# Page 3 | Katalon Studio Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is Katalon Studio the right Automated Testing solution for you? Explore 706 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/235574/Katalon-Studio/reviews --- Katalon Studio 4.4 (706) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/235574/Katalon-Studio/alternatives/) 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 3 - Reviews of Katalon Studio ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 706 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use nR navya R. QA Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A powerful automated testing tool at free of cost" April 18, 2019 4.0 We have a challenge to start over the automation immediately and there aren't any QA's who has much knowledge about it. In that case being a QA Developer I suggested on using Katalon studio to save time on setting up the framework from scratch. Having this tool handy and easy to use it doesn't take much time for our manual testers to write scripts using manual mode. I personally like the tool as it allows us to create custom keywords though the tool provides many pre-defined methods there is a requirement to create custom keywords as the application demands like retrieving the links from emails, verfying pdfs. Today we have had ample number of test cases developed using Katalon Studio. And we are further hoping to start working on API automation too using Katalon. Pros Powerful tool but easy to use and simple to deploy Open Source Tool Single tool provides features to perform Web UI, Mobile and API automation Supports Page Object Modal Provides Object Spy feature Provides cross browser testing It has both manual and script mode It has many pre-defined methods which helps the manual testers to create automation scripts Releases feature updates frequently Provides integration with various 3rd party tools like TestRail, qTest, Git, Jenkins Provides great reports. Cons Paid support Frequent feature release takes time for installation everytime Review Source vP venkatasivaram P. QA DEV Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Katalon Studio vs Selenium Open source Technologie and Paltforms" April 18, 2019 3.0 Fine. USability A GUI capabilities A Selenium capabilities - B+ QTP capabilities A Framework design and high level automation : don't know Sir. Pros Wow, 1. Free evaluation licensing, 2. ROI on investment 3. Object repository capaibilities like QTP, totally missing in selenium 4. Frameworks seem to be there, all qa models in software testing have frameworks, you will also get there soon. Cons Cons: Sorry to say, no market in 50BN US $ Software automation market in 2017 AD. 2. Nobody is giving any certification in Selenium unlike QTP, yet top R&D countries like USA, India, UK, Australia, Israel, Canda, and Japan maybe will go after selenium 3. If a software SDET, QA DEv or automation engineer is looking for an SAP type career it has ended, QTP is no more. For mobile markets open source is pathetic with Appium. Katalon need to be cheap, better than QTP, Selenium and Ranorex, other competitors i think 4. I am a corporate trainer, in Selenium, Manual Testing, SoapUI, Database and Appium. I dont recommend Katalon Studio for freshers unless they are lucky the company is sponsoring training. 5. All IT institutes in India, train in selenium as a testing tool, RPA tools Blue Prism, Uipath etc. How will katalon change its market strategy. Sorry for the bad news. Review Source RB Ramakrishna B. Tester Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Testops Schedule Test Run Using Local and cloud Environment" February 24, 2022 4.0 It's very useful tool for automation developers , Have lot of predefined functions it's making easy work and time saving ,compare to other tools while designing script we can save time up to 60%. Pros Good feature have in testops to schedule build in different environment , it's makes easy to execute in different platforms parallelly. Cons While scheduling build in testops either cloud or local it's being in "Quee" longtime. And some time with out executing it's showing result "Pass" it's a defect we already raised to support team. And while active the local agent it's taking couple of minuities to show the agent in online. Review Source RG Robert G. Software Engineer III Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great tool for testing your development" August 14, 2019 4.0 Great, Katalon is a very powerful and flexible testing product, that I am able to use for most of my API's regardless of the language or technology I use. Pros I really like that Katalon is both similar to using Selenium and Quick Test pro. This is a fantastic marriage of the best features those products offered separately. It is also great to be able to save objects into a reusable repository and to be able to save request/responses and global variables. It makes it easier than trying to maintain request in files on your system. The use of Groovy, similar to QTP using VBScript, makes it easy to run tests in a more programmatical manner, allowing for loops and conditionals. Overall I find it extremely useful and I have recommended it to and prepared a training video for everyone on my team Cons One thing that Selenium had handled well was the conversion of HTML recorded tests to JUnit specifically which is something that seems absent from Katalon, and the conversion between the Browser Plugin recording and the tests created in the IDE seem to be incompatible. Memory does seem to be an issue, as I have trouble running Katalon along with other Java-based IDEs. I have also had trouble recording objects in the IDE, where certain form objects (e.g. select/combo boxes) use the contents as the default name, and in my case, caused the object name to exceed the character limit. forcing me to rename all my objects and keep track of what I had named them, which was a bit tedious. Also, the integration with Jenkins seems confusing. Review Source KM Kaviraj M. QA Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best Automation tool right now in the market" April 18, 2019 5.0 Katalon Studio being a very robust tool has provided a new dimension to my automation testing needs. I now have the ability to automate most of my tests in a very quick and simple way with this great tool and also provide more coverage for mobile testing. Overall, in the current world, no one beats this tool when it comes to test automation. I highly recommend anyone who wants to learn test automation or even to use for their projects to opt for Katalon Studio. There are lots of resources available and forum is very interactive and helpful. Pros It is very user friendly and has loads of functionalities that makes automation testing look so easy and simple. Apart from providing automation solution for web, mobile, and api platforms it also has very useful add-ons to connect to test management tools which makes it very interesting to link tests and bugs directly . Cons I would prefer that they have some more extensibility for desktop app like java apps, spring etc Review Source FA Ferhat A. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Katalon - A easy-to-use solution for your automating your tests" April 28, 2019 5.0 Katalon is very user-friendly as we used it to automate end-to-end-tests. I way fascinated how good it works when I first tried it and build-up a complete test environment for a web application in a very short time. We also integrated it in our CI/CD structure (GitLab) with ease, as Katalon is also dockerized as image available. Generelly speaking: One of the best test automation tool out there currently. But as we needed a solution for distributed testing, we switched from katalon to robot framework. We nevertheless believe, that katalon has a lot of potential to be the next big thing in test automation. Pros \- As the title suggests, Katalon is very easy-to-use. The UI is very intuitive to use and therefor it doesn't take much time to get started. - Katalon comes with a lot of built-in features like a test recorder, that saves your interaction with a given UI-Interface and creates a test case out of it or a very nice way to save GUI elements and to organize test data via built-in databases. - Katalon is also very easy to use by non-programmers and therefor also a powerful tool for manual testers, to automate repetitive and boring tests. Nevertheless the quality of ones katalon repository will be much higher, when a experienced coder is working with it - but I would even consider this as "criticism", as other tools lack of user-friendly-interface for non-coders completely. - Katalon get's updated frequently and therefor grows in it's features - they just enabled the feature to share custom keywords, which is amazing! - The active community is very helpful and nice and the developers communicate with them a lot and takes inspiration by them. Cons \- It's fairly young and therefor lacks of features like distributed testing (it still gets a lot of updates). - I had some performance issues with 4K monitors - the tree that is generated when executing a test takes a lot of performance. - The GUI repository is file based -> That means it will throw errors, if the file structure gets too long... Review Source Alexander G. Senior Technical Manager Outsourcing/Offshoring Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy way to automate the basic regression tests for web application" August 15, 2019 5.0 Pros \- Availability of tutorials - Ability to design Test Cases using Editor with the pre-defined set of commands - Comfortable UI for Dev & QA team (it has Eclipse-like interface) - It is a feature-rich solution to address most of the tasks - Ability to use the tool for Web UI tests, REST API tests and mobile testing Cons \- Reporting for BDD tests should be improved. It should display more meaningful information about the steps performed in a readable way (BDD test looks actually more meaningful than a report - that is weird). Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Since Katalon Studio is free there was no reason to skip that. We have used Parasoft SOAtest and Automation Anywhere in the past (a few years ago) however for this particular case we were looking for free (or an affordable) option to add automation to the manual QA flow. Review Source MJ Mahesh J. Test Automation Specialist Government Administration Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Katalon Studio is Test Automation Magic Box! " April 18, 2019 4.0 Katalon studio is our 1st test automation tool.Really great find helping to develop automated test cases faster. We started automating most of our projects using katalon studio. Great reporting structure is helping us to build confidence in our test automation process. Works in CICD pipeline! Pros Ease of use. Easier for manual testers as well as automation testers/developers. keyword driven and data driven framework easy to start coded automation. If you want to trust your automation must try katalon studio. its come with all framework setup It's Free! Lot of new feature comes every month or 2 months. Really like the debug mode option saves lot of time when debugging the automation code. Mobile,API,Web automation in tool. Works on top of selenium all selenium scripts can use here as well as jar files. Cons Still lot of room for improve Documentation should improve Copying variable across call test cases is bit difficult and time consuming Still popularity of tool is not that much that's why less community support compare to selenium Review Source aS amar S. Test Automation Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon Review" August 14, 2019 2.0 Not good ..I like other functionality but very disappointed with IDE. It completely sucks. Pros Record and play functionality with IDE where we can write custom keyword that make it different from other tools of this kind. Cons The Pros of this software has become the Cons. I have selected this tools among some other tools of this kind becoz this tool has IDE support and we can write custom keyword on that but there are a lot of issues in Katalon IDE and coding on that has become really frustrating . Around 8-10 projects in our organization are suffering from that. I have also posted same concerns in katalon forum but no improvements , katalon is only focusing on some fancy feature and some integration and completely ignoring IDE. My one suggestion is that if you don't have to make it better OR this is not in your pipeline then you should scrap this functionality as a lot of people who is using this IDE are suffering and their performances gets hampered. And if you have to keep it then make it better. I have also posted list of issues on katalon forum . Review Source SD Sudheer D. Sr.QA Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Awesome product for doing Automation" August 14, 2019 4.0 Able to complete the business cases very fast Pros 1\. Parallel Execution 2. Developing the scripts in different modes 3. Keywords concept 4. Katalon Analytics 5. Maintaining Objects easily and customizable with different locators 6. Test Listeners helps a lot 7. Plugins concept is really awesome. Saves a lot of time 8. Regular updates from the team 9. Quick response from Katalon Community and Katalon developers Cons 1\. Uses more System memory 2. Proposals will not be displayed properly 3. Any errors while developing a script are not displayed. Only when we run we get the errors in the console 4. Some of the jars are very old and those are not updated in the library Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Very easy to use and very comfortable Review Source GM Gaston M. QA Team Leader Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Powerfull, robust and easy to use " October 20, 2021 4.0 I think Katalon Studio is one of the most powerfull and best-option tool nowadays. it is codeless orientes, that means new or non-technical users could find Katalon a good option to adopt in the test automation world, Its fully of features, it is being updated and fixed everymonth which mean that the Katalon team is working hard on this tools to improve it on each release. Pros Record and Spy, script parametrization and variables make it easy to maintain and update test cases. Cons Im not in dislike of any of the features about Katalon Studio, what i do think it would be better is the fact that some features that where originally free, now they are only available for enterprise version, so for long term users (like me) some features that i used some projects ago, now they are not available for free. Review Source Sandeep K. Lead QA Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "FREE. Great IDE, Test case Mgmt, Quick script development, Build on top of Selenium," April 30, 2018 5.0 Free tool. Easy to automate. Pros In built framework, no need to create your own. Can we Web, API and Mobile automation. Comes as a package. Installation is easy and 1 step process. IDE based on Eclipse, so all scripts and debugging feature available. Great Test Mgmt Capability. Supports execution on many environments. Supports parallel execution Great reports (PDF, HTML, Excel). Inbuilt data driven testing. Integrated with Jira, GIT, Slack, Sauce Lab, Browser stack etc. Good documentation and Video's for training Cons No much community support. Product still evolving. Paid support is expensive Newer version and new feature along with bug fixes are frequent. Support via forum not so fast. Review Source FV Francisco V. Release Manager Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "I still can't believe it's free" August 14, 2019 4.0 Pros It's packed with features, which comes in handy when you want to perform many tasks with one single tool. Getting started is easy, even for beginners; I have a few years of experience in automation with pure scripting and transitioning to a UI based tool was like going from riding a horse to driving a sports car. SpyWeb is incredibly useful, I even prefer it to the recorder, which may seem faster at first, but in my experience it's been far more efective; selecting the right locator immediately after capturing the TestObject really saves time. Databinding in test suites is a blessing, very easy to use and drive tests from this data. Cons The UI is a bit clunky, not very intuitive, and I guess the word is "overpopulated". There are many options, buttons, dropdowns, popups, which can be confusing. The learning process is fast at first, but when you are forced to use extended keywords, conditionals, method calling, the tool becomes a nightmare for beginner/intermediate users. I usually just write methods in script view, but many users have no experience in coding and really struggle with the UI assembly of methods or binary statements. Debugging is somewhat confusing as well, but that's not so important in my opinion. The application takes way too long to \*start\* running tests as the size of them increases (the execution is really fast though). Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Pricing Review Source Ryan D. Sr. Director of Quality Engineering Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Bridge the gap from manual to automated testing" August 14, 2019 5.0 Pros Katalon Studio has been instrumental in lowering the barrier of entry for our people who are just learning test automation. It has enabled rapid creation of automation to implement continuous testing in our end to end functional testing efforts. Cons We still needed to implement some standard ways of how we save, write and organize our test suites. Katalon could provide some guidelines or templates to help in this effort. Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Lower barrier of entry for non-technical people, who have never written code or scripts for testing. Review Source LW Lance W. Production Control Analyst Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great working software" August 14, 2019 5.0 Monotonous movement on the internet. I do the exact same moves online everyday, which makes them automatable. Pros I love the fact that I can do web scraping without having to write a million lines of code. I can just get on Katalon and do what I have to do. Customer service is great. They get to my questions right away when I write them on the forum which really helps. Overall great open source product and I'd recommend it to anybody. Cons Never really got a good answer on how to handle dynamic ID's. When the ID is static and stays the same, the code remains the same. But when I try to handle dynamic ID's, it will only remember the static one I input. I believe this is more of a user error than anything, but that's one answer that I never got. Review Source Abel N. software engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good software to do test " April 18, 2019 4.0 in my opinion the software is of quality, is continuously receiving update and allows many configuration and run test firefox, chrome, edge, ie. I would like it to allow to program tests with the javascript language Pros what I like the most is that it is free, allows you to run tests with the most famous browsers and allows you to execute different types of languages, in addition you can program without writing Cons I would like you to be able to use languages ​​like php and javascript and integrate with api to run automated tests Review Source AD Ajay D. Automation Tester Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helping in regression testing for my application" April 18, 2019 4.0 Katalon is good tool for automation testing and easy to learn. It have good feature of record and play back which avoids script for the tester. All versions of the Katalon is not stable for some of the feature but it is able to automation large number of the test cases like regression testing. Using katalon we also doing POC for CICD process using Katalon and Jenkins CI tool. I have worked on almost 100 plus test cases using Katalon tool and find it is good for automation testing. In fact, in my organization we have setup one for whole team for katalon related issue and also have purchased Katalon support for enterprise level for technical issues related to Katalon. Pros Katalon have good feature of record and play back which avoids script for the tester. It is keyword driven testing tool. Recently, Katalon launch plugin feature which is very great to have to it as plugin replaced some of the keyword written by our team. Also, anyone can use this tool like technical and non-technical member. Cons Windows testing is not available in Katalon. Sometime tool behaved unexpected like test cases fails and at same time some test cases get pass. Not stable tool. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer manager Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "app for developer" February 14, 2023 5.0 Pros this app is very easy to use with tool od developed and you will make automation frameworks in an easy way Cons this app is very simple to use to develop your tools and make structured framework Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer(Testing) Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon is my daily use software for testing" April 18, 2019 5.0 I used appium before I know katalon. I think katalon is easier compared with appium. Especially for verify the element displayed or not. In Katalon, we have special method to verify element not exist. Katalon is more user friendly and easier to manage the test case. Pros It is convenient and integrated with Selenium and Appium. It almost has all the features what Sele/App have. Besides, it has its own defined methods which can be used very efficiently to do the testing work. For example, which you want to scroll to a certain text, all you need to do is use scrollToText() without handling the XY coordinate. I truly thank Katalon for making my work easier! Cons I think one feature I am not satisfied is handling the webview in mobile apps. I know there is a method in Katalon which allow us to switch from native apps to webview. But it seems like it does not work for me. When I post the question in forum, I did not get the solution neither. Currently I am working on testing hybrid apps with webview in it. I hope one day you can fix this. Review Source MA Marquita A. QA AND DEV TEAM LEAD/ QA ENGINEER Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Review from beginner in automation." February 2, 2022 5.0 So far it helps in regression testing we have 3 environment for test and the cycle of deployment become more easy since we can automate it now I started from using the recording then from that we familiarizing the code. Pros This have a lot of option to explore in testing: It has recording. Has Manual and Script code. Like other automation there's lot of info in google but this one is the easy to understand. Cons I am in the Philippines and my coworker is in the US. Most of my friends in same field work on other automation I only have one friend can understand Katalon in short I want to get in larger community so I get more information easily on working on this. Review Source EP Eduardo P. QA E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon Studio Review. Highly Recommended" August 5, 2019 4.0 Katalon Studio has been a great addition to my workflow. It's provided much needed functionality and has saved me lots of time when it comes to testing. The learning curve wasn't so steep and I was able to write some useful tests right out of the box. Pros The beginner friendly aspect of this software makes it great for anyone to begin testing right away. Having the option of capturing browser actions without the need to necessarily having to write the script from scratch made it very straightforward to use. At the same time, having the option to easily customize the script makes it very flexible and helps get necessary testing done quickly. Cons The only issue I've ran into while using this software was some bugs when testing on certain browsers. At one point I had some issues when attempting to run a test on Safari due to some driver issues. There are also some small bugs when running tests on Internet Explorer with window sizing. There were some workarounds for these issues and I was still able to test on all browsers. Review Source KK Katerina K. QA Media Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good for beginners, fast growing software with a lot of pros" December 8, 2019 5.0 Pros It was my first software for automation of my tests. So it's a good tool for complete beginners. The test case writing process takes less time than in many other tools. I like the way you can switch between manual and script mode - from predefined options to the actual code Cons Updates for the software could be with errors when tests couldn't be executed. Or with changes like "to create a pdf report please install the add on". I don't like such changes when some of the functionalities suddenly stop working. Reason for choosing Katalon Studio We had no testers, experienced in test automation. I tried to work with Katalon and qa from another team tried taiko. It turns out that Katalon is much easier with the same (or similar) functionality above it. Like it's pretty easy to connect it to the CI cycle Review Source ML Morgan L. QA Lead Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helpful community, powerful tool!" April 18, 2019 4.0 Since working on my current automation project, I've been able to log a number of defects and it has been reducing the tedious, repetitive work I do regularly as well as enhanced the quality of our releases. I look forward to learning more about this amazing tool and seeing what's to come. Pros I've been working with Katalon Studio for about 8 months now and have been very impressed with it's capabilities, rivaling other tools I've used that cost a boatload in annual license fees. The ability to test both API calls and UI fills a need for the projects we are working on. Continually updated and fantastic support forum. Easy to use in manual or scripted mode, I moved from manual tests to scripted quickly thanks to many great tutorials and thorough documentation! Cons The UI can be a smidge clunky at times and test suite organization and report output needs some enhancements. I am sure these areas are probably on their roadmap, however, and will be addressed in the coming year. They are very amenable to feedback. Review Source Harshit B. Software Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Automation Testing AIO." January 31, 2020 5.0 It's been really awesome for people on test automation teams. the coverage it provides with respect to the platforms is superb. Pros The pros of the application are without doubt the number of platforms that it covers and does it very very well. Cons Not a lot of cons to be honest, the learning curve was steep for people on the manual side to testing, however after some they did get adjusted to things and are regular users of the application. Review Source Randall K. Lead Automation Engineer Automotive Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "My Time with Katalon" August 14, 2019 4.0 Pros It's very easy to get up and running quickly with automation. Cons I don't like that it's not open source making all our automation efforts completely dependent on this tool and its company to continue to support it. I've had experience in the past where a tool is suddenly not being supported any longer and over time scripts start to fail because of changing technologies that are no longer supported resulting in needing to port out everything to another tool or rewriting from scratch. I've gone through this pain and that's my main con with Katalon. Review Source Similar Products Featured