Google Firebase Reviews

We use Firebase for understanding crashes and tracking analytics about our users, which supports marketing, development, and distribution purposes.

Firebase has been helpful in providing analytics and crash insights. It still needs more detail for larger scale applications.

Crashlytics is the best feature in Firebase.

They could add a session replay to better understand how a crash or bug happened.

We have been using Firebase for maybe six or seven years.

I do not remember any major issues with stability while using Firebase.

Firebase is easy to scale.

The support team responds rapidly. There is a good community with many solutions available through shared videos on YouTube and blog posts.

Positive

I have previously worked for Huawei and Google Analytics and have experience with their customer service.

The initial setup is very easy, and the guidelines and tutorials are helpful for developers, even junior developers.

I don't know the current prices, however, it is probably average compared to others in the market.

We were considering Instana and Sentry for different business needs and have arranged meetings to decide further.

For startup or personal applications, I strongly recommend Firebase. However, for big businesses or large domains, I suggest using a different tool.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

Google Firebase is not an alternative to Vercel. For my job, I use the tool to host the Next.js app application. The option to host the Next.js app was launched a year ago.

I have been using Firebase for some of its features, like its cloud functions and authentication kind of purpose. We cannot compare Google Firebase with Vercel.

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that its storage can be easily used in our mobile applications. The tool can be used for cloud messaging. The push notifications on iOS and Android services are very easy to use.

Google Firebase is a very big application.

In our company, we are actually using a small part of the application, so I do have challenges, but we have online communities for Firebase. Google's support is very low, and it takes a lot of time. The tool's support requires improvement.

I have six years of experience with Google Firebase. I am a customer of the tool.

I have not faced any stability issues with the product.

The product offers high scalability features, but the cost is very high on a large scale. The tool has some mechanisms for improvements, but it is costly.

I rate the technical support a seven out of ten.

Neutral

Actually, there are some other mechanisms in the tool that we can avoid. We can use many other services. If we are hosting and using Google Firebase to send SMS, it will cost a large volume. If we choose the local providers, we can get a tool similar to Google Firebase at a very low rate.

The authentication part in the product is very easy to use, but for custom development, we have to use the product manually, making it a reason why we don't have to use the authentication feature.

The tool has many features, but sometimes, using all its features can be a little difficult, and it is not easy to implement. You need to read the documentation to figure out the process for using the features.

I recommend Google Firebase for cloud storage and cloud communication to others.

I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

I mainly use authentication, database, notifications, and remote config. Most of the key features of Firebase.

The authentication. It's a managed product that supports all types of authentication and has a generous free trial. They give a very big free credit to start with.

Firebase Analytics is good enough, but I prefer to use Google Analytics directly by inserting their tag in my code.

We don't use their app distribution product. It's okay, but not that useful.

They lack a SQL database. It would be great to have that feature added.

Like PlanetScale. They have a Firebase database as well as a real-time database, but no SQL database.

I have been using it for three to four years now. 

It's stable. No issues so far.

All students use it, especially for building side projects. Maybe not everyone uses all features, but Firebase authentication is widely used.

Firebase authentication is very scalable. But for the Firestore database, people say you can get a big bill when you scale up.

We didn't experience that because we didn't reach that scale, but their pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive.

Cloud Storage is good, but I switched to Cloudflare R2 because to the cheap pricing plans. However, at scale, Firestore can have issues with concurrent writes, like exceeding rate limits.

We did reach out to them for GCP, but not for Firebase. 

The initial setup is very easy. Even for a beginner. Their documentation is good, and there are a lot of helpful videos on YouTube.

The pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive.

I would definitely recommend it to others. It is very easy to learn. 

Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

I use Analytics for Firebase, Firebase Cloud Messaging, and Firebase Crashlytics. I have also used Firebase Performance.

Google Analytics for Firebase is the best feature of the solution. Generally, for analytics, I must integrate GA4 for the web. Since Firebase supports analytics, I can now analyze on the same dashboard using Google Analytics. It is very useful for me. The notification services, Google Analytics, and Crashlytics are easy to use.

The notifications must be made a little bit better. Firebase Cloud Messaging doesn’t support non-dismissable notifications. I encountered some difficulties migrating the code from Firebase Cloud Storage to another DB.

I have been using the solution for three years and two months.

The product had bugs. I haven't found any bugs for the past one and a half years. There are conflicts with the Flutter text package while migrating to the latest Firebase version. It would be better if the problem were resolved.

The product is much more scalable compared to other solutions. I know 12 people in the organization who use the solution. Eight know the tool well and use it in different company projects.

I contacted support when I started using the solution. Now, I don’t need any support. The documentation is understandable.

The initial installation was easier after FlutterFire CLI was created. It was very useful to integrate the product. Before FlutterFire CLI, it was a little bit harder to integrate the tool into iOS.

The tool is affordable. The cost is a bit high compared to REST API. Some clients prefer REST API over Firebase.

I have deployed one project in the cloud. I have used some services of the solution for other use cases. The services similar to notification services, Google Analytics, and Crashlytics are not easy to use in other tools. I will recommend the solution if someone wants to use the notification services, Messaging, Analytics, and Crashlytics. However, I will not suggest if someone wants to use Firebase Cloud Storage.

The solution is difficult to learn if someone is just starting their career. If we get a little bit of guidance from a senior, it will be very easy. I number the patchwork for app versioning and deployment just like Android versioning. The first digit will be for batches from right to left, the second for major updates, and the third for a complete app version change. I increase the number by one for every build, patch it, and publish it. I use the same logic if I am deploying in Firebase.

Most of the applications I have worked on are e-commerce-based applications. The main requirement for clients in such applications is conversion rate. When a user interacts with a particular product, the client wants to know whether the user purchased the product or not. They want to know where the users lost interest and went away without making the payment. Google Analytics helped me fix such issues much better than any other product. I'm very happy with it.

Sometimes, I couldn't figure out how to fix issues when working on iOS. Suppose I’m just upgrading Firebase through workspace.yaml, sometimes, I may need to check whether the native version is supported. I will have to go through the documentation again. It will be much better if it is fixed by changing the version in workspace.yaml. Everything else works well.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Integrations and extensions offered by the product are quite limited presently. From an improvement perspective, the tool should try to increase the extensions it provides. I feel that Google is trying to improve in the area of the extensions it provides, but I feel that it would take time.

I have been using Google Firebase for four years.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Considering the scope of the product's use in my company, I can't comment much on the tool's scalability.

Around 500 people in my company use the product.

There is no plan to increase product usage in our company.

I did not have the need to contact the product's support because the solution's documentation and FAQs help resolve problems. My company did not encounter any shoes, and because of this, we had to seek direct help from the support team.

The product's initial setup phase was simple and straightforward.

There is not much my company can do when it comes to the deployment part since our managed service providers use the SDKs provided by Google along with our company's keys for authentication purposes.

The solution is deployed on a managed cloud solution.

The solution can be deployed in five days.

The deployment phase can be done with the help of our company's in-house team, considering that it is a surprisingly easy process. Beginners who are new to the product can easily take care of the product's deployment phase.

Supabase can be considered a good option against Google Firebase.

Google Firebase is the first product my company used. My company had also done some research on Google products, after which we opted for Google Firebase. The product was able to cover most of our company's use cases. The product is also easy to use. My company did not have to look at the other services during our exploration research.

I use the solution for real-time data synchronization of applications. I use the tool to build native applications using React Native Firebase. Google Firebase integrates well with React Native Firebase. Google Firebase has me. It has a large online community, and it offers most of the features one would need to build an application.

Setting up Google Firebase for user authentication and management is quite straightforward and easy.

Tracking user engagement is possible with Google Firebase since it easily integrates with Google Analytics, and it is also easy to set it up inside applications. My company also uses Crashlytics, which is included in Google Firebase and is sometimes handy and useful.

There is nothing specific about how Firebase Cloud Messaging improves the way my company interacts with product users. My company uses the product since it easily fits into the stack of tools we use. The users don't feel anything about what our company does on the back end, and it also doesn't affect them.

Although my company has not experienced any bugs or crashes in production, we have tested the tool well enough. Once or twice, when there were crashes, reports from Firebase Crashlytics helped debug or pinpoint the location where the problem was and the reason why the problem arose.

Google Firebase has affected our company's uptime and scalability part since it has had a surprising impact on our development time. With the tool, my company is able to rapidly create prototype applications and roll them out for users for feedback, based on which we can make changes to improve the product.

The product helps my company to rapidly build prototypes for our projects and get inputs from our customers.

I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

I use the solution to streamline mobile application development.

I use Firestore for most of my database operations. It is already optimized. It's something you have to connect with the app and use. The performance is good. It is quite fast. I use most of the other features. I use the solution for authentication, database operations, and storage.

The solution also helps with analytics. Firebase offers encryption out of the box. We do not have to do it ourselves. We have lots of authentication providers that we can use, like email and password or Google sign-in. We even have anonymous authentication. We must choose the one that best suits us. The tool provides me with everything I need.

The product must support more complex queries. It is a NoSQL database. It is a collection of documents. Because of its design, the tool can't support some of our complex queries in SQL and other databases.

I have been using the solution for one to two years.

The tool is always up and running.

The tool is scalable for our requirements.

The initial configuration was very easy. The solution has a CLI tool that we can use to connect the application to Firebase. It is called FlutterFire. We can write a few commands, and our application is automatically connected to Firebase. Earlier, we used to configure everything. Now, it has improved a lot. The setup is very easy. It can be done within a few minutes.

The product is free.

Cassandra, Redis, and MongoDB are some of the competitors of the solution.

Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

I chose Google Firebase because it provides an easy way to authenticate. It offers a lot of authentication services and libraries. It is easier to use, allowing authentication directly from the front end without interacting with the back end. For more advanced use, it can also integrate with the back end. It supports most social logins and offers a free tier with features like email sending for sign-up confirmations and OTP authentication, which can be costly. The solution is user-friendly for developers and good for our company’s authentication needs across all applications.

The authentication features have made things a lot easier for our organization. About five years ago, developers had to create authentication systems from scratch. Now, services like Google Firebase provide secure and accurate authentication solutions. We can implement authentication quickly by following their documentation.

The customization options for password resetting are limited. The process requires additional steps and coding to make it user-friendly. While Google Firebase works well for the login page, password resetting and user verification redirect users to a separate interface, which is not very user-friendly.

I have been using the product for one and a half years. 

The solution is stable; only disruptions exist when the user does not confirm emails. 

My company has seven users. I rate the tool's scalability a seven out of ten. We had issues with scalability, particularly with configurability. Sometimes, we couldn't meet our expectations because the features provided were limited. For example, when sending customer emails, we had limited customization options.

I used open-source libraries before Google Firebase. 

The solution's deployment is easy for a front-end engineer. There are not many operations in the front end. 

I suggest reviewing the documentation and understanding the flow before starting development. It may seem complicated initially, but having a clear idea of the process will make implementation easier. Integrating one application into others becomes straightforward once you have one application set up. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

I use Google Firebase for user authentication when I work with mobile apps. Firebase is easy for other than the database, in my opinion, because it gives real-time functionalities. That's easy because if I work with raw NodeJS or Express, then when I want real-time functionalities, I have to use Socket.IO, but Firebase has its own built-in real-time capabilities, and that's easy for implementation.

The real-time database is a good feature for me. The second option is notifications. When I work with PWAs and use Firebase's functionalities, their notifications are awesome. 

The implementation is easy. The only tough part is that they have paid functionalities. So when we use any type of NodeJS or other languages, we implement Firebase, and then it's paid. But the notification service is great, and so is the real-time database.

I have used Google Firebase for a maximum of two years. If I were to review the service, it would be about paid functionalities, like implementing notifications, is easy, but debugging is not. I have to connect to my Google console and upload the functionalities every time. This doesn't make sense to me because if I want to see the console, I have to upload to it. This is the biggest reported issue from me. 

When I work in the backend with Google Firebase and implement Node.js, I have to upload the function every time. If I upload the function every time to the Google Cloud console, then sometimes it can crash. That side is disappointing for me.

I have been using it for two years. 

It is a stable product. If my client wants a real-time database, top-notch security, and easy user authentication, then we can switch to Firebase. 

Firebase's security is awesome, and implementation is easy. 

If they want a real-time database, I can easily switch to Firebase because they already have a real-time database, and the collection and structure of data is easy to understand.

Everyone on my team uses it. I have ten people on my team, and only two or three did not use Firebase early. When I told them to just read the documentation and try to implement the simple things like user authentication and storing data in the database, it was amazing because they were able to easily implement it. That's why everyone uses Firebase easily.

The documentation is very beginner-friendly. Anyone can learn the service easily.

The deployment is very easy. 

The price is too expensive.

My recommendations: 

If you want to easily implement user authentication with Google sign-in or Facebook login, you can use Firebase because it has its own functionality. You can just take their API and implement your code, then you can easily create login functionality. 

If you want to make it easy, then I suggest you use Firebase. But if you want to learn more and create custom features, then I don't suggest Firebase because it has its own built-in functions.

Learning curve:

It's easy to learn  if you want to read the documentation and research. There are two types of beginners: 

1. Those who want to research and read the documentation. For those who want to research and read the documentation, it's easy.
2. Those who just want to go to YouTube and search. And do not have any interest. 

The Firebase version is running ten point something now, but I used Firebase version eight. The functionality and the documentation are easy for me. When I want to upload an image, Firebase has the code. I copy and paste the code, change one or two things, and that's it.

Overall rating:

If I were to make a chatting application and use Firebase, I would give it a nine or nine point eight out of ten because it is easy to learn and implement. But if we consider the price, I would give it a five or four out of ten.