116 complaints extracted from 116 reviews of Agility CMS between 2018-10 and 2025-09, average rating 4.44/5, grouped into the problems users report most. Each problem links to the market it belongs to and to startup ideas built on it.
The problems Agility CMS users report
Developer-dependent CMS that locks out marketers — 18 complaints about Agility CMS; 19 complaints across 2 products · market pageNon-technical users can't make meaningful changes to content, layout, or dynamic pages without pulling in a developer — complaints call out that 'Agility errs heavily on the developer side' and 'creates a gap between developers and digital marketers, requiring advanced coding assistance for dynamic pages.' On top of that, when users do need help, the API documentation is thin enough that self-service problem solving fails, and template changes cost extra money paid back to the vendor.
Unpredictable publish and save delays — 17 complaints about Agility CMS; 19 complaints across 3 products · market pageAcross multiple CMS products, users consistently hit slow or stalled saves, publishes, and file updates — sometimes waiting through a bi-hourly rebuild cycle just to push a change live, other times needing manual cache clears before updates appear. Complaints like 'sometimes publishing requires a cache cleanup' and 'high level of time to update the pages when using your URL' point to the same root frustration: content teams can't trust that a change they made is live, or know how long it will take.
Outdated, confusing CMS editing interfaces — 14 complaints about Agility CMS; 20 complaints across 3 products · market pageUsers across multiple CMS products consistently complain that the editing interface feels dated, enterprise-heavy, and hard to navigate without training. Specific friction points include WYSIWYG editors that produce messy code, tables that break on mobile, widget editors where the toolbar is hard to find and requires extra CSS just to make it visible, and live widget previews that lag or show inaccurate results. The interface is technically functional but slow enough to frustrate non-technical content editors daily.
In their words
“CLI has issues and import of excel is not fast.”2.5/5 · 2025-02-14 · Unpredictable publish and save delays
“The bi-hourly website rebuild cycle hinders our ability to publish web updates with precision timing.”2.5/5 · 2023-05-11 · Unpredictable publish and save delays
“The table function is not responsive at all; it would be helpful if we could have a more responsive and stylized table function.”2.5/5 · 2023-03-06 · Outdated, confusing CMS editing interfaces
“Legacy .NET platform, no prebuilt modules or integrations”3/5 · 2019-02-05
“It is super expensive compared to competitive alternates.”3/5 · 2019-01-22
“For non developers the learning curve can be steep”3.5/5 · 2022-09-26