G2

Richard L.

Senior Digital Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/17/2020

"The best CMS I’ve used - the sweet spot between power, flexibility and ease of use"

5/5

What do you like best about Storyblok?

It’s the full package that works so well for me, Storyblok feels like a well thought out and complete product.

As a developer I love how it easily allows me to build complex structured and related data but for a content editor they can use a visual editor and see their changes quickly and easily.

The API is easy to work with and outputs JSON so can be consumed and transformed as needed using whatever technology stack you’re comfortable with - Vue, React, Laravel etc.

Headless CMS’s clearly are the future, decoupling the content from the frontend makes so much sense. So often a website suffers because the frontend is so tightly coupled to the content management system that upgrading it means upgrading everything. With a headless CMS you can freely replace the frontend whilst retaining the existing backend or push the same content to multiple channels.

The team is fantastic too, iterating and improving the product with new features and always friendly when offering support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Storyblok?

I can’t think of any major issues. There was a bit of a learning curve about how to best consume the API and structure content but nothing more complicated than any other CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Storyblok solving and how is that benefiting you?

I’ve used and made a lot of content management systems over the years and they’ve all suffered from similar problems. They either lack the flexibility to create the desired content structure, are very cumbersome to use, become ‘plugin hell’ with a mishmash of varied GUIs and duplicated functionality or are very hard to update.

Storyblok solves all these issues. You build any schema you want for your data using a range of fields such as images, richtext, relationship links, or create your own VueJS based plugins. The interface is very clean and simple to use for editors - much of it takes place in the visual editor that allows content editors to see changes swiftly. As it outputs JSON you are free to totally change the website when updating without the usual migration headaches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.