Reviewers largely praise Sanity.io for strong developer experience, fast setup, and deep customization, especially for structured or omnichannel content. Users like features such as portable text, image hotspots, and the flexibility of Studio v3, with several saying it works well across multiple projects and creative client sites. Still, criticism is sharp when workflows break: plugin support can be inconsistent, documentation and official examples feel thin, and some dislike the editor layout. One user also reports frustrating schema-data sync issues, especially for smaller projects.

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Pros

easy setup (3)

customizable schema (2)

developer experience (2)

headless CMS (2)

structured content management (2)

Cons

UI limitations (2)

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FramerLaunch websites with enterprise needs at startup speeds.

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•1 review

As a developer, i love working with Sanity as a "Headless" CMS. It's easy to set up and configure, and especially in Sanity Studio v3, it's so much easier to fully customize how the Studio (the CMS admin interface, a self-hosted react app) looks and works. In my opinion, Sanity is the best solution for managing structured content in single source of truth, making it a great foundation to build any digital product on top of. Also the Sanity community is great – really friendly and helpful!

What's great

community support (1)easy setup (3)headless CMS (2)customizable schema (2)structured content management (2)

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•6 reviews

Its pretty good out of the box and the general DX around it is really quite amazing. Until you need to integrate a plugin then its hit and miss. Would love to see better support for internationalization and TypeScript types generation. Also certain common UI elements like tables would be nice to have built in. Despite these drawbacks, I am using this across multiple projects, and I now find that it only takes minutes to setup on a new project.

What's great

developer experience (2)easy setup (3)

What needs improvement

internationalization support (1)TypeScript types generation (1)UI limitations (2)

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12 views1yr ago

•1 review

It's a great product. The documentation and developer relations seemed to be stretched by the constant growth. Seeing older (outdated?) docs/support content archived would be great. Support is offered in many channels, which is great for some. I would prefer fewer options and more effort in the core docs.

What needs improvement

outdated documentation (1)

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10 views3yr ago

•1 review

It is a CMS tool and stack that works well when it is working but works very poorly when it is not working. I hate how it stores its data. I wish there was some sort of data migration or a tool that makes the cloud data and the local schema data of the studio app either communicate better or not at all. So many times I have been working on creating new schemas and there is some sort of miscommunication and then my consuming app does not have the data it should have. It is a decent tool but I really would not recommend it in certain use cases. Those are non-enterprise projects. Luckily the clients on my teams are large organizations so they can waste the money.

What needs improvement

data migration issues (1)

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4 views2yr ago

•1 review

Sanity has been an awesome platform to build structured and omnichannel content. It’s super customizable by developers and really helps me deliver experiences that empower and delight my clients.

What's great

developer experience (2)structured content management (2)

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4 views3yr ago

•2 reviews

Great platform. The potential of portable text is huge. I love the image "hotspot" option/feature. Simple and easy to customize schema. I would like to see more "official" integration examples.

What's great

portable text (1)image hotspot (1)customizable schema (2)

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4 views3yr ago

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•7 reviews

A very intuitive and easy-to-use headless CMS. Seamless integration with Next.JS and GitHub. Respectable pricing and easy to use resources for schema updates for developer newbs like me.

What's great

easy setup (3)headless CMS (2)Next.js integration (1)GitHub integration (1)

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4 views3yr ago

•2 reviews

Seriously I'm switching to contentful, the side panel takes HALF THE SCREEN. I can't write articles properly because the edit bar disappears. Really don't recommend.

What needs improvement

UI limitations (2)

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4 views2yr ago

•18 reviews

We've built several websites on Sanity for our clients. It gives us so much flexibility for the creative side of our projects, that we've decided - this is it.

What's great

flexibility (1)

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3 views2yr ago

•0 reviews

Sanity is great for small teams with highly customisable schemas and team member roles.

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