replaced all dlls with the newer dlls, executed recent SQL queries and stored procedures. 3.Adapter installer- Similar to IIS-hosted application but smaller and with fewer files. 4.Pre-requisite installer- Ran before the application installer to install all required pre-requisites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sumit M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sumit M.") SM Sumit M. Senior Full Stack Devops Tools Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/8/2021 "Best packaging tool" 5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? User Experience and API, Rollback, Registry and File Redirection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? We encountered lots of BSOD issues while we were using Installshield in NVIDIA for graphic drivers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering InstallShield: It's an excllent packaging tool for any sort of it industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? 64 bit Migration Unicode Migration Display and Graphic Driver Installers Developing Installers for Printer Fleet Management and Others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jayanta T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jayanta T.") JT Jayanta T. Senior Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/8/2021 "Having more customization features helps to modify the package as desired" 4.5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? The active setup option in the tool is much helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? At times it's slow to respond suspect for heavy load Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering InstallShield: Most loved repackaging tool industry wise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? Repackaging mostly 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.) 7/13/2021 "InstallShield a vital tool for Software Packaging" 4.5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? Ability to do bulk conversions from older format to new format like MSI to MSIX. Ability to create AppV and AppX packages with single tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? Free trail version doesn't allow to create .MSI package instead creates setup file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? Create MSI installer using raw source files to avoid manual copy of files and folders, dll registration etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/3/2021 "13 years experience" 5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? Easy to use and the user interface is very friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? The product has been serving my purpose sicne last 13 years. There is no dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? Have been using installshield adminstudio. It helps in editing the msi database in a more easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") AO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/12/2021 "Amazing tool for Packaging" 5/5 What do you like best about InstallShield? I liked the sorted UI and so many features available under single window Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about InstallShield? For repackaging you need to purchase the whole suite Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is InstallShield solving and how is that benefiting you? Packaging enterprise application apps to be used by customers. Easier to use than wix etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about InstallShield? 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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