Sanity Reviews & Product Details

It's endlessly customizable. The schema required for each item makes it easy to Create a scaffold for structured content, that I as a developer can grab for use any time i need it.

With great customization comes great boiler plate and set up. Everything is dependent on an API call. Which is a blessing and a curse. For Speed, and for mobile use.

I love what they're doing with structured content use case examples

Creating and deploying a Sanity project is fast and easy. Documentation is great. Frequent updates. The Sanity team is very helpful. Creating new schemas, validation, conditional fields and customization is all a breeze.

Enterprise pricing is making it a hard pill to swallow for most clients. Working with different languages can also be a bit tricky.

Lightweight CMS that allows us as developers to work with frontend frameworks like Next.js. Fast and easy proof of concept.

Sanity is user and developer-friendly tool. Easy to integrate, manage and maintain. Focus on providing pure content to display any environment, such as web, mobile or if you want to display your content on the TV

Haven't seen any functionality that I couldn't like it.

Sanity is content as a service system. It solved serving content in a different environment to display. Provides independent content from the displayed area, only focus on creating pure content

The editor and developer experience is good. We can easily create and reuse content and modules.

Documentation is lacking. Getting started is easy, but many details for more advanced use has to be inferred from source code and trail and error

We reduce developer time building specifically tailored sites. Editors save time and can reuse content easily.

UPDATE Nov 2022 - I thought Sanity already had the best developer experience in CMSs and content management in general. Then they released version 3 of the studio, which blew my mind. Everything is even more smoother now, and all of the bit tedious tasks before, such as custom input components, are very straightforward to create. Compared to many other CMSs I have used, I liked defining the schema as code. I enjoy the security of having my schema in version control, and I don't need to fear any of my editors (or myself) accidentally making breaking changes. The developer experience is among the best in all tech!

With Sanity, you have almost unlimited possibilities to model your content. I have seen this cause some over-engineering in the content modeling.

Structured content distributed to different platforms/frameworks etc. I am consuming content from Sanity, for example, in web and mobile applications, GraphQL servers, and websites. Portable Text specification especially has stolen my heart. No more HTML-to-whatever conversions make it an easy and straightforward process to consume the content anywhere!

Best developer environment for headless CMS.

Bit of a learning curve but nothing major!

Best flexibility in custom client CMS for any data models.

Developer Friendly, Fast, and Cost Friendly

Realtime Draft Editing Sometimes have connection Issue

Developer Friendly, Fast, and Cost Friendly CMS compared to others i have used before.

Sanity is very versatile. Very customizable. It allows us developers and web-editors to have a lot of freedom in our workflow. Adding new schemas or editing old ones is really simple. The community on sanity slack is also SUPER amazing. I often turn to the community to get answers to my questions without having to sit there for hours myself trying to figure things out.

I am not a big fan of image handling in sanity. There is no way to sort or search for already uploaded images (especially when choosing an image). There is a plugin that sort of deals with it, but I would love to see it as a built-in feature in sanity. I would also love to see more examples. I found very few examples of, for example, translations. I would love to see not only document and field level translations - but an example of their mix.

E-commerse website for tour booking. We are still in our development stage and mostly working on the key features. Sanity will soon enough give the marketing and web-editor teams the freedom to publish new information without the help of developers. The headache of dealing with an annoying "base set" UI that most other CMS have will also be solved quickly. Sanity also works flawlessly with next.js, which is what we are also using in our solution.

Easy to start and extend with reasonably priced plans. The developer experience is excellent, backed up by good APIs & documentation. I also like the fact that content schemas can be defined as code. No need to click through UI.

Internationalization features should be baked in without additional plugins. Also, I would like to have more information on best practices related to content modeling.

Headless CMS gives freedom for content creation & development as they are not tied together vs. traditional CMSs. Sanity provides centralized content management for different touchpoints. Single sourcing of content - less repetitive/duplicate content.

As a developer the thing I love most about Sanity is the flexibility, both in presenting content to editors and retrieving it for use on the web!

There isn't much to dislike, if I had to pick something I'd say it would be good if there were more official plugins for compex use cases

Sanity allows us to cater the content management experience for very specific use cases and still present it to clients in a pleasing and easy to use interface in the studio.