balena Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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Makes it easier to manage, deploy, and update connected IoT devices remotely.
Strong open-source tooling (openBalena) for managing fleets of devices.
Helpful for cloud computing and OTA updates to devices.
Good development tools backed by a helpful team.
balenaEtcher doesn't always recognize or work with certain USB devices.
Issue resolution times can occasionally be slow for some products.
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Anonymous User
03/14/22
"Very good experience while working with Balena"
What do you like best about balena? Everything is nice and the people working there are very good as well. What do you dislike about balena? I dislike the fact that the resolution time sometimes to solve my issues is a little high for some products. What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? IoT Application Monitoring and Security Fixing
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Anonymous User
03/03/22
"Good experience"
What do you like best about balena? Good for connecting devices. Very helpful What do you dislike about balena? No dislike, i really like the tools development that it provide What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? Balena is helped in cloud computing
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Peter J
03/03/22
"Balena the best choice for IOT"
What do you like best about balena? Openbalena is one of the best open source software to manage connected IoT devices. What do you dislike about balena? The balenaetcher is not always working with different devices. For some USB devices, it is not recognizing. Recommendations to others considering balena: Best choice if you are new to IOT What problems is balena solving and how is that benefiting you? Our team is mainly working on the IOT based automation projects. The platform is really ...
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58-Productions
10/20/20
Its OK
It works on iMac but not MacBook and the flash drive has to be 32GB or less
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Sharon L
09/25/18
"Useful tool for IoT developers"
What do you like best about balena? Resin.io has made it easier to manage OTAs and remote deployments and updates to IoT devices. What do you dislike about balena? There isn't currently an easy way to set up a CLI for controlling the process of managing Resin.io, but I am satisfied with its degree of functionality. Recommendations to others considering balena: I'd recommend this to anyone who has used Mender or other IoT deployment softwares to try out and implement for testing purposes, at ...
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