Name: Kinvey
Rating: 4.5 (245 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Kinvey

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Kinvey?

Kinvey is a software that provides a cloud backend platform designed to support the development and deployment of mobile, web, and digital applications. The software offers features such as backend integrations, data storage, authentication, and business logic, enabling developers to manage and scale applications without the need for extensive server-side coding. Kinvey facilitates connectivity to enterprise systems and third-party services, helping organizations streamline their application development processes and address challenges related to time-to-market, infrastructure management, and maintenance of complex backend systems. The software aims to simplify orchestration of cloud resources and support multi-channel digital experiences through standardized APIs and developer tools.

Overall experience with Kinvey

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

1B - 3B USD, Miscellaneous

FAVORABLE

“Bets User interface creation tool - Kendo UI ”

5.0

Apr 3, 2023

It is great tool for creating user interface with low code approach. Its reporting element helps in creating report and add datasource by just drag and drop. It support various language like ReactJS, Angular, .NET which helps in creating varieties of apps. It has very impressive customer support who share the demo code for the query.

Director

3B - 10B USD, Finance (non-banking)

CRITICAL

“Promising product failed to scale”

2.0

Sep 11, 2020

We assessed and deployed Kinvey in 2017 as the core backbone of a cutting edge workplace experience mobile product. At the time Kinvey was an upcoming entrant in the MBaaS domain. Subsequent phases of the product lifecycle yielded several product capability issues across the board starting with deployment pipeline. Kinvey was replaced subsequent with a combination of Ambassador / Envoy service mesh architecture and Firebase.

About Company

Company Description

Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a company that aids businesses in achieving faster innovation cycles, fueling growth and success. It provides top quality products for the development, deployment and management of high-impact applications. The company's services ensure the creation of necessary applications and user experiences, offers flexibility in how and where to deploy and facilitates the safe and secure management of all these processes. This comprehensive solution makes Progress an essential resource for numerous enterprises, software companies and developers, supporting them in meeting their defined objectives.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1981

Head office location

Burlington, MA, United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

https://www.progress.com/

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Performance of Kinvey Across Market Features

Kinvey Likes & Dislikes

It has great performance on handling huge data set in grid and report. It has awesome documentation which helps in using the tool very smoothly. It support automation test report creation. It support apps integration and third party integration too.

It has a promising entry model for mobile backend as a service (MBaas). For smaller deployments and smaller teams, this may work for rapid prototyping, offline sync, notifications etc. Initial deployment discussions had a low TCO

Its security with multi authentication level and SSO support. Its less code approach saves lots of time and increase development work. Its inbuild AI service helps in creating functionality like image recognition. It support different operating system and all devices. Configuration and integration with API is easy and freindly.

Nothing

- Lack of sophisticated CI/ CD pipeline - Node js based architecture - Lack of service mesh support - Complexity in integration with OAuth - OpenID connect providers - Overall scale and performance

Nothing

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1B-10B USD

Miscellaneous

Review Source

Bets User interface creation tool - Kendo UI

Senior Lead Engineer

10B+ USD

Best Tool For Creating Hybrid Apps

4.0

Mar 16, 2023

Overall nice tool for entire development solution with great customer support. Its integration with cloud helps in building apps and website much faster with high performance. Its drag and drop feature to create report and connect with database are easy. It support less code approach by creating module for each functionality. It support to Angular, ReactJS, .NET.

PRODUCT ANALYST

Energy and Utilities

Best UI Solutions

Dec 17, 2022

We used it to build our app both on mobile and web. It almost took 3 weeks time to deploy our app. The serverless and hybrid platform it provides is very convenient.

DATA ANALYST

50M-1B USD

NativeScript, NativeChat, Kendo UI Reviews

Oct 7, 2022

As a developer I am highly recommending this tool for creating user interface. Its module functionality helps in writing low code by reusing the same module on different projects too. Its AI integration are really cool for creating functionality like image recognition. It handle the large data very smoothly and never slow down as it support lazy loading. It support different programming language like ReactJS, Angular, .Net.

ANALYTICS ENGINEER

NativeChat AND Kendo Tool For User Interface

Jun 6, 2022

Good product for creating the user interface with less code approach. Its support to DevOps makes it more friendly in continues developing and continues integration. I personally become fan of support team as they always available and solve the problem in very quick time. Integration with AI and other tools helps to create more effective user interface. Its model approach helps to reuse the model again for different products.