Superdesk Reviews & Product Details

Superdesk is a state-of-the-art digital newsroom system. It combines headless CMS functionality with powerful workflow features for an end-to-end news creation, production, curation and distribution platform. Built alongside journalists in the newsroom, it has a modular, API-centric design that enables news organisations to add and adapt the functionality most relevant to their business. Superdesk is open-source web-based newsroom software that integrates easily with legacy systems as well as third-party applications.

Seller

Sourcefabric

Discussions

Superdesk Community

Languages Supported

Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

Overview by

Manolis Zografakis (Head of Marketing at Sourcefabric z.ú. | Online Marketing Consultant | Founder of BrokeinLondon.com)

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User Insights

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Superdesk Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Superdesk, and what problem is it built to solve?

Superdesk is used to create and manage newsroom content, then distribute it across channels. It helps teams organize content production and publishing in one workflow.

What languages does Superdesk support?

Superdesk supports 9 languages: Arabic, Danish, English, German, Greek, and others.

What company sizes is Superdesk designed for?

Superdesk is designed for teams of all sizes, from self-employed users and small teams to large organizations.

Which industries is Superdesk built to serve?

Superdesk is built to serve several media and public-sector industries:

Online Media
Broadcast Media
Newspapers
Government Administration

Does Superdesk offer an open API, and what does it integrate with?

Superdesk offers an open API, which lets teams connect their own systems and workflows.

What support options are available, and is live/human support included?

Support options include phone and email/help desk support, along with FAQs and a forum.

What training resources are available to help teams get started?

Superdesk provides several training resources:

In-person training
Webinars
Documentation
Live online training
Videos

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Vignesh R.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/20/2023

"Superdesk is the go-to tool for all the aspiring Journalists!"

4/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

The best thing about Superdesk is it's an open source software and it is operated in a way that adapts to the current scenario where the Work from home era which is more or like a remote News Management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

The pricing which they offer for the small and medium sized news rooms are comparatively high in the market but still Superdesk offers an in-demand services in a remote basis. Thus, the pricing is too high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanchita D.

iOS Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/18/2021

"Detailed Review of SuperDesk"

5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

SuperDesk is a digital newsroom system that manages content creations, production, and distribution. It is an open source headless CMS which provides you the best option to manage your content and publish it properly to all channels and platforms. It resolves both economic and technical challenges. It is the number one choice for everybody who wants to create content once and publishes everywhere. It is easy to use and offers a demo that allows you to see how the platform works. It also supports multiple UI languages and also provides you to include text annotations for reference. It provides a great deal of customization tools, which you can use to enhance your content publishing process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

I wish new features were regularly released. They should also provide proper documentation about the system administration, and the price also depends on the size of an organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Superdesk:

Superdesk is a digital newsroom system that provides flexibility and robustness to adapt to today's rapidly growing newsroom. It provides easy tools to manage content creations and customization. Editing an image or text is very easy. Support system of Superdesk is very good. In simple words, one can say that Superdesk is a simple but yet a powerful software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Superdesk, Custom Search becomes easy. One can easily search and get their result instantly from different sources. With Superdesk, you can save a lot of time by automating several aspects of the newsroom. Creating your templates with Superdesk is also very easy. Once your content is created, you can customize it anytime you want and can publish them everywhere. One can easily edit the images and text. For a journalist, creating their own newsletter is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Newspapers

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 10/21/2021

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

"Review for superdesk"

5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

This software is digital software which helps to easily spread news. It also helpful in the creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform to process all people's requisition. You have the option of setting up publishing routes to choose where something gets published in case you have multiple websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

Sometime it shows the highly rumors news which create bad impact in the community. Sometimes, when trying to publish a post I was getting errors which was a bit annoying. However, after we updated to the latest version the instance was running smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Superdesk:

Good starter for a new evolution on our editorial staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has powerful workflow features. We can create end to end communication with legacy systems as well as third-party applications. Focus on content: allows for quick and efficient content production in a rapidly changing environment (such as breaking news, financial markets). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hemanth G.

consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/15/2022

"easy to use web based software"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

This software connects the third party with the legacy is just incredible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

The dashboard could be designed better than actuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/25/2021

"Truly a new digital news room giving new bloggers the platform to showcase their work"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

The working interface, the overall website structure is pretty unique and easy to work with. The working instruction for any new blogger is constructive and makes things easy. Anyone can get along quickly with the blogging after watching how things work at the Super desk. The news is not only created here but also published worldwide channels with one click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

It is hard to find the discrepancy in such a versatile software, but there are few things one must always accept shortcomings to fulfill the user needs. THE OPEN SOURCE CONTENT CREATION SOFTWARE IS CONTINUOUSLY AMENDING, WHICH CREATES AN HEADACHE TO THE USER WHICH ARE NEW TO THIS CHANGING ATMOSPHERE. BUT THE GOODS ARE TOO MUCH RELATED TO THE ODDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Superdesk:

KEEP DOING THE GOOD WORK; IT IS HELPING THE NEWS CONTENT CREATORS A LOT AND MAY HELP THE FUTURE GENERATION TO EXPLORE NEW GOALS AND CAREER HEIGHTS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

CONTENT CREATION HAS GONE TO ANOTHER HIGH, WHICH MAKES SUPER DESK BE LIKED BY ONE AND ALL. LOCAL NEWS CAN EASILY BE CREATED JUST BY LOGGING IN TO THE SUPER DESK AND USING ALL THE ARTILLERY THAT IS PROVIDED IN THE EDITOR MENU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/2/2021

"Digital newsroom giving bloggers an opportunity to showcase their work"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

I find the user interface very easy to work with. It's also very useful for content creation, blogging and it's also a great way to manage your content.. It's a great tool to remain relevant! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

I've noticed that sometimes it may not work on the first try. There are also a lot of rules and configurations and it doesn't support the latest socials. Think it will be helpful to have software improvements and modifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Randall M.

Technology Futurist, Journalist/Author, Instructor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/23/2021

"real time reporting"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

assists with determining which topics are most timely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

only as good as the news sources you subscribe to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas M.

Credit Controller

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/7/2021

"Happy Superdesk Client"

5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

It's the most useful software in our business for content creation and blogging. We remain relevant to the specific niche audience we serve by providing latest news relevant for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

My only wish is that they keep releasing updates and software improvements and modifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Chemicals

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/3/2021

"Superdesk- the digital newsroom system where you can create content and distribute it."

5/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

The best part of it is that it's a open source where you can manage your content and distribute it also. And it also have multiple UI languages. Also the user interface is very much user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

Updates are irregular. Documentation needs to be a little bit proper I guess. Otherwise i like all other things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/7/2021

"Solid Workflow management Tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Superdesk?

Interesting way to distribute my content to any platform, with a lot of rules and configurations. Even with platforms that don't "talk" with each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Superdesk?

Not supporting the latest Socials. Sometimes things not working on first try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.