But because of retiring announcement I would not recommend it to anybody. We started to using Parse because we thing that this will be long term solution but after announcement I am not 100% sure in any Facebook product and use it in production. We started using application in production and after 2 months Parse announce that at 17th of January 2017 they will close down their service and than migration to parse-server and host at AWS is now only solution for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Parse as simple backend solution for our clients applications mobile native applications and AngularJS web apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kyle D.

Marketing Creative Director

Chemicals

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/24/2016

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Parse is leaving us"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Parse?

The comprehensive guides for each platform and the ui. However I have since moved to a new backend. Parse was interesting because it allowed anybody to share native models across server-side code and across multiple clients. Also it was free for smaller clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

I dislike that the services will be fully retired very soon. I also disliked that another one of the major problems is fetching of a maximum of 1000 results in one query. More data should be able to be fetched by using paging but the problem arises while using innerQuery. And the delay in push notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Parse:

It's not going to be there. So don't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

General mobile development. But once again, it's shutting down, so I had to find something new. The primary advantages of Parse were that I was able to work with application-level concepts, such as user accounts and push notifications instead of just technology-focused concepts like databases and socket I/O. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mihai I.

PHP Developer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/15/2016

"Fast and easy to use"

5/5

What do you like best about Parse?

I always liked their idea of reaching people in new user experience. Parse developed a very simple way to handle things regarding user experience. And that they are showing so much support in migrating.

I now like the idea of moving to our own service because of flexibility and extending the product in our direction. Small features will be a lot easier to implement and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

I did not had any problems with deploying and working with Parse. But it had some issues regarding querying the database. The limit of 10000 last records was some hassle as I needed to record everything on my side too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav S.

Fullstack Developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/11/2016

"Best product to get your apps running quickly"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Parse?

I use it primarily to prototype my ideas. Creating MVP is first target on any project and parse minimizes the effort required in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

Parse is going away. That's what I dislike most. Parse decided to shut down all of a sudden and this has made me wary of all other such platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Parse:

Use it for prototyping and try to migrate to something of your own as soon as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

In agile development model, it's very necessary to change codebase very frequently and parse lets me redesign my database multiple times a day, I need not worry about communicating the changes to other developers until and unless it does not affect them. I need not worry about sudden downtime or crash. I don't need a devops team to manage server.

Over all turn around time has improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanju S.

Tech Lead

E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/15/2016

"Good to start but not for production"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Parse?

When starting with the project, Parse was an easy, affordable way to go without spending much time on the backend. SDK's provided easy access and predefined query API's gave faster access to the data. Auth mechanisms took a lot of pain away while starting! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

The product is not scalable. As the users on the platform grew, the queries started dropping, Columns did not get indexed properly resulting in incorrect API responses. The responses are slow and write to db was taking a lot of time. Not at all scalable for a product in production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brayden G.

Founder / CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2016

"Product was used to replace the back end in a very frontend heavy honours project. "

3/5

What do you like best about Parse?

I like that authentication is a breeze with Parse especially when adding social authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

Limited ability to customize backend API. Certain features such as running multiple background tasks at once can get very costly with Parse. This may not be an issue now as it is being open sourced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Parse:

I would try out Parse to see if it can solve the problem you are facing, if so it could save you a lot of time. It also is being open sourced now so even cheaper to run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

It becomes very easy to store and access objects with Parse and authentication is already taken care of. No need to worry about anything access control related is very nice. Parse also provides many frontend frameworks which makes it easy and intuitive to integrate on the frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/20/2016

"Not ready for production level apps"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Parse?

Not a whole lot. It's great if you're doing a small side project or running an experiment it's great, but otherwise it's not reliable enough to run a production application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

Some really bad design decisions that can lead to a lot of pain as a developer. The cloud server just plain doesn't work and they are constantly down. Also just really slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Parse:

Build it yourself. It will take longer, but will save you time in the long run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solved the problem of bottlenecks for mobile development when a web api was needed first before the iOS dev could get started, but not worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/15/2016

"Great push service for building mobile apps"

4/5

What do you like best about Parse?

I love the push notification provided by Parse.

I have developed some Android apps and also got involved in their iOS app development. Before Parse, each mobile platform has their own push service like GCM on Google Android, APNS for iOS, MPNS for WinPhone etc. . These services perform excellently on their field but also make a headache for cross platforms code management and architecture design for small teams. Parse provides a nice mechanism to uniform the push service for all these platforms. Simple and elegant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

The biggest disappointment is the discontinued support from Facebook. I have a big concerning about the maintenance issue for it after it's open-sourced.

Now our products are undergoing a huge migration process... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2016

"Great BaaS to get going quickly "

5/5

What do you like best about Parse?

Parse provides SDKs for many platforms, making it super easy to get up and running with backend services. The cloud code feature allows developers to centralize important and sensitive business logic. The Data Browser makes it easy to perform quick data manipulation. Push services are also great because it's one less thing you need to setup elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

Logs for cloud code are very limited in length, so you cannot access much history (need your own logging solution). There is no way to download your cloud code from Parse, so if you don't have it under source control (which you should) you risk losing your code if something drastic happens with the Parse service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Parse:

Parse has decided to shutdown it's service, but has also released its server as an open source project. This is great because you can reap the many benefits, albeit not all of them, that the service provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

Benefits realized are a quick setup, one stop shop for a back end to power both web and mobile solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matteo M.

Full Stack Developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2016

"Perfect for starting with a new project"

3/5

What do you like best about Parse?

- User authentication/authorization/ACL

- Really simple and easysetup

- SDK available for many different platforms/languages

- Competitive low tier pricing

- Now it's open source! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parse?

- ...Parse BAAS will be dismissed on January 2017

- Many different small things are missing from the official documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Parse solving and how is that benefiting you?

Parse is the perfect tool for mocking app a mobile application/website that needs an user authentication system and/or a content database.

Unfortunately it will be dismissed on January 2017 but the Parse team already released the open-source implementation of Parse: Parse-Server.

Currently Parse-Server is still young and not production ready (is missing some features and is still in alpha) but it's still a really promising product that is getting always better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.