# Parse-Server Reviews **Vendor:** Parse **Category:** [Other Mobile Development Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-mobile-development) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Parse-Server Parse Server is an open-source, Parse-compatible API server for those looking to transfer off of parse.com ## Parse-Server Reviews ### 1. Good for a project that doesn't need relational data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** Easy to setup and get running for small projects without much need of relational tables **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** not at all suitable for applications requiring complex relational data also reads and writes become performance averse. need to go beyond this to scale out **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a CRUD app with simple tables in mongo with built in push notifications ### 2. A severely underrated and an excellent PaaS everyone should know about **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu R. | Sr Manager, Digital Strategy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** The ease of installation and getting the server up and running is commendable. The way this integrates with Express JS / React and a plethora of community-built libraries can make developing an app very easy. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** Nothing in particular. Every guide in the opensource world is pretty straightforward. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building, scaling, debugging and managing the apps. Everything is in one place. Even has a customizable dashboard and ACL which is great. ### 3. Share data, without having to write code or create custom APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trung R. | DevOps, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** Its a tool that allows for the management of shared data. The graphical user interface is fully developed. Its a promising platform. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** It is wise to consider open-source projects that are more stable when thinking about long term scalability and maintenance. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Parse Server solves the problem of scalability for my business. Its user-friendly nature integration allows me to handle volumes of data and requests. ### 4. Interesting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ma Hazel Jean I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** I like how it's easy to use when making updates with the system, it's really helpful when closing some tickets that are about to process and involve some money on it. It saves time. Amazing! **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** I guess it's kind of heavy storage that's why it keeps on lagging the pc, most of the time my pc will hang up and won't move forward when trying to edit something. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** the efficiency of the work makes it easier to use Parse, it's also itemized so it's quicker to search if you're looking for something. Also, it's very detailed so it makes my work effective. ### 5. Backend-as-a-Service(BaaS) framework **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** I had personally used Parse-Server in my web application development. In the web application, the most important part for the business of an application is how the application handles the user data effectively in different devices like mobile, laptop, desktop pc, and tablet, etc. And, also the most important point comes after the data handling is that user data should be synchronized effectively in all the devices without having any problem. So for this purpose, I use the Parse-Server tool and manage my application data, with the help of this on different user devices. It is very easy to use and also very easy to understand. There are lots of services provided by the Parse-Server tool for example developed apps can be hosted locally, the user decides about the file storage system and the database management, a user easily constructs queries and dashboard features. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** The Parse-Server is an average tool for the shared data quickly and without writing any backend code or custom APIs.I would like to suggest some areas of improvement, for example, I find it a little difficult to maintain relationships between various classes. **Recommendations to others considering Parse-Server:** I recommend there are other available in the market which is almost provided the same feature just like this software. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resolved data handling related issues in my web application. ### 6. Parse is good for a lot of things, but it does have it's limitations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sydney E. | Wellness Program Coordinator, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** It organizes our users in a very complete and conclusive way, allowing us to view our users through various lenses, that are helpful to me on the marketing side of things, to develop strategies and suggest improvements. As well as gain access to information about what might be occurring to users I communicate with about what they might be experiencing. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** I dislike some of the ways that parse operates on the back end. For example, we use parse for email verification of our users. Parse sens them an email to verify, and they verify from there. However, this link has been broken in many instances since the new release of our app. It's a function we need in our app but are now searching elsewhere for because parse, in this case, is simply not as reliable as we need it to be. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Back to what I like best, it gives me a bird's eye view into what our users might be experiencing on the app, their activity, groups that they're joined in. If they're having any issues on our app interface, we have the ability to solve up this problem for them by placing them in a group they need to be in, completing a transaction, etc. It gives us so much control. When our app fails, we depend on using the Parse server to fix functions and experiences for people and provide them quick and easy customer service that keeps our customers around for the long haul. ### 7. Get a mobile backend up-and-running quick! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** Really easy to get started Offers a very nice dashboard to view saved data and good configuration options. Support for adding 3rd party plugins (e.g. supporting login with different providers) Easy to construct queries Easy integration with mobile SDKs, you don't need to explicitly write networking code, you can just handle objects and functions. Perfect for prototyping solutions and getting something working quickly. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** From my research and what I've seen from other users, it does not scale that well to really large apps. Javascript. Can be tricky to maintain relationship across different classes, would require a lot of custom code in beforeSave/afterSave handlers. **Recommendations to others considering Parse-Server:** Really easy to get something working quickly and overall very convenient. It is actively developed but it seems to be more in maintenance mode compared to other competitors. You will need to self host, but it is very easy to setup a local environment for testing. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create a backend for mobile & web apps Send push notifications ### 8. A great solution for a terrible problem **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier M. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** I like the fact the community rose and kept this service-turned-software alive and going, and it remains in active development after the debacle of the shutdown of the Parse services. It provides with a wonderful alternative for Backend use, simplifying a lot of complex tasks. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** Setup can be a bit fidgety, and the server is fairly opinionated in its way of doing things, though of course that's part of what makes it a delight to use, if your tastes match the server's. **Recommendations to others considering Parse-Server:** Parse server is great, however, because of it's troubled past, it might make sense to check the landscape for some other OSS project, and start from scratch there, unless the Parse Server matches your needs uniquely. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Turn-key-ish mobile backend, push notifications, authentication. With the parse server you can hit the ground running pretty much. ### 9. Review of Parse Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** The different API's that were provided with good documentation, Good Authentication **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** 1) No Oracle database or MySQL database 2) No Python SDK's/ API's **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** The project we were working on was to build a carpooling app. Parse was really easy to get started with, and most of the teams were using Parse ### 10. A real Parse experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonello P. | Angular & Hybrid apps team coach, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Parse-Server?** Parse Server is the OSS version of our loved "Parse.com" service. Great piece of software but without a real business model. Now the OSS version maintains the same quality level but with the opportunity for hosting our data and services. **What do you dislike about Parse-Server?** The GUI is not 100% complete but we are patient and faithful. Some paid serviced offers a better mashup of various components (server, tasks, gui, notifications) and at this moment this is the major issue. **What problems is Parse-Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop mobile apps and a Backend As A Service (BAAS) like this is veri helpful. I tried many alternatives but parse,com was always the best product. Now with the OSS version I can host this software in my clients's servers without any problem. - [View Parse-Server pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/parse-server/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-14+01%3A43%3A46+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c8de0685-7873-4d53-a8d8-3884b041c3f4&secure%5Btoken%5D=35163ad7efdce486aa0bf9a0102668b4c2877ce6415d8f7c096b32ecee3bd57e&format=llm_user) ## Top Parse-Server Alternatives - [Mapbox Mobile](https://www.g2.com/products/mapbox-mobile/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (20 reviews) - [Fuse](https://www.g2.com/products/fuse/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (14 reviews) - [GreenSock Animation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/greensock-animation-platform/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (13 reviews)