# Page 2 | Firebase Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Firebase the right Push Notifications solution for you? Explore 767 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/160941/Firebase/reviews --- Firebase 4.6 (767) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Firebase ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 767 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use eT emily T. administrativo Food & Beverages Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Avaliação do melhor aplicativo" April 19, 2023 4.0 Já realizei muitos trabalhos empresarial, cotação de preços, ver avaliação de lugares. Pros O aplicativo é fácil de usar, pratico e facilita muito o dia a dia, Cons não tenho críticas para serem feitas, mais a finalidade de ficar chegando notificações a todo tempo, acho cansativo, pois as vezes são spam Review Source TP Thomas P. Seo Executive Hospitality Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Firebase / Firestore and cloud functions has automated my business" December 4, 2023 5.0 Absolutely positive all round. As I mention above, it has saved time and money and removed a lot of laboursome tasks. Pros I started using firebase to run cloud functions, and then store data to firestore. I like the firebase interface. I like how event triggers function logically and the ability to use the api's as well. All in all, over the last 12 month I have managed to automated a significant amount of processes that would have otherwise required manual intervention, thus saving time and money. Its a win - win. Cons I haven't encountered any issue to dislike. Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Reason for choosing Firebase Firebase Cloud Fuctions were a crucial part of data design. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Product Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Firebase Review" February 7, 2023 5.0 Our core functionality for it which is the authentication service is great, we were previously using AWS Cognito to do that, but I did not enjoy the experience setting it up, I think Firebase is an easier implementation to setup and just experience. Pros Ease of functionality, we use the Authentication and Database services and they are fairly easy to implement and use with our backend services. Cons Not a lot of negatives at all, I think as you scale you might want to look at other solutions. But with the document and collection feature for the databases, I personally believe it is a modern implementation of databases which is good for us, but it might not be everyones cup of tea, and I think MongoDB might just scale better if thats what you're looking for. Review Source EK Edwin K. CEO Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Firebase for Delivery App" October 21, 2023 5.0 Perfect for our Delivery Business Mobile App from easy integration of Maps, Data Analytics. Pros Real time analytics for understanding customer behaviors on our app, their journey from start to finish. Helps us gauge the hurdles in our applications for improvement. Cons It's always a learning curve to understands where each resource on Firebase is located other than that a perfect experience Reason for choosing Firebase Google, Maps you can't go wrong with it's resources. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Firebase the best backend" February 6, 2023 4.0 Ha permesso di deployare più velocemente servizi richiesti da clienti. Pros La semplicità di utilizzo e velocità con la quale è possibile creare il lato backend della proprio sistema. Inoltre viene fornito un piano gratuito molto vantaggioso per chi vuole iniziare. Inoltre la gestione degli utenti con firebase auth permette di gestire il tutto semplicemente anche attraverso accesso con social. Cons Come servizi backend non ha le stesse funzionalità di aws o azure ma essendo collegato a google si interfaccia molto con google cloud. Alternatives considered [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) Reason for choosing Firebase Semplicità di utilizzo e un deploy molto veloce in termini di tempo di sviluppo. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best cloud integration for websites 2023" October 19, 2022 5.0 Over the year’s, firebase has eased the process to work on server/cloud Pros Recently, I was using firebase to host an app which i was doing with CLI cmd however, now i can write CI/CD pipeline and instruct github to do the task for me Cons That backend server is quite costly and will have to pay bit high over owing a server Reason for choosing Firebase On initial setup for a startup hardware costs a lot over buying a space on cloud Switched from [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[AWS Step Functions](https://www.capterra.com/p/210965/AWS-Step-Functions/) They were costing me much in infrastructure Review Source hS han S. reviewer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best app making program and always will be" December 25, 2022 4.0 It was the best program to creat apps but it was a little hard for beginners with little experience. Pros I adore how simple Firebase is for beginners to use—you can link your application to Firebase with just two or three taps. I appreciate that it keeps application associations and assessment working with, as this aids in gathering some first-hand knowledge of the dashboard for all major occurrences. I appreciate that Firebase provides a solution via the supervisor board without the requirement for a second server and without the creation of server-side code. I appreciate that it provides various forms of affirmation (browse of email, phone number, casual networks). That you can definitely produce a record without the need for a credit or charge card is something I prefer. I appreciate that the Firebase evaluation tool enables your application to make, develop, Cons Despite the fact that Firebase suits completely the improvement of more straightforward applications, isn't proper for complex applications, with huge information or various relations/combinations which makes large organizations dispose of Firebase as a choice. Setting up, arranging, and executing arrangements with Firebase isn't quite as natural as it thoroughly searches in instructional exercises and archives and absolutely requires coding abilities, particularly in Java, Hub JS, and a few others. There is an expectation to learn and adapt. Review Source IÁ Isaac Á. Intern Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Firebase for my university application" March 28, 2023 5.0 Pros Firstly, I liked the updated and well-specified API that it has, in addition to that, the ease of connection and implementation with other application development environments, in my case nodejs, and finally, for its good technical support at the time of corrections or errors. Cons As I said before, what I liked the least was that there were certain obsolete functions to connect node js with firebase. Reason for choosing Firebase On a recommendation from a teacher experienced with many similar software Review Source Kudzayi T. Mobile Application Developer Media Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Google Firebase review." October 18, 2018 4.0 Firebase has helped me to develop my mobile applications at a very cheap price. Sometimes I hardly pay a cent. I do not need to have a server, create a database, get a domain, air-conditioning for servers, physical space and hire an IT expert to maintain these components. Firebase does all these things for free. Also I get information on the demographics of my users, their locations, amount of time they spend doing an activity and the time they spend on my mobile applications. I can now know what needs adjusting and whats working completely find. I also get crash reports and also push notifications. Pros Firebase has 3 plans, there is a free plan which is the Spark Plan, a Flame Plan which has a fixed fee and a Blaze Plan which is a pay as you use. Firebase is an online database facility, it helps to lower the costs of operating an mobile application or a website. It also provides database functions, such as push notifications which would require an experienced coder. It is easy to use if you have basic coding skills. There are free online Firebase tutorials on how to use it and integrate it into your application. It also provides analytics facility which produces statistics on the data you produce, how it is accessed, device locations and models. This aids in knowing target audiences. Also authentication functions are used, this helps in signup, login and also other login functions such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. Cons Coding skills such as Java, JavaScript, Kotlin and even Python are required. The Blaze Plan can run up costs if coder fails to efficiently produce programming codes that resend requests to Firebase database. Example is retrieving data such as username multiple times, which should have been done only once. Tutorials provides basic information. You might need to go to other sources to find solutions to coding problems. This places are Google Books on Firebase, YouTube, GitHub, online forums and freelance coder websites. Review Source Leonardo F. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Tools for almost every trade" September 30, 2020 4.0 We've already used firebase a lot for prototypes and several app projects. Today we use it in a really big project, and it works really well in some aspects and limited in others, as stated before. Documents in firestore can have up to 1MB, so we use these documents to consolidate some reporting data in a few cases, and that works really well, for example. Instead of running reports on the fly, you just load one document or collection. Here at our company, we even forgot all the headache that involves user and session management. I recommend giving firebase a chance. Pros Firebase is really easy for creating simple apps. It has a lot of features that helps you get started faster for prototyping or even for large production apps. The Auth feature lets you authenticate users and manage user sessions. Firestore works like a document database, so if you're familiar with it, you're good to go. Firebase storage is Google Cloud Storage, it has a decent price for storing a few hundred GBs of static files. Firebase functions let's you develop APIs using node.js express or triggers that respond to events from other features, like: - User creation, update or deletion; - Firestore document creation, update or deletion; - Storage object upload etc; - Pubsub actions, crons etc; Firebase hosting can host SPA/html pages at virtually no cost, and manages scale for you. The triggers are useful for starting actions depending on user interactions and data altering in a really easy way. It is one of my favorite features. When working with firestore documents and storage objects, you can create security rules to choose if users can read, create, update or delete documents. It is a nice feature that enables mobile developers to query firestore directly. This speeds up development, since you can start working on mobile apps before backend developers create a REST API for interacting with mobile, for example. Another useful feature is that you can attach listeners to documents in firestore or realtime database, and easily show live updates to the user. Cons There are a few reasons that we cannot use only Firebase as a complete solution. Firestore charges per reads, writes and deletes. If your user has to read lots of documents mutiple times, your cost can become unsustainable. Also, it has a few limitations when fetching a lot of documents at once, so you must be careful when implementing this. If you need to do batch processing, firebase is not the best choice. Firebase functions has an execution limit of 9 minutes, and the maximum memory limit that you can use in each function is 2GB. One thing that can be a deal breaker in some cases is that Firestore doesn't have a good way of dealing with aggregation. If you want to count the total number of documents in a collection, you need to fetch all documents first. This can be expensive, since you're charged by reads, and also can take a lot of time to complete. This is a really annoying limitation. You could use distributed counters, as per the firebase documentation, but it works only for a few use cases. Firestore also doesn't have a good way of dealing with text searches. They recommend you to use a full text search service, like algolia or elastic search, but this can also become expensive depending on the size of your collections. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "From database purposes to analytics to deployment, all in one" March 9, 2022 5.0 A lot of the projects I've worked with used Firebase for authentication, this makes things quite easy development wise, as Firebase makes things like email verification, a click of a button. I've used the Firestore for mostly small scale projects, for larger projects, it might be better to set up strict guidelines since the document structure cannot be enforced. This isn't a con of Firebase, that's what a document-based database is, and can be easily overcome by proper tech team practices. I prefer Firebase deployment to anything else because of how easy it makes life for developers. If you're worried about scalability and big data, I suggest you look a bit deeper before you use it, but I highly doubt that Firebase is bad in those areas. Pros Firebase offers a wide range of products you could use, from realtime database, to the firestore, storage, deployment, hosting to analytics. All of these products are very easy to get the hang off. Especially, the firestore, if you are new to document-based databases and looking for a pet project to get hands-on experience, Firebase is a good place to start. Speaking deployment wise, links in the project (hrefs) have to be set up properly, but Firebase hosting is the easiest I've ever worked with. Even analytics provides many functions off-the-hook , so it's very easy to integrate it into applications. A plus point is that since this is very widely used, there are many guides, tutorials and a community to help you get through. In addition, the dashboard is very structured and I find all the products very intuitive and easy to use since they provide many functionalities packaged into one application and its very easy to integrate since its supported by a lot of technologies. Cons The pricing. Things like deploying backends require you to be on the pay-as-you-go tier and not the free tier which makes it hard for people who just want to learn. Most of the other products, though, can be used on the free tier. Another con that I noticed is that the documentation isn't that good, so you have to depend on your debugging skills and pray that someone else had the same bug too, which is almost always the case because it is very popular. Review Source HN Haymon N. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "My Quick Review for Firebase From My Experience" April 27, 2019 4.0 Setup, configuration, and implementation was quite intuitive and developer-friendly with Firebase. In my case, I created my own free Firebase account. This was great since for my case, I only had a few active users and Google has a 'free tier' where it supports up to 15k daily users. Any more than that, Google will charge a monthly fee. From there, I just had to include a script in my app that you just copy from the Firebase Console that Google provides (depends on your app and tech stack, but for me, I was using the JavaScript programming language and Facebook's ReactNative), which is responsible for initializing Firebase for your app. From there, you can just start using the Firebase API and making calls to it. For my case, I was using their real-time database (stored in JSON format) - the documentation was very nice and simple, and I was able to store the chat messages and retrieve the chat messages fast. In the Console, there's a nice UI for checking up on the database usage as well, which provides stats for connections, amount of data storage used, bandwidth, and load - all based on your set time period. In terms of authentication, Firebase supports a large variety of user sign-in methods for your app. For my case, I just used an 'anonymous' configuration for my sign-in provider. However, Firebase supports many more such as email/password, phone, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub. Overall, I would highly recommend working with Firebase! Pros Firebase can be a great choice for your project or work when building apps. In quick summary, Firebase provides a mBaaS (mobile-Backend-as-a-Service), which in turns helps eliminate the headache for the developer and saves a bunch of time. What may take weeks or months to setup, configure, and possibly more to pay for the infrastructure and hardware - now you can use mBaaS for your app, and get up and running much faster. Now, for my needs, I was trying to build a real-time chat app for my own personal use, mainly just for me and possibly other family members to use (own chat room). Long story short, I was looking for possible ways of implementation here technically, and naturally, a local database for each app would not necessarily be the best decision or suffice - let alone work. I had to work with some sort of remote database in the cloud to store the chat messages. I had many choices to choose from here, including utilizing options available from Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), Facebook (Parse) and many many more. However, I stumbled across Firebase by Google and decided to go with it. I respect the Google brand and their reputation, and overall, it was a good choice and it worked out nicely. All of the documentation was great and very simple to use/edit. Cons From what I can recall I only encountered one small hiccup where I had to go into the Firebase Console and edit my real-time database security rules (essentially, just a simple JSON configuration file) to improve performance. I can't really come up with many if not any cons at all. I guess you can say that you are going to be reliant on Google/Firebase as part of your tech stack down the road and if anything comes up in the foreseeable future, then that may pose issues. Other than that, it's either you home-brew your own custom hardware and infrastructure or just go with a great mBaaS. Review Source DG Dmitriy G. Owner, Software Architect Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a must-have for an app developer" October 15, 2020 5.0 With a careful research and experimentation, leading to the selection of specific Firebase products which are free or affordable and match a specific custom (i.e., my) product requirements, Firebase easily becomes the best collection of ready-to-use software packages which speed up the app development process by an order of magnitude. Pros 1\. Ease of setup and use, both on the app (iOS) and custom server (ASP.NET Core 3.1). 2. Price: it's 100% free. 3. Reliability: it just works. 4. Integration with other Google Firebase products that I am using in my software. 5. Unmatched highest quality of documentation. 6. The highest, by far, savings in time and money for a small team of developers who are working on a multi-tier software product. Cons So far, I have been unable to find a single con of FCM compared to nearly a dozen of competing products from other companies. Reason for choosing Firebase In my mobile apps and custom server software, I am currently using Firebase Auth, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Firestore, Firebase Storage, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Analytics, Firebase Performance, and Firebase custom logging. That's a lot of "Firebase"!.. And for a very good reason. To put it simply: My years of research, experiments and hand-on experience as a senior software developer and a software architect led me to the conclusion that only the Google Firebase line of products gives a solo developer or a small team of developers the highest savings in time, money and headache. I tried - and even integrated into my software - many products in each category, such as nearly a dozen different competing offerings related to Push Notifications, several major products related to Authentication, and so on. After using countless competing products, I keep coming back to Firebase. It's just so much better, and it is frustration-free. Review Source Princely O. Connectivity manual for developers Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Best Connectivity and authication tool for Developers" January 13, 2023 5.0 Pros Firebase includes every tool a developer requires to succeed. Firebase doesn't discriminate whether you are an iOS, Android, or web developer; the Firebase tool can be integrated,We used Firebase primarily for our mobile app, which was built using Android Studios. Using the JSON key provided to sync and authenticate our app with Firebase, we used Firebase to easily authenticate our users, and we used Firebase to integrate social media signup methods on our app. So our users get to sign up for our app via their desired choice of social media.I feel Firebase is too big to be discussed and seen from one person's or one company's perspective, so I'll take my perspective from the features and functionalities we have used.Our in-app chat database was saved, built, and synchronised on Firebase, giving us instant access to and reach of our database at all times.Finally, analytics for your app are always available to check Firebase usage reports and metrics. Cons Make the system and integration easier for newbies. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### " Easy, affordable and reliable" May 5, 2022 5.0 We significantly reduced our setup and implementation time for new projects, added more security to processes and modularized several development steps, with a visible benefit for us and our customers who were very satisfied with the results. Pros The Firestore database is fast and easy to use. The authentication system is a gem that gives you several ways to register your customers (even anonymously) on all the main platforms on the market such as google, apple, facebook, etc. You can set up two-factor authentication for your online accounts with sms confirmation at no cost with a generous free tier. It's easy and (in most cases) simple to use and we've been using it for many years. Cons But he's not perfect. Documentation on some features is fragmented and not always easy to read. Some examples don't work as well as they should, especially in cross-platform apps. There are some usage and response time limitations that do not compromise performance in small and medium-sized applications, but can pose a problem in large-scale applications. But overall it's a solid and reliable tool. Alternatives considered [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[AWS Lambda](https://www.capterra.com/p/211010/AWS-Lambda/) Review Source daV daniel alberto V. Ingeniero Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Desarrolla aplicaciones con firebase" February 16, 2023 4.0 Es muy intuitiva sobre todo para el desarrollo de aplicaciones asi mismo como seguimiento de proyectos Pros Es un software que te permite trabajar de forma gratuita, no requiere un servidor ya que es creado y desarrollado por Google, posee buenos estándares de seguridad y es intuitivo te permite ir aprendiendo de forma mas sencilla Cons no todas sus funciones son gratuitas por lo tanto no todos tiene acceso total al software, tengo entendido que solo funciona con google could asi mismo otras de sus desventajas es que puede ser usado en todos los paises Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior iOS Developer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great piece of software to help manage your deployed mobile projects and monitor stability" March 21, 2022 5.0 Excellent software that massively supports modern app development Pros A large suite of software with many uses, I will focus on my own particular uses. First and foremost, the software provides crashlytics support (Crash reporting, debugging and monitoring) for iOS and Android mobile apps. This helps detect and debug issues of our iOS app in a way that saves me lots of time and effort and provides a level of security to our use cases of the app. It provides our team members with real time monitoring of the amount of users we have, in what locations they are and of their demographics (more of a vague outline). This helps target marketing and focus our approach to attracting new customers. The software also provides logging on top of crash reports to resolve problems in our APIs should issues come up. This is another line of defence for us after unit/integration tests in that we can resolve a problem before it becomes a serious issue. Cons The software is mostly free of cost, but I am skeptical of what exactly google is doing with our data. I would like to see more clarity on what they use it for and some transparency. This would put my mind at rest particularly when it comes to EU data protection laws Review Source SR Shanky R. Web developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Professional Firebase Database Software" December 7, 2023 5.0 Great work for Firebase software is good features real time cloud data or AB testing good work etc. Pros Cloud database management Real time management data AB testing features Stored images themes data show data Graph structures Report and analysis great work Cons Required internet connection iOS not good support Limited data migrate work or not SQL based data work Review Source SM Subhav M. Application Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "NoSQL and real-time Databases & Authentication for Application with Firebase." October 29, 2022 5.0 Pros Good free limits every month. Fast and reliable services as well as authentications. Cons Nothing, no cons found in Firebase. A perfect solutions for small startups and individual projects. Alternatives considered [Backendless](https://www.capterra.com/p/183847/Backendless/) Review Source Carlos Walter Duque F. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Firebase, the best" May 9, 2023 5.0 Pros From the authentication system, which is super complete and secure, to the nosql database, Firebase is a complete product that has served me for years without ever letting me down. It's easy to integrate with any tool and meets almost every need. Cons Because it is a classic and traditional tool, sometimes features that exist in other products take a while to be incorporated, but when that happens it works very well. The tool's design isn't the most attractive either, but it's robust and functional. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer web devloper Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Firebase is one of the best real time database." March 29, 2023 4.0 Overall, Firebase is a comprehensive platform that offers a range of tools and services that can help developers build and scale applications quickly and easily. Pros Firebase offers a range of features, from real-time database to hosting and authentication. Firebase is designed to be fast and scalable. Firebase provides serverless functions that allow developers to run backend code without managing servers. This can save developers time and resources by providing a pre-built authentication system. Cons Firebase's real-time database is optimized for real-time synchronization and offers limited querying capabilities, which can make it challenging to perform complex queries or search operations. While firebase offers cloud functions to run server-side logic, it is limited compared to a traditional backed service that offers moe control over server configuration and management. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "THE backend for your web and mobile apps" December 21, 2021 5.0 Outstanding. One minor issue in 3 years of use (partial outage), resolved quickly Pros they provide SDKs for so many products. Their Angular/Javascript SDK is easy to use, it works INCREDIBLY well, and it facilitates your web apps/mobile apps development needs. Cons I wish there was an easy option for the NOSQL database. I imagine a switch where you could use firebase NOsql or firebase SQL mode sort of thing. Other than that wish, oh my this is a great cloud software. Alternatives considered [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[AWS Lambda](https://www.capterra.com/p/211010/AWS-Lambda/) Reason for choosing Firebase pricing and documentation! Switched from [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/) User Authentication management (your customers/the users of your apps) is superior and WELL integrated in Firebase, and it's very hard to do in Azure. Review Source Javier A. Senior UX designer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Inmensely value service for a startup" April 28, 2020 5.0 In general, I am extremely happy with Firebase as it has given me almost ever resource I needed to build my app. Pros Firebase provides almost everything a startyp would need to build a cloud based application. A instantly syncing nosql database, user auth, static hosting and cloud storage, among other things. And you can us all of this stuff for free until you reach certain usage tiers. It's a startup's dev team dream made true Cons There are a few cons. When it was bought by Google, all the software libraries were updated considerably. And older versions stopped being supported in a matter of weeks. We were forced to to change all our data access code to adapt to the new libraries. It was very abusive from my point of view. Another con is some of the support people at Firebase are really arrogant and fail to understand that their customer can have widely different needs and use cases from what they assume. Alternatives considered [MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/) Reason for choosing Firebase For completeness and convenience Review Source Akumu E. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A Suitable Backend Tool for Mobile Application Developers" September 20, 2022 5.0 Firebase saved me a lot of time during development. It is easy to learn, integrate and modify. Pros What is nice about Firebase application is that, it is completely easy to create a database with no SQL coding experience. Cons The application becomes unstable in terms of speed when working with large databases but for small applications yes, it is the best. Review Source Joas Andrito M. j Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "is Firebase better for mobile/web apps development ?" May 6, 2022 4.0 So far i've been really enjoying working with firebase as an android apps developer because of some amazing features that it has, for instance the firebase authentication, it's just the perfect backend plateplatform for me Pros well, it's actually crazy when i think about this, and there is quiet more to consider as its pros, for its reliability cause it's fast and safe, the easy google analytics, and moreover it's " free " for small projects or newbies Cons the disadvantage with firebase is that cause it's google product they tend to emphasize more on the android documentation, so it's quiet easy to work with as newbie if your project is android centered, because unfortunately there is less support for IOS Switched from [MySQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/11482/MySQL/) as beginner i had the chance to test both firebase and MySQL backend the one that made things easier for to get things done and was even free who doesn't want free things if they serve your needs, i believe that firebase stands out Review Source Similar Products Featured