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Contentful vs Xamarin

Contentful
10 Ratings
Xamarin
41 Ratings

Contentful

10 Ratings
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Score 8 out of 100

Based on 10 reviews and ratings

Xamarin

41 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 41 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Contentful

Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs.

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Andrew Folts | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Xamarin

If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and effort from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, Windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done.

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Duy Mai | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Feature Rating Comparison

Security

Contentful
8.7
Xamarin
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Role-based user permissions
Contentful
8.7
Xamarin
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Platform & Infrastructure

Contentful
7.7
Xamarin
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API
Contentful
7.2
Xamarin
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Internationalization / multi-language
Contentful
8.2
Xamarin
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Web Content Creation

Contentful
7.6
Xamarin
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WYSIWYG editor
Contentful
7.5
Xamarin
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Code quality / cleanliness
Contentful
9.0
Xamarin
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Admin section
Contentful
7.9
Xamarin
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Page templates
Contentful
7.5
Xamarin
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Library of website themes
Contentful
7.2
Xamarin
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Mobile optimization / responsive design
Contentful
7.4
Xamarin
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Publishing workflow
Contentful
7.5
Xamarin
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Form generator
Contentful
7.0
Xamarin
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Web Content Management

Contentful
7.7
Xamarin
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Content taxonomy
Contentful
7.6
Xamarin
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SEO support
Contentful
8.2
Xamarin
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Bulk management
Contentful
7.3
Xamarin
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Availability / breadth of extensions
Contentful
6.6
Xamarin
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Community / comment management
Contentful
9.0
Xamarin
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Pros

Contentful

  • Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
  • Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
  • Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).

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Xamarin

  • Xamarin allows you to write cross platform code. This allows companies to build apps more quickly by writing less code. Having code abstracted and reused across multiple platforms allows for more testing and less issues overall.
  • The ability to use Visual Studio is a huge plus. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available and being able to write cross platforms apps while in a great IDE makes everything less painful.
  • Xamarin is now free with a large company backing. This means that bugs on the platform get fixed more quickly and there is a large community of developers.

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Cons

Contentful

  • Preview of changes prior to publishing
  • The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)

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Nathaly Sierra | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Xamarin

  • Forms - not 100% there. Still needs work but is production ready.
  • iOS - sometimes errors can be hard to understand, if they even show up.
  • Insights - Xamarin offers their own crash analytics software. However, it's not perfect and sometimes doesn't pick up crashes.

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Likelihood to Renew

Contentful

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Xamarin

Xamarin 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Xamarin has been great for developing different projects efficiently and effectively. It's nice to reuse the core business logic across different platforms so that there are less to maintain and little replications are needed. The biggest benefit is that C# programmers do not have to learn a different language to do mobile development.

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Duy Mai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Duy Mai
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Usability

Contentful

No score
No answers yet
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Xamarin

Xamarin 10.0
Based on 1 answer
If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and efforts from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done

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Duy Mai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Duy Mai
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Support Rating

Contentful

No score
No answers yet
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Xamarin

Xamarin 10.0
Based on 2 answers
I never had to contact support for any help. Most of the problems we ran into, we were able to identify and use peer support through blogs and other internet sources to resolve the problems. There are plenty of sources online which provide tutorials, discuss problems, etc. Example: StackOverflow

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Duy Mai | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Implementation Rating

Contentful

No score
No answers yet
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Xamarin

Xamarin 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Just with any programming tasks, have a plan first. Design out the system, spend time to build it correctly the first time and have plenty of testing and user acceptance opportunities. Xamarin was easy to implement for a C# programmer. However, you need to do tutorials to realize the platform's capabilities.

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Duy Mai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Duy Mai
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Alternatives Considered

Contentful

Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.

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Nathan Richardson | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Xamarin

Xamarin runs natively on MacOS, and the debugger and other integration and auto-complete tools are far better than Eclipse for C# .NET. It also carries much of the plugin/add-on capabilities that are so desirable on Atom. Eclipse is a better for generalized software development, provided a developer is comfortable switching between the IDE the command line for certain parts of their workflow, like building, package management, or debugging. But for C# .NET development on MacOS specifically, Xamarin is the best product I've used for the job.

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David McCann | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Contentful

  • It speed up our content creation process
  • We've freed up dev and design resources for more important projects
  • Given freedom to people to create new pages, while keeping some control so they wouldn't make serious mistakes

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
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Xamarin

  • Saves development time and deliver fast.
  • Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages.
  • Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed

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Florence Birgen | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Screenshots

Xamarin

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Pricing Details

Contentful

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

Contentful Editions & Modules

Edition
CommunityFree
Team489/month
EnterpriseCustom
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    Xamarin

    General

    Free Trial
    —
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Xamarin Editions & Modules

    —
    Additional Pricing Details
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    Rating Summary

    Likelihood to Recommend

    Contentful
    8.2
    Xamarin
    9.7

    Likelihood to Renew

    Contentful
    —
    Xamarin
    10.0

    Usability

    Contentful
    —
    Xamarin
    10.0

    Support Rating

    Contentful
    —
    Xamarin
    10.0

    Implementation Rating

    Contentful
    —
    Xamarin
    10.0

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