# Essential Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Syncfusion **Category:** [Component Libraries Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/component-libraries) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 721 ## About Essential Studio Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a suite of 1,700+ software components and frameworks for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications. Its UI controls are designed to be flexible, optimized for high performance, and relied on by 80% of the Fortune 500. With Syncfusion in your toolkit, you can speed up the creation of modern user interfaces and read and write common file formats. Having supplied components to over 1 million developers across more than 33,000 organizations around the world, Syncfusion has a proven track record of delivering cutting-edge products and above-and-beyond support. ## Essential Studio Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **flexibility and comprehensive chart support** of Essential Studio, enhancing user experience and productivity. (45 reviews) - Users praise the **flexibility and extensive chart support** of Essential Studio, enhancing their app development experience. (44 reviews) - Users find **Essential Studio easy to use** , highlighting its excellent documentation and smooth integration with various features. (44 reviews) - Users praise the **exceptional customer support** of Essential Studio, noting its responsiveness and helpful resources for developers. (43 reviews) - Users appreciate the **complete and exhaustive documentation** of Essential Studio, facilitating ease of use and developer onboarding. (30 reviews) - Controls (27 reviews) - Product Quality (27 reviews) - User Interface (25 reviews) - Versatility (20 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of Syncfusion Essential Studio®, enabling swift project setups with comprehensive documentation. (19 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users often struggle with **poor documentation** , especially regarding advanced components and improvement suggestions for instructional videos. (22 reviews) - Users find the **confusing documentation** challenging, especially for advanced components, impacting their learning experience. (13 reviews) - Users find the **documentation lacking** , wishing for more complex examples despite the support team's helpfulness. (13 reviews) - Users face challenges with **update issues** as new bugs appear with each version release, affecting component quality. (13 reviews) - Users note that **complex customization** can be challenging, especially when integrating CSS & JS files effectively. (12 reviews) - Limited Features (11 reviews) - Learning Curve (10 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (9 reviews) - Performance Issues (9 reviews) - Software Bugs (9 reviews) ## Essential Studio Reviews ### 1. Excellent product and support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The fact that Syncfusion team has developed and documented such a vast range of packages, and they are providing most of it in the free version. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Nothing I can think of so far. I have been using it for three months, and my experience is excellent. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** interactive dashboard, conversion of document, image manipulation, text analysis, data visualization etc. ### 2. Simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohannad H. | Business Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Their customer service are quick, easy to use **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** lack of report designing, you have to buy seprate license for it **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of use ### 3. Complete and robust suite that is as simple or advanced as you want it to be. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dale J. | Professional Photographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Essential Studio ties right in with Visual Studio. Plenty of examples and tutorials, not to mention a support team that is amazing. Some of the doc for my install was out of date and they stood right up and helped me work through it. Now, it's just drag and drop to use the components like any other tool. I'm using it most everyday while in development of tools to help me with my wok. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** not much. Some times the number of options for a component can be overwhelming, but the doc and the support team make it all come togther. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** helps me to slice and dice my data so make the decisions I need to be profitable. ### 4. Very nicely developed application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maarten H. | Division manager ICT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Everything is easily accessible and clear. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** long install time. this is mostly due to the packages that get downloaded. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick development of applications. ### 5. Very satisfied over almost 10 yrs now **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas S. | Unabhängiger Berater, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Over the last ten Years I have seen No Big Issues everything is working Fine. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** I'm happy Overall. No Topic are relevant to Post here **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating Contracts and Capturing All data to fill out the Contracts ### 6. Helpful and fluent controls **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Narmawala A. | Mobile Application Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Provide samples for guidance to use controls, hepful documentation for developers **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** I have to do authentication process after every major update. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Major problem solution by giving user friendly and performance driven controls across different environments and supported for different OS (like windows and Mac) ### 7. Syncfusion is a great tool for creating modern applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph O. | Solution Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The seamless integration of various Syncfusion UI components across different software development platforms, Ease of use and implementation of tools is wonderful. They offer great customer support and knowledge bases. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Based on my experience, there are no features in Syncfusion Essential Studio that I dislike. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion Essential Studio enables me to create modern .NET MAUI and Blazor applications, providing interactive UI components that run on iOS, Android, MacCataylsyt and Windows devices. ### 8. Just really good, easy to use tools. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John S. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The documentation and the examples. The website is clear too **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Nothing much - the process for licensing could be a bit easier maybe. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Custom calendaring solution for my FlutterFlow apps ### 9. The best tool to build pages for .Net Blazor. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Uwe J. | Entwicklungsleiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** It is easy to us, easy to understand, and reliable. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** I could not find anything I dislike so far. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to develop Blazor Server pages quickly and gives me the look and feel I am used to have from my past as a consultant and developer. ### 10. Good product with some room for improvement **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** There are many different controls that work right out of the box with quite a few different platforms. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Sometimes the documentation can be confusing and not all the controls for each platform have the same set of functions. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion controls are enabling us to develop applications faster than if we would have to create those same controls ourselves. ### 11. Excellent datagrid and chart controls **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The datagrid and chard controls are flexible. Customer support is responsive. I have reported a few bugs and they have always been fixed in a timely manner. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** While the docs are excellent, trying to search for a feature in the knowledge base is difficult. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The combination of datagrid and chart control are the best I have found. Theme support is also excellent. ### 12. Will advise against SyncFusion at next renewal for ignoring our feature request for 3 years now **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** nothing really and also nothing that needs refining **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Our feature request is getting ignored 45061 **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** exporting reports ### 13. Robust library **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** We have been users of Syncfusion Essential Studio for many years. We particularly make use of its Excel, Word and PDF capabilities and it forms a key component for delivering our own custom solutions. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** There are no particular downsides that we would highlight. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables us to deliver on complex reporing requirements that our clients require. ### 14. Quite good in general, components are good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joan Carles F. | Software Architecht/ Designer /Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I like that for single developers, with small revenew, I have access to a wide variety of components for different tecnologies **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** More than just regarding Essentail Studio, I take (I think) too much time to introduce fixes of issues that the components have **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically, it reduces a lot the development time of any application that I want to develop ### 15. Freelance developer building small projects for business clients **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben C. | Freelance Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Using the Syncfusion suite means I can spend less time building e.g. "yet another grid/list view" for some admin operation, and more time on the exciting parts of the product I'm building. Generally the controls are easy to use and implement quickly, with ability to customise for specific use cases. I often find myself reading community posts and finding the answers to whatever questions I have, particularly when it's customising something. I am using this most days now. I had one difficulty with the PDF generator and reached out to the support team, they worked hard to understand my specific implementation (hostign environment) and they were able to un-stick me. Amazing! **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Sometimes I find the seperation of documentation for all platforms a little tricky, because ultimately the base solution and archictecture is the same, but the implementations vary by chosen platform language. Sometimes I have found the answer to a problem from reading docs for one platform and then implementing in e.g. EJ2. Perhaps a Syncfusion architecture first approach to documentation would work, with tabbed displays showing code examples for your chosen platform. This would help with the pain of Google searching and appending e.g. "EJ2" or "dot net MVC" to your search query. This is just one developer's opinion though and I can see how the platform has evolved to what it is today! **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing me to focus on building products and solving problems without spending hours building primitive UIs as I scaffold projects. ### 16. Two year expierence **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dainis K. | Board Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The community license for the product is free. Responsive support. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Documentation does not fully cover the latest versions of Vue3 **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster application development with the help of Components Library ### 17. Excellent product and first rate customer service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Provides a great component library which has proved invaluable in the modernisation of our user experience. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Nothing springs to mind, our developers find the product very easy to use. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enabling us to rapidly modernize the user experience for our application. ### 18. It is not exceptional, yet it does not fall into the realm of mediocrity either **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnab C. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** A wide variety of UI controllers is available, and user support is generally satisfactory. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Many controllers and components fail to provide a satisfactory user experience when handling large data sets, as they may encounter rendering issues or experience functionality breakdowns following a version update. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion's components enables us to create tailored visualizations utilizing its pre-developed components. ### 19. Useful longer than you imagined **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Reliable, easy to integrate, it becomes a must so soon **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** A bit overpriced as a entry level solution **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I multiplies the value of our platform due to its features ### 20. A Comprehensive Toolkit for Streamlined Development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Syncfusion Essential Studio has been super helpful for our development work at MDisrupt. It offers a huge range of UI components, which saved us a ton of time we would’ve spent building things from scratch. I especially like the data visualization tools—they’ve made it much easier to present complex data in a way that our clients in the healthtech space can actually understand. Integration with frameworks like Angular has been straightforward, which made the onboarding process smoother than expected. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Some of the components take more effort to customize than I’d like, and the setup process isn’t as intuitive as it could be. While the documentation is detailed, finding the exact information I need for more complex features can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We’ve been using Syncfusion to improve the front end of our SaaS platform, especially for building out dashboards and interactive reports. It’s saved us a lot of development time and allowed us to focus on building the features that really matter for our clients. ### 21. Miss the effort for WinUI **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel S. | Head of Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** - lots of Controls - fast and good Support **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** -Very few new Features for WinUI - buggy Controls **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** good selection of controls with functionality and appealing design ### 22. Unlocking the Potential of Syncfusion Essential Studio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin S. | Associate Director Digital Development, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The controls are very easy to use and mostly work on the client side for better user experience. Controls handles large datasets seamlessly. Look and feel of controls is great. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The cost of the full suite may be high for the users who wants to use specific controls only. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The controls like spreadsheet and Gantt are helping us to mange the programme and forecast. Spreadsheet control enables us to provide excel based interface in out application. ### 23. We can build applications with more features in less time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denis S. | Frontend Developer, Information Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Our company's application development skills and efficiency have greatly improved as a result of our strategic decision to use Syncfusion. The tools and extensive library of UI controls it provides work well with a wide range of frameworks and platforms, including Angular, React, JavaScript and .NET. Thanks to its adaptability, we've been able to build applications faster and with more features, which has improved the experience for our customers. We have been able to produce code that is easy to read and understand thanks to its streamlined user interface, making it an excellent tool to deploy and use. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The steep learning curve might be a problem for some people, especially those without much experience, but other than that I really appreciate Syncfusion. It is easy to make mistakes that affect its performance. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion has given our organization the tools we need to build more efficient, resilient, and functional applications, and we are using them. Our implementation has been a great success because of the sophisticated user interface controls, the system's ability to handle massive amounts of data, and the outstanding technical support. We have been able to integrate sophisticated visualization and analysis capabilities into our applications because of its powerful features - including data analysis, dashboards and reports - and its ease of use for both developers and business users. ### 24. Using Syncfussion Essential Studio give us remarkable high value. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** J Roberto O. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The possibility of helping us in multi-platform development and the ease of use of the product. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The lack of well-explained documentation and examples. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The development Multi-Platform User Interface components, and the development of component libraries for reading Pdf, Excel, and Word documents. ### 25. Excellent **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ibrahim D. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** A large number of tools and best performance **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Implementing the required CSS & JS file may be a little bit hard **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Gives the ability to build a strong UI easily - Provide the best performance ### 26. Great library for data analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jürgen T. | programmer without pay-, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** This library is simply great. I use it for Winforms. The options for grouping the data are great. As is the filtering. I usually use the SfDataGridView. The data transfer as Excel or PDF is also great. I also use the other controls in Winform, but mainly the functions of the SfdataGridView. And this one is just great. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The help functions are only for experts. that is certainly how it is intended. I was unable to find some functions with this help, but only with the help of ChatGPT **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work voluntarily for a non-profit organization. An Access database was converted to MySQL and an interface was needed for this. This database manages over 300,000 entries of dance films worldwide, including the data storage media. This information is to be made available to schools, universities and dance colleges worldwide. We look through these media files, catalog them and try to make these files available online via the web. At the moment we are cataloging these files in a new database. A program was written for this purpose that scans all storage locations on our network for media files and stores them in a database. This works very well. Once all the files have been cataloged, this data should be available via the web using Jellyfin or similar software. But that is still in the future. I use the libraries to write the interface and to display the data. I use the sfdatagridview in particular to move files, rename them or delete them. So all the functions that are normally done by Windows Explorer are immediately mapped in the database. This means we know immediately where the files are and can assign them additional attributes such as descriptions, film length, etc. it would not be possible without this library and its fantastic possibilities ### 27. SyncFusion Charting and Grid are Great! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** We use the aforementioned in building our web apps i.e. JS. We find the documentations are very detailed and when we got concerns, we would contact SyncFusion support and they are responsive. We are able to easily integrate SyncFusion modules easily into our web apps. This helps in expediting our progress and the experience is rather easy for us without needing to defined customized JS to meet our requirements. Kudos to the SyncFusion team as they proactively take feedbacks in further enhancing the existing modules on feedback provided. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** We don't have any concerns till now as SyncFusion team are very responsive. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to implement charting and gridding of data / info display in our web apps in a shorter time. ### 28. A set of incredibly powerful and configurable components, with excellent support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro S. | Especialista en TI, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** It allows me to have a huge set of components, homogeneous in their aesthetics and functionality, which can be adapted to any application you can imagine. Once you understand the basics, it is relatively easy to use, and if any problem arises that you cannot solve, it has excellent support that advises you until you find the solution. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Although the documentation is good, the search can still be improved and more examples can be added. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion components allow me to develop all kinds of applications with homogeneous elements in their aesthetics and functionality, without having to mix components from different developers that complicate programming and can generate incompatibilities between them. ### 29. Syncfusion review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Number of controls in the in the platforms **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The way you are tied in to the license even if you havent upgraded to a certain version **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick to market solutions ### 30. Fantastic tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike H. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Ease of use. Comprehensive set of tools. Support is second to none. Questions are answered promptly and examples are always provided. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Documentation is a bit lacking though the excellent support team more than compensates for this small issue. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consistent user interface and fast and reliable tools. ### 31. Developer Friendly Products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sanathkumar A. | Technology Lead, Legal Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I loved the document editor with track changes which is a game changer product **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Tickets responce time and if we use more instances of document editor some logging happend **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** i was looking a document editor online which should have track changes so syncfusion essential stodio soled my requirement ### 32. Great product and exceptional support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I haven't used other products in this arena. However, I can say that this solution provides a rich suite of controls for the work we do. The support is exceptional and fast. I use other software development frameworks, and what strikes me in comparison, is how rarely I am asked to provide more information or additional code. They have a great ability to find the issue within their own test code from the details I provide. This means I am more likley to report an issue instead of working around it which hopefully makes their product better as well. They have a vast library of samples and their forums are very useful. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** At the moment I have no negative comments. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving us time by not having to develop and support these components ourselves. The community license is fantastic in terms of being able to use the product for free until you start earning money from the product. ### 33. A real toolbox for developing .Net applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I use the Syncfusion components in the AspNet Core and Blazor environment to create management applications and I always find the component "that goes well" and which integrates, as a base, a good number of useful and efficient functionalities. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Sometimes I find that the documentation is incomplete but I find the answer quite easily in the knowledge base, blogs, forums and, if necessary, the support **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to quickly set up very efficient data rendering ### 34. Flexible and High-Quality UI Components **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Syncfusion Essential Studio® provides a wide range of UI components that are both comprehensive and reliable. The documentation is thorough, and the support team is responsive and helpful. The components are easy to integrate and customize, which significantly speeds up the development process. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The terms of the contract were somewhat forceful during the agreement process. Additionally, we had requested a change in the name of the contract holder, and while we were informed that the change had been made, the actual contract PDF did not reflect this change. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion Essential Studio® is streamlining our development process. This reduces the time and effort required to build and maintain our applications. Additionally, the support team’s responsiveness helps us quickly resolve issues, providing an overall smoother development experience. ### 35. Good components and great support team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rory M. | Doctor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I have been using Syncfusion for a couple of monhts now, and as a developer have found the documentation to be very helpful. There are components for a variety of languages and they work well together. I have been using the Vue package. I have found the support team to be absolutely excellent on the two occasiona I have had to contact them. They responded promptly by email and were very keen to resolve the issues I was having. There are a huge range of components on offer, and I look forward to trying more of them in the future. The community license is hugely helpful to smaller businesses. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The support videos are narrated by a robotic voice, which is offputting at times. The Vue components do require quite a lot of modification to work with Laravel and REST APIs, but the documentation to achieve this is clear and the support team very helpful. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Avoiding having to develop complex components such as calendar views and scheduling in house. ### 36. Great Tools for Rapid and Robust Web Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin S. | Associate Director - Digital Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Very easy to use and Integrate. In short it has every contol avaialble for web development which is more than sufficient to create Powerful Web Application. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** No support for EJ1 controls is available. they should provide the support even if someone wants to use them with thier existing legacy applications. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are successfull able to embed Gantt Charts and Spreadhseets contols easily in our application. ### 37. Sometimes buggy, but a very usefull set of components. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2025 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** It's a complete package with all the components that you need. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Sometimes it takes a while when all bugs are removed from a component that you want to use. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** A complete component set for building apps. ### 38. Good and complete UI library, but shameful licensing model **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The UI library is very complete, there are a lot of ready-to-use components available, with a lot of possible customizations. The library is multi-language, contains few bugs, and provides frequent updates. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The licensing model and related team is close to unfair practice. Our company had a valid license, renewed each year with a notification mail from the Syncfusion team. One year, Syncfusion changed their licensing model and didn't notify us, then sent us an e-mail explaining that our license expired and left us no choice to accept a new license with 200% price increase. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides lots of components, easy to use and easy to customize. It helps shortening our UI development time. ### 39. SyncFusion Essential Studio is perfect for my cross--platform needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian M. | Aircraft Builder and FAA Certified Repairman, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I'm currently using the SyncFusion MAUI ListView and Datagrid controls for my simple aviation Weight and Balance application running on Android and iOS. These controls just work beautifully "out of the box." When I submitted a help request to their user portal, I got answers almost immediately. SyncFusion's YouTube "how-to" videos are also extremely helpful. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** So far, I have nothing negative to say about this product. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a data grid that would allow alternating row styling and only allow editing of specific columns. I tried several other products to achieve this and SyncFusion was the only one that did exactly what I wanted to do, without needing any platform-specific tweaking between Android and iOS. It works perfectly on both platforms without any tweaking. ### 40. Excellent UI component toolkit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I use the WinForms part of Syncfusion Essential Studio. There is pretty much every UI component you could need and lots of customization available to make the controls look and feel the way you want them. I specifically like the functionality in the GridGrontrol and GridGroupingControl as they are great for displaying tabular data. The support team is very quick to respond to tickets and usually responds in 1 business day. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Your support tickets seem to get assigned somewhat randomly and you often are dealing with different people each time. Some of the customer support agents and developers are very good and fix bugs quickly but sometimes your tickets get assigned to junior developers who don't know what they are doing and they often tell you that a bug is fixed when it is not; this can be very time consuming to deal with. I wish they performed more testing to ensure that all problems are properly fixed before releasing software patches. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncfusion WinForms is used in my software application for displaying all the UI components (forms, controls). It allows me to use controls that are not part of the standard library and to skin/theme those controls to look nice. ### 41. Great functionality and superb support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill S. | Software development lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The range of components that have broadly the same methods making it easier to begin using a different one. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Licencing is for a minimum of 5 developers. We have one, me! **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating visualization dashboards for WIOA business intelligence ### 42. Completely dependant on Syncfusion and do not regret it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moises B. | General Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Our software, Isolución, allows our corporate customers to implement and maintain their Compliance and Management Systems with control, ease and efficiency. Our whole user interface is based upon the Syncfusion controls. They have been easy to implement, are nice to our users and we have managed to extend the amount of controls we use. We also use the editors and the conversion tools successfully. Since, by nature, software is prone to error, we have found mistakes or incidents in the controls but the Syncfusion customer service has been fast and professional, solving them. Oh... and since controls evolve frequently and we always find new controls and features, we can improve our product more easily by adopting new features of Syncfusion. We are very happy with Syncfusion **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** By nature, software is prone to error and we have found mistakes or incidents in the controls (for example spreadsheet and the document editor) but the Syncfusion customer service has been fast and professional, solving them. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** A more robust and professional user interface ### 43. Well-stocked library, easy-to-understand user guide, fast and professional assistance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** I must start by saying that only a few months ago I dedicated myself to WEB programming and the use of Syncfusion components, however at the moment as important components I used Dashboard Layout, chart, Datagrid, Range slider and I had some initial difficulties which then through the guide and forum I managed to use them all almost as I want. However, the component that saved me and speeded up my project is Dashboard Layout, even if there are some things that I wasn't able to change, I find it very important and will continue to explore it. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The most difficult component for me is Card, I was unable to adapt the dimensions dynamically, especially when the monitor resolution changes. I didn't find any examples in the guide or forums to change the height and width. I'm probably still inexperienced but I had to make some compromises (I eliminated some components) to integrate it into my project. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps reduce lead times ### 44. Good component library **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The amount of components provided and their flexibility. The documentation is also really good. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Changing the license key for uprading to new versions in the past. But this has been made all in all simpler. The components could be a bit more customizable (some times certain parts of a component are not customizable). But in general there is not much to complain. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating complex custom components in both design and functionality. By that development time is being reduced and instead used for implementing business logic. ### 45. A beautiful and strong UI library **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bongyong U. | Sr. Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** It covers most of the components developers need to develop SPA. When I integrated the Syncfusion library, I found that integrating is very smooth because of its intuitive usage. It also provides comprehensive API documentation with well-organized and easy-to-follow examples. The customer support is awesome too. They're very responsive and very helpful. They told me not only what I asked but also what I may need later. Last but not least, the aesthetic side is also wonderful, which makes the site look consistent, professional, and beautiful equipped with strong functionalities. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** So far, I don't see any downside yet. The UI is light comparing its function and well-modulized for efficient integration. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to use but high functionality with many options. it's easy to do fine tune with great outcomes! ### 46. I love how it makes it simple to generate reports. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johnny S. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Ease of use and comprehensive. I am happy that I decided to use it and implement it into my coding strategies. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** Everything in one place. Easy to find what you need to publish reports with little or minimal code. Customer support and the community groups are excellent for random questions and answers, in addition to the Technical support team's efforts. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted to be able to sort through live data without having to code the Web template. I found it. ### 47. Useful but full of bugs **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefan R. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The compatibility with MS word and the complete toolset it offers **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** - The extremely unpredictable behaviour when handling images on the Word Editor - The documentation, lack of proper APIs and examples - The lack of involvement of support in bugs "they cannot reproduce", despite clear videos - The unexpected behaviour of bookmarks on the Word Editor **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having an online Word editor completely compatible with word, in my React web app ### 48. Top product, amazing service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Having the opportunity to hone my skills across various platforms at a professional level is immensely valuable to me. Syncfusion not only offers this opportunity but also extends its support to small businesses, which resonates deeply with me. Their commitment to providing excellent online support further solidifies my preference for them. Transitioning from various other tools to Syncfusion across different sectors has been a game-changer for me. Syncfusion tools are easy to integrate and use. With my positive experiences, I wholeheartedly recommend Syncfusion to others seeking robust solutions and support for their projects. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** The concept of the online help / documentation was in the beginning a little bit confusing. **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my business, development time, professional code and design are major concerns. Syncfusion tools simplify and accelerate development, enabling faster delivery of top-notch solutions. ### 49. Simple to use with good customer support and well documentation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** The SES is easy to use with a good documentation where you find most of the open questions. If you have any problems the customer supports can help you fast and with good results. **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** No points in the moment. All is working as expected **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** SWS extends the existing controls and added a bunch of helpful features. We are using the SfDataGrid the most and the integrated coumn filtering and the datagrid export are every helpful. ### 50. Great Experince with all these UI Contols **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Essential Studio?** Manage work easily with all these contols, well optimized, really good looking **What do you dislike about Essential Studio?** when customizing its little bit harder to find the proper codes **What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can build proper applications with lesser resources and lesser bugs. ## Essential Studio Discussions - [Can I get free subscribtion for live chats to get solutions for problems while developing ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-i-get-free-subscribtion-for-live-chats-to-get-solutions-for-problems-while-developing) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Currently, I use the community version. I am from Colombia and my sales do not exceed 1,000,000 USD. 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