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The flexibiliy of the client, the simple but powerful Groq query language, the recently simplified approach to migrations, and the tasks and comments features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The documentation can still be a little rough. It can be hard to find examples that aren't out of date. That has been offset with the launch of Sanity Learn though. But better docs would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sanity.io offers impressive flexibility, allowing users to tailor the platform to fit nearly any content structure. This is largely thanks to its schema-based approach, which gives developers the freedom to create custom workflows and layouts. One of its standout features is real-time collaboration, which enables multiple users to work on content simultaneously. This makes it a fantastic tool for teams, especially those managing large-scale projects with lots of moving parts. Another major plus is how developer-friendly it is. With its JavaScript-based studio and API-first architecture, Sanity.io integrates smoothly with modern front-end frameworks. The live preview feature is also a game-changer, allowing changes to appear immediately, which saves time during content creation and testing.
Sanity.io also excels when it comes to media handling, thanks to its powerful Image Pipeline. This feature automatically optimizes images for performance, resizing and compressing them on the fly, which is a huge win for developers focused on speed and efficiency. You get responsive images with minimal effort, improving load times across devices.
Another standout feature is GROQ, Sanity’s open-source query language, which allows users to fetch and, if need be, transform exactly the data they need. It’s flexible, easy to learn, and more powerful than traditional REST-based and GraphQL approaches, making it a favorite among developers who need precision in data retrieval.
On top of all that, the Sanity team is incredibly active in supporting its users. Their Slack channel is lively and offers direct access to the development team, where users can get quick help or share feedback. Sanity’s regular product updates show they are committed to improving and adding features, keeping the platform fresh and aligned with modern development practices. This level of engagement from the team is a huge plus for anyone considering long-term use of the platform.
While Sanity.io does have a bit of a learning curve, especially for users unfamiliar with schema-based systems, they offer a variety of templates to help users get up and running quickly. These templates provide a solid starting point for common use cases like blogs, e-commerce sites, and portfolios. For developers who might find the customizability daunting at first, these templates offer an easy way to dive in without having to build everything from scratch. The combination of these ready-made templates and Sanity's powerful features means that while there’s a learning curve, the platform also provides enough resources to help new users get up to speed relatively quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
For users unfamiliar with schema-based systems, there’s definitely a learning curve. Pricing can also be a concern. While the free tier is generous, advanced features such as higher quotas or more extensive user management come at a premium. Another point to consider is that Sanity.io offers minimal out-of-the-box features. Its flexibility is great, but it means that users will need to build a lot of components themselves to achieve the desired functionality, which may require more development effort upfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sanity is a wonderful system for setting up structured content. It's flexible, it's easy to set up, it's cheap (if not outright free), and it lets me create incredible solutions for our clients. Finally, the community and support you get on Slack is best in business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The documentation can be a bit hard to navigate at times. The v3 of the Sanity Studio is great, but still not out for general availability. It's also super expensive once you need business features like SSO (understandable though). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sanity's flexible schema and GROQ query language have been a game-changer for building a custom content platform tailored to educational materials like lessons, courses, and webpages. As a software engineer, I appreciated the detailed documentation and resources that helped me quickly learn and leverage Sanity’s full capabilities. The CMS is a powerful tool that allows for a long list of use cases. Live previews and customization options further streamlined our workflow, making it easy to design user-friendly, dynamic pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While there was ample documentation available, there could be more of a learning curve for those who don't know exactly where to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Since we first partnered up with Sanity, the support our team has received has been great. From having a dedicated Slack channel to answer our team's questions to exceptional documentation, our experience has been better than expected. As a developer, the documentation provided by Sanity was instrumental in helping us set up our first studio and integrate it with our front end. I also appreciate Sanity's flexibility in that you can use it out of the box or customize it until it fits your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Honestly, our team has not encountered any major issues, and if/when we did the Sanity team was always there to help us fix the problem. If I had to pick something, it would be that I wish some of the recent updates had been available when we first started building our studio. There are a few things that would have been nice to have, but not worth the effort to go back in and update as of now. It would also be nice to see some more pre-build templates and examples with the different frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You can do almost anything you can think of with Sanity. It's a tool that lets you tweak editor experience in so many ways, while delivering the data to your services, front ends etc is still straightforward and lightweigth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The flexibility can also be the biggest challenge when using Sanity. It's not always easy to understand how to structure data in a productive way, and it took us a really long time to understand this. I see there are more guides now though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ability to "configure" custom UIs.
Quite a lot can be done with out-of-the-box features. The ability to create custom UI components makes it even more powerful
Can manage images out of the box.
User management is good.
UX is good.
Easy to integrate via Rest API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Rest API is sometimes quite slow. They seem to have some caching (i.e. if you request some data, the first time it can be quite slow, subsequent requests in a short time frame are faster), but we got around this with a cache on our side.
- sometimes, it's a bit hard to find more advanced things in the docs
- custom document validations sometimes seem a bit flacky, I sometimes have to refresh the page to get the correct results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Based on my experiences with sanity, over the past 3 years, ive grown fond of the platforms flexibility and customization. It makes it easy for my company to tailor the CMS to the best suit our editors' needs.
There are some key points that work well for us:
- Flexibility & Customization: The ability to structure content models that fits our projects unique needs. It gives us freedom to provide good schemas for our editors and make it stand out for our company-
- Real-time Collaboration: The collaborative editing features are a highlight for both developers and editors. Gives us live feedback on how the pages and articles are going to look.
- Developer-centric tools: Given my background as a developer, Sanity gives us all the tools that we need to greate integrations that work really well. Its ease of integration and implementation with react and next framework is a godsend. They give us all the tools that we need to develop fast and well.
- Customer support: our first-class customer support through our enterprise contract is on a level that we haven't seen earlier. They are quick to respond and 9 out of 10 times resolve our issues or questions regarding implementation details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The downsides are mostly documentation. Its not that easy to read the documentation all the time and its not allways up to date. That would be the number one thing they should take a bigger look at.
But since the customer support is so amazing, then its not that big of a problem for us, but i know that many people are unhappy about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As a developer, it is super fast and flexible to create new solutions to satisfy our editors needs. There is almost no limit to what we can do in Sanity Studio.
My favourite features:
- Customization of the desk structure
- Incredibly helpful support (if you are an organization and have this option)
- The next-sanity plugin for easy integration to our frontend.
- GROQ, very powerful query language for optimizing queries
- Ease of learning for new team members. Every team member can after a short time easily code in Sanity and use the CMS when it is required from our editors. All our developers use the Sanity Studio at least once a week, even if they arae backend developers.
- Scalability. There is no problem being a large organization or having a large dataset.
- Ease of use in the starting phase. When setting up a new project, you can almost immediately start coding and will in minutes have a fully working CMS. Implementation of the studio is super fast.
All in all, an amazing CMS with flexibility, ease of use. It is really fun to work with Sanity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The documentation could be better. As a large organization needing very customized solutions in our Sanity Studio, we have needed to use parts of Sanity that are not documented anywhere. We have found the parts (functions etc.) we are using through inspecting the source code, or through the customer support team.
Migrations of documents can also be a pain sometimes, due to the restrictions with regard to changing immutable parameters. This has been solved with the new experimental API, but we have used a lot of time on this before using the API.
Preview (or presentation) could also be better. The live preview pane takes a lot of manual work to set up properly, and the presentation mode has never worked properly for us, due to our frontend and Studio is not connected in the 'one-to-one' relationship needed in presentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Has essential CMS functionalities and is relatively easy to use and implement our own features in. Intuitive UI that isn't overly complex, though might be helpful if there were ways for us to organise things better. Overall, its been a relatively smooth experience using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Limited built-in options for content management- eg. can't apply a hierarchy to the content libraries, schedule publication. Another thing is that we use Sanity to power search on our customer-facing product, but search results are often irrelevant - if users make minor spelling mistakes, use synonyms, stemmed words, the search doesn't surface the right article. It's one of the key features of our product so this has been a major painpoint for us, but we're not sure if this can be improved on either end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
