--- title: Microsoft Access Reviews meta\_title: 'Microsoft Access Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 855 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft Access works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 855 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-12' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Microsoft Access Reviews & Product Details Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) developed by Microsoft, combining the relational Access Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools. As part of the Microsoft 365 suite, Access enables users to create, manage, and analyze databases efficiently. It allows for the development of application software and supports integration with various data sources, including SQL Server and Oracle, through ODBC compatibility. Access is designed to facilitate rapid application development (RAD), making it suitable for both novice users and experienced developers. Key Features and Functionality: - Data Storage and Management: Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Database Engine and can import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases. - User Interface Design: It provides tools to create forms and reports, enabling users to design intuitive interfaces for data entry and analysis. - Query and Reporting Tools: Access includes a query interface and report creation features that can work with any data source that Access can access. - Programming Support: Access supports Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), allowing for advanced automation, data validation, and error trapping. - Integration Capabilities: It can link to data in its existing location and use it for viewing, querying, editing, and reporting, allowing the existing data to change while ensuring that Access uses the latest data. Primary Value and User Solutions: Microsoft Access provides a versatile platform for users to develop custom database solutions tailored to their specific needs. Its integration with other Microsoft Office applications enhances productivity by allowing seamless data sharing and reporting. Access's user-friendly interface and robust functionality make it an ideal choice for small to medium-sized businesses, educational institutions, and individual users seeking to manage and analyze data effectively without requiring extensive programming knowledge. * * * Seller [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) Discussions [Microsoft Access Community](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-access/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 13 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-access/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Ninox](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ninox") Ninox 4.7/5(362) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ninox/reviews) [ ![OpenOffice Base](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "OpenOffice Base") OpenOffice Base 4.1/5(52) ](https://www.g2.com/products/openoffice-base/reviews) [ ![Memento Database](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Memento Database") Memento Database 4.6/5(50) ](https://www.g2.com/products/memento-database/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-access/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 855 real user reviews. 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AM Andrei M. Operations Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/3/2021 "An outdated solution, not a fan of the design. For data geeks only" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? If you want to own your supplier/crm or some other sort o database on your own computer for cheap, MS Access is a great choice. Most people I worked with already have experience working with it from school, that lets you skip additional employee trainings. And again, the prices are very affordable even for larger organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? The design is not most user friendly, there are competitors who offer solutions more satisfying to user's eye. Last time I tried to do a project in collaboration it didn't let me, so would have to fix it through shared folders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? I used this in the previous work to build databases on customer statistics and success numbers and integrated them with the software we were sellers for. For example, we extracted the retail customer traffic numbers, engagement statistics and linked them with conversion rates, revenue and other POS data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/23/2021 "Not the best database option" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? It is helpful when we are working with semester schedules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? It is difficult to use among numerous users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? Using it to solve scheduling issues in academic departments. It can keep lots of data from all programs efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Religious Institutions](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Religious Institutions") AR Verified User in Religious Institutions Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/29/2019 "Becoming Outdated" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? I appreciate basic functionality of Access. You can enter data, run queries and reports, and export information into other Microsoft programs. It also comes with the Microsoft Professional packages that we have to get anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? I actually love Access and we use it on a daily basis. It's really the core of what we do. However, you really have to know what you are doing (read a lot of training) to be able to utilize it to it's fullest potential. This aspect (the training needed) really limits us in what we can actually do with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Access: If you are willing to put in the time to really be trained, and are using this for personal use, then it has a ton of analytical and tracking benefits. For business use, it's "free" in that if you buy Microsoft Pro packages it's included, otherwise I'd go somewhere else that is a bit more advanced and easier to use and learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? It's extremely outdated for the technology the rest of the world uses. It doesn't integrate well with other financial or web based software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Joanna M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joanna M.") JM Joanna M. Area Sales Coordinator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/22/2019 "Program Crashes Often" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? It is very well for using as a database for our customers. It is easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? It crashes often. It is a very touchy program and can be difficult to operate with when you need it constantly and it does not always work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using it as a registration program for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sam G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sam G.") SG Sam G. President of HOCOA San Diego Consumer Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/10/2018 "Only Good If You Are A Super User" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? That I could build and use a simplistic database. When I needed something fast. It was easy to update, and simple to access from my computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? Oh, trying to update the entire system was a nightmare for me. If I wanted to change the database look and feel, I would go into this cause and effect. If I wanted to add a new field or remove a field, it would almost always be a long process. I would spend hours trying to figure out how to update a table and how it would link up to the other tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Access: If you have a person on your team that has been a user and builder for years, great. If not, there are simpler programs on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? Really just a place I could keep my prospect list and update. Whenever I needed to add people, it would work great and update all of the tables. It was simple to open, update and read. However, it was very clunky to update across the board. I usually would hire someone to do the design implementation when needed. After a few more painstaking years, I realized that there were better online services that I could use. I decided to stick to online programs that focused on user-friendliness over brand loyalty. It just made more sense for us to go with a program that was easier to use and had a better support mechanism in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management") UN Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/26/2019 "Hard to use, harder to maintain" 0.5/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? Ability to run reports from amalgamated data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? Everything else. Sometimes a random feature will just quit working permanent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Access: Don’t Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? Use it as a school database for a non profit. Should be able to get information quickly for grant writing purposes, but often have problems with the database when trying to obtain this data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Real Estate](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Real Estate") UR Verified User in Real Estate Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/18/2018 "Very outdated and not user-friendly" 0/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? I do not like this system at all; there is nothing I like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? The system is antiquated. It may work great for some business models, but I work for a large, global company with hundreds of entities and business units which need to be tracked and this system is too time-consuming to use and difficult to install for new people. Not recommended at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Access: Don't. I highly recommend Salesforce as it combines several aspects of business tracking and reporting (for HR, Accounting, Legal, Biz Dev, etc.) and it much more customizable, intuitive, and user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? My company utilizes Access for franchisee contract obligations and fulfillment. I have not realized any benefits of it as it is very time-consuming and not user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite SH stara h. collections Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/8/2018 "Microsoft access review" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? I like it I can sort and pull whatever information you want it to pull no matter how much data has been entered Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? It takes the right fields to be entered to pull the data that you want but it has to be put in the correct way and can be.confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? Use it sort to find different loans with different problems put a full database which is useful if you have over a 1000 loans and there may only be 5 with a certain problem Microsoft access can pull those 5 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/10/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Civil Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Civil Engineering") AC Verified User in Civil Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/11/2018 "Nightmare to maintain" 1/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? It's cheap to used and you are able to export to excel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? It is a nightmare to maintain. Also difficult to follow the logic of whomever designed the database. Too many hidden fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Access: Access is NOT excel. You must know databases and programming before using this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? It has provided a quick setup of a database and it is cheap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Christin W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Christin W.") CW Christin W. Accounts Payable Coordinator Construction Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/28/2017 "Hate this evil program" 0/5 What do you like best about Microsoft Access? Nothing. I liked NOTHING about this program. Perhaps it is because I was taught on a slightly older version, but it was deeply flawed and did not work properly. It kept crashing, and would not work right at all, in spite of having a specialist in this program on hand. I refused to work with it after about 3 months. I only (sometimes) touch other people's files if they still use it if I must, and there are not many of us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft Access? Everything. I disliked everything about this program. It was difficult to learn, and never worked right, even when properly used. Again, perhaps it had to do with my using an older version, but I refuse to use this program myself. I do not have time to do the same task over and over and over again. Technology is supposed to make things easier, not the other way around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Access: Find a better program, unless they have done some serious upgrades to this program. There are so many that are better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft Access solving and how is that benefiting you? I solved no problems, and in fact, it created more because what should have taken me 20 minutes was taking me 2 hours. This is a big problem. Especially during the busy season. I would much rather use a different program and know that what I just did will not need to be redone than run the risk of wasting my time. Not to mention, my boss finds it funny when I start cussing at my computer. Another situation I would rather avoid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Microsoft Access? 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. [ Ask about Microsoft Access ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-access/discussions/new) GB Gianni Bersanini • Last activity almost 5 years ago do you know other useful documentation besides those of Microsoft? 1 Upvote 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/do-you-know-other-useful-documentation-besides-those-of-microsoft) ![Kirihettige A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kirihettige A.") KA Kirihettige Anton Asiri Prasad • Last activity almost 6 years ago Is it reliable to use Access forms just like visual basic to build applications? 1 Upvote 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-it-reliable-to-use-access-forms-just-like-visual-basic-to-build-applications) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-access/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 13 months ### Average Discount 13% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-access/pricing) Microsoft Access Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_f511432115633105dedc035737dd9206/libreoffice-base.png "Product Avatar Image") LibreOffice Base 3.8/5(15) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/libreoffice-base-vs-microsoft-access) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_240340edca859994ec71e4490aa20022/mysql.png "Product Avatar Image") MySQL 4.4/5(1,682) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/microsoft-access-vs-mysql) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_27c13f0893a906bcf7990e961e700b31/openoffice-base.png "Product Avatar Image") OpenOffice Base 4.1/5(52) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/microsoft-access-vs-openoffice-base) ## Work at Microsoft? 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