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4.3
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What is Contentful?

Contentful unifies content via a central hub and helps structure it for use across various digital channels. It also easily integrates with numerous other tools through open APIs. Contentful lets users bring their content anywhere using our APIs, and completely tailor their content structure while using your preferred programming languages and frameworks.

Company Contentful GmbH
Year founded 2013
Company size 201-500 employees
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
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Segment
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Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Contentful Features
A/B Testing
API Access
Analytics and Reporting
Asset Management
Backup and Restore
Collaboration Tools
Content Editor
Content Scheduling
Content Staging
Content Taxonomy
Customizable Templates
Drag and Drop Interface
E-Commerce Integration
Form Builder
Media Library
Mobile Preview
Multi-Channel Publishing
Multilingual Support
Personalization
Responsive Design
Role-Based Access Control
SEO Management
Search Functionality
Social Media Integration
Template Management
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Version Control
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Last updated: November 17, 2024
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295 Contentful Reviews
4.3 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 25, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
RG
Russ G.
Senior Manager, Content Marketing
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"Happy with Contentful"
What do you like best about Contentful?

I've used many CMS before and Contentful is one of the best. We have a very complex content production process with many global sites and locales and Contentful handles it all very well. Also seems to be easy for our developers to build on top of. As a Content Marketer myself, it allows my team to produce a variety of content and is reliable.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

I'd like to be able to view more than 40 entries on a single page to have an easier view of a lot of content on one page. Also the ability to export to a CSV a list of entries by their URL so we can have a list of articles/entries directly from Contentful.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Contentful helps solve the issue of producing content a global scale with a distributed team. It also helps validate checks within content, and allow developers to build on the platform to customize to our needs.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 19, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.5
LD
Luyen D.
Technical Director
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"Contentful's scalable locale support was a clear win for our organization!"
What do you like best about Contentful?

The ability to support multiple locales in a modern framework, without impacting performance, and just as importantly streamlining our translators' workflow.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

We haven't come across any dislikes yet.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Contentful is helping us to separate the data from the presentation layer, and scaling locale support our museum exhibits, and user stories without sacrificing performance or ease of use.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 23, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Mariah A. avatar
Mariah A.
Senior Software Engineer
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"An extremely incredible asset that I use in my work"
What do you like best about Contentful?

Best cloud-based content management framework. More straightforward keeping up with of items with sort of organization spaces conditions. Create straightforward by showing every one of the pages in a solitary table view

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Order show of fields when you need to plunge into the keep going kid field. No honor in refreshing the components in the rich word processor. Building the application requires a long time to make the blueprint and bootstrapping the data. Inaccessibility of channel usefulness to sift through the unused resources. Needs a ton of instances of the prescribed utilize Contentful with gatsby.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are keeping up with the items on the cloud. Simple see of the changes. Gives showcasing group great adaptability. Great information organizing design with the Richtext supervisor. Keeping up with every one of the resources in the cloud.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 12, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.5
DR
David R.
Senior Consultant
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"Davids review"
What do you like best about Contentful?

I really like the developer experience, on the community slack channel especially, anyone who get's stuck can ask for help.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Lack of documentation in certain areas like the app framework in the past

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing an excellent platform as a headless CMS solution, A lot of our clients are seeing it as a great alternative to Drupal. For example: Powering things like digital touch screen displays and advertisting boards inside gyms.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 04, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
ST
Sivaji T.
Programmer
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"Beginner Friendly Content Management System"
What do you like best about Contentful?

Compose functionality Releases Page View SEO implementation Rich Text Editor Avif/Webp Image Support

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Poor filtering Costlier for composing functionality Not much provided best practices code examples Not much support of the deployment of App framework Not able to update their UI components from Storybook

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was managing all the contents in the cloud. Faster build. SEO handling Asset Management without worrying about the underlying storage Deployment slots

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Dec 07, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Brayden H. avatar
Brayden H.
Co Founder
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"Contentful Review"
What do you like best about Contentful?

- Easy to Use Software - Adaptability - User Friendly - Ability to duplicate forms instantly, which saves time rather than needing to recreate every document each time

What do you dislike about Contentful?

- More training could be provided - More updates - There could be more functionalities added to the software to improve the overall end to end experience for users

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Form builder has been great for creating forms and duplicating rather than starting from scratch - For replicating, Contentful has made the process much more easy than previous

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 15, 2021
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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Harsh A.
Assistant Manager
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"Using this is helpful"
What do you like best about Contentful?

Workflow has made life better and easy, with new innovations and excellent support we are loving the product, and continuously adding new things to it as it is a nice thing.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Just a customized thing will be good for replies.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Invoice/query managment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 13, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
CA
Cora A.
Content Manager
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"Very User-friendly"
What do you like best about Contentful?

I like best that Contentful is easy to use.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

I don't like that it is sometimes has bugs; for example, copying a page sometimes doesn't work.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am updating different landing pages

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 11, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
BK
Balasubramani K.
Senior Software Engineer
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"It's Awesome Contentful CMS."
What do you like best about Contentful?

I like Contentful very much to integrate with React. It saves a lot of time to create multiple pages on gatsby js. Rich text rendering with references, fetching data in graphql way, Locales.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

1. Unable to fetch the field data in graphql, without adding the placeholder in contentful. 2. We can see the last updated user name, but are unable to see what they updated the data. 3. We need the filter like this, Assume after selecting the page type, there is a field contententries. we can add multiple component types in contententries. _Page: Basic -> contententries -> Element: CTA. We need the filter like all the CTA entry available inside the contententries of Basic page. 4. When creating Locales, It is showing more text boxes for each locale. It is a little awkward to see. you can put a filter option to see the particular locale.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

1.Rich text references helped so much. Content authors can easily add the different types of content types in rich text. Developers also easily extract the content type and render the component. 2. component created in gatsby js against each contentful content type and re-used the component with different data from contentful

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 01, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
KM
Karen M.
Marketing Manager
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"Great CMS tool that helped scale our website, BootUpPD.org!"
What do you like best about Contentful?

Contentful makes it easy for our team to create and manage website content without having to worry about messing up the code! Paired with GatsbyJS, they've made website development and management easier than imaginable. They're quick to answer questions, allow for ultimate content modeling flexibility, quick querying via Graphql, and our developer loves working with them. Gone are the days of operating a headless WP, Drupal or *insert old tech here*, security updates, and complicated plugins - we use Contentful.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

The learning curve for those who are unfamiliar with CMS tools. The rich text editor is also something that can use some improvement.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

A faster, more reliable website that we can't break! A robust tool that allows for customization while maintaining structured content throughout the site.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 08, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Thomas F. avatar
Thomas F.
Managing Director
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"Contenful best Headless Solution on the market."
What do you like best about Contentful?

Easy integration and flexibility to bild a high class user experience.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

The Image Optimization could be a little bit better - but great to have these build in.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

We build high availability digital products.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 04, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.5
EF
Eric F.
Founder
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"Decoupled enterprise tech - most effective for business leaders with go-to-market urgency"
What do you like best about Contentful?

For firms with monolithic WCMS software and IT resource dependency, Contentful is designed to co-exist with legacy content and data repositories, and it is so popular that business leaders can design and launch new digital products without being hamstrung by legacy IT.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Contentful product marketing is still more of a "tech developers love us" messaging. Contentful could do a better job of more easily describing how quickly they solve business problems for marketers, sales leadership, HR executives and digital product leaders.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Digital wealth management and investing tools. We've realized super fast go-to-market time frames with helping grow revenue by having digitized services to offer to new markets.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 04, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Ted C. avatar
Ted C.
Director Of Strategic Partnerships
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"Put simply - the platform that will power the future of content"
What do you like best about Contentful?

The flexibility of the solution! It plugs and plays so well with other best of breed solutions.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

There is a bit of a learning curve for those familiar with traditional CMS's.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're creating rich, engaging digital experiences on contentful, it's helped our clients accelerate speed to market, and allowed them to truly leverage their content in an omni channel way.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 03, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Philip J. avatar
Philip J.
Freelance Consultant
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"Great pick for a JAMStack CMS"
What do you like best about Contentful?

One of the more user-friendly CMS's out there. Really a joy to use and easy to understand. Create new content models and content is simple and intuitive.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

The only thing that confused me was lack of single-use type entries.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to run a marketing site.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 13, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.5
TM
Timo M.
Founder
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"Awesome and super flexible CMS"
What do you like best about Contentful?

I love the flexibility of contentful. It gives you all the freedom that you need to create amazing apps. Working with the Webapp is lots of fun. It's simple to use, fast and you can collaborate with a big team and manage multiple languages in a simple way. In combination with gatsby an amazing stack to build fast, modern sites!

What do you dislike about Contentful?

With great power comes great responsibility. Since contentful is so flexible, you certainly need some experience to get the most out of it. It takes a bit of time to fully understand all concepts from content types to internationalization but it is worth learning it and the resources on the website (plus learning center) make the learning efficient and fun.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

I want fast and user friendly websites and the combination of gatsby + contentful gives me exactly this. Plus, our project is multilingual and we need to be able to add new languages without too much effort and be able to manage content in a bigger team. Another advantage is that we are going to manage several Apps through one CMS.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 26, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Mauricio S. avatar
Mauricio S.
Full Stack Engineer
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"Great for serving content to apps"
What do you like best about Contentful?

The ability to change content state (as draft, published, etc.). Very dynamic and useful. Easy to integrate using its API and key/environment structure.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

A little bit difficult to set a custom data structure without providing JSON structure

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast content serving (for images in my case). It is really fast, just what I needed.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 07, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
TI
Thomas I.
Head Of Web Office
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"Great Headless CMS used by the Swiss Red Cross"
What do you like best about Contentful?

Contentful is an extremely stable, secure and user-friendly system with high availability and speed. As an NPO, we can benefit from an extremely generous NPO price plan.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

It's a pity we can't benefit from all the new features because the NPO pricing model has been adjusted. We'd be very happy to pay part of the cost, but we can't keep up with the "large space" model.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to Contentful, we have converted to a Headless CMS infrastructure and benefit from the very well structured input masks for our editors.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 30, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Fred T. avatar
Fred T.
Digital Marketing Specialist
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"A great tool to manage content"
What do you like best about Contentful?

The provided API is quite fast and reliable. When it comes to uploading media, Contentful makes this process easier and faster than other similar CMS tools. Besides, it is a secured platform, counting with a very reliable system of verification and control of input entries and it has a high level of flexibility, so you can structure your data in any way you want and. The company also provides help to integrate with a different application based on language Java, C# and many more . Contentful makes very easy to sort and edit your content.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Sometimes we need to deal with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, these things are not handled in Contentful as efficiently as I'd like. I mean, it's not bad, but it’s only useful if you want to add several contents at the same time. However, some of my colleagues have told me its biggest issue has to do with integration, because it doesn’t support many solutions. Personally, I haven't proven this.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is a great tool to manage content. In my previous company, we worked with PatriotSystem and it was good, but Contentful is a better CMS in so many ways . Content API is quite fast and so reliable, all our Marketing actions can be completely done in a couple of minutes. Contenful CMS provide space a nice content management solution which is quite handy in working with the different project.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 22, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Jason M. avatar
Jason M.
Sales Marketing Positions
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"Load content into apps"
What do you like best about Contentful?

The interface is modern and very clean. It remains me of WordPress and how I’m a regular user for this platform, I could learn how to use it quickly. This familiarity made me felt like I already knew the software even before I started using it. The image usage is very simple to learn and modify. What I like the most is the ability to manage fields, being able to add, cut, move or remove them.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Contentful lacks of some spelling tools to check grammar. You have to add a plug-in in order to review the grammar of your content. Also, It does not integrate with Grammarly, what I consider to be the best tool for checking grammar, so you have to use another one. And, if you want to get the best out of Contentful, it requires some hard dev resources.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

Contentful is a very used tool in the Marketing department of my company. It performs as our selected platform for loading content into apps, rather if it is on iOS or Android, and to pull down cloud content. It is a great tool to make your content reach international audiences with specific topics or content type (video, image, audio, etc).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 30, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Andi Yuni W. avatar
Andi Yuni W.
Tester
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"Easy and modern cms with clean UI."
What do you like best about Contentful?

It's easy to create contents. Just a minute, you can create content with their powerful tools. Contentful makes all content accessible via an API, so that developers can take, access, and display content anywhere and in any platforms.

What do you dislike about Contentful?

Little bit slower for publishing content.

What problems is Contentful solving and how is that benefiting you?

I only prepare content then Contentful delivering my content.