--- title: Essential Studio Reviews meta\_title: 'Essential Studio Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 797 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Essential Studio works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 797 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Essential Studio Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a suite of 1,600+ 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. * * * Product Website Essential Studio Seller [Syncfusion](https://www.g2.com/sellers/syncfusion) Discussions [Essential Studio Community](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Sierra Stults (Channel Sales Program Manager at Syncfusion) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Essential Studio. ### Syncfusion Essential Studio Community License - Complimentary for qualifying developers and organizations! Free [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/pricing) ## Essential Studio Integrations (24) What do users say about integrations? 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Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") UA Verified User in Accounting Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/15/2026 "Unreliable licensing and pricing policy overshadows the range of functions" 1/5 What do you like best about Essential Studio? We used MAUI Controls. The library offers a wide range of features and overall usable documentation. The response time of the support was okay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Essential Studio? We purchased the product at a fair price and with a perpetual license. About three years ago, the price of the components increased almost fivefold, and the new license agreement prohibited distribution after the subscription expired. A provider that allows such changes is not reliable. Therefore, in our latest version, we have removed all dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed a library for MAUI controls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: OrganicAI Translated ![Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad") CT Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/19/2025 "Will advise against SyncFusion at next renewal for ignoring our feature request for 3 years now" 0/5 What do you like best about Essential Studio? nothing really and also nothing that needs refining Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Essential Studio? Our feature request is getting ignored 45061 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you? exporting reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ML Mikael L. Solutions Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/14/2022 "Complex to use Blazor components." 1/5 What do you like best about Essential Studio? The demos. But as soon as you try doing something else than what you see in the demo you find it hard/impossible to do with Syncfusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Essential Studio? The licence model. The huge amount of bugs. New releases that fixed one bug introduced another one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you? Rapid development of business applications. However we have switched to use Radzen which does the job better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Richard D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Richard D.") RD Richard D. Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/7/2021 "Old technology with a thin veneer to make it fit modern frameworks" 0.5/5 What do you like best about Essential Studio? Complete set of controls with a common feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Essential Studio? I worked with cshtml pages and blazor. In both cases, it felt like controls designed and built around 2005 with aspx and ajax/json. Going back to using a cshtml/cshtml.cs model, I could never find a way to work within that paradigm. i.e. communicate data between code a page using a 'model', no javascript and returning a page. The responses from the help desk pushed me down the path of using MVC techniques, javascript and json. The Razor page model is supposed to be a simple framework. I could make is work, as long as I introduced the complexiities of MVC. Similar story for Blazor. It felt as if it was not deisgned around Blazor approaches, but with a layer on top of the 2005 design to make it workable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Essential Studio: Consider if you want to develop in one of the newer .net frameworks Razor pages (without MVC) or Blazor? If yes, do you want to work in the paradigm of those frameworks? If yes again, maybe there are controls that fit the paradigm better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you? It forces me to work in a different paradigm to the one the framework wants me to work in. No benefits for me, but I imagine that if you have an old application using Syncfusion controls and you want to update to Razor pages or Blazor, it should be really easy. Your interface with the controls is pretty much unchanged. However, if you want to switch to the new frameworks paradigms, there my be issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment") UB Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/26/2019 "Customer bonding with chains and shackles" 0.5/5 What do you like best about Essential Studio? Quality of the software Quality of the helpdesk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Essential Studio? We were offered a flat yearly subscription fee for all our developers. There is just the two of us, but it was a nice offer. It wasn't mentioned nor could I find this anywhere on their website, that once you quit the subscription you are not allowed to use the product any more. Not even the software that we programmed ourselves!! It is quit normal that if you quit a subscription that you do not get any updates. It's quite normal that after that you can still use the product and most certainly the software that you created yourself. But in the contract (and for as far as I know only in the contract) it states that upon ending the subscription you must remove all their software from your computers and servers and that even for your own developed software you may not use it anymore. This is a form of customer bonding, but than with chanis and shackles. We asked Syncfusion to allow us to keep using Syncfusion for at least the software that we created. We only used the grid in something like 4 or 5 programs. But they are as flexible as concrete. So unless they change their mind we will renew the subscription for one year and be quick to remove all the grids from them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Essential Studio: Be aware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you? We only wanted a better grid than the standard grid provided by Microsoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic JS Jason S. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/28/2018 "Wish we never started using syncfusion" 0/5 What do you like best about Essential Studio? Controls are nice looking and there is a large selection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Essential Studio? Controls riddled with bugs Overpriced Forced to waste time creating examples to indicate a fault in the controls, or to test after a patch is released. Private patches are released and not rolled into a release for a long time, makes if very difficult to use NuGet and to manage versions Takes at least 24 hours for a response from anyone, then once they find the bug it can take weeks for a patch. If it takes more than one response for support to find the bug it can take days as each response takes 24 hours. Online documentation is very poor and incomplete Controls are overloaded and cause application slowdowns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Essential Studio: Find another control provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you? we use a few controls in a piece of software given to customers for free for configuring one of our products. No benefits from syncfusion, could have used other controls for less and wasted far less development time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about Essential Studio? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Essential Studio ](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/discussions/new) NS Nirmala Sudhir • Last activity almost 4 years ago Can I get free subscribtion for live chats to get solutions for problems while developing ? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-i-get-free-subscribtion-for-live-chats-to-get-solutions-for-problems-while-developing) WB wilmer barrios • Last activity almost 5 years ago Currently, I use the community version. I am from Colombia and my sales do not exceed 1,000,000 USD. Until when is this license available? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/actualmente-uso-la-version-comunity-soy-de-colombia-y-mis-ventas-no-superan-el-1000-000-usd-hasta-cuando-esta-disponible-esta-licencia) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/discuss) ## Pricing Options Pricing provided by Essential Studio. ### Syncfusion Essential Studio Community License - Complimentary for qualifying developers and organizations! 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