What is Firebase?
Use Firebase products together to solve complex challenges and optimize your app experience. Personalize your onboarding flow, grow user engagement, or add new functionality with Firebase. Firebase provides detailed documentation and cross-platform SDKs to help you build and ship apps on Android, iOS, the web, C++, and Unity.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Firebase?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Firebase Reviews
Harshit A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2023
One Stop Shop for almost all web & app dev needs.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?
Google Firebase acts as a one stop shop providing almost all required features for website and mobile application development. It provides Database, Storage, Authentication, AI/ML tools and a lot more at just a single place, which is easy to implement as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We can easily add dynamic features to our applications using google Firebase, it's easy to use and wide documentation available makes it more accessible.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Everything was really great with Firebase but resources for python Development are very limited yet, which should be increased.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It acts as one stop shop for all your business application needs, it's really easy to implement. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced it will work best for you. And it's NO-SQL database is really helpful.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Adebayo F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
Powerful and Developer-Friendly
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?
Firebase stands out from other backend platforms thanks to its deep integration with Google services, real-time capabilities (like Firestore and Realtime Database), seamless cross-platform SDKs, and a unified suite that covers everything from hosting and authentication to analytics and machine learning—all without needing to manage infrastructure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
-Data is reflected in realtime, no delay at at all -Provides SDK for user authentication & session managment -Easy configuration with mobile apps and webapp -Easy to integrate with other GCP products & services -Provides backend as a Service
What do you dislike most about this product?
-Only thing I do not like is the pricing. I think pricing can be more competitive as right now its bit high
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're considering Firebase, start small and take advantage of its integrated tools like Authentication and Firestore to rapidly prototype—just be mindful of pricing as you scale, learn how security rules work early on, and evaluate whether its serverless model fits your app's complexity and future needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Sampad M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2024
Best Backend Solution for App Developers
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?
It stands out from others because of its real-time database, seamless integration with Google Cloud services, and cross-platform capabilities. It provides features like Features like Firestore, Authentication, and Analytics which are essential for any developer.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My best features are its real-time database and Firestore, and all the other features are great. It is easy to implement the built-in Authentication service and it also supports various providers like Google and Facebook. Also. firebase hosting is fast and reliable.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some features have a steep learning curve like cloud functions, and limited customization options in some areas other than that it works perfectly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It starts with a free tier so try its features, you will not be disappointed. It is reliable as a backend service and easy to use.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
