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# Essential Studio Reviews
**Vendor:** Syncfusion  
**Category:** [Component Libraries Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/component-libraries)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 798
## About Essential Studio
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.



## Essential Studio Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users value the **flexibility and extensive documentation** of Essential Studio, enhancing their development experience and efficiency. (45 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **flexibility and extensive chart support** of Essential Studio, enabling quick and diverse data visualizations. (44 reviews)
- Users find Syncfusion Essential Studio&#39;s **ease of use** and documentation exceptional for quick and efficient setup. (44 reviews)
- Users praise the **top-notch customer support** for its helpfulness and developer-friendly responses, enhancing their experience significantly. (43 reviews)
- Users value the **complete and exhaustive documentation** of Essential Studio, facilitating ease of use and quick 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 find the **poor documentation** challenging, particularly for advanced components and video content quality. (22 reviews)
- Users find the **documentation confusing** , especially regarding advanced components and integration instructions for newcomers. (13 reviews)
- Users find the **documentation lacking** , often feeling it oversimplifies concepts and lacks complex examples. (13 reviews)
- Users report frequent **update issues** with Essential Studio, particularly new bugs with each component version release. (13 reviews)
- Users find **complex customization** challenging, as the integration process can be convoluted and lacks focused tutorials. (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. Polished UI Enhances Experience, But Room for Improvement

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2025

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Its professional and polished User interface

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

While the react gantt chart is a very powerful tool i feel it is missing some functionality around bulk functions which would make it a lot easier for the end user to create and update larger projects.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It has helped us to create a new section of our project management tool.

  ### 2. Impressive Variety of Controls Enhances Experience

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2025

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The extensive range of controls and tools available means that whenever I encounter an issue, I can check to see if there is already a tool provided for me to use.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Sometimes, it can be difficult to completely grasp how the controls work.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Blazor controls

  ### 3. Decent Product with Excellent Support

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2025

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Its a good product with excellent support. The support is their winning feature.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

The documentation is okay but in my case a lot of documentation was missing regarding the use of Powerpoint animations in the dotnet sdk.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Dealing with Powerpoint programatically is not easy, so using a library for it helps a lot.

  ### 4. The product does not support the Hebrew language

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sara E. | Development team manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2025

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

I only tried the document editor, unfortunately it doesn't support the Hebrew language enough.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

They updated me that they fixed a bug I reported and ultimately didn't include the fix in the version

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Editing documents in an web system

  ### 5. 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.

  ### 6. 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

  ### 7. 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

  ### 8. 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

  ### 9. 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.

  ### 10. 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.

  ### 11. 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.

  ### 12. 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.

  ### 13. 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.

  ### 14. 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

  ### 15. 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.

  ### 16. 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.

  ### 17. Best option for Maui controls

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2025

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The controls are nice if you use them exactly how they were intendeded to be used.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

The controls properties or capabilities are sometimes lacking.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Control libraries are helpful

  ### 18. Syncfusion a complete development solution

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Eddy T. | Co-Owner Tagma, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Many controls to choose from, fast update schemes. Support requests are answored quickly.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Sometimes due to the update schemes small bugs.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The diagram controls can be easyly changed to use for other purposes.

  ### 19. Extremely useful

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2025

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The great choice of solutions and components

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Sometime is hard to find the right documentation and examples, but the suppor is really helpful

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helps me in giving to the user the features that every GUI shoul have

  ### 20. Good Library with lot of features that are very helpful

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nishanth Kiran J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Its very easy to use, has a pretty good documentation which makes development easy. We are using their scheduler, which i feel is pretty awesome, but still needs some more features, but they are in the right direction to serve the customer needs

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

I think they should be able to provide more documentaion, on minor things in detail, or maybe organize what they have right now so that we can get to the info we need without looking for much.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We needed a clear picture of our schedule for the day across our organization, and scheduler in syncfusion helped us get to it with ease.

  ### 21. Greate Product for developer

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Samer A. | Head od support and operations group, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

A Rich set of controle that save developer time.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

The Documentaion for some controle is not clear.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Generate And working with PDF & World file is now versy essay.

  ### 22. Syncfusion is a fantastic performant focused tool, that gives a great visual experience.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mitch T. | C# Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2021

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Its focus on lightweight and performant libraries and apis. It gives the tools for a professional user experience and releases the burden of UI from the dev team.  I can focus on the priority business logic, which is a win for me.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Api documentation could be more thorough but overall their support is fantastic and have  always assisted with great examples when I have issues, so far whenever I have been frustrated. What I also really like, is that they do not expect me to be a world  class developer in order to gain from their product. I really hope their quality of service stays.

**Recommendations to others considering Essential Studio:**

Contact the sales team. They seem to have great offers in place for a startup. Trial the community version as well to get a feel of their offering. The community edition is generous.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Increase the usefullness of our app with their components, it also opens up a wider scope of functionality within our solution. Saves us a heap of time.

  ### 23. Good library

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Very broad set of components with extended capabilities. Customer support is very helpful.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

The documentation is a bit thin on certain properties (compared to devextreme for instance). Properties should allow for callbacks instead of static strings.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We used to use a charting library that was not complete in capabilities and switched to Syncfusion for their broad possibilities

  ### 24. Useful library, great customer service

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The WPF library contains an extensive collection of useful and functional controls. The documentation of control usage and implementation is excellent. Customer service is generally highly responsive and addresses the root issues of our problems.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

A handful of the WPF features don't have the exact functionality I would like. It's also difficult to "override" portions of the look and feel of Syncfusion WPF elements to maintain consistency with the rest of our product.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Our WPF application requires highly reactive and sleek user controls. Our own resources and capabilities limit what we're able to create ourselves or find online through open-source projects, and Syncfusion's WPF offering nicely supplements our product.

  ### 25. Top Notch Documentation & Support Staff

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Peter-Jon L. | MultimediaTechnician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The most helpful things are the documentation and support staff. With the help of the support staff to respond in a reasonable timeframe  and point you in the right direction, having a good look at the documentation solved most of my problems. Any areas I found needing clarification the help desk assisted me with those. I will definitely be using this product again.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

I wish live support was extended to community license holders.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I needed to integrate a database with a grid component in order to efficiently allow my users to analyze and query data.

  ### 26. Extensive component library for every area

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Thomas W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

We only use a few components in the Angular area, e.g. scheduler, calendar, image editor. Here we find it particularly positive that only the parts that we use have to be integrated. It is also very possible to adapt these to your needs. The support also always provided good and timely support when you had questions. The integration was also quite easy.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

What is not problematic, but Syncfusion could be made even better, would be the documentation of the components and APIs, as you will come across small deviations from the components from time to time

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use Syncfusion to be able to add functions to our application that we would otherwise have to develop ourselves. Using Syncfusion components saves development effort

  ### 27. Nice Blazor Components

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Christian C. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

it's free for startups!
"Syncfusion Blazor excels in performance & ease!"

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

steep learning course, sometimes a outdated documentation

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

the blazor components, especially the grid is a great help

  ### 28. Support is very good but document is confusing

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gowtham V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Support is very good from the syncfusion

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Need to improve the Documentation. It is very confusing and need to provide more example. looks like there are lot of document for one component. find the correct document is very hard

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Handling user data

  ### 29. Large Toolsuite, sometimes a bit tricky

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The variety of components. Have found a component for almost every use case I needed. 
Documentation is good.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Customizing can be very tricky (But that's with all 3rd party...).

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Complex, feature rich components can be implemented much faster.

  ### 30. Complete UI components

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Peter L. | Lead Digital Developer (Hardware, Software, Firmware, IoT, Content), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The number of components available is fantastic. I used a lot of the Chart components for Flutter

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Documentation and examples of usuage can be improved.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ease of visualisation for charting applications

  ### 31. Fast ticket processing

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Suggestions for a number of tools. Good documentation. Help with tickets and forums.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

No proposal for a license to be used only for NuGets packages.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The use of the DataGrid, which offers a number of functions, as well as other tools that make the application more modern.

  ### 32. Efficiency increases enormously

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nick H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Good documentation. 
Good modules.
Easy to use. 
Super support.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Examples are often identical so that special things have to be searched for in the documentation itself

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use the Scheduler the most. It has a lot of functions that already work and I just adapt them to my logic

  ### 33. Work in progress. Chasing after many features, but lots of hidden bugs.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Henry C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

They are actively developing a lot of tools to cover a lot of really useful aspects of desktop and web development. A much smoother ride than trying to do stuff in the Adobe API overall. Being a startup the free tier really helps sell adoption internally, with a smooth ramp to volume pricing. Very good support on their forum.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

They are too tightly bound to .NET frameworks and apparently haven't adopted devops automated tests to ensure code quality of their libraries. Whenever I wander a little ways off their examples, I get either a hang or at best, an obscure internal error from deep inside their code. Given .NET overhead, it shouldn't be much of a slowdown to check all of their inputs and state assumptions. They seem to be working from design by cool example rather than big projects. For example given a PDFpage object, which index of which document is it in? Adobe's API is a little bit more flexible, up until you hit the limits Adobe's lawyers set and then your project dies horribly.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Currently using it as a toolkit to extract information from old PDFs to build new PDFs.

  ### 34. Feedback Syncfusion

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alessandro P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The thing I like most is the very wide choice of objects that the framework makes available

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

the thing I don't like is the complexity of ticket management and the lack of understanding by other users from other countries. in particular the slowness in resolving tickets with targeted and precise solutions

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

is fixing some bugs related to spreadsheet and gantt objects

  ### 35. I have created a library that integrates Syncfusion Controls along with my own components.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Packaging and Containers | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Basic implementations are easy. The customer support, though, is quick and usually very helpful.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

However, I encounter some challenges when creating my own components that include Syncfusion Controls, especially in terms of style and functionality. The documentation in these areas could be more extensive.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Consistent Websites.

  ### 36. Solid and Dynamic framework

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andrea C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

A full library for entire application: solid and flexible

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Internalizzation is not so efficent and simple

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Standard UI components

  ### 37. comprehensive features and integration but lack of OCR

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Erkan  A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2024

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Component integration is easy. Tons of components.Developer friendly

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

PDF OCR new feature release is delayed. OCR engine uses the old Tesseract engine( 3.x).
OCR feature is not as good as we expected.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Pdf creation, asp.net components.

  ### 38. It was a great experience to work with because it was easy to implement.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Prerna J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

i think again their graph and flowchart library is very helpful.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

There should be a 24 hours support assistance for licensed users ,also all the react components (eg diagram components) should have a full tutorial to understand the properties and key features.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I would say graphical representation of data.

  ### 39. Been doing .Net development for 10 years.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Components are really powerful and feature rich. They are much better than what we could come up with.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

The lack of examples and documentation. Also, the Vue components are clearly just a proxy on the JavaScript components which means some ofthe great data binding functionality within Vue is not available.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Provides us with a consistent set of components for our web applications. Some of the Microsoft Excel, and Word integrations are incredible and have allowed us to do things we otherwise wouldn't have been able to do.

  ### 40. 4 years review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The control's feature, the documentation is pretty good and genrally meet our requirement.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Lately (last 6 months), we discover some bugs into controls. Sometimes, it work at a certain version and does not work on the next one. As we update the product as soon as possibile when a new version is out, it's pretty problematic and we are going to change our way to update the product and stop following the last version everytime.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It decreases the time of development because a lot of feature is present in each control.
It's pretty easy to work with all the control library, the forum and the ticketing system is a good point.
The short answer time is also good.

  ### 41. Redesigned a Xamarin Forms corporate application using Syncfusion controls to improve usability

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ross T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The flexibility many of the controls provide allows us to apply our app standards without resorting to custom renderers for each platform.  The granular nature of the components also means we can pick and choose what is required and not have to import the entire control library and bloat the app footprint unnecessarily.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

There are some inconsistencies in the way you interact and customise some controls.  This has been particularly obvious when trying to implement a multi-select hierarchical combo by combining two controls that don't really want to play nice with each other as they do things slightly differently.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Providing a more interactive and engaging user interface across multiple platforms from a single code base.
Improving development time and productivity.

  ### 42. Good Controls like Charts and good file format framework

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Klaus W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

- File format framework
- PDF-Viewer
- Data visualization with Charts
- Controls like Calendar and DatePicker
- Good support

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Native iOS Framework is out of support at the moment

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

PdfViewer / Office Export

  ### 43. Good Documentation and support, but on some niche cases documentation could be better

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Plastics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Ease of use and availability of nuget packages

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

That I need to get new license keys from the portal when we upgrade nuget version.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Faster development because the controls provide a good and extensive usage.

  ### 44. Quite fine yet far from complete.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Mostly the beautiful charts and grids that are so easy to work with. And then of course document processing libraries. The other components are not used in our company almost at all.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

The hideous UI, Jesus Christ, it's so ugly. This is the only part about Syncfusion I dislike very much. I know it's quite hard creating components for all of these design systems, but perhaps if you already get into that many, at least commit yourselves to it. Take some notes, for example, from MudBlazor, a "mostly" spot-on design resembling the original material.io system. 

Another thing is the lack of CSS variables with that nonsense UI generator for colours that takes so much time to load and generate fixed colours; the only good thing is that I don't have to do that very often.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Development of software for our clients that is particular.

  ### 45. Provide support and guide

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ngu S. | Development Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

* It has a community edition
* It provides support and bug fixes to an older version, even
* It is comprehensive, no need to get other UI controls for .Net

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

* It can be buggy; every time I upgrade, there will always be regression bugs
* Sometimes, the patches come too slow
* Sometimes, I need to explain the obvious to the support handler

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My choice of UI controls for WPF and Winform development.

  ### 46. Xamarin / Maui

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Markus K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

Documentation/support/forum is convincing to me.
Unfortunately, more is expected in this field than I actually want to write. Maybe think about the number of characters here in this field.!? :-D

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

I think it's good the way it is and I don't notice anything that I could criticize!
- Too many characters are required to fill this field. That's rather negative! -

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Component for Xamarin is help for us. 
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  ### 47. Positive

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bruno N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

All types of components for all types of languages and frameworks

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

Sometimes its a little hard to make deep changes in the components

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Having a full set of components with high quality

  ### 48. Userful UI library for Blazor projects.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

The numerous Syncfusion UI components are very useful in terms of developing a modern Blazor web app. Plus, it is well documented and easy to work with.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

It's a general disadvantage of Blazor Webassembly to have difficulties in controlling the render flow of the application. Syncfusion UI components deliver some helpful tools to keep an average good performance, but it could be optimized a lot more.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Syncfusion delivers functional and ready-to-go components for web projects. It saves a lot of time, not having to develop each component on my own.

  ### 49. Reliable support -

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brady C. | SVP Implementation & Enablement, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

I have used Syncfusion on and off for 5 years.   Currently using the .NET Maui free product.  Support is the key thing for using their products.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

With .NET Maui being new there is catching up to do.  The one specific thing that had me looking elsewhere was support for drag and drop in collectionview.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Primarily using syncfusion for the charts in .NET Maui mobile development.

  ### 50. Works good, support is great

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2023

**What do you like best about Essential Studio?**

It's easy to use, there are easy to follow exaples. Support is quick and helpful.

**What do you dislike about Essential Studio?**

There are issues converting some office documents.

**What problems is Essential Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Allows office documents to be vieweed in oue pdf viewer.


## 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. Until when is this license available?](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) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [Will you sell document creator again as control or it will stay only part of Bold BI.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/25890-will-you-sell-document-creator-again-as-control-or-it-will-stay-only-part-of-bold-bi) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [When do you release Syncfusion for UNO?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/25621-when-do-you-release-syncfusion-for-uno) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [this free community version of syncfusion  will  stay free ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/24630-this-free-community-version-of-syncfusion-will-stay-free) - 2 comments, 1 upvote

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## Essential Studio Features
**Additional Functionality**
- Third-Party Integrations
- To-Do List
- @mentions
- Single Sign On
- File Management
- Activity Dashboard
- Drag & Drop
- Alerts/Notifications
- Prioritization
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Screen Sharing
- Content Management
- Brainstorming
- AI Copilot
- File Transfer
- Calendar Management
- Status Tracking
- Real-Time Notifications
- Version Control
- Task Management
- Activity Tracking
- Real Time Editing
- Communication Management
- Chat/Messaging
- Tagging
- Generative AI
- Assignment Management
- Task Scheduling
- Project Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Workflow Management
- Secure Data Storage
- File Sharing
- Document Storage
- Task Progress Tracking
- Discussions/Forums
- Commenting/Notes
- Reporting & Statistics
- Contact Management
- Video Conferencing
- Progress Tracking
- Mobile Access
- API
- Document Management
- Customizable Branding

**Functionality**
- Ease of Use
- File Management
- Multi-Language Support
- Customization
- Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality
- Help Guides
- Patching & Updates
- Deployment Management

**JavaScript Frameworks**
- Libraries
- Community
- Widgets
- Browser Support
- Graphical Visualization
- Mobile Support

**Functionality**
- Language Contingency
- Component Library
- Unlocked Components

**Functionality**
- Language Support
- Ease of Use
- Integrations

**Data Sources**
- Software
- Spreadsheets
- Documents

**Generation**
- Templates
- Automation
- Branding
- Email Templates
- Alerts/Notifications
- Document Templates
- Customizable Templates

**Charts**
- Chart Options
- Interactive
- Time Series
- Export

**Additional Functionality**
- Code Development
- Debugging
- AI Copilot
- Generative AI
- Game Development
- Web/Mobile App Development
- Data Modeling
- For Developers
- Code Editing
- Website Development
- Graphical User Interface

**Management**
- Framework Integration
- Support

**Performance**
- Power
- Responsiveness
- Lightweight

**Documentation**
- Documentation

**Support**
- Tutorials
- Documentation
- Community

**Delivery**
- Workflow
- Schedule
- Batch
- Compliance Management
- Workflow Management

**Mobile**
- Mobile

**Web Frameworks**
- Web Frameworks

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization
- AI Text-to-Image
- AI Image-to-Text
- Generative AI
- Document Generation

**Agentic AI - Document Generation**
- Autonomous Task Execution

**Additional Functionality**
- Customizable Forms
- Multiple Format Support
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Drag & Drop
- Digital Signature
- Collaboration Tools
- API
- Search/Filter
- Third-Party Integrations
- Text Editing
- Audit Trail
- Approval Process Control
- Content Management
- Multiple Output Formats
- Offline Access
- Data Import/Export
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Forms Management
- Data Synchronization
- Content Library
- Customizable Fields
- Multi-Language
- Data Storage Management
- Contract Drafting
- Archiving & Retention
- Full Text Search
- Interaction Tracking
- Contract/License Management
- Document Review
- Batch Processing
- Conditional Logic
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Template Management
- Electronic Signature
- Reporting & Statistics
- Version Control
- AI Copilot
- Workflow Automation

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