# Buildfire Reviews **Vendor:** BuildFire **Category:** [Drag and Drop App Builder Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/drag-and-drop-app-builder) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 197 ## About Buildfire Buildfire is the fastest and easiest way to create professional-grade iOS and Android mobile apps. This one of a kind DIY platform lets you customize every aspect of your app without writing any code. Just drag-and-drop your way through building an app from scratch, or customize one of the pre-built templates. You have full control over how your app looks and feels while the backend development work gets handled for you. It’s like having an entire team of developers at your fingertips. With over 10,000 apps created using Buildfire, the platform is powerful and flexible enough to scale with you as your business grows. No other app builder offers this level of functionality at such an affordable price point. ## Buildfire Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of BuildFire for creating cross-platform apps quickly and intuitively. (4 reviews) - Users highlight the **easy setup** of BuildFire, allowing quick app creation without coding or developer involvement. (4 reviews) - Users love Buildfire for its **no-code app development** and excellent support, making cross-platform creation effortless. (3 reviews) - Users value the **responsive customer support** of BuildFire, ensuring quick assistance and satisfaction with the app creation process. (3 reviews) - Users love the **easy creation** of apps with BuildFire, enabling fast, code-free mobile development for all platforms. (3 reviews) - Users love the **ease of creation** with BuildFire, enabling quick app development without coding requirements. (2 reviews) - Users value the **responsiveness of the team** and the ease of use in navigating Buildfire's extensive features. (2 reviews) - Integration Capabilities (2 reviews) - Low Code (2 reviews) - Mobile Apps (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report frequent **error issues** with Buildfire, including bugs and glitches that hinder app performance and usability. (2 reviews) - Users report **extension issues** with Buildfire, facing frequent bugs and poor performance affecting overall usability. (2 reviews) - Users note the **limited features** of Buildfire, which detract from the platform's overall effectiveness and user experience. (2 reviews) - Users note several **missing features** that hinder the platform's full potential and impact overall usability. (2 reviews) - Users report that the **native app performs poorly** , plagued by bugs and an outdated interface, hindering usability. (2 reviews) - Software Bugs (2 reviews) - Technical Issues (2 reviews) - App Functionality Issues (1 reviews) - Lack of Features (1 reviews) - Limited Functionality (1 reviews) ## Buildfire Reviews ### 1. Easy to use, great support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdalla D. | Self Employed, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Since I was in collage I wanted to have a cross-platform app, but I discovered the cost of developing for android and ios, and the time it would take my apps to reach my customers, not to mention the maintain cost. Then I discovered BuildFire, an impressive platform with a great support, which allowed me to create my app in no time, with zero coding or dealing with developers. I recommend BuildFire to anyone who needs an app in no time, that supports all platforms with an awesome, around the clock support. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** While they offers a robust foundation, there are certain features I found missing, though not deal-breakers, they would enhance the platform's overall capabilities. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** adding new features that I requested and supporting any issue I face along the way ### 2. Best self app publishing platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shubham g. | Software Engineer Trainee , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** It is easy and has quick ability to design, build, publish the app. It consists of all the necessary toolsand UX to build an best looking app. Background coding is not needed so easy to work.Also the developing cost is negligible. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The support/customer team does not help in resolving the issues instead the cares about the sale only. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me lot as I'm not hardcoder, so it is good alternative for web app building with a great flexibility. This is much easy to use and had a great development experience. ### 3. Good App Builder **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amjad H. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** How easy to integrate features and create an app for iOS and Android at the same time **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Have some bugs in some plugins, which they fixed later but it gave some bad experience **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building Applications very fast for both platforms (iOS & Android) ### 4. BuildFire is an easy-to-use platform for building your mobile apps. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nour R. | Quality Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Ease of use platform and a large number of features **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** nothing much to mention that I dislike about Buildfire **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating applications without knowing how to code ### 5. Very Personable & Professional **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim W. | Creator/Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I really appreciate their patience with me. I'm far from a techy person but they always seem to make me understand things. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Presenty I have no downside regarding Buildfire. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building my app from scratch. ### 6. I SEE WHY THEY CALL IT BUILD FIRE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antoine S. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The proficiency at which we completed deliverables. This is a great company. Sean was amazing, James was super great, BuildFire has been a great experience. I would recommend. It's been easy to use, great customer support, a lot of great features, integration was on point. I don't really have any complaints. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I'm not sure to be honest. So far the experience has been great. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allowed me to create a breathtaking app that the world needs. **Official Response from Timothy Tietz:** > Thank you Antoine for that stellar review! We appreciate your feedback and look forward to seeing the great things you accomplish with your mobile app! Here is to your success. BuildFire, Inc! ### 7. It has been lovely, team was very responsive and easy to work with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hayley L. | Assistant Operating Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The most useful part of BuilFire, I have found, is the responsiveness of the team and how quickly our needs were met. Also, the very long list of plug-ins and how easy the back-end is to navigate. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The only issue I ran into was not being notified when our app was no longer available in the IOS app store due to changes I had made on the back-end. However, Demetrius and Ehab from buildfire were both very helpful in quickly resolving this issue and getting our app republished the next day! **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have needed a walking site map of our venue for years, which is where this project began. We needed something to help our guests navigate our intricate pathways and various food and drink offerings without confusing things. Our venue is already flooded with signage, and instructing staff to tell everyone where everything is accurate, was not working out for us. Buildfire has helped immensely in this by solving all of the listed problems; we now have a medium for guests to view a map as they walk, we have the ability to let guests view and order food from their phones, as well as all the functions as our website carries. ### 8. The Confessionals App Build **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The ability for me to edit things on the backend myself and the affordability. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Wish it had some more features like a more streamlined plugin for commenting on posts and a plugin that people can email me from the app. Also, the Media Center Manual player could use some work. It would be nice if when you leave the player page, you could still see what's playing and the ability to pause and play at the bottom of the screen. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a podcaster, to stay on the next level I needed an app. Builfire has allowed me to have an app for my members and I project that will propel my business forward. ### 9. Terrible App Builder **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The ability to build your own app without code. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The native app performs terribly and constantly has bugs and technical glitches that make using the app nearly impossible. The App interface and functionality is outdated and plugins perform terribly. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile Development App **Official Response from Timothy Tietz:** > Hi There, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about your experience with us. We truly value your input, as it helps us improve our services and provide a better experience for all our customers. I'm sorry to hear that your recent experience with us didn't meet your expectations. We understand how important it is for our customers to have a positive experience, and we take your concerns seriously. We would love to help provide you with a solution and come up with a resolution. Please reach out to support@buildfire.com and we will be more than happy to assist. All the best, BuildFire, Inc ### 10. Easy to use and update! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cami D. | Marketing Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Our app is easy to update. We can send push notifications out quickly to our team. We are a construction business, so timely notifications are crucial. BuildFire has made it simple for us to accomplish the same things a company intranet would. We can house all our important information within the app for our field team to quickly access. The ability to use custom icons or images is great. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Uploading users can be a little daunting. It would be great if we could add a user without the uploaded CSV file. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because our field employees don't have access to our company intranet, our app has created a way for us to reach them more promptly. We can provide all the information they need within the app, which can be accessed via the app stores. ### 11. Easy to learn app builder that produces a nice, professional looking app. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven H. | Communication Strategist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The customer service team was a great help as we set up our app. Many times I had someone call or email to check on us, just to make sure everything was going OK. And if there were any issues, they were always quick to respond and see how they could help. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I wish there were more flexible payment options. In our case, we were creating an app for an event that happens once a year. It would be nice to pay for service when we need it and be able to save the work we've done from year to year. Instead of having to cancel the service and start over again the next year. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we came across BuildFire, we were looking for a simple app builder that we could use to create an app for an event. We wanted to create a way to give our attendees the information they needed, as well as have a way to communicate with them through push notifications. We also saw more responses to our event survey this year than any other year. ### 12. Great customer service from presales to implementation! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Their sales rep was extremely knowledgable and was able to get us answers to our questions quickly. Our implementation specialist worked very hard to keep us on task throughout the process. Extremely professional! **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Once the project starts, make sure you have all your ducks in a row because these work fast! **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use App builder. This will allow us to provide a great product add-on solution to our clients and will allow us to stay more connected with this through push notifications. ### 13. Great, Quick, App Building Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt N. | Marketing and Communications Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Buildfire is really good at the plug-and-play app development that they do. It's as simple as making a SquareSpace page. They have the whole process very well sign-posted to make it easy on newcomers. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The process happens really fast. with the lowest business level subscription, start to finish takes place in less than 8 weeks, which is lightning fast if you have normal day job responsibilities and haven't outlined every thing you'd like along the way. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a company that really struggles with internal communication (we're spread across the nation and many are on job sites, not in office). This app is the perfect solution to a problem that couldn't be fixed by texting, email, or teams calls alone. ### 14. User-friendly platform and excellent customer service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morgan S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The sales and customer service team has been fantastic to work with. Everything I have wanted to build or fix with my app has been met with curiosity and a great willingness to make it work. Dan, with the sales team, is always looking out for my best interest, only recommending products I actually need/use and helping me find creative solutions to keep my app within budget while still giving users an excellent experience. Sepopo from the customer service department has been very responsive and quickly understands what I need/want when I have issues or want something changed or fixed. Although I don't work with the developers directly, I always get the result I am looking for. I am so grateful for everyone's help in making my app a success. I've been getting rave reviews! **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I would prefer more options for design and functionality for my specific type of app. As a meditation app, I'd love to be able to have scrolling options and swiping options within the home screen, but don't want to pay for custom development for that feature. I'd also like to be able to have video with sound as my intro screens. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** BuildFire allows me to have an app that is cost-effective but still very beautiful and professional. I have been able to grow my subscriber base and pivot to a sustainable business model that I will continue to use for many years to come. ### 15. BuildFire is an all-in-one tool that allows us to run a membership in an app. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** BuildFire's user-friendly interface makes it a great tool for adding and maintaining content. The preview pane next to the backend makes it very convenient to make and preview content updates in real time. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Although the auto-save feature is designed for user convenience, I would prefer a manual save option for most features. My team is currently experiencing an issue with content loss due to server connectivity issues beyond BuildFire's control, which seems to be related to the auto-save functionality. I would like to see versioning/data backup options, as well as more data analysis and export options. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** BuildFire offers a platform to host our membership content that is entirely within our control. We have tried using other learning management systems and websites that require multiple plugins and additional third-party tools to achieve the functionality we want to provide to our members, and we prefer BuildFire as an all-in-one tool. ### 16. Technical Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Buildfrire is a great platform to develop your app. It is a great to have a liaison between you and Google and Apple. If there are any issues, they are there to help (and often do needed behind the scenes submissions for you). It is great to have them as a resource. Also when building your app they have the same level of service to help guide you on choices and technical questions. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** You have to test to see if things are working on your app. This is not a complaint, but a reality in app development. Although there platform works out of the box, you still need to test and make sure the user experience is solid. This is not a fault of buildfifre, but a reality with app development. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want an app for my business to allow for "habit formation"... apps are great for that. ### 17. Gamechanger **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse M. | Managed Systems Technology Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The cross-platform capabilities drastically reduce development time and cost. No need for two native programs that are constantly requiring updates. Getting the app from development to deployment is quick and straightforward. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I have no real dislikes about the platform. There have been some challenges with deploying custom plugins that contained features that worked on one OS and not another. I think some troubleshooting or debugging tool added to the platform would be extremely helpful. However, the support on the platform itself is top shelf, quick responses and always helpful. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting a customer engagement tool into their hands with the tools they want is critical in today's business environment. Providing a two-way communication path between customers, the support and sales teams creates a "stickiness" you can't have through traditional engagement. ### 18. Very helpful and understanding! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dominique M. | Case Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The team’s willingness to help and response time is phenomenal. Very knowledgeable and never any hesitation to find the answers if a team member is unsure. A dream team, I must say! **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** N/A grea job! After joining the membership, all of a sudden, there are 3 different team members helping me at once. I really appreciate it! The team is very flexible and give a sense of relief when things are challenging. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had an issue with finding a platform to help make my app come to life. Everything is perfect. No surprise bills coming out of the sky and informative but never too pushy for add-ons or exclusive offers. ### 19. The Best of Both Worlds **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyronica G. | ceo, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I always get quick responses to questions and inquiries throughout the day. They are always very helpful with the answer and are always able to direct me to articles that help me keep my app up-to-date with ease and confidence. The app is very user-friendly and has many options to give me customization as my business continues to grow and evolve. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** nothing. customer service is awesome and the app process and features are very accomadating not to mention pricing is amazing. This is great for ALL businesses to implement. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to provide a fun and connection for large groups. Benefits are indiviudals love freedom and ease of access. ### 20. Knowledgeable and friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evelyn B. | ceo, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I like that they have experts in different fields who are friendly and responsive in addressing your needs. The experience from app inception, to maintenance, to support has been great! **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** No downsides as of yet. The team is very responsive and helps to educate you along the way. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** They help to support my app, help me when I have an issue or need a clarifying answer to a question, and they enable me with resources that allow me to learn and continue to do what I need to do. ### 21. Very pleased pverall **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael F. | Director of Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I have been using app builder programs for years, many of the other companies were not helpful at all in issues that I would have. With Buildfire any time that I have reached out they have been more than helpful. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I cam it think of anything they have not helped me with. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this in our organization to stay singular and communicate among our team. ### 22. High Performance, Above Expectations, and User-Friendly! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** BuildFire makes it incredibly easy to build an app on its platform. Everything was laid out in front of us so we could quickly move through the process from start to finish. Our project manager, Ehab Abumallouh, expertly guided us throughout the design and build process, sharing his tips and tricks along the way so we could build the best app possible for our company. He was incredibly responsive to our questions and always had immediate feedback when something needed to be changed or clarified so it could be implemented on the app. He also urged us to always send feedback so we could get exactly the app we wanted in the end. It was a great experience and our app is beautiful! **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I don't have any negative feedback for BuildFire or the team that worked with us to build our app. When we had trouble submitting our app to the app stores because of an issue with paperwork and naming on our end, Ehab constantly checked in to see if we had the paperwork back that we needed to resubmit. Amazing customer service from start to finish! **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had no idea where to start when we had the idea to build an app and BuildFire was the perfect solution! They were in-budget, could create the custom look we wanted, and had a full-service team to help us in the process. They also gave us access to the back-end of the platform and trained us on how to use it, that way we can go in and easily make adjustments as we grow as a company. Their pre-built templates with tons of plugins make it so easy to create the look we wanted but without all of the development work that would have slowed us down prior to launch. Our finished app is even better than our expectations! ### 23. One of the BEST Customer Service Experiences I've EVER had! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee P. | Licensed Real Estate Professional, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** They have expert staff in place at every stage of the App building process. They quickly respond to my inquiries and offer sound advice for solutions. Service after the "Sale" has been an outstanding experience. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** There are a few minor issues with the design and graphics. Not much to be upset about. They are working on a problem with a third-party calendar plug-in. I am confident they will find a solution. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were looking for a one-stop app for our real estate agents. A place where they could find information on events and training videos, technical support, service requests, and much more. BuildFire helped build the perfect app for all of us here. ### 24. 5 Start App Building Process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin A. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Our experience with BuildFire has been absolutely incredible. BuildFire is the right partner for you whether you have a lot of technical experience and knowledge or very limited, Buildfire will help guide you through the app building experience. Our custom build consisted of a 3 phases starting with the initial months designing our app, then we moved in the construction/ build, and finally the launch and refining phase. Each phase we felt confident as Romero, our highly skilled project manger, was very attentive and organized. Weekly check-ins were crucial for product updates and helped keep us on schedule. BuildFire is the right choice for you if you’re looking for 5 star service. The product they deliver is exactly what has been discussed. Their attention to detail makes the process more thorough and enjoyable. Their customer service is attentive and communicative, never leaving you with a question. Ultimately, BuildFire is the best choice based on their knowledge, communication, capabilities, customer service, and deliverables. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Nothing! Our company, Daylyy, had a very positive experience interacting with BuildFire and I would recommend their services anytime based on their customer service and build quality. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** BuildFire's large infrastructure and team means once your app is complete, they don't just abandon you and leave! Their maintenance and support system takes so many of the frustrations, stress, and unknowns out of the equation. They stand by their customers and will continue to support your technical needs. BuildFire really understands, your backend and support system needs to be as robust as the front facing product! ### 25. Cutler's review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cutler W. | Scientist II, Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Incredible focus placed on customer service and they are very responsive. So impressed! Also, BuildFire uses a very intuitive process for app building. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Nothing. The only thing that would enhance the experience would be click-and-drag options for formatting; or a workflow of the app screens (similar to XCode) **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** They're solving the problem of me being able to post a minimum viable product (MVP) in record time. ### 26. An excellent platform designed with innovation in mind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** There is very little in the Buildfire platform that cannot be changed through custom CSS and the project managers and their teams are always willing to try and figure things out. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** You become locked into the Buildfire platform, which to an extent, is not necessarily bad. Also, there is not an easy place to have new plugins developed - it would be great to have a service where you could pay for them to develop a custom plugin. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are helping us to distribute training materials to delegates and are allowing us to build new connections. ### 27. Great service. I’m not good with this kind of thing and they have helped tremendously. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane G. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Customer service is fantastic. They're prompt and most of all patient. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** I can't think of anything. My clients love the app and I love the service I get trying to keep it up. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** The app is increasing my client's productivity and therefore freeing up our schedule faster so we can always take new clients. ### 28. BuildFire is the only App- Building Platform I'd use... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa Z. | Creative Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Hands -down the customer service. Unless you know exactly how to build and publish apps, you WILL need someone who can understand your issue and help you fix it. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The downsides of Buildfire are that the plugins in the marketplace don't have videos/images for them all (even the ones that cost) so some are hard to tell if they'd be worth paying for or not---I'd like to try some of them but I'm not really sure what or how I could use them. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buildfire provides a user-friendly platform and clean template designs and best of all---takes care of the publishing HEADACHE! ### 29. It has been great working with the Buildfire team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Theron J. | Licensed Realtor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I like the fact they are always available to assist me and have walked me through the process from start to finish. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** None, I like it all, I do not have any complaints **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are solving the communication problem for our education foundation. ### 30. BuildFire is the go to! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donovan B. | Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I am most impressed with BuildFire's easy to use platform and easy communication with members of their team. I can't thank them enough for always being there. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** One thing I'd like to see Buildfire improve on is the mobile version use of their platform from the internet or web browser. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buildfire is easing the burden of tech creators in getting their ideas into the marketplace. ### 31. Buildfire is a great solution for getting an app launched quickly with minimal effort. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The employees are great to work with and care about the success of your app. Their system has many options for you to use right out of the gate. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Anything out of the ordinary may be challenging to pull off. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** They have provided a robust app that enables us to share our content, send notifications, receive donations, and point people to our Shopify store. ### 32. Super userfriendly and superb staff **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joan R. | Business development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** How easy it is to work with, the amplitude of options and how responsive, resolutive and nice is their staff **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Nothing in special. Being picky there could be more free plugins **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Intracompany communication, we've made an app to comunicate all the benefits to our employees and to make rutinary processes ### 33. The support you receive is unmatched **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The speed of support is what I like best **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The learning curve is a little steep at first but that is overcome with great support. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** BuildFire is helping me make an impact with speed and agility ### 34. Great Product, Great Support From BuildFire. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon M. | Vice President, Information Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Easy use of the Buildfire product. Intuitive and easy to make updates to your app. Also, when you have an issue or a question, the staff are quick to respond. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** None so far. Have no issues with the product. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Publishing to the Apple App Store. This product takes the pain out of publishing updates. ### 35. Far better than others I've tried! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taís d. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Good support and explanations, user friendly without coding and very good features (especially my necessity with maps and geolocation). **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** More options related to community and sales solutions. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing my app with autonomy to have full control under content and frequently update. ### 36. To Build Fire: A Solid App Developer for Founders Expanding at Different Levels **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** BuildFire consistently works with me & teaches me how to build a solid digital app that funnels people to the essential services, products, and features that my business offers. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** App Features can lose functionality, such as push notification effectiveness. BuildFire is helpful & diligent about fixing bugs, & improving app version submissions. **Recommendations to others considering Buildfire:** BuildFire is a solid option for app developers at all levels, especially if you're looking to provide products and services through the help of a mobile platform of digital features. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** BuildFire significantly streamlined connection, as well as increased communication and business sales between me and my app users in under 2 years from my first published app. ### 37. Good support for customers, customizable app layouts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel L. | Founder/Creator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** My team chose Buildfire to make our first app after trying a few different builders. Buildfire was on the higher end of the price range, but the level of 1:1 customer support we have received has been helpful through the difficult Apple app approval process. I feel that the platform is easy enough to use and we were able to execute our vision. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Some of the features and layouts were a bit clunky and it wasn't always clear how to achieve the workflow in the app that we were going for. However, in the end we were able to create something we were proud of. **Recommendations to others considering Buildfire:** Do your due diligence to look and see if other platforms would work better for your needs, but you can do almost anything you want on Buildfire. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had no idea how to build our own app, so having this support has been crucial. Not having to code or rely on a developer has made this possible for us. We wouldn't have been able to launch our first app as a group of solopreneurs without it. ### 38. Can't be beat for value **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick T. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The wide variety of features. Locations is awesome. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Google API fees. It's a big penalty for my business **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to write an app with no codeing ### 39. Remarkable enough to entice me to leave...well, a remark. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian K. | Associate Vice President, Creative Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** First off, the BuildFire interface is very functional and easy to use. The availability of app modules and tools, truly make for a dream drag and drop app builder. Second, the customer service and publishing teams are top-notch. They make getting your app published super easy and painless. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The only downside to the BuildFire platform is viewing billing and renewal information when you publish multiple apps. It is a bit cumbersome not to have the ability to self-view from the dashboard. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** BuildFire has allowed me the option to develop and publish mobile apps super quickly. I have complete control over branding and the design elements of the app. When I need to make changes to the content within the app, the platform allows me the option of editing and "saving" and publishing the updates without having to republish the entire app. ### 40. A Great and Easy to Use Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The platform is easy to use and has a ton of customizable features. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** There aren't any downsides that I can think of. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buildfire solves the problem of getting exactly the look and feel you are looking for in app development. ### 41. Building App from scratch with no prior knowledge **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua O. | Digital marketing manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** How easy it was to start making the app with no prior knowledge of building an app **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Certain limitations that may seem counter intuitive but for the most part all features make sense **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a product online that we thought would perform much better as an app, Buildfire has allowed us to do this. ### 42. Easy to use for non-programmers to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christine P. | IT Service Desk Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Out-of-the-box functionality, good customer service, easy to publish and interface with apple and google developer **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** no versioning or backups are available; coolest features cost $ **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** student-centered application for retention ### 43. Good features but limited funcionality **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** You can Modify, add or remove information at any time. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** No translation services, not be able to remove notifications, not be able to build a feature as needed (adding likes but unable comments) Not have support when need it at our bussiness hours all the time, no be able to customize our SSO **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Information, Communications, Contact info ### 44. Very good company to work with regards to making life easy for app creation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eligio Jose M. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** the user interface is probably the biggest thing i like about this application. It provides me with a lot of options when creating the app that my company needs. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** So far I have not seen anything that I dislike about this service. everything is working properly as it should. The product for me is already better. No improvements are needed so far. **Recommendations to others considering Buildfire:** This is a very good platform. the people working for this company is very responsive and i highly recommend their service. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not encountered any problems yet that was not solved immediately with the assistance of the build fire support team. The business has been doing good with the help of the app we created. ### 45. Easy to use and great support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** The end product (mobile app) is high quality. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** The app publishing process and get a little technical, but BuildFire's documentation is helpful. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** By developing a mobile app through BuildFire we are able to connect with our community in the way they are comfortable with, on their phones. ### 46. Great partner!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Britney C. | Head of the Blanchard Innovation Lab, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** BuildFire has been patient, consultative and really focused on how we can be the most successful. They balance candor and curiosity in ensuring we achieve a solution that will resonate with our audience. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** It's hard to always envision the final product, and while the "customer is always right", when we are so new, it would be helpful to get more direction and advice on what to do best. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Opening new markets and ways for our content to be shared with the world. ### 47. Easy and Fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom C. | Communications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I like that I can make an edit and with a push of a button the edits are seen live on my app. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** What I dislike isn't on Buildfire's side. It's with Apple and Google Play. Apple requirements arent' a lot but I wish they were less, and the same for Google Play. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving issues in access to information. We can provide a printed version of our apps, but they are outdated the minute they are published. With our apps, we can update them whenever we need to and are updated all the time. ### 48. Poor customer service, glitchy app **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** I love the idea of this app - I get it and want to have an app like this. It fills a niche and is ahead of the curve. In theory, it is simple to use and should be an awesome tool. I was excited to give it a shot. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** Their customer support. In this day and age I feel it is unacceptable to take weeks to fix a single issue if you are lucky. While paying for premium support we only receive 1-2 short messages a day, and even more space between any actual solutions being met. It feels like they really don't care about us as a customer and have no desire to really help. The app itself provides the basics of what we are looking for, but we are unable to get it published due to errors in the feature itself, that is not possible to be changed by the non-developer skillset user. If you are promoting an easy to use app builder, then things like this should be easy to use. Example of one of the many headaches we have thus far: The app was denied by apple for not having enough features for users, so we added a message board feature from Buildfire. The message board works great, however, it requests microphone access. Because the feature does not come stock with the proper wording or explanation for microphone use, our app was denied (for the 9th time). When I confronted Buildfire about this, they said they would address the issue and resubmit it 2 days ago. Since then, nothing has happened, no one has communicated with us, and when we have reached out to the same rep that was helping, they were unaware of the problem and asked us to explain it for a second time. We are paying for priority support, but we are experiencing almost zero support. **Recommendations to others considering Buildfire:** Look at alternatives or be ready for very minimal customer service help. If you are an experienced app developer you may be okay. Again, the backend is nice and it is almost a quality app, but the customer service alone has been the biggest problem. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building an app for our brand. ### 49. Great experience! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** As long as we provided the information promptly, the rest of the process was done with speed and quality. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** So far, I have found nothing I dislike. Everything is working well. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** Retention and an easy transfer of internal information in our business. ### 50. Committed and Invested as much as we are! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Buildfire?** Our situation is unique, and BuildFire has been there every step of the way. Although BuildFire is known for its DIY platform, our organization found itself needing a more custom app. BuildFire did not shy away. They set us up with a Project Manager who took us through an extensive design phase, allowing us to ask questions and explore options to create the application we envisioned. Following the design phase, we had to take a long break. We are a small startup organization that relies on external funding, and the COVID-19 climate has been a tough one to navigate. Our Account Executive continued to check in, inquiring if there was anything we needed from BuildFire or anything they could do to support our efforts. Once we were finally able to regain traction, BuildFire was there. They set up a new team to begin developing our product and allowed us to revisit our design plans to make updates/revisions. We have been in development with them for a few months now, and they continue to ensure we are always on track, on budget, and on vision. We appreciate their collaboration and dedication to our project and our process. **What do you dislike about Buildfire?** In BuildFire’s effort to provide exceptional customer service, BuildFire can overcompensate and forget to communicate plainly. When beginning the development phase of our project, there was a change in staffing. Instead of being forthright, BuildFire tried to maintain our confidence by including individuals of the team we had worked with before but would not typically be included during this phase. This created confusion on our end; however, we were able to discuss it with them and resolve the issue. Also, knowing our financial situation, BuildFire is very budget-conscious. Although this is appreciated, sometimes they default to providing non-custom solutions that are not a perfect fit for our vision instead of having a discussion with us. We have been pushing them on this and are now more in sync. Finally, in BuildFire’s desire to maintain our working relationship, they occasionally acquiesce to our suggestions even though we are looking for their knowledge and guidance to form a conclusion. Again, we have been pressing them here and are seeing improvements. **What problems is Buildfire solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a small startup organization, we cannot afford an entire technology team. BuildFire gives us the opportunity to create the application we envisioned at this early stage and get our business up & running. 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