Retool vs. Progress Telerik

If you need to build an admin panel or any other backend system, Retool is the right tool for you.

Incentivized

We have used the Telerik UI controls for our Admin user experience. We found that this lead to consistent user experience, with feature rich functions already provided. Effectively this meant that hour for hour, using the Telerik UI improved productivity in creating screens with more functions than using the default controls in ASP.NET. At this point most of our focus with the Telerik controls is User Interface oriented.

• Ease of use - someone with small amount of experience can use it.
• Adaptability - you can build a lot of things with it.
• Reliability - works quite well.

Incentivized

• Easy to configure with application.
• It provides flexibility for complex grid customizations.
• Takes less time for quick development UI elements.
• UI is very responsible, which can be viewable in any device.
• Great support from Telerik team. It only takes 24 to 48 hours to resolve your issues.

Incentivized

• Loading speed - not sure if this is just us, but in my experience, it's not the fastest loading platform.
• More customization with colors and fonts.

Incentivized

• I'd like to see the radwebcam include the ability to read/decode barcodes or QR codes and possibly raise a barcode read event.
• The visual studio add-in takes a while to load, so I constantly get the slow add-in warning from visual studio 2022
• some of the winform controls seem to have poor performance such as carousel.

The Telerik UI has become part of our staple development tools. We can not be as productive without the feature set available to us in the Telerik UI ASP.NET AJAX control package.

Because even though it is quite intuitive it is not the best tool I have ever seen.

Incentivized

Progress Telerik UI is very usable and one of the best tools to use by the front-end development engineers in our team. It has helped us to improve the overall design of our existing and new applications. Also, the time to build applications has also been reduced effectively and we are able to focus on other areas of improvement to deliver a better user experience for our customers.

Incentivized

Telerik UI support is what you are paying for. If something does not work you ask them for an example of how to solve your use case. The SEO on their sites is awesome and so well bedded into Google. The videos are good, [they're] not used much but their examples and DoJo examples make all the difference.

The controls work very well as long as they are used as intended. Built-in functionality should be used whenever possible,

Incentivized

Progress Telerik UI provides a large amount of language support, demos, and documentation. While the competition is still great in their own right, Progress Telerik UI has provided enough resources to cover a number of current and future projects without having to expand to other libraries.

Incentivized

• Major impact - ability to build a backend system is huge.
• Major impact - used every day by multiple people.
• Major impact - ability to be used by less technical teammates.

Incentivized

• Telerik enabled us to demonstrate our vision for new flagship software with only a years worth of effort.
• Telerik provided out of the box solutions for some of our more challenging UI problems.
• Telerik support has been extremely helpful and critical to our success.

Incentivized