Magnolia vs. Storyblok

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Magnolia
Score 8.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Founded in 1997 with a vision to create the first truly open content management system, Magnolia is presented as a fast way to launch digital experiences. With a mission to help clients move fast and stay flexible and boasting users among brands like Atlassian and The New York Times, Magnolia DXP supports industries ranging from automotive to telecommunications, offering enterprise features and headless agility to help them stay ahead. From humble beginnings in Basel, Magnolia's…N/A
Storyblok
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Storyblok helps teams to tell their stories and manage their content for every use-case: corporate websites, e-commerce, helpdesks, mobile apps, and screen displays. Storyblok features: Visual Editor: Live preview changes made on a website Component approach: Nestable content bloks make content management easy. Headless / API: Access data through its APIs Boasting customers in nearly every industry and country, Storyblok states they help thousands of…
$0
Free with 1 Seat
Pricing
MagnoliaStoryblok
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Community
$0.00
Free with 1 Seat
Entry
$99
per month Includes 5 team member seats
Business
$849
per month Includes 20 team member seats
Enterprise
$3,299
per month 30 users included
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MagnoliaStoryblok
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Features
MagnoliaStoryblok
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
8.0
70 Ratings
1% below category average
Storyblok
6.7
2 Ratings
19% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.070 Ratings6.72 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
8.0
69 Ratings
5% above category average
Storyblok
6.5
2 Ratings
15% below category average
API8.562 Ratings4.72 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.562 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
8.0
75 Ratings
5% above category average
Storyblok
6.4
2 Ratings
18% below category average
WYSIWYG editor8.566 Ratings5.22 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.566 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Admin section8.071 Ratings5.22 Ratings
Page templates9.073 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Library of website themes7.01 Ratings4.22 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.564 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Publishing workflow7.574 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Form generator7.059 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
7.5
70 Ratings
2% above category average
Storyblok
6.1
2 Ratings
19% below category average
Content taxonomy7.564 Ratings4.22 Ratings
SEO support7.064 Ratings6.72 Ratings
Bulk management7.958 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.063 Ratings5.22 Ratings
Community / comment management7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MagnoliaStoryblok
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(79 ratings)
7.6
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(69 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.5
(68 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MagnoliaStoryblok
Likelihood to Recommend
Magnolia
Magnolia is a very capable DXP, that provides client with lots of flexibility in composing its own stack. While the core of the platform is a content management system, the open architecture of Magnolia DXP allows it to connect to any platform, allowing client to extend the capabilities. One scenario would be a centralized content hub - where through a single platform, content authors can choose which channel to distribute what content. For example, long form content for consumers viewing on a laptop, short form content for those using a mobile browser. This allow the client to personalized the experience based on channels. Another scenarios would be leveraging on GenAI - using Magnolia's built-in connector to ChatGPT. If that is not the service that one desire, you can always connect to another AI service such as Google Gemini. With GenAI, connected, content author can use AI as co-pilot to help them scale up their content production.
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Storyblok
Great content management experience offered by Storyblok and very effective tool for the Cloud data management and easy content publishing system and the project documentation toolcdsjwskasegvs also provides the best capabilities. The user can edit even images files and other fDCFDHHJFJKDGDFGFGGGGGGiles through the system and generate the best analytics for effvbfjjferjjebective production decisions making.
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Pros
Magnolia
  • Speed of development - time to delivery from zero to MVP was excellent
  • Ease of use - the authoring experience is very easy to build and train
  • PAAS/SAAS - the managed service platform removed the traditional overhead of running in-house technologies, meaning we could focus on value add, with less time spent keeping the lights on.
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Storyblok
  • Very easy to generate project documents
  • Obtaining the best data insights across cloud services
  • Easy creating various content
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Cons
Magnolia
  • The documentation provides samples that are often out of context, and difficult to know where the provided example code should be implemented. More tutorials providing the full project or step-by-step instructions on how to implement subject material would help greatly. Baeldung is a resource I would consider the gold standard in how this is done in other spaces.
  • The use of JCR and Nodes makes object serialization/deserialization painful. Jackson compatibility or similar would be a welcome enhancement to the developer experience. Maybe leveraging code-gen from light modules to build model classes when possible could help accomplish this.
  • Modifying the home layout from light modules is frustrating. It seems that any configuration overrides made merge with the default rather than overwriting, which makes for a difficult combination of guess-and-check while referencing the documentation to see what should be in each row/column when making changes.
  • Including "mark all as read" or "delete all" in the notifications app would be a great quality of life improvement. It seems that by default, users have to individually select messages and operate them.
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Storyblok
  • When getting started with Storybsddfsddlok it may be confusing.
  • The dashboard configuration to sohmtteAfme users.
  • Big data content manipulation across the Cqaweqwqloud environment.
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Likelihood to Renew
Magnolia
We have invested a lot of time and energy into tailoring a solution that works for the company.
We think the new features in v6.2 will help us get to the next level
We also don't have the resources to rebuild a website platform from scratch even if we wanted to
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Storyblok
No answers on this topic
Usability
Magnolia
We've shown it to a number of users both clients and our own team and despite initial apprehensions, they "get it" very quickly. It's intuitive and friendly and quick to perform daily tasks. We once had a client tell us "Using Magnolia makes me smile" which says it all for us.
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Storyblok
No answers on this topic
Performance
Magnolia
I gave [it] 7/10 only because of the loading time of pages. Otherwise, I think it deserves an 8. Normally this is not an issue per [se] but considering the rating matrix and as I have been asked to honestly write about it. Yes, the page loading times could be improved.
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Storyblok
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Magnolia
You always get an answer based on your SLA. But you always get a solution. That's the successfactor in this case. To often i was frustrated about people in a company without even a clue what there product is about or how to solve a problem. Magnolia's Support Team does a very good job and try to help you in most of the cases
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Storyblok
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Magnolia
I've used several CMSs like AEM and EpiServer, and comparatively, they all excel at different things. Magnolia is the best to develop for/against. Episerver has the best/most fluid UI in terms of content editing, and the overall admin experience AEM is just all around sucks.
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Storyblok
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Magnolia
  • Magnolia has brought about positive impacts. For instance, we need not outsource web design and marketing services because thanks to this software, we can handle most work inhouse
  • The software is affordable with no compromises on capabilities and therefore it is gives us value for money.
  • The templates makes the whole process easy
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Storyblok
  • Clear and reliable data reports generation is very easy.
  • Data accessibility Storyblok is amazing.
  • Marketing management across different platforms
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ScreenShots

Magnolia Screenshots

Screenshot of the customer experience: Brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of Magnolia's native analytics integration framework, used to take advantage of data directly in the authoring UI, coupled to content.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.

Storyblok Screenshots

Screenshot of The Storyblok DashboardScreenshot of Live Editing with StoryblokScreenshot of Rich text experience using Storyblok