Adobe AIR vs. Progress Telerik

Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR

67 Reviews and Ratings

Progress Telerik

Progress Telerik

72 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe AIR	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
Progress Telerik	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	With Telerik UI libraries, Progress aims to equip .NET ninjas with a full arsenal of weapons, helping to create beautiful, modern and future-proof applications quickly and intuitively. The vendor states that with its over 1,250 UI components for all .NET platforms, as well as various themes, skins and customization options, Telerik users report cutting development time by up to 50 percent. Web	$999 per developer, royalty-free

Pricing

Adobe AIR

Progress Telerik

Editions & Modules

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Individual Product Licence: $999
per developer, royalty-free
DevCraft UI: $1,299
per developer, royalty-free
DevCraft Complete: $1,499
per developer, royalty-free
DevCraft Ultimate: $2,199
per developer, royalty-free

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Adobe AIR	Progress Telerik
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Adobe AIR	Progress Telerik
Considered Both Products	Adobe AIR Jon Marr Owner Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe AIR was the only game in town, and its blend of flexibility in platforms it could publish to (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), ease of use, and familiarity made it the clear choice. Now Adobe no longer supports it, and we’ve found the transition to Harmon unworkable … Incentivized Helpful? MR Marilyn Rodriguez Owner/Art Director Chose Adobe AIR We already use all the other Adobe products so it was an easy choice to use AIR for our programming type of programs. As we used it more, we found that it was very simple to learn/the learning curve was not very steep at all. We honestly didn't look at any other options, … Incentivized Helpful? JM John Mihaila Software Manager Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR does not support Windows phones but works well on both Android and Apple iOS. It enables developers to build and deploy good quality applications to mobile platforms for a majority of mobile users and allows developers to build working prototypes in a relatively … Incentivized Helpful? YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Chose Adobe AIR There are definitely other platforms out there that are awesome but Adobe AIR is just what our other developers were used to using but we do have some success. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cookson Junior Animator Chose Adobe AIR Generally stacks up fairly negatively, program definitely has its place, I appreciate what it can allow but now most desktop apps are fine enough as browser based experiences or for personal use mobile is the way to go. Air isn't the best environment for that. Incentivized Helpful? William Alvarez Inside Sales Support Associate Chose Adobe AIR Appcelerator is open source and is very good, but my company wanted something more business-oriented and with more formal support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe Air was a great choice for us to build mobile titles from prior web titles when compared to tools such as native iOS with cocos2d. We were able to get games stood up much faster than our competition and out to market to make money. That said, as Unity improved … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR is more friendly to a serious programmer because it supports core programming methodology in a way that Unity does not. Both AIR and Unity have a hidden underlying layer of event management code that can add performance costs. However, Unity is more friendly to a … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Gorence Software Developer Chose Adobe AIR Since Adobe AIR can be used with the Flash IDE, there are not many other solutions with such a robust toolset. The ability to import layered photoshop files directly onto the stage, and then ability to animate and create movieclips within that IDE is an extremely valuable … Incentivized Helpful?	Progress Telerik Eric Johansson Senior Developer Chose Progress Telerik While the more expensive to use for a small shop(for example syncfusion is free to start), the quality paid for itself in no time flat. Other options are either half baked, have lock in and will become quite expensive once you hit a treshhold, or plain simply didn't mesh with … Incentivized Helpful? JC Jeff Chesney Director Projects and Development Chose Progress Telerik The Telerik controls were just easier for us to use and implement. Our evaluation of control packages was over 9 years ago, so it is hard to recall the major differences. Generally, the team preferred what Telerik had to offer, particularly the fact that the bundle provided … Incentivized Helpful? JW Joshua Weeks Lead Software Engineer Chose Progress Telerik Progress Telerik UI provides a large amount of language support, demos, and documentation. While the competition is still great in their own right, Progress Telerik UI has provided enough resources to cover a number of current and future projects without having to expand to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik Telerik UI for Blazor is much more usable than Kendo UI. I was never a fan of Kendo UI, but I like using Telerik UI For Blazor due to the ease of implementation for the components. Incentivized Helpful? Rob Barker Software Development Manager Chose Progress Telerik Progress Telerik UI is the most complete multi-framework/platform in existence. Without it, you will find yourself having to traverse half a dozen other component providers each with varying degrees of license requirements and update schedules. Sure you might find a single … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik I purchased Telerik because its components seemed great and were priced more attractively than Syncfusion. Unfortunately, after hitting major product limitations with Telerik's Document Processing for PDF I now find myself migrating from Telerik to Syncfusion. This has been an … Incentivized Helpful? SP Shivani Pandey Project Engineer Chose Progress Telerik Shopify Plus Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik Rapid development and easy integration with applications. Incentivized Helpful? Doug Thompson Full Stack Senior Developer Chose Progress Telerik Telerik Support (pre-progress) is awesome, way better than Infragistics or Syncfusion. Syncfusion is a little cheaper. They all have Grid components (like Excel) then there are a few edge cases of having different controls to another to show off. Once you know what UI tech you … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Garrison Software Engineer Chose Progress Telerik I have tried another library called JqWidgets. Telerik makes setting up UI elements much easier than JqWidgets. It is better documented as well. Incentivized Helpful? RM Rich Moll Senior Software Engineer Chose Progress Telerik [Progress Telerik UI] had a specific set of controls that were suited directly to our application space. Telerik also provided a Xamarin solution for very similar pricing, which should allow us to speed up our app development. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik Progress Telerik UI ultimately had the smoothest/lowest learning curve for developers and it's an established product that incoming team members likely have some experience with. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Davis Director Chose Progress Telerik The existing Microsoft technologies already support many of the controls provided by Progress Telerik UI and may be used as an alternative, of course. They will not have the full-featured functionality you will find in Progress Telerik UI but are available. There are also other … Incentivized Helpful? DK derek kelly Sr Developer Chose Progress Telerik Using Progress Telerik UI on the front end and Spring on the back end, you can focus on your business logic in the middle. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. This allows you to focus on what's under the hood. These have both been a pleasure to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik We have been implementing our own custom code using the ASP.NET framework, and it has taken us a lot longer to implement functionality. When we transitioned to using Progress Telerik UI components, it exponentially sped up our development time and improved the look of our … Incentivized Helpful? SB Souvik Bera Software Engineer Chose Progress Telerik None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik With Progress Telerik UI, didn't really look for alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Abhay Gandhi Senior Manager Chose Progress Telerik Nothing else other than Telerik. Incentivized Helpful? Jyoti Mohite Software Engineer II Chose Progress Telerik We have not used any other product for UI. We are using Telerik from start and continuing using it. Features offered by Telerik are sufficient for our product and we are fully utilizing all features provided by Telerik. Performance of all UI controls are great so over all … Incentivized Helpful? AK Akshata Khandeparkar Software Engineer 2 Chose Progress Telerik Super easy to use and integrate into Visual Studio. The MVC helpers greatly simplify development. The controls are easy to implement and the online examples are excellent. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress Telerik We are using DevExpress for reporting, which has a way better reporting and report template creation mechanism. Incentivized Helpful? DG Dustin Gibson Software Developer III Chose Progress Telerik I am much more pleased with what we've gotten from Telerik UI in terms of controls and ease of use. The controls have great functionality and were easy to integrate into what we are wanting to accomplish. DevExpress never wowed us and that's why we went with Progress and have … Incentivized Helpful? SW Scott Winkeler Programmer Chose Progress Telerik I haven't tried any other options. I have been happy with Telerik. Incentivized Helpful? BW Bill Weston IT Systems Development Manager Chose Progress Telerik PowerApps contains integration into backend data sources, but very limited UI functionality in the controls. Telerik requires additional data source integration development, but offers essentially unlimited UI functionality Incentivized Helpful? Enrico Collenzini Owner - Project Manager and software analyst Chose Progress Telerik Thanks to the functionalities contained in Telerik tools we are able to create complex interfaces and satisfy the requests of our customers. Especially for increasingly frequent requests to use applications on mobile devices. With Telerik we have been able to solve many … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Adobe AIR	Progress Telerik
Likelihood to Recommend	5.7 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe AIR	Progress Telerik
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe AIR is well-suited for a developer who is already familiar with Flash and AS3. It is well-suited for 2D app development using Starling or another third-party graphics library. However, to be used appropriately and avoid errors and poor performance, a basic understanding of programming principles is needed, so it's not great for a designer who hasn't studied a lot of coding. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Progress Telerik UI is one of the best web design and development solutions for Dot Net based applications. It has extensible support for ASP.NET Core, C#, WCF, and ASP.NET WebForms. It overall improves the design structure for the applications and provides multiple customization options to meet the requirements of clients and end-users. Incentivized SP Shivani Pandey Project Engineer Read full review
Pros	Runs on Windows, Mac OS, Android and Apple iOS. Allows developers to use tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Flash Professional and even text editor to develop an app. Adobe AIR runtime and AIR SDK are free. Incentivized JM John Mihaila Software Manager Read full review	Telerik enables rapid application development for the demonstration of concepts. It provides a good set of themes and functional additions to a UI development environment. Each control is packed with valuable features. The support team is responsive and very knowledgeable about making their product work in whatever situation you need. Incentivized RM Rich Moll Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Adobe Air applications are taxing on a user's CPU, especially considering how simple a lot of the apps are. Updating and installing Air based applications is very user unfriendly, often asks for updates that are aggressively pushed to the front of the user. As HTML 5 has gotten more and more sophisticated, for basic things a lot of times browser-based apps make a lot more sense. Incentivized Chris Cookson Junior Animator Read full review	I have not worked with the App Builder but I think a GUI for dragging and dropping components to build a web page would be great. In addition to the app builder there should some tools to design a responsive web application to see the results for different screen sizes. Incentivized MK Mehrzad Khoddam Sr. Software Developer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	The Telerik UI has become part of our staple development tools. We can not be as productive without the feature set available to us in the Telerik UI ASP.NET AJAX control package. JC Jeff Chesney Director Projects and Development Read full review
Usability	Although Adobe AIR is just an SDK without an actual "UI" it's commonly used within Flash, Flash Builder, or FlashDevelop. Considering the integration with Flash IDE, there are very few tools that can compete with its features. Incentivized Thomas Gorence Software Developer Read full review	The UX of their UI is very well thought out, the micro-interactions are intuitive - thus great for your end user as less training is needed. Using the software, there [are] loads to get you going, you can download their whole demo site and see how each demo works. There is more now on github to get you started, also much on an awesome CDN that's well bedded in so your app is speedy and up to date. Doug Thompson Full Stack Senior Developer Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Progress Telerik UI customer support is pretty good. The ticketing system allows a thread of questions, answers, and attachments of code and screenshots. Response time is fairly quick and often has code snippets or pointers to online examples that could be relevant. There is a large amount of community support forums to get answers or post questions. In addition there is a forum of posted code samples for the various controls. The Progress update tool easily tells you what products have been updated and allows you to install the updates on your development system. Release notes can be displayed to see what's new. Incentivized Gary Davis Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	The controls work very well as long as they are used as intended. Built-in functionality should be used whenever possible, Incentivized BW Bill Weston IT Systems Development Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	There are definitely other platforms out there that are awesome but Adobe AIR is just what our other developers were used to using but we do have some success. Incentivized YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Read full review	The Telerik controls were just easier for us to use and implement. Our evaluation of control packages was over 9 years ago, so it is hard to recall the major differences. Generally, the team preferred what Telerik had to offer, particularly the fact that the bundle provided controls, not just for the ASP.NET context, but also Windows applications, and the cross-platform contexts as well. JC Jeff Chesney Director Projects and Development Read full review
Return on Investment	Using Adobe AIR allows your team to be comprised of Flash/ActionScript 3 developers, which can be easy/cheap to find compared to other disciplines (based on location). This can lower the bottom-line in terms of engineering costs. As the Adobe AIR SDK is free to use, the cost of entry is basically free. Additionally, the Adobe AIR SDK may be used in conjunction with a free IDE, such as FlashDevelop, making the entire stack completely free to use. One negative impact is the stigma against Adobe Flash/AIR. Due to Adobe's less than stellar track record (in terms of support and security) with both Flash and Flash Mobile, there are numerous clients that we've dealt with, that refused to approve Adobe AIR as a tool. Incentivized Thomas Gorence Software Developer Read full review	Provides rapid development - it has helped me create multiple web applications in MVC and Angular within a one-month time frame. Our clients were facing challenges (taking time to load applications, grid view, and generating reports ) with asp.net web applications. Using Kendo UI we have migrated the ASP.NET application to MVC within a one-month time frame. The client was very happy with the application's performance and responsive UI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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