# Page 8 | Katalon Studio Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 8 - 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 8 - Reviews of Katalon Studio ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 176-200 of 706 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Team Lead Government Administration Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Not very much compatible with Salesforce" December 23, 2023 3.0 I would say average for initial config its good but for overall complicated scenarios its not Pros the ease of use - its very user friendly Cons It is not very useful in case of shadow dom's Review Source YB Youssouf B. QA Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very helpfull software and focus on writing test scenarios" October 20, 2021 4.0 Pros Very helpful in term of writing faster test scripts, coming with a ready solution. Don't worry about setting up browsers, updating drivers, only select the browser you want to lunch. Organized project by repository. Cons Very expensive for small businesses like our company Review Source PJ Prateek J. Information Technology Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Wonderful Automation Tool" April 18, 2019 4.0 Overall i am satisfied with its use for the period of almost one year now. Customer support is good. Its a value for money product. Pros It takes the load of manual testing off your head, by simple procedures you can automate functional testing with the help of katalon studio. It has inbuilt keywords which facilitate the use. Its setup is easy and the tool is not difficult to understand. It gets easily integrated with your browser. Cons A few more keywords could have made the job even more easier. Review Source HP Harry P. QC Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Katalon Studio - the new generation in automation testing" April 18, 2019 5.0 Absolutely great, our organization had only really dabbled into the world of automation until we came across katalon. I'm now loving getting stuck in and learning as I go along. Would recommend to every team. Pros The ease of use - it's much less of a learning curve than other options such as selenium. I myself have only been an automation tester for a few months and already have a good understanding and am writing pretty robust scripts. The community in katalon is great, its a small yet growing community with lots of willing and helpful users. I myself have become an avid user of the tool and the forum. Cons The Katalon analytics provided is only web-based, our organization will not put any information on such an application, however, after to talking to one of the developers, I hear a server-side application in the pipeline which sounds interesting. Review Source aS awadhesh S. Automation test engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good For startup as well as advanced automation framework" August 14, 2019 4.0 Its fantastic , to use and build the automation framework. Pros 1\. Record and play option. 2. Api automation feature along with web automation. Cons No local host setup available for Katalon analytics, due to security concern cannot use the feature. Reason for choosing Katalon Studio katalon is easy to use , open source and wide range automation tool. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Katalon Studio : User's Delight" January 17, 2020 5.0 Automation of routine work help. Automated Testing is great. Pros It is very easy to use Recorder and webcam offer great service Automation of routine work helps team Cons I did not come across anything which is lacking in the software as far as my current requirements are concerned Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Web Developer E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good staring point with testing" April 18, 2019 4.0 We are using it to create automated tests. It is getting better with automated recording and that is one of the most powerfull features of this tool. Good for making user tests. Pros Constantly new updates and features that helps managing tests. Cons Eclipse-like program that feels a little bit less intuitive. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sr Test Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very good Product" April 22, 2019 5.0 creating automation scripts for huge business workflows and maintaining those scripts have been so easy using this tool Pros Framework of the tool is fantastic , it saves the time and allows to focus more on the script creation. Liked Katalon Analytics. Cons Takes lot of CPU usage if more than one session is open in one machine. Review Source SG Samii G. QA Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "the automation tool we needed" April 18, 2019 4.0 Overall, Katalon is a good test automation tool with many functions and user friendly. Pros Katalon provides a number of funcionality that makes it possible to test functionality, api, UI, mobile from one tool only. In addition users on beginner level can use it since it has manual mode and for experts it has script mode. Cons The community of katalon is small so sometimes it is difficult to find solutions to one's problem. Docs and manuals are not enough in some cases. Review Source iD indu D. test Analyst III Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "good" April 18, 2019 4.0 Pros katlaon is very good we don't need to write page object model i like this feature. Cons katalon to jenkins configuration is easy to connect. Review Source RP Ronny P. QA Automation Specialist Accounting Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Kayaking makes automation much easier! " August 14, 2019 4.0 Definitely katalon has helped me to catch bugs on regression that were not intended by developers. Pros I like that Katalon simplified the entire process of test automation! There’s a variety of built in functions that make your life way easier. Also, the manual and developer mode make it suitable for users with and without coding experience. Cons There’s only the katalon discussion blog where you can ask for help mostly, not much information in SO or other websites Review Source MS Mehdi S. Software QA Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Gui tool to test webUI (till today!)" April 18, 2019 5.0 As an old-fashion! software tester and former developer, personally, I am not a big fan of GUI tools for testing webUI and APIs since I do prefer doing functional and load testing with my own code but I would recommend using Katalon studio to any Software testers and developers because of its wonderful design and their ongoing progress in this domain. Pros Easy to use for junior testers and most of the developers at any level Powerful yet simple "Record/Replay" feature Provide code with many programming languages based on recorded scenarios Free to use Wonderful plugins available to empower this tool for many porpuses Cons On my last use: The provided finding element is based on absolute Xpath where a relative one could be more human readable Not support for distributed testing Not support for Desktop apps (which may not be a concern for this tool since its main goal is web/mobile and API testing) Review Source AC ANDREEA C. Software Tester Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon- automation tool" June 14, 2021 5.0 Good tool for automation, easy to install. User friendly up to some points. Pros Katalon is a good tool to create and store your automated test. I like the reporting part and how you can structure the test scripts. Cons I felt that Katalon is not for a beginner, it takes some time to acknowledge all the features and to play with it. Review Source MP Michael P. CTO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon Studio is an Intuitive Solution to Promote QA Excellence" August 14, 2019 5.0 We are constantly working with non-profits, government agencies, and businesses around the world to meet the needs of QA, so there is a real need to scale new employees with our new clients. Using Katalon Studio helped us train and onboard new employees... to see the power of automation and give them the tools to take it to the next level! A+ Pros Easy to understand out of the box. Even greater is how easy it is to edit and make adjustments on the fly. Cons Keep those YubTube tutorials coming! We love them! Review Source MG Messih G. Quality Assurance Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best quality of Katalon Studio" April 19, 2019 5.0 I am testing java web applications. Basically I test the functionality of the system. And It made everything very simple. I don't have to write every piece of code. I can do everything with my mouse. Pros I really like everything about it. the documentation. Although there are a few cons about it. Cons But If you really add every functionality in the documentation. For example, I am unable to run Java Programs. I tried to find it on the documentation, But there is nothing. Review Source LF Leytan F. QA Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Katalon Studio review" April 18, 2019 5.0 I am able to test multiple platforms (Web and API) with one single tool. This eliminates the need for multiple expensive and complicated tools. Pros Ease of setup and use. Scripts being automatically generated while adding recorded or manually added steps also make it very simple to learn Groovy scripting language. Cons Recorded steps are not very robust, so it would take some tweaking and fine-tuning to improve successful execution rate for recorded tests. Review Source nC nitesh C. QA Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Makes Automation Easy" August 14, 2019 4.0 PDF comparison in current project. One thing I definitely like is any functional person with no knowledge of Automation and learn this tool and start using it. Pros The build in framework. We don't need to create anything from scratch most of the things are already build in. We need to customize it based on our project requirements Cons Few things 1. Reports coming out of the Test suites. There are useful reports but to customize them based on our project requires lot of effort 2. PDF comparison this is the basic test requirement for Insurance industry where we are using this tool. There is a plug in available but to customize the plugin again we need add efforts. IF we can have a build in capability something similar to Beyond compare this would be an huge effort saving Review Source AM Al M. QA Analyst Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent Alternative to UFT" April 18, 2019 4.0 Over all I really like this automation suite and think it well worth the money (free). Ease of use and report functionality is great. I think error messages for failed test cases could be made more user friendly. Pros Ease of use, functionality, option to edit code or record manually, built in Git, and overall UI. Ability to run headless and unattended and sending email with reports. Cons Not able to test desktop application like UFT and a bit slow starting the suite. Review Source RS Rashik S. Business Analyst Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best for testing with both business and technical teams" February 14, 2022 4.0 Pros Reduces time, No need to put more effort on coding and syntax Cons Tends to crash, complex inteface. Need to address the compatibility issues Review Source NK Namrata K. QE Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Best Software" February 2, 2022 4.0 I loved to work with this software Pros I can use this testing tool anytime and more programming knowledge is not required it's easy to use, the best part is we can do it in two mode 1) manual or 2) Automation. And also we can record and it is very helpfull Cons I got to learn so many things form Katalon like i not knowing the basic things also Review Source AK Abhishek K. Senior Test Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best Freeware Automation Tool" August 14, 2019 5.0 The overall experience very good as a newby can easily get the idea how to work the ide without prior knowledge of selenium. Pros The Test case design strategy, Report and the locator strategy Cons The IDE freezes frequently, so while working we may have to restart the ide several times. Review Source SDM Saish Datta M. Member Technical Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "My review on Katalon " April 22, 2019 4.0 Awesome. :) Pros 1.Open source 2.Easy to install (just download and install and start working on it.) It comes with entire package of libraries drivers ..etc 3. Reporting tool: Katalon analytics 4. Integration with GitHub 5. Supports Shadow DOM 6. Manual Mode : Testcases 7. Record playback 8. Data Files : Easy to connect to DB Cons Object repository: Day by day it is getting bigger. somewhat difficult to handle. Review Source AK Amruta K. QA Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good tool to start automation testing" August 14, 2019 4.0 Pros The documentation and the community of Katalon is the best thing. Whenever you get stuck, wou can definitely check for a thread of discussion or create a new one and a response immediately. Also the documentation is easy to use and understand. Cons Sometime the releases that are made are not stable meaning the feature that was working well with the previous version is not supported in the new release. Review Source JS Janson S. Software Development Engineer in Test Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great Tool with Expanding Functionality" April 18, 2019 5.0 Katalon Studio allows coding Quality Engineers to work side by side with non-technical Quality Assurance team members to create robust and hardy test automation. Our company has moved to using Katalon Studio exclusively for all automation testing, both UI and API. Pros Ease of use, customizable methods (keywords), a fresh approach to the page view model of programming Cons Can be a bit of work to get/keep working on remote server executions in headless mode. Review Source JO John O. Senior Director of Software Quality Assurance Insurance Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best tool I've used to ramp up automation quickly" April 18, 2019 4.0 I had to build up an automation framework from scratch and wanted a tool that allowed someone to use their coding knowledge, but also adapted to someone less technical. Additionally wanted a tool to allow for BDD/Cucumber, organized things well, produced good reports and was easy to maintain. Katalon delivered on all of that and was the easiest tool I've used to quickly get started. It combines the GUI based approach that licensed based tools offer as well as leveraging the abilities of Selenium and Cucumber; all for free! Pros Quick setup, easy to use, lots of features, well organized, integrates with Cucumber/JIRA/GIT/Jenkins and provides the flexibility of coding or using a GUI based approach to create your automated tests. Cons New tool, so not as many examples to leverage for troubleshooting yet and every now and then had issues with saving changes. Review Source Similar Products Featured