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BrowserStack vs Ghostlab: What are the differences?

What is BrowserStack? Instant access to a lab of 1000+ real mobile and desktop browsers for testing. Live, Web-Based Browser Testing Instant access to all real mobile and desktop browsers. Say goodbye to your lab of devices and virtual machines.

What is Ghostlab? Test any website on various browsers and mobile devices simultaneously. It is a Mac based app that allows you to test out your responsive design across a variety of devices and browsers.

BrowserStack and Ghostlab can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by BrowserStack are:

  • Real Device Cloud. Test on a range of physical Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets for the most accurate results
  • 1100+ desktop browsers. Latest versions of IE, Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more on a range of Windows and OS X platforms on a robust cloud infrastructure
  • Test dev environments. Our Local Testing feature allows you to test development and internal websites seamlessly, without setup or configuration

On the other hand, Ghostlab provides the following key features:

  • Synchronized browsing
  • Screenshots
  • Inspect CSS on any device
Advice on BrowserStack and Ghostlab
Rinchin Mahajan
| 8 upvotes · 138.2K views
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AWS Device FarmAWS Device FarmBrowserStackBrowserStack
and
Sauce LabsSauce Labs

I am looking to purchase one of these tools for Mobile testing for my team. It should support Native, hybrid, and responsive app testing. It should also feature debugging, parallel execution, automation testing/easy integration with automation testing tools like Selenium, and the capability to provide availability of devices specifically for us to use at any time with good speed of performing all these activities.

I have already used Perfecto mobile, and Sauce Labs in my other projects before. I want to know how different or better is AWS Device farm in usage and how advantageous it would be for us to use it over other mentioned tools

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Tariq Ahmad
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Recommends
BrowserStackBrowserStack

Stability - Just works. Availability - More than 15 datacenters. Enterprise features like SSO, local testing and SOC2/GDPR compliant.

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Jaymie Falconi
at Smartbear · | 1 upvotes · 55K views
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BitBarBitBar

BitBar's Dedicated Devices would be a great option for you. It allows you to dedicate (reserve) devices for your use only which also having access to all of the devices in the shared cloud. BitBar has the features and integrations that you are looking for as well.

6 Benefits of Dedicated Devices for Mobile App Testing - Bitbar
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Pros of BrowserStack
Pros of Ghostlab
  • 131
    Multiple browsers
  • 71
    Ease of use
  • 59
    Real browsers
  • 40
    Ability to use it locally
  • 23
    Good price
  • 17
    Great web interface
  • 15
    IE support
  • 13
    Official mobile emulators
  • 12
    Cloud-based access
  • 11
    Instant access
  • 8
    Real mobile devices
  • 5
    Selenium compatible
  • 5
    Multiple Desktop OS
  • 4
    Can be used for Testing and E2E
  • 4
    Screenshots
  • 3
    Video of test runs
  • 3
    Pre-installed developer tools
  • 2
    Many browsers
  • 2
    Webdriver compatible
  • 2
    Favourites
  • 2
    Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing
  • 1
    Cypress Compatible
  • 1
    Free for Open Source
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    Cons of BrowserStack
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      Very limited choice of minor versions
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      What is BrowserStack?

      BrowserStack is a leading software testing platform for developers to comprehensively test their websites and mobile applications across 2,000+ real browsers and devices in a single cloud platform—and at scale.

      What is Ghostlab?

      It is a Mac based app that allows you to test out your responsive design across a variety of devices and browsers

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      What are some alternatives to BrowserStack and Ghostlab?
      Browserling
      We run the browsers on our servers. Fully interactive sessions, not static screenshots. No flash, no applets, nothing to install. Powered entirely by <canvas> and javascript.
      LambdaTest
      LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.
      Ghost Inspector
      It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.
      AWS Device Farm
      Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors.
      Appium
      Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is sponsored by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source developers.
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