TestFairy vs Fabric by Twitter Comparison | StackShare

Overview

TestFairy

Stacks41

Followers76

Votes29

Fabric by Twitter

Stacks167

Followers75

Votes2

Fabric by Twitter vs TestFairy: What are the differences?

Fabric by Twitter: Mobile developer platform. Installing and managing a wide range of SDKs can be cumbersome and complex. Fabric solves this problem by combining all seven of our SDKs under one roof and organizing them into three Kits: the Crashlytics Kit, the Twitter Kit, and the MoPub Kit; TestFairy: Painless Beta Testing. When testing apps in the crowd, you never know what exactly was done, and what went wrong on the client side. TestFairy shows you a video of the exact test that was done, including CPU, memory, GPS, network and a lot more.

Fabric by Twitter and TestFairy can be primarily classified as "Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution" tools.

Some of the features offered by Fabric by Twitter are:

Crashlytics Kit - The Crashlytics Kit gives you a best-in-class toolset to build robust apps: crash reporting, beta distribution, and mobile app analytics that are so easy to understand, we called them Answers.
Twitter Kit - Bring the conversation happening around the world into your app. From Login, to sharing, to displaying Tweets natively in your app, the Twitter Kit makes social integration simple.
MoPub Kit - The MoPub kit helps you turn your app into a business. Monetize your app with just a few lines of code, and optimize your advertising across multiple ad networks.

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

App distribution
Video recording
Crash handler

Edufii, Yummypets, and Poq are some of the popular companies that use Fabric by Twitter, whereas TestFairy is used by BillGuard, All Events in City, and Devotee. Fabric by Twitter has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to TestFairy, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Detailed Comparison

TestFairy	Fabric by Twitter
When testing apps in the crowd, you never know what exactly was done, and what went wrong on the client side. TestFairy shows you a video of the exact test that was done, including CPU, memory, GPS, network and a lot more.	Installing and managing a wide range of SDKs can be cumbersome and complex. Fabric solves this problem by combining all seven of our SDKs under one roof and organizing them into three Kits: the Crashlytics Kit, the Twitter Kit, and the MoPub Kit.
App distribution; Video recording; Crash handler; Community pages and landing pages; Remote logging; Performance monitoring; Customer feedback	Crashlytics Kit - The Crashlytics Kit gives you a best-in-class toolset to build robust apps: crash reporting, beta distribution, and mobile app analytics that are so easy to understand, we called them Answers.;Twitter Kit - Bring the conversation happening around the world into your app. From Login, to sharing, to displaying Tweets natively in your app, the Twitter Kit makes social integration simple.;MoPub Kit - The MoPub kit helps you turn your app into a business. Monetize your app with just a few lines of code, and optimize your advertising across multiple ad networks.
Statistics
Stacks 41	Stacks 167
Followers 76	Followers 75
Votes 29	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 8 Get video rec of the user on your app 4 Landing Page 4 Better design 3 JIRA Integration 2 GitHub Integration	Pros 1 Easy BETA distribution + monitoring 1 Real-time analytics
Integrations
Jira Jenkins Bugzilla Slack Travis CI GitHub Unity PhoneGap Xamarin	Crashlytics Zendesk Stripe PubNub Optimizely Mapbox Branch Metrics

What are some alternatives to TestFairy, Fabric by Twitter?

TestFlight

With TestFlight, developers simply upload a build, and the testers can install it directly from their device, over the air.

HockeyApp

HockeyApp is the best way to collect live crash reports, get feedback from your users, distribute your betas, and analyze your test coverage.

Beta by Crashlytics

A streamlined solution for distributing apps that gives you a single, cross-platform toolset for iOS and Android, and a delightful, effortless onboarding for your testers.

BoardingBot

BoardingBot will create a site for your app and allow users to opt-in to beta testing, and receive a TestFlight invitation automatically.

DryDock

DryDock is an open source iOS application that we built at Venmo to manage and install all of our internal builds, allow employees to download new experimental apps at any time and to easily share builds designed for a broader audience with their friends.

Updraft

It is a platform as a service for continuous mobile app delivery and beta testing. Easy distribute your iOS and Android beta apps to your product managers, testers or designers within your organization and get as early as possible feedback to your beta app. Remove bugs and improve your product to get the highest quality. Continuous enterprise mobile app delivery and bug reporting have never been easier!

Apperian

It is the leading enterprise-class mobile application management (MAM®) and security platform for the delivery of critical apps to 100% of users across an organization.

Releasable

It is a tool for companies to collect feedback from real customers prior to officially launching a product. The tool allows companies to manage all beta testing feedback from one central location, instead of using various disconnected tools for different purposes.