Greenhouse vs fastlane Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Greenhouse

Stacks70

Followers76

Votes34

fastlane

Stacks659

Followers437

Votes74

GitHub Stars40.6K

Forks6.0K

fastlane vs Greenhouse: What are the differences?

Developers describe fastlane as "Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow". fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods. On the other hand, Greenhouse is detailed as "Simple and secure continuous integration for mobile apps". Greenhouse automatically builds your project for every commit you make and runs all your unit or UI tests on the emulator/simulator or on real hardware. Automatic build distribution is also supported so that your team and clients are always up to date with the latest state of your apps.

fastlane and Greenhouse belong to "Mobile Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by fastlane are:

Connect all build tools together
Define multiple lanes for different needs
Jenkins Integration

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

Supports Android, iOS, Cordova & Ionic apps
Free for up to 2 public or private repositories
Android- Gradle projects, iOS- Xcode build system and Facebook xctool, with full CocoaPods & Carthage integration.

"Easy to use" is the top reason why over 17 developers like fastlane, while over 11 developers mention "Easy setup & usage" as the leading cause for choosing Greenhouse.

fastlane is an open source tool with 26K GitHub stars and 3.96K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fastlane's open source repository on GitHub.

Advice on Greenhouse, fastlane

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Mar 24, 2022

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CodePush

Bitrise

Dear Community!

I am researching for Mobile Application Management platform for managing android and ios release management in Fintech space. I see following options are good:

Please suggest if you have better option.

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Detailed Comparison

Greenhouse	fastlane
Greenhouse automatically builds your project for every commit you make and runs all your unit or UI tests on the emulator/simulator or on real hardware. Automatic build distribution is also supported so that your team and clients are always up to date with the latest state of your apps.	fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.
Supports Android, iOS, Cordova & Ionic apps;Free for up to 2 public or private repositories;Android- Gradle projects, iOS- Xcode build system and Facebook xctool, with full CocoaPods & Carthage integration.;Automated builds for every commit;Automated unit and UI tests;Version history & binary hosting;TestFlight & HockeyApp (and others) integration for build distribution;Support for feature branches and pull requests	Connect all build tools together;Define multiple lanes for different needs;Jenkins Integration;Extend by adding your own build steps;Deploy from any computer;Release new app updates with the push of a button
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 40.6K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 6.0K
Stacks 70	Stacks 659
Followers 76	Followers 437
Votes 34	Votes 74
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Easy setup & usage 6 Free 6 Great customer support 5 Awesome team with awesome project 3 Great and fast builds	Pros 20 Easy to use 13 Itunes connect deployment 13 Open Source 11 Incredible flexability 9 Third party integrations
Integrations
GitHub Bitbucket TestFlight HockeyApp Beta by Crashlytics TestFairy HipChat Slack Apache Cordova Ionic	Testmunk GitHub Bitbucket TestFlight HockeyApp HipChat Crashlytics Travis CI Jenkins Slack

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Bitrise

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Buddybuild

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Appcircle

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