When comparing Kumulos vs Loopback, the Slant community recommends Loopback for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted BaaS (backend-as-a-service) providers?” Loopback is ranked 5th while Kumulos is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Loopback is:
Easily and quickly get going.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good for mobile app development companies
Scales very well and useful console to view all their apps and its fully rebrandable which works great if you want to give the clients you are building apps for access to their own view of how it is performing. The fact that it comes with integrated push notifications and their automated monthly report is also great.
Pro Granular permissions
For companies or large teams of developers, where there are multiple projects being worked on at once, you can choose permissions for any developer and decide who gains access to each app on the backend.
Lets you rebrand the system, which works well if you want to give the clients you are building the app for access to their own view of how their app is performing.
Also like the fact it comes with the option of integrated push notifications and an automated executive summary report.
Pro Awesome support - a rarity these days. A support team that answers your questions and you can actually talk to them.
Have found response times to be pretty amazing, usually same day, often within an hour of logging a ticket.
Pro Multiple Services in one place
Having Crash, Analytics, Push, Content Management, ASO, Data Storage all in one place, from a single SDK
Pro Easy to get a project up and running
Easily and quickly get going.
Cons
Con Weak documentation
In the last year they launched a dedicated Docs site that has made this a lot better. https://docs.kumulos.com/
Prior to that Kumulos was lacking in the documentation department. A lot of things are explained in just a few sentences.
Con Strong-PM process manager
It's not required to run a loopback app and can be a pain to deal with.