# Page 4 | Katalon Studio Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 4 - 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 4 - Reviews of Katalon Studio ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 706 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use JP Jyoti P. Programmer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A great tool for Automation Testing! Amazing features and user friendly" April 19, 2019 3.0 It is very easy to learn and I would recommend this to anyone who is new to automation testing. This tool is very user friendly, but I faced some issues such as scripts failing randomly, or generation of huge volumes of cache files. But the overall experience is good as I got a lot to learn and implement as well. Pros I liked the fact that Katalon Studio provides us a lot of Features that we can make use of, in order to automate test cases. It provides the features such as web recorder, object spy, a user friendly interface. It organizes all the files in separate folders and generated detailed reports of the execution taken place of the test cases. Cons The tool generates a lot of cache files and sometimes it gives an error because of it. Sometimes the web recorder does not work. Once the test cases are passed, again if we run the tests, it fails. Review Source Rakesh K. Senior developer in Test Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A very good open-source tool which supports all selenium features with a better handling interface." September 12, 2019 5.0 It was a very good experience. It suits a team very good if the team is new to automation. Pros Inbuilt functions, Automated reports, Automatic framework structure, runtime logs give much more visibility into what's happening Cons Too much information in the html report, Should provide option to add customizable report like reportng Reason for choosing Katalon Studio because it is open source, very easy interface, good framework structure. Review Source MM Michelle M. Business Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Free Version - Good for intended purpose" April 18, 2019 4.0 Pros I like that is was easy to download/install. The tutorials were good in helping me set up my initial project and test cases. I was brand new to automated testing so speaking from experience, I'd say this is a good tool for people who are new to automated testing and have little scripting experience. The point and click functionality is great because then people who are more on the business side can help get test cases set up and then turn to the developers if they need further help. Cons It could have just been the application I was trying to automate, but it seemed like for most objects I had to go in an manually update the xpath. The xpath recorded didn't seem to work. I think this tool is pretty easy to use for basic test cases, but once you get into more complicated test cases it can get very cumbersome. I had good luck setting up the cases for my web application, and once they are set up the run with no problem. However, I had 0 luck setting up the mobile device testing. Again, it could have been the application itself, but there were a lot of extensions I needed to install in order to even get the device to plug in. Once I did, the point and click functionality did not seem as user friendly as the web application point and record functionality. Review Source NN Nitesh N. QA Industrial Automation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazing tool for QA Team" February 2, 2022 5.0 Pros Easy to use you can create any test cases in less than 30 mins Great UI and self-explained tools Cons Need performance testing tools or integration with Jmeter Review Source Aditya T. Assistant System Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Katalon Studio is the next big thing in automation testing world" December 4, 2019 4.0 Overall I have been using Katalon studio for more than an year, I have been impressed with the advancements they have made in their product, it has certainly been a more favorable tool for our organization. Pros It is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time. offers a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing etc. Cons the only con is that they release new version every 15 days, it becomes a problem to stick with one version as there are many bug fixes and new feature update. Review Source Adrian A. QA engineer Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "QA for every one " March 23, 2021 5.0 I’ll admin I am kind of a Katalon fanboy, for my needs and workflow Katalon is an amazing tool which enables me to think and develop testing scenarios really fast and almost no friction when adoption the tool for the team. Pros Easy to use, automagically created test scripts that works and you can fine tune manually or out right create from scratch via easy to learn (Java based) groovy scripts Cons Hard to say, you can compare it against other “free” options for pricing but it depends on your own team capabilities and time to make that comparison . Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Quality Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon for test automation beginners" February 24, 2021 4.0 I recently started test automation and I have already tried out some complex applications. But Katalon was indeed different. I found it easy to learn and as place where I could simply start test automation without worries. I'm still practicing with this tool and only used it so far for mobile automation and started web application automation as well. I must say if you are new to test automation, please try this. With this you will easily enter to automation world Pros Katalon is a platform where we could automation all web, mobile applications and what I love most is its simplicity. I started as beginner with Katalon and getting hand on experience wasn't that difficult for me like in other automation tools. It easily detects objects, parameters and also it has whole set of keywords so you don't need to worry. Cons Actually so far I did not find any faults except it has little performance issue where it stuck at times even in high performance machines. Review Source Max-Andre' Z. Test Analyst Accounting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Katalon Studio experience" October 20, 2021 4.0 Pros It's easy to jump into and get started with, similar to selenium with more robust features. For a team that doesn't have a coding background and plans on expanding to different platforms, it ticks most of the boxes. The free version also offers enough functionality to users that are in small organisations and can't afford the more expensive tools. Cons the dark them isnt great. When capturing runs using the record feature, some elements arent always captured correctly, and have to be captured manually. The documentation could be better Review Source Tomaz B. Lead QA engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best tool for test automation." August 19, 2019 4.0 Very good experience. I was able to automate web, mobile (iOS, Android) for customer pilot project. Pros Quick to learn, easy to maintain. Very good UI. Cons Sometimes difficult Appium integration for mobile. Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Because of good recorder possibility and because Katalon UI makes it easy to maintain and improve your tests. Review Source Mahesh S. Principal Test Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Tool worth to try out..!" August 14, 2019 4.0 We are using it to automate scenarios in web app where UI and api tests work hand in hand. This tool suites well for our requirements Pros Katalon works as layer which hides the difficulties of organising folders, setting up things to get it run parellel, make test Data driven etc Cons Nothing much is there which I like least in the tool. Review Source AD Anurag D. SDET Consumer Goods Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Katalon for easy Testing" August 14, 2019 3.0 It was good when we use to work in 5.9. 6.2 version needs improvement Pros \- Ease of finding elements - SPY & Record feature - Work on one browser and run on other. - Profile part /framework structure is too good. - Renaming custom keyword automatically updates in all test cases which is very good but If we are calling custom keyword inside custom keyword, it's not working in 6.2 Cons \- Intellisense is not there - Dynamic values or variables are treated as string, something should be there to differentiate variable ex : def query = "select \* from table where col=dynamic\_value" - The version 1.7.16 by slf4j binding is not compatible with \[1.6\] - Katalon studio should work irrespective of Browser version like if chrome is updated V-76, it's stop working in 6.2 Version. there should be an option to handle this too. In 5.9 it works fine. - Reporting can be improved like total number of test cases, overall percentage can be shared like TEST NG - Pointing out error specifically instead of giving generic messages like In 6.2 if there are 10 separate keywords and there is syntax error in 6th, while running the test case we get error like error exists in project, so we have to manually trace back. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Bset tool for web Testing" August 14, 2019 5.0 Pros Katalon Studio is the best tool for web and mobile app testing. It is very user -friendly and provides the best features. It provides a record and plays option from which we can easily record the test cases which we want to automate. Cons It has a lack of scripting languages. It has performance issue. Review Source YA Yash A. QAE Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ultimate tool for automated and overall testing." May 22, 2023 5.0 I found it really good as it even provides screenshots where the error occurs and has helped our firm to create the whole process easily testable through katalon . Pros The browser/desktop recording helps to automatically record scripts and helps a lot in saving time to create automation scripts, plus it helps in parallel execution to save time. Cons It can't handle the load of a large number of test cases under one suite and consumes a lot of time. Rest functionality is good. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer QA Manager Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Only alternative for Flutter automation testing" November 15, 2022 5.0 Pros This is the only software which works with Flutter based mobile application for automation script writing using recording method Cons the only drawback with this software is that it takes one min to execute one step via recording scripts and if device gets disconnected it crashes the whole script Review Source SG Sara G. QA Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### " QA Review of Katalon" September 20, 2019 5.0 We've so far had a great experience using Katalon. I'm very excited to introduce it to the company and hope we're able to fully utilize it and keep it around. Pros I really love how easy it is to create objects and reuse on multiple sites. The copy/paste/move up/move down options are super easy to use. This makes it easy to maintain our work and make it fun to consistently use. Cons Its very difficult to troubleshoot issues. We've started keeping very detailed documentation about which errors may occur and when. If it weren't for that, I'm not confident our QA team would be able to understand how to fix/get past whatever is happening. I would really like to see clearer notes as to why something would be causing an error. Switched from [Ghost Inspector](https://www.capterra.com/p/156853/Ghost-Inspector/) Ghost inspector's xpath wasn't dynamic enough to understand how to submit our forms after we made small changes to the page. Katalon gives us the opportunity to set up a page and know that it'll still successfully pass, even if we did minor changes. Review Source Bhola Shanker K. QA Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "user friendly and need to enhance features and keyword" August 20, 2019 3.0 Pros 1\. I have been using since 12 months for Automation and getting some issues like, if I made automation on a mobile device, then I have to use that device to run my code it is shown dependencies and always I have to update code when the device has been changed. Cons 2\. And please increase the speed of run test cases, if We have much time to run test cases, then we will do manual Testing. It is run test cases are very slow. Review Source Neha V. Lead QA Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "tool provides Well structured and clean test with good reporting style" August 14, 2019 4.0 Pros Basically, this tool is very organised and saves my time too. Because as in testing field we have to invest our valuable time to understand the project and process, not for the tool learning. Cons I don't have to say anything now, so far it's a very good experience Review Source GM Gopalan M. Test Architect Semiconductors Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best among other tools in the industry" April 18, 2019 5.0 Great & excellent experience. Excited to leverage the tool's features anytime!!! Pros Ease of Use - This is one of the most reason I like this tool as it makes everyone as automation engineers that includes manual testers and subject matter experts Less Maintenance - Features like "Auto-healing Smart Xpath" brings your maintenance down Continuous Improvements - I could see consistency in continuous improvements on various features and functionalities of this tool Cons Integrations with performance test automation. Though it is a different area but needs to think on how can a single test case be used for various purpose that includes performance testing tool Review Source MB Michael B. SDET Medical Devices Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Automation for mobile apps" April 22, 2019 5.0 I had used the standalone Appium for a while in my free time. When I started a project that required mobile app automation, I wanted to produce automated tests as quickly as possible. I discovered Katalon and was able to setup numerous automated tests within months, complete with logging. I appreciate that I didn't have to write a lot from scratch, and I was able to focus more on testing. Pros Full IDE with; CSS/mobile element inspection, debugging tools, and built-in logging for tests. Easy to use for beginners and facilitates rapid development for advanced users. Active support community. Most streamlined Appium setup. Cons The user interface feels slow at times. The Eclipse based IDE is limited to Java and Groovy. Review Source AK Anjali K. Test Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Seamless Automation" February 9, 2022 4.0 Importantly, we can effectively automate integration scenarios like logging into web, get a parameter value, passing it in API, Get a value from response, Login to mobile and pass on the parameter captured from API response. Complex integration scenario like this can be handled in a single test script. Getting web drivers updated in a single click is also a simple one. Pros We can have web/API/Mobile scenarios automated in a single test file. This is very much useful to test integration of multiple components/systems. Cons Not sure why simple debug comes with only enterprise version. Review Source aB alexander B. QA analist Civic & Social Organization Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Easy to setup, easy to use, easy to onboard new members!" September 16, 2021 4.0 I'm still learning allot every day. But since there is allot of documentation online, both from users and Katalon, it is easy to figure stuff out. Pros The easy set-up was great, also the scripting allows more flexibility in comparison with other reviewed tools. Cons Some features seems buggy, or are not working at all for me. (Test Suite Collections are not showing up under TestOps) Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Easy setup and ease of use: the ability to set up cucumber framework for people with less automation experience to create TCs out of module based cucumber step defs. Review Source NM Nicholas M. QA Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My Review" April 18, 2019 4.0 This tool is a huge benefit it my testing of my companies software product. It has a lot of capabilities that help me test our product in multiple ways. Pros What I like the most is how easy it is to use Katalon. The functionality of the product is simple and easy to use. Also, the documentation that Katalon has is really impressive and useful. Cons The integration of Katalon Analytics isn't the greatest. A lot of the times Katalon Analytics doesn't show all of the information from my test suite. Also, my test suite doesn't always show in Katalon Analytics or it takes a long time to update with my results. Review Source BN Bhavani N. DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The 'Does it All' tool!" August 14, 2019 5.0 Easy to get onboarded and start of with automation of tests. The level of coding expertise required to start test automation is comparatively low. Pros The ability to integrate with the latest & most generally used tools for deployments & development. Cons I have to keep check of the Chrome versions that the tool supports! Switched from [Qualitia](https://www.capterra.com/p/139512/Qualitia-for-Selenium/) The ready-to-use framework and ease of integration available with Katalon Studio Review Source JA Jamie A. Lead QA Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Katalon for QA Automation" April 18, 2019 4.0 Katalon for me has been the perfect choice for my organization. It has allowed me to implement an automation solution that co workers with no experience can pick up quickly. As the company focus expands into mobile I know Katalon will be the tool I can use as well. Pros The software is easily setup and implemented. It is great that I can automate Web, Mobile and API's all with in one tool set. Cons The forum responses from Katalon are very slow if there is a response at all. Review Source DR Daniel R. QA tester Staffing and Recruiting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A good place to start is Katalon" August 14, 2019 4.0 I was reducing regression testing time from days to hours. any new build could be smoke tested quickly. Pros How easy it is to get started and put it to real use not just some dummy project. From Day one I was able to create test cases for the in house application by Day two I was reducing regression testing time for exsisting applications Cons Updates that require browser updates also. Reason for choosing Katalon Studio Easy of use for training new people Review Source Similar Products Featured