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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
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

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

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.
Pros of BrowserStack
- Multiple browsers131
- Ease of use71
- Real browsers59
- Ability to use it locally40
- Good price23
- Great web interface17
- IE support15
- Official mobile emulators13
- Cloud-based access12
- Instant access11
- Real mobile devices8
- Selenium compatible5
- Multiple Desktop OS5
- Can be used for Testing and E2E4
- Screenshots4
- Video of test runs3
- Pre-installed developer tools3
- Many browsers2
- Webdriver compatible2
- Favourites2
- Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing2
- Cypress Compatible1
- Free for Open Source1
Pros of Ghostlab
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Cons of BrowserStack
- Very limited choice of minor versions2