Syncfusion® Essential Studio® Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.5 out of 10

Score

6.5 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

Extensive API documentation: Several users have praised the extensive API documentation provided by the framework, which has allowed for easy integration and the ability to add specific functionality as needed.

Responsive controls for web development: Reviewers have consistently mentioned that the controls for web development are responsive out of the box. This has made it easy to create interactive and user-friendly applications.

Wide range of functionality: Many users appreciate that the framework's controls include a lot of functionality, such as presenting database information in logical formats and providing user interactive informational views. This allows for a consistent user experience across pages and applications.

Reviews

31 Reviews

Comprehensive UI Suite that Accelerates Development

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Syncfusion® Essential Studio® primarily to accelerate the development of data-driven applications. Our business challenge was to present complex information from ERP and CRM systems in a clear and user-friendly way without investing excessive time in building custom UI components from scratch. Syncfusion’s ready-to-use grids, charts, and reporting tools allowed us to quickly deliver interactive dashboards, PDF/Excel exports, and responsive interfaces that our customers expect. The scope of our use case spans internal business applications, customer-facing portals, and reporting modules. By relying on Syncfusion, we reduce development effort, ensure a consistent user experience, and gain access to a rich set of components that cover everything from data visualization to document processing.

Pros

DataGrid: Extremely powerful for displaying, filtering, grouping, and editing large datasets with minimal implementation effort.
Document Processing: Reliable libraries for creating and converting PDF, Excel, and Word documents that integrate seamlessly into our business workflows.
Charts and Dashboards: Modern and interactive visualizations that make complex business data easy to understand and user-friendly.

Cons

all is working great :-)

Likelihood to Recommend

I would rate Syncfusion® Essential Studio® a 10 out of 10 for recommendation. It is particularly well suited for scenarios where complex data needs to be displayed and managed efficiently, such as ERP, CRM, or reporting applications. The ready-to-use DataGrid, charting, and document processing components save significant development time and provide a professional, consistent user experience.

Another strong scenario is when building dashboards or business portals that require interactive visualization and export capabilities (PDF, Excel, Word). The libraries integrate seamlessly into .NET and web applications, making them ideal for enterprise use.

It may be less appropriate in cases where only very basic UI components are required, since the full power of the suite might not be needed and could be considered an overhead.

Thomas Kehl

Softwareengineer in Engineering at symas design gmbh (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Syncfusion - exceptional customer technical support

Rating: 10 out of 10

July 30, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Syncfusion for developing solution which requires a decent amount of data analysis and data visualization. In our case, having a modular structure, lightweight and UI centric development is crucial. We have already made the beta version and currently working towards the main solution. We are mainly using their asp.net core controls apart from some others.

Pros

Great documentation
Great support service
Good cross platform UI

Cons

Honestly nothing as such. When we use more functionalities, we may come across some.

Likelihood to Recommend

The UI components are quite impressive and any product / solution where UI is important is served perfectly well by Syncfusion. You may need to tweak to your need but the basic default versions are quite workable too.

Somnath Maji

Co-Founder in Corporate at Igniatek Consultancy Pvt Ltd (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Syncfusion® Essential Studio® Controls

Rating: 10 out of 10

July 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I need ready-made web controls to shrink my development life cycle. I work in various technologies and these controls should be available in those technologies. Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is just great at this.

Pros

Integrates well into Microsoft tech stack. i.e. ASP.NET, Blazor etc. So it acts as a plug-n-play, which is great!
Shrinks the development cycle without adding too much of its own ecosystem overhead.
Provides different UI skins so the controls don't appear as "stitched".

Cons

"Help" should have tech-stack specific code samples. e.g. ASP.NET Core 5+ with Razor Pages has examples in MVC pattern. This is not helpful.
A complete Solution having all controls in a specific tech stack should be provided so that developers just download it and look for things they need to implement. Something like HTML Website Templates using a specific CSS and JavaScript.
Sales/Marketing material should be backed with real code samples. Finally, "Developers" are your real clients!

Likelihood to Recommend

Firstly, the idea of Community License is GREAT! It's much better than a limited period Trial license.

Also, the "Ecosystem Overheads" are very less. You just have to plug-n-play.

That said, for bigger organizations, who don't want to dependent on a single vendor, buying an entire Suite becomes difficult. So, it will be great if a single control or a smaller group of controls is available for buying.

Nitin Phansalkar

Owner in Information Technology at SME Focus Solutions (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Syncfusion® Essential Studio® has an awesome WPFs pdf viewer and datagrid. Free community license until you make 1M revenue.

Rating: 8 out of 10

April 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Syncfusion® Essential Studio® to build a WPF app. What I really like about Syncfusion® Essential Studio® WPF offering is the PDFViewer with annotation features. The Datagrid and other controls are good too. The PDF and Word creation file format features are good too.

Pros

WPF Pdf Viewer with annotation support
Document creation (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.)
WPF Datagrid
Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a jack-of-all-trade, master of none. You can get better PDF parsing and redaction elsewhere, but it's much much more cost effective, for simple needs.

Cons

In my opinion, WPF's spreadsheet isn't good (slow, buggy, etc.)
I think WPF's diagram could be better / more graph features

Likelihood to Recommend

The free community licence when you make less than 1M$ revenue.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Best Word document editor on market

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 9, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Document Editor to display Word documents to users of our Portal. We are creating bookmarks in Word documents and there are some tasks related to these bookmarks stored in the database. Portal is used for Policy management. Document Editor helps users to review policies and steer workflow.

Pros

View a Word document.
Preserve styling of Word Document.
Editing Word Document.

Cons

Improve styling of Word document even more, so its 1 to 1 with MS Word

Likelihood to Recommend

Syncfusion Document Editor is only Word Document Editor on the market which displays Word document almost like in Microsoft Word. It keeps almost all styling.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 25, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Addressed Business Problems:

Cross-platform development,

enhances the user interface and experience of applications, customizable UI components can match the specific branding and usability requirements of the business,

data visualization and reporting tools allow for the creation of interactive charts, graphs and reports,

speeds up the development process.

Scope of Use Case:

Enterprise Applications,

Data Reporting and Analysis Tools,

enhance creativity.

Pros

Chat support
UI Control Libraries
Blazor Components

Cons

More advanced and complex features
More detailed documentation
Expanding the range of examples to cover more scenarios

Likelihood to Recommend

Well-Suited Scenarios :Enterprise Application Development,Cross-Platform Mobile Applications, Data Reporting and Analysis Tools, Document Management Systems.

Less Appropriate Scenarios: Startup Projects with Limited Budgets,Real-time, High-frequency Trading Platforms, Projects with a Heavy Focus on Custom UI Design, Ultra-lightweight Applications.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Fantastic UI Components with Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Rating: 10 out of 10

March 24, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I do not use Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition at work but am using it to develop an application for my wife's business. The purpose of my web based application is to manage and help teams succeed by automating manual processess and having information readily available

Pros

Availability of the Communicty Edition
Customer Support is great
Product availability in different environments and languages

Cons

ability to see more detailed code in demo source on portal

Likelihood to Recommend

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is g reat for creating apps with less code and source code samples are vital for success.

NORBERT BRIONES

SOFTWARE ENGINEER in Information Technology at SDI Presence (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Acing School Management with Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 16, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As we began our quest to build a top-class school management system, we were always on the lookout for tools to streamline our processes while enhancing user experience. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition emerged as an ideal partner in our journey toward creating a top-class platform. From the moment we integrated Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition into our development pipeline, the transformation was remarkable. The comprehensive suite of tools provided by Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition empowered our team to craft intuitive interfaces, dynamic data visualizations, and seamless workflows effortlessly. One of the standout features of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is its ease of use. Even developers with varying levels of expertise found themselves navigating the platform with remarkable ease, thanks to its intuitive design and documentation. This allowed us to accelerate our development cycles without compromising on quality. Moreover, Syncfusion's extensive library of pre-built components proved to be a game-changer for us. Whether we needed interactive charts for analyzing academic performance or responsive grids for managing student records, Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition had us covered. The ability to customize these components to suit our specific requirements further makes our life that much simpler!

Pros

Data visualization - loved the choices that are available
Particularly liked the timetable module

Cons

As far as data visualization goes, the asks never end. I would like to see more options and flexibility around this.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very useful where moderate to complex workflows are involved especially when intended users are of different skill levels. In our case, the application that is being built would be used by people whose tech skills can vary from 0 to 10.

Praveen Shivaprasad

Co-Founder in Corporate at SustainEdge Consulting (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Nice controls to have

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 5, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Syncfusion asp.net core controls that help us to build interfaces quickly in razor page applications.

We mainly use the grid, that helps us create "list" pages with filters on columns relatively quickly and easily.

The datetime control and the treeview (even if difficult to master) are also helpful

Pros

Grid with filters
datetime picker

Cons

Documentation for asp.net core controls, for the two way binding
Real-life complex examples
Radio-button and checkboxes bindings

Likelihood to Recommend

It's appropriate when you need complex controls, don't use it if you just want to build some tables without any filters.

If you just need some radio's and checkboxes it's easier to use simple html with some bootstrap or alike css frameworks for the style

Samuel Beauvois

Partner in Information Technology at SABEO (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Couldn't have done it without Syncfusion

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The company's main product is an executive information system, essentially a data mart that is populated nightly during an ETL process. Syncfusion was used to create a separate website to maintain the vast amount of metadata used to drive the functionality of the main product. The Syncfusion driven website is comprised of about 80 pages, primarily datagrids only. We use ASP.NET Core. Some pages have master detail grids with a grid on top driving the content of the grid below. Others have subgrids within a grid and can be viewed and maintained by expanding a row in the master grid. We used treeview controls, menus, popup windows, and others. Not an extensive use of all of the controls available, but extensive use of datagrids.

Pros

The datagrid's built-in functionality is extremely robust. Sorting, filtering, various columnar controls, moving columns, resizing, etc.
The sheer number of controls available is comforting. Although we did not use most of them, it is good to know that they are they if we need them for this and other applications.
The support is world class, even for a single developer company like us. I can't say enough good things about the support. They saved my behind more times than I can say. They are knowledgeable and responsive. The Chat feature is very useful.

Cons

I'd give the documentation a B+. Most times I can find what I want but sometimes what I'm looking for is buried. Overall very good, but could be a little bit better.

Likelihood to Recommend

The datagrid is probably their most popular control I would think. It is so flexible and configurable. Most of mine are plain views in ASP.NET Core, but I have a whole bunch that are dynamically created at runtime in my controller. That is so powerful.

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Employee in Research & Development (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Comprehensive UI Suite that Accelerates Development

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

DataGrid: Extremely powerful for displaying, filtering, grouping, and editing large datasets with minimal implementation effort.
Document Processing: Reliable libraries for creating and converting PDF, Excel, and Word documents that integrate seamlessly into our business workflows.
Charts and Dashboards: Modern and interactive visualizations that make complex business data easy to understand and user-friendly.

Cons

all is working great :-)

Likelihood to Recommend

It may be less appropriate in cases where only very basic UI components are required, since the full power of the suite might not be needed and could be considered an overhead.

Thomas Kehl

Softwareengineer in Engineering at symas design gmbh (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience