# ShareGate Reviews **Vendor:** Workleap **Category:** [Cloud Migration Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-migration) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 153 ## About ShareGate ShareGate is the leading Microsoft 365 migration and governance platform, trusted by over 100,000 IT pros for its unmatched simplicity. We offer the simplest, most reliable, and most affordable way to move business data to Microsoft 365. Whether you’re migrating from Google Workspace, file shares, Exchange Online, SharePoint On-Premises, or tenant-to-tenant, ShareGate gets the job done, without surprises. From cloud transformation to M&A integration, we keep things just damn simple. ShareGate also helps you stay in control once your data is migrated. Our powerful governance features let you assess environments, uncover issues, and apply fixes on the spot, so everything stays clean, secure, and optimized. You can count on us to lay the groundwork for safe Microsoft Copilot deployment in your organization. If you’re using Microsoft 365, you need ShareGate. Period. ## ShareGate Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find ShareGate to be **extremely user-friendly** , making migrations effortless and seamless across various platforms. (26 reviews) - Users praise the **migration ease** of ShareGate, highlighting its simplicity and efficiency in transitioning to SharePoint Online. (19 reviews) - Users find ShareGate's **intuitive UI** easy to navigate, enhancing their migration tasks with clear reporting and support. (14 reviews) - Users find ShareGate's **easy setup** intuitive and quick, streamlining complex migration processes effortlessly. (13 reviews) - Users value the **clear and concise reporting** features of ShareGate, simplifying data migration and management tasks. (7 reviews) - Insights (5 reviews) - Customer Support (4 reviews) - Implementation Ease (3 reviews) - Users commend the **effective integrations** of ShareGate, enabling seamless migration and management across platforms. (3 reviews) - Cloud Services (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users often feel ShareGate is **lacking essential features** , such as 1:1 chat messages migration and content moving capabilities. (5 reviews) - Users find ShareGate's **licensing costs high** , making it a challenge for smaller teams to adopt effectively. (4 reviews) - Users find the **poor interface design** frustrating, particularly with navigation and ease of configuration for multiple tasks. (4 reviews) - Users experience **slow loading** times during migrations, impacting efficiency and potentially complicating business operations. (3 reviews) - Users note that **slow migration speeds** can disrupt business operations and may lack options for resuming failed tasks. (3 reviews) - Connection Issues (2 reviews) - Limitations (2 reviews) - Poor Customer Support (2 reviews) - Slow Performance (2 reviews) - Update Issues (2 reviews) ## ShareGate Reviews ### 1. Never want to live without SharePoint & Teams Migrations, Governance, and Reporting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darlene S. | Lead Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2026 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** Besides being my go-to application for performing migrations, it’s also an essential tool for the administration and governance of SharePoint and Teams. I really appreciate the reporting and exporting features, which make it easier to manage and share the information I need. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** I’d like to be able to refine the Permissions Matrix reports more easily by importing a CSV of the specific sites I want to report on. This would be a great enhancement when I need to choose a subset of sites from thousands, instead of having to select each site manually. **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides discovery information when preparing for migrations and delivers critical details to support modernization efforts. ShareGate Protect also offers additional insights for governance. A key benefit of both tools is their actionable reporting, which helps admins quickly identify and resolve issues without needing to take extensive manual steps or write PowerShell scripts to automate the fixes. ### 2. I have used ShareGate for some time now and it never fails to disappoint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie V. | Senior Sharepoint Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2025 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** I’ve been really impressed with ShareGate, especially how much time it saves when working in SharePoint environments. The interface is intuitive, and it makes tasks like migrations, permissions management, and site restructuring much easier than doing everything manually. One thing I really like is how quickly you can get visibility into your environment—whether it’s permissions, content, or structure—and take action right away. The reporting and governance features are also a big plus, especially when trying to keep things clean and organized across multiple sites. Overall, it’s a reliable and efficient tool that simplifies complex SharePoint work and makes day-to-day administration much smoother. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** Overall ShareGate is a magnificent tool. I wish the Powershell interface was a little more intuitive and easier to use, as it could become an extremely powerful and useful timesaving tool. **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making migration easier especially when 3rd party tools are involved. ### 3. Invaluable tool for migration, with some caveats **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam B. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** Can save time when migrating from one SharePoint site to another, taking with it permissions and other settings. The audit feature is helpful to prepare for a migration and prevent having to redo it. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** The activation/deactivation process of licensing is the most awful and complex thing I have ever seen. The ridiculous hoops you have to jump through, with disconnecting internet, reconnecting, jumping between desktop and website, copying codes here and there, are you actually serious with this garbage? I bet some middle manager came up with this to justify his existence and just ruined it for every customer. **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Discovering what needs to be migrated, what issues need to be resolved before migration, useful reports. Saves a lot of manual work and time. **Official Response from Eva Bloudoff:** > Thank you for the honest feedback, Sam. Your organization has made specific security requests to disable some connected features, and we're sorry that this has created some frustration. We would love to collaborate on how to handle this in high-security environments, and a member of our team will reach out shortly. ### 4. A Versatile Solution with Room for Improvement **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonas B. | Service Owner Microsoft 365, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2026 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** I like the versatility of ShareGate. It's like a Swiss army knife and good for a lot of things, especially in migration and reporting. I also value the custom reporting feature. The initial setup was very easy. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** I don't like that multi-site migration and OneDrive bulk jobs can't run serialized using the GUI. Setting up batch-jobs that work with a multi-server load balancing system would be better, instead of having isolated servers that don't communicate. They also seem to have lost momentum by focusing on Exchange and Entra migration rather than making SharePoint migration best in class. And not including Apricot in the 5-user license package is a no-go. **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use ShareGate for migration and reporting. It's versatile, like a Swiss Army knife, and its custom reporting is valuable. ### 5. Efficient Migration, Intuitive Interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julien F. | Ingénieur systèmes, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2026 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** I love the ShareGate interface, it's very easy to use. Even an untrained person can use it, and I find it quite effective. I find tenant migration with ShareGate efficient, whether it's from on-prem elements to the cloud or for data migration in general. For me, ShareGate is quite performant, especially after working on a migration of nearly 40 terabytes on-prem to Office 365 without limitations from ShareGate. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** Today, it is a missing feature in ShareGate to allow the migration of workstations. **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** ShareGate allows me to migrate data efficiently to the destination tenant. The interface is easy to use, even for the untrained. The migration of large volumes of data, such as 40 terabytes to 365, went well, demonstrating ShareGate's performance. ### 6. Easy Data Management Across SharePoint and OneDrive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy D. | SharePoint Business Systems Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2025 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** ShareGate gives us the ability to manage and move data from SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts. This helped a lot during the OneDrive cleanup that was needed due to changes made by Microsoft this year. Permissions reports on SharePoint sites helps keep management informed. Secure and simple to integrate with our tenant. Updates to the server-based tool are regular and do not disrupt use of the system. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** Teams management tools that we used to rely on were removed several months ago and have not (yet?) been replaced **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows management of orphaned OneDrive content when employees have left the company. A major OneDrive cleanup project earlier this year was done much more quickly and efficiently using ShareGate. It's used to copy and relocate SharePoint content from our on-premise farm to the online tenant, and to generate detailed permissions reports periodically for stakeholders. In the past, the online ShareGate tool was used to manage externally shared content and orphaned Teams. ### 7. Intuitive UI and Clear Reporting Make ShareGate a Must-Have **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert R. | SharePoint Solution Developer, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** I find ShareGate's overall UI very intuitive and easy to navigate, which makes my tasks straightforward. I particularly appreciate the reporting on data migration success; it's clear and concise, so I don't have to search around in the UI to find the specific task I'm trying to accomplish. ShareGate also provides a description error and links to ways to resolve issues when certain items don't migrate successfully. The installation instructions are clear, and the upgrade process has been seamless. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** I would like the ability to create SharePoint list migrations without list data (i.e. schema only) without having to select deselect the list data option in the current defaults. **Recommendations to others considering ShareGate:** Must have if you are migrating from one version of SharePoint to another piece by piece **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** ShareGate migrates our SharePoint 2019 List data to SharePoint Online. I find the UI intuitive, and the reporting on data migration success helps resolve issues efficiently. ### 8. Best SharePoint migration tool in the business **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiago D. | Microsoft 365 Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2025 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** ShareGate allows us to perform cross-tenant migrations with little effort. Whether the content is in another M365 tenant, a local file share, google drive or an on-premise farm, ShareGate will be able to migrate it and not only migrate it, but do so efficiently without a steep learning curve. For scripted migrations, we have full access to the API via PowerShell. The growing suite of analysis tools give ShareGate a constant bump in value. The Permissions Matrix report in particular is a must-have to understand and plan for the migration of permissions and it can run this on huge sites in a matter of seconds. There is also the option to run a test migration or "what if" which allows us to figure out what may go wrong before we perform the actual migration. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** If you are a highly specialized consultant and you bump into a problem with ShareGate, the support line is there and they will help for sure. However, I personally feel that most of the time spent in support is to explain a problem to an entry-level support agent before it gets escalated to the technical team. This often makes it so that I have to repeat everything and demo the problem again to multiple people. This is an area that ShareGate could definitely improve. There are also a couple of feature requests that the community has asked for again and again, such as the ability to Move (not copy) content, that have yet to be made available (fingers crossed). **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** With ShareGate we were able to migrate our legacy SharePoint system to SharePoint Online. We are also able to migrate rogue content from network drives and google drive seamlessly. The ability to run permissions matrix reports and the ability to copy the structure of a list or site make it also a powerful tool for business analysis and same-tenant content migration. ### 9. Effortless, Reliable Migrations—ShareGate Exceeds Expectations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter B. | Application Support Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2025 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** Using ShareGate to migrate our legacy file shares into Microsoft 365 has been an outstanding experience from start to finish. The tool delivers exactly what IT teams need during a complex data migration: simplicity, reliability, and full transparency throughout the process. ShareGate’s interface is exceptionally intuitive, making it easy to assess source environments, map permissions, and configure migration jobs without the usual headaches often associated with large-scale data moves. Even with nested folder structures and inconsistent legacy permissions, ShareGate handled everything smoothly, preserving metadata and ensuring a clean transition into SharePoint Online and OneDrive. Performance was consistently strong—migration speeds were impressive, and the built‑in reporting provided clear insights into progress, issues, and post‑migration validation. When unexpected file conflicts or policy issues arose, ShareGate presented actionable recommendations that saved hours of troubleshooting. Beyond the technical capabilities, the time savings and reduced risk were the biggest wins. What could have been a complicated, multi‑week project became a structured, stress‑free process thanks to ShareGate’s automation options and smart checks. If you're looking to modernize file storage and move confidently into Microsoft 365, ShareGate is an invaluable tool. It’s reliable, efficient, and built with real‑world migration challenges in mind. Highly recommended. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** Im yet to find a downside of this tool, might be good to see further pre-writen report to help better manage 365 sites **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its allowing us to unpick our legacy file file and migrate whats still required ### 10. Ease and Efficiency in Site Migration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo A. | Especialista TI, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2025 **What do you like best about ShareGate?** I like ShareGate for its ease of use, which makes my work easier. Additionally, I highly value the reports it offers, as they allow me to see how the migrations have been carried out and the large number of reports available. **What do you dislike about ShareGate?** The cost perhaps, but I understand that it is expensive but it also provides a lot. **What problems is ShareGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** ShareGate allows me to migrate sites, content, and their permissions without issues, with the option to customize my migrations. Its ease of use streamlines my work, and the reports detail how the migrations went, providing a lot of information. ## ShareGate Discussions - [Is ShareGate a Microsoft product?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-sharegate-a-microsoft-product) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [How much does ShareGate cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-sharegate-cost) - 1 comment - [Is ShareGate free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-sharegate-free) - 1 comment - [View ShareGate pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sharegate/reviews/sharegate-review-12632685?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-05+12%3A26%3A34+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=73c84799-7dc5-4af4-97ea-e241f5dfcf59&secure%5Btoken%5D=63e5a8de7e359419778ce9e48d677eed1f539c9783c8b9eee119b84ea74bea3c&format=llm_user) ## ShareGate Integrations - [Box.com Amped](https://www.g2.com/products/box-com-amped/reviews) - [Google Workspace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-workspace/reviews) - [Microsoft 365](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft365/reviews) - [Microsoft Exchange](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-exchange/reviews) - [Microsoft SharePoint](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sharepoint/reviews) - [Microsoft Teams](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-teams/reviews) ## ShareGate Features **Platform Basics** - Reporting - Management **Functionality** - Data Migration - Data Variety - Alerts and Logging - Data Replication **Platform Data** - Dashboard - Storage Insights **Management** - Integration Variety - Access and Security **Platform Additional Functionality** - Cloud - Security and Authentication - Bulk User Management **Agentic AI - Office 365 Management** - Cross-system Integration **Agentic AI - Cloud Migration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Decision Making ## Top ShareGate Alternatives - [MigrationWiz](https://www.g2.com/products/migrationwiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (274 reviews) - [Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-cloud-for-microsoft-365/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (204 reviews) - [Quest Software](https://www.g2.com/products/quest-software/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (12 reviews)