Storyblok is the world's pioneer headless CMS that works for both developers & business users. Built on the premise that traditional CMS makes it difficult to repurpose content for different platforms, Storyblok offers a unique fusion of visual editing tools and highly tailored content blocks built on top of its headless architecture that provides exceptional flexibility and speed for developers.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
The implementation is easy and useful. The flexibility is also really good and the support helped us out multiple times.
Better comparison tools between different spaces so you can easily upgrade them.
We developed our own PWA Odoo application and this is a great asset to the stack. Multiple webshops are being made more flexible thanks to this feature.
Having all projects managed from one place is so easy now with Storyblok. You can easily use Storyblok for all platforms that you need (web: vue, angular ... mobile) in a very easy way. Getting data is so easy.
Once when you start to use Storyblok it’s easy and fast. In my opinion, pricing is probably expensive for the start but in comparison to others, it's still cheaper. But once when you start using it you can check partner benefits and becoming a partner is probably the best option.
Storyblok solves problems with API Content Delivery. Hosting Images on CDN is also one great benefit. Also preview of your work in StoryBlok works great and you can realtime check your work.
With the Visual Editor, I can immediately see my changes live, which is fun. The components of a page can be moved with ease. The individualization of each component is especially great.
At the moment I haven't found a way to lock components. I want to populate a component with content and then use it more often. Currently I do this by copying, which is a bit tedious.
The headless cms can be easily connected to javascript frameworks using ready-made code examples. Furthermore, the live view in the visual editor is very helpful, because you can immediately see the changes.
The visual editing experience is great. My coworkers in marketing who have been using it for the past 6 months have had only good things to say about it. Its so easy for developers to extend and for marketers to use.
The permissions are very granular but could be even more so! I'd like to have more control over exclusions of different content types.
Allowing marketers to create content without developers, and quickly see their work before it goes live. It has improved our publishing experience for everyone.
The side-by-side Preview within the CMS is awesome and unique in the HeadlessCMS space yet - and the UI is nice and clean. The flexibility to configure and build my content-bloks directly in the CMS allows me, and most importantly my design/pm colleagues, to build almost anything.
Depending on the Framework you are using, the setup isn't that self-explanatory or documented well. I'm still struggling with getting the Preview-Mode in Next.js to work. If you add a link field within a blok, you need to add a separate field for the link-target to set with. Additionally, the links delivered within the Content-Delivery-API are quite hard to use as you need to use the property "cached_link" (the other property is always empty) and be sure to add a slash at the beginning (sometimes) when using as relative links.
No more patching, manually updating and hosting of a CMS-Software. A lot of work can already be done by non-development people, by building the Elements (bloks) directly in the CMS. Flexibility to use with whatever Framework/Technology I want to
What sets Storyblok apart from anything out there, is the ability to have a true data hierarchy, most headless content management systems lack this ability giving you data in a flat data structure. Not everyone is running a simple blog and Storyblok understands that, so they provide us with the ability to structure our stories in the way we want which is extremely powerful.
I think that Storyblok could benefit from having tooling to manage stories across spaces, we have several spaces which correspond to different environments within our infrastructure and moving stories from one space to another as well as getting components copied over is a manual task via MAPI.
Storyblok allows us to quickly push our marketing landers without the need for developer interaction, so our developers can focus on making new components while content managers focus on creating stories.
Storyblok brings modularity, easy-to-use admin UI and clean API (rest/graphql). Storyblok stands out from the rest of the products with its page preview feature. As you change your content, you see rendered page preview instantly. I also enjoy how easy it's to add localizations and consume that content via API. Another strong point is the ability to extend admin UI by adding your custom plugins/field types.
Storyblok being a SAAS product, your content is stored in the cloud. It might be tricky to maintain a full backup of your content. Pricing might also grow if you want all the features and have lots of CMS users.
We saved development time which would be required if we wrote a content management system from scratch. Adding fields, changing structure is effortless compared to other solutions where you need to manage database migrations.
The simplicity, I have no coding knowledge or developer skills and yet I find Storyblok so easy to use and well laid out. As a lay person I can find exactly what I'm looking for with ease, the search features, the drag and drop functionality - it all makes for a great fuss-free experience. I also love that I'm able to make changes that I can see on-page in real time, and save these changes, before publishing them in one smooth update once I've finished. The fact that i can copy and paste blocks and duplicate them too - fantastically easy!
I have struggled to move assets into folders once I have uploaded them. If i am uploading new assets I can choose a folder, but cannot seem to do this retrospectively.
Storyblok has improved the security of our headless website compared to the Wordpress CMS we used to use which constantly required updates. Our website is very new so I have no documented performance analytics just yet but i have noticed its already driving lots of enquiries and capturing lots of customer info in our forms.
I like storyblok because it's just great.Storyblok is very user friendly and a very reliable software.It helps me to build pages with just a few clicks which I find easy to perform. I can also customise every component according to my needs.
I have nothing to dislike about storyblok because it really satisfies all my needs.All relevant information has been put in one place.
As a developer,storyblok provides us with all the flexible we need to build reliable and fast websites.Storyblok has also helped us to deliver great experiences.
The huge variety of template designs and additional community supported features. The mix of visual editing and HTML editing does not present a steep learning curve
The website is optimized to display on desktops as well as mobile devices but it is worked differently for each. You have to edit the mobile version differently to display the way it should
It is a simple matter to set up a website in minutes that is professional-looking without having to learn programming. The whole process of customizing our website is simple and we do it at any time using Storyblok
I think the time and developer experience for setting a project from scratch with Storyblok and Next.js is lightning. Having built my entire portfolio with Next.js, Layer0 and Storyblok (https://rishi.app/), I know I chose the right CMS Provider 😄
I think what Storyblok can improve upon is adding next, previous functionality to their GraphQL queries, but other than that all awesome.
I think the benefit is instant publishing, unpublishing. As a tech writer, I feel that Storyblok has achieved this feat of at least getting people like me started instantly.
Storyblok is fast and powerful. It feels super responsive and snappy, you can build any imaginable content. It's quick and easy to setup if you're a developer or have access to developers
The downside is, if you don't have a team of developers it might cost you to hire a development agency
Storyblok allows for storing content, creating templates, and building web pages. With Storyblok, we are now outputting data as an API
The granular permissions structure provides a naturally working productive environment. The easy-to-use backend allows non-technical users and content creators to focus solely on their tasks
Accessing rendered pages through a proxy is something we are hopeful Storyblok will be able to provide to its users as sokn as possible. This functionality is important to us
It isn't a big deal to recreate pages. We did an information architecture facelift for our website. So far we have been able to launch campaigns with a fairly small team
Customizable UX gives me the ability to easiky create contentof all forms. I can choose and add fields to customizable content types. Safeguard content with roles and permissions tools
Some adaptation pains are involved and you may do some newbie from time to time. Its not totally painless but I have never really got stuck but it also depends with your dev skills
The modular approach really allows us to manage content once instead of repeating ourselves across languages and platforms. Website content updates turnaround is fast
The block-based system approach allows us to create individual pages with a few different modules.
I have not been able to find that out until now.
We were able to implement a site with multiple locations in multiple languages. Duplicate content is maintained only once and displayed dan the desired areas. This is a massive advantage in time-saving and possibilities we didn't have before.
Super simple to use, organize, design, and adjust to create excellent web content throughout all of our active markets. Storyblok makes it super efficient to keep track of our different products, content, and SEO in various languages and markets and update them in no time.
Well, from my side as a designer I dislike that we as a company might be restricted to our own front enders not always having the time to create new templates for us to use. Even more out of the box solutions for easier and faster iterations would be a big plus.
Increasing the speed at which we can operate. As long as we have a design, we just need to translate it into different languages and can then be live with it within minutes rather than weeks.
The strict separation of content and presentation elements opened the possibility of using Angular JS framework for mashing content up in innovative ways
Different pages and content of websites are managed in Storyblok and it can be confusing to locate or retrieve a specific page if someone is not focused
Today, we launch a site in a third of the time it used to take and we can afford to add interactive features quickly and come up with designs that have a interactive personality
Storyblok initially caught the eye of the team with its clean user interface. Ability to cache and store offline app content It's a secure cloud-based content creation platform
More secure log is needed to record all events in detail because the team sometimes is required to edit the content in a short amount of time
Great static website performance with fast load times which also means out-of-the-box safety against attacks
Easy to learn and use CMS, with an intuitive UI. A big plus is that you can reuse your well-structured content. Supports multiple integrations with a variety of APIs, including GraphQL.
Documentation is not equally detailed. For example, the REST API is not as straightforward as GraphQL. I would love to have equal quality of documentation for all features.
Storyblok helps me to manage my CMS needs entirely and don't have to rely on other solutions and services. Prices are also reasonable, including community licenses for developers.
Storyblok is a very flexible and reliable service. The visual preview and image service are outstanding.
The API documentation for complex queries is not very helpful.
Complex data structures are effortless to create and, at the same time, straightforward to make understandable and usable for the client.