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
2
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100 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
3
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 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
Martin D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2024
My default choice for any project I work on.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?
Stable, reliable. Been using it since 2016 with no hiccups whatsoever. It doesn't compare to any other.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Firebase Realtime DB it's extremely powerful for quick prototypes. Firebase it's easy to get started for prototyping and also production grade.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Pricing on some of the products could be better.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Firebase being backed by Google gives extra reliability when handling secure data.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Caring
- Saves Time
Sophie B.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2025
Smart analytics for growing products
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Firebase from other similar products?
Firebase provides us with clear visibility in user journeys from first open to conversion. It automatically collects events to reduce manual tracking work. The dashboard presents insights in a simple, easy-to-digest form. Firebase helps us identify which features drive the most engagement.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I rely on Firebase Analytics daily to understand exactly how users interact with our product across different features. The real-time event tracking helps me quickly see how new releases perform after launch. I appreciate how easy it is to set up analytics without heavy engineering effort.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I love working with Firebase and do not dislike any feature of it yet.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend Firebase Analytics to teams wanting quick, reliable insights without complex setup. Start with clearly defined business goals before setting up events to avoid collecting unnecessary or confusing data.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
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
