--- title: Parse Reviews meta_title: 'Parse Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 42 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Parse works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.7 review_count: 42 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Parse Reviews **Vendor:** Parse **Category:** [Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-backend-as-a-service-mbaas) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 42 ## About Parse Just focus on creating amazing user experiences and forget about complex infrastructure. Use Parse in your app and easily add a powerful cloud database, versatile push notification services, analytics tracking, and more. ## Parse Reviews ### 1. Parse is being shut down in January 2017 **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bjoern S. | Founder, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Parse?** We really enjoyed the ability to build small middleware solutions with Parse. It came with everyhting you needed: User management, database, SSL hosting, different client SDKs. We're sad to see it go **What do you dislike about Parse?** Parse was never production level reliable. We could only use it for scenarios that we'ren't business critical. I obviously also dislike Facebook's decision to shut it down. **Recommendations to others considering Parse:** You shouldn't use it, as it's shutting down. There's no real way to become a new user of Parse. The current way would be to deploy Parse server on your own infrastructure, as it's been open-sourced. This also means that there are a few additional considerations here: 1) Does open source Parse server support all your use cases (i.e. there is no built-in job framework anymore). 2) what solution do you use to manage your Parse apps (Parse Dashboard has been open-sourced to, but is a separate prodcut). 3) Where do you want to host ist. Parse suggests a number of cloud based hosters, we're currently going with Heroku. We've also tried running on Digital Ocean and think about trying to run on Azure. **What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?** We could deploy custom software solutions at a much faster time to market. It was particularly useful to write custom middlewares that would move data based on webhooks from one system to another. ### 2. Technical debt that wasn't worth the tradeoff **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Parse?** User session management is one of the few things I don't loathe about Parse. Their docs are pretty well thought out as well. I didn't take place in the full implementation, but apparently you can get up and running rather quickly. **What do you dislike about Parse?** Most everything. Insanely long response times for most queries. We're talking at LEAST 1000ms for a single record query, even if searching by the objectId. The product is also being deprecated, so it was a forcing function of our migration off the platform. A lot of my dislike towards it might be misdirected from being a fan of SQL over a mongodb. It's quite costly for the amount of downtime we also experience. **Recommendations to others considering Parse:** Don't waste the time and effort. It's being deprecated. **What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were solving the need of quickly spinning up an API/backend server as a service. It made getting off the ground relatively quick but cost us a lot in technical debt. ### 3. It's a shame it's being shut down. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph P. | Software Engineer, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Parse?** Their developer documentation was fantastic for their api & sdk's. There's also been a vibrant community available on their answer site and other locations, such as irc. I think they're fantastic for giving their customers such a long notice period of their shutdown, together with proactively aiding migrations away. **What do you dislike about Parse?** They're shutting down! It's a massive pity as there's nobody else that quite satisfies their full offering. **Recommendations to others considering Parse:** Don't ignore their shutdown warnings. It's time to migrate. **What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest benefit we gained from them was easy push notifications, especially their geospatial capabilities. ### 4. Parse **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Parse?** Easy integration and good documentation. **What do you dislike about Parse?** The vendor connection is now shutting down, which is sure to cause a lot of trouble just before we were about to release! **Recommendations to others considering Parse:** Do not use. **What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick prototyping ## Parse Discussions - [What is Parse used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-parse-used-for) - [View Parse pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/parse/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-10+07%3A01%3A22+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a8ac3afb-8df1-4c6a-9ce8-6d334c190d31&secure%5Btoken%5D=f8ed93baf9ac7dcec6b524f6c580f99c5386b5411a594260c99d7c4220f7d845&format=llm_user) ## Top Parse Alternatives - [AWS Amplify](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-amplify/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (95 reviews) - [Salesforce Heroku](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-heroku/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (143 reviews) - [Azure Mobile Apps](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-mobile-apps/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (21 reviews)