Algolia Reviews & Product Details

I love the simplicity of this product and the way it uses recommended design patterns underneath the hood. Plus the control you have on your dashboard is simply amazing.

I had some issues with error handling. I think it can be done without the developer having to write extra code for it.

I just wanted to give my users a better search experience. No ones wants to search something and not get data back simply because of a single typo.

The ease and efficiency of the system, in adittion to its speed

I don't really dislike anything about Algolia. But I think the NEW payment system they implemente is a bit hard to digest.

With algolia I list all the information in react Native applications

Very easy to set up, no maintenance needed from our side. Efficient and easy to adapt a ranking formula. Extremely fast search results. We tried to implement on iconscout.com. Here is a sample link: https://iconscout-search.netlify.app Algolia is brain-dead simple to set up. I've implemented a search with Algolia in a dozen different ways now, and it never took me longer than a few minutes to get the functionality I want. With Algolia, the only challenge is designing your search UI -- if you don't want to use they are baked in UI solutions.

Costs can escalate dramatically when you expand your traffic. Manually manipulating search results (for specific queries having listings show up first) is a bit difficult to do without custom developing that functionality.

Any consumer-facing business that needs instant search results for user searches. Excellent fits would be e-commerce solutions and marketplaces. If your traffic is low it is also a relatively cost-effective solution than using your own solution (e.g. elastic search). Perfect for teams that do not have the architectural knowledge to set up their own search solutions.

I love how fast the team was able to get search working in our product. It doesn't take long and there are a lot of built-in out of the box features you can roll with. We opted for the custom API driven use which still didn't take long and then to customize was very simple. The reports are really cool and we look forward to the future expansion and personalization features.

There isn't too much to not like. I guess the only thing that has me worried is the cost at scale but for our application, that shouldn't be a problem cause the more searching the more revenue it should generate.

We are using it to help fit our customers into the right product. We have over 500 SKU's and getting the customer the product they are looking for quickly and easily would normally be a challenge but we just dumped in everything to Algolia and then built some facets around it and it's a great solution and took our small team no time to implement.

Their docs are the best I’ve ever encountered. Makes it super easy to get a robust search up and running in no time.

Some of their tract components don’t support hooks yet.

Creating a dope search experience for our users. It also doubles as our autocomplete for mentions

Ease of integration and nicely organized documentation

I couldn't find a resource to maybe design it by myself, but not necessarily a bad thing.

Not having a dedicated endpoint and logic for searching our docs.

How easy it was to integrate to our docs. Docusaurus supports algolia and many other services support algolia out of the box for indexing. It's also free so it saved a lot of time for us.

For free there wasn't a way to make algolia work offline out of the box.

It made finding the right docs much easier and improved our use of development docs.

It is very easy to use and add information. The platform is very intuitive and searches are lightning fast. The documentation is pretty easy to follow and is very extensive. They offer tiers which offer easy entry for any size of a business.

I think the documentation could be easier to navigate. Other than that I couldn't be happier using Algolia.

As a small project Algolia has enabled me to setup searching within my app with minimal effort. The response is super quick and the customization/configuration that it allow is a big plus.

Algolia can help my services to find the data faster than in a second, even if it's written wrong. Good documentation and nice Laravel/Vue.js plugins out of the box — means very simple and straightforward integration with almost any product. You can integrate their search less than one hour!

Only problem I found was in the Hebrew (and probably Arabic) language search. Also pricing could be too big than self managing a elastic search for big projects. But for small projects would be enough even free tier!

I used algolia in my customers’ web-sites: multilingual search, multiple entity search, full-text search for products and categories for ecommerce, and even show products by category and filters directly from their API without my backend. It was easy to integrate, fast

The speed at which a search operation executes, along with all the linked aspects that broadens the concept of universal unified search in order to provide great User Experience! The product's landing page is one of the best I have seen to date since it clearly explains the search powers when clicked on the search bar on the homepage to get on the demo search portal in order to get hands-on experience with it. Simply put, Algolia is one of the best search experience providers that totally builds on and aims to provides one of the best user experiences out there when it come to search platforms/ tools or APIs.

I guess they should also have a WordPress plugin since WP is one of the most widely used CMS platforms. Adding a plugin to Wordpress library will help Algolia and most global users to expand the search experience using Algolia for any one's platform/ website or their product. Also, the product should provide an in-built search bar generator tool that can then be embedded on to any website at any section of the page which will be very helpful for non-coder or new users who aren't very friendly with the development environment. WYSIWYG editor or search bar generator and styling tool can help a lot in integrating to small scale static websites.

Personalized search experiences that converts, and provides unique experiences to drive engagement.

It's the easiest way to add search functionalities to your software, without having to worry about managing Solr or ES clusters. Their API is really well documented and easy to use. Pricing model is also easy and you should not have problems calculating how much you will end up paying. Other advantage is the low and consistent latency to all end users, with servers on every major continent, no user will have a bad experience.

It can be a lot more expensive than self managing a elastic search or other search software cluster by yourself.

We use it for searching pages on a blog, the main benefit is, as I mentioned, the ease of using the API, without having to worry about anything else. We also save a lot of time by not having to manage anything related to search.

How easy it is to setup a project and customize it to match the needs of the app

It may be a bit pricy for personal applications

Autocompletion feature is one of the main problems that Algolia solves.

We were comparing Search options for both our new website and our web based application focused on the families we serve. We explored options such as Elastic which provided a robust suite of tools. However, in the end we decided on Algolia for its hosted search, ease of implementation, and UX. It allows us to focus on our data and not have to worry about maintaining the Search experience.

Thus far in our implementation, we haven't had any complaints! Algolia provides with pretty much everything we need. It's almost like Stripe for Search!

We've been able to minimize the amount of time integrating this critical function of our web assets. We're able to focus on our data rather than maintaining the Search engine.

The easy of integration and the speed of getting the responses. The documentation is also great. I have added a search feature to my personal blog, which is based on Jekyll. There is a Jekyll package that does all the heavy lifting, and for the parts to customize there is plenty of documentation. From the creation of the account to be up and running it took me less than one hour.

Nothing in particular. Everything was smooth and clean. I can't really say that there are downsides.

I wanted to add a search feature to my personal blog. I managed to do that in less than one hour, including the time necessary to create the account. One of the best parts of the Jekyll SDK I have used is that it automatically indexes all the posts in the blog, so I don't have to add anything. It integrated wonderfully with github, so it was really zero effort (and zero cost!) to have it up and running.

It was very quick and easy to install Algolia, and now our end users can quickly search our documentation to find the answers they seek. Praise has been expressions like "Algolia is incredible!", so we're very happy.

Unfortunately the open-source account doesn't always link things up correctly in Algolia's dashboard, which makes it slightly difficult to research specifics. I wish we could purge data before our official release date.

We added search to end-user documentation.

Very easy to implement. Created a search index for my Firestore database to introduce search in my Flutter app and had no problems whatsoever. Implementation (creation of the index, database export, database synchronisation and client implementation) took me less than half a day and it allowed me to introduce search with fast results in my product catalog.

Nothing at all. The solution Algolia provides was the complete package in my use case.

I was using a Firestore database for a product catalog and wanted to allow my users to search for products.

It makes up for Firebases' deficiencies!

Probably scaling up can be costly, but to start and prototype is great and easy

I was solving the search of Google maps businesses, taking into account the user location as well (to find closer shops)

Easy to use API, with Algolia we are able to delegate all our resources to be indexed, which makes the performance of our application faster. This not only provides for developer experience but also the overall user experience of our end users.

Well, till now I am yet to run into something I don't enjoy with the Algolia API. The basic/free trial limits could be extended though.

We're building a fashion marketplace for emerging brands in Ghana, We were looking for a scalable and easy to use solution to provide a much more robust search for better user experience. Algolia checks all our boxes by providing an API very friendly for our engineers and also the performance of our product.

We are using algolia for our internal pilot admin. It allows us to search quickly between clients and partners and make effective actions thanks to the search algolia is powering.

The fact that Algolia doesn't support old frameworks, like angularJS, the one we are using. We still have legacy javascript available, but still, it's not the same :)

We've solved our filtering problems on our clients and partners. It was somehow slow when we developed it in-house, but using Algolia, it made our life easier.

The simplicity of the service means you can basically throw any data at it and it'll handle everything for you.

I feel it gets expensive quite quickly (especially for smaller startups on a tight budget), but other than that the service is great

We needed a reliable and accurate search solution but none of us have experience building search platforms. algolia was an easy drop-in solution