Konstrukt vs UI-O-Matic

Differences between Konstrukt and UI-O-Matic, the back office UI builders for Umbraco.

For anyone familiar with Umbraco you may already know of the open source back office UI builder, UI-O-Matic and be wondering why you should choose Kostrukt instead. To help with that decision, we've put together the following feature matrix to compare some of their major differences.

API

Feature	Konstrukt	UI-O-Matic
Style	Fluent API	Attribute based API
Strongly Typed	Yes	No
Seperation of Concerns	Yes - Config is seperate to poco models	No - Config is combined with the poco models
Manage 3rd Party Models	Yes - As config is seperate to poco models, Konstrukt can manage any poco models	No - As config is attribute based, you need to have full control of poco models to add attributes to
Configuration Context	Config is always in the context of the poco model with Konstrukt automatically converting between properties and DB columns	Config switches between poco model properties and DB columns so can be confusing if you aren't aware of the context
Supports Dependency Injection	Yes - Where types are passed to the API, the service provider is used to resolve those types allowing for dependency injection of depdendencies	No

Features

Feature	Konstrukt	UI-O-Matic
Dashboards	Yes	No
Context Apps	Yes	Ish - There is an API to define context apps, but it's just a shortcut for Umbraco's Content Apps API, so doesn't support associating a collection with the context app
Sections	Yes	Yes - Requies custom tree controller
Section Dashboard	Yes	Yes
Cards	Yes	No
List View Filters	Yes - Data Views and Property Filters	Yes - Dropdown filter only
List View Field Views	Yes	Yes
Field Editors	Konstrukt re-uses Umbraco property editors and so can use the full suite of core and community property editors	Limited to a set of UI-O-Matic provided editors
Editor Organisation Structures	Tabs + Fieldsets	Tabs
Editor Validation	Yes	Yes
Menu Actions	Yes - C# based	Yes - JS based
Bulk Actions	Yes - C# based	No
Row Actions	Yes - C# based	No
Virtual Sub Trees	Yes	No
Custom Trees in Existing Sections	Yes	No
Encrypted Properties	Yes	No
Value Mappers	Yes	No
Child Collections	Yes	Yes - Requires a convoluted config of hidden collections + list view properties on the parent poco model
Custom Repositories	Yes	Yes
Events	CRUD + Query + Startup events	CRUD + Query events
Data Export	Export Bulk/Row action available OOTB	Via 3rd party add-on
Property Editors	Entity Picker	Dropdown + Multi Picker
Localized	No	Yes
Supported Umbraco Versions	v10+	v7+

License

Feature	Konstrukt	UI-O-Matic
Open Source	No	Yes
Can be used on Umbraco Cloud	Yes	No
Fee	Free for one collection, then £450 exc VAT per install	Free unless you are a paid Umbraco Partner then you are required to negotiate a fee or face a $15,000+ penalty

Support

Feature	Konstrukt	UI-O-Matic
Supported by	Outfield Digital Ltd + Community	Community
Our Umbraco Forum	Yes	No
Email Support	Yes - Commercial	Yes - Personal
Issue Tracker	Yes	Yes
Documentation	Yes	Yes