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46 Ratings
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Based on 46 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Security

9.0
Contentful
90%

Xamarin
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 1/1 features
Contentful ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions

9.0
90%
5 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure

7.7
Contentful
77%

Xamarin
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 2/2 features
Contentful ranks higher in 2/2 features
API

7.0
70%
5 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language

8.5
85%
3 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Web Content Creation

7.2
Contentful
72%

Xamarin
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 8/8 features
Contentful ranks higher in 8/8 features
WYSIWYG editor

7.3
73%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness

9.0
90%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Admin section

8.0
80%
6 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Page templates

7.6
76%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Library of website themes

7.5
75%
2 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design

7.2
72%
2 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Publishing workflow

4.0
40%
6 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Form generator

7.0
70%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Web Content Management

6.9
Contentful
69%

Xamarin
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 5/5 features
Contentful ranks higher in 5/5 features
Content taxonomy

6.0
60%
5 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
SEO support

8.1
81%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Bulk management

7.5
75%
2 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions

4.1
41%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Community / comment management

9.0
90%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Contentful is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

8.0
Contentful
80%
7 Ratings

7.0
Xamarin
70%
12 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Xamarin
100%
1 Rating
Usability

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Xamarin
100%
1 Rating
Support Rating

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Xamarin
100%
4 Ratings
Implementation Rating

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Xamarin
100%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
Web Marketing Manager
Lively, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees
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.
IT Project Leader
North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Pros
Contentful
- Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
- High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
- Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
Digital Strategist
Sherpa Design Co.Design, 1-10 employees
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Internet Company, 1001-5000 employeesCons
Contentful
- The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
- The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
- It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
Lead Developer
SaaSquatchMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
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.
Software Developer
NewserInternet, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Contentful
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0
Contentful Editions & Modules
Edition
Community | Free |
---|---|
Team | 489/month |
Enterprise | Custom |
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—Xamarin
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
Xamarin Editions & Modules
Edition
Xamarin | Free |
---|
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—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.
IT Project Leader
North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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
IT Project Leader
North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Support Rating
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Xamarin
Xamarin 10.0
Based on 4 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
IT Project Leader
North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Implementation Rating
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Xamarin
Xamarin 10.0
Based on 2 answers
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.
IT Project Leader
North Orange County Community College DistrictHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
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.
SEO Specialist
BambooHRComputer Software, 201-500 employees
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.
Senior Software Engineer
Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations FoundationComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Contentful
- Positive: faster changes and new associates can easily navigate without prior training/knowledge of CMS to make content updates
- Negative: Our website manager/provider can keep certain abilities (like changing specific images) so they can charge a fee for making the change
Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC
FirstService Residential New YorkReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
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
IT Manager
Calmens naturalsCosmetics, 11-50 employees