What are some alternatives to TestFlight?

What is TestFlight and what are its top alternatives?

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

TestFlight is a tool in the Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to TestFlight

HockeyApp
HockeyApp is the best way to collect live crash reports, get feedback from your users, distribute your betas, and analyze your test coverage. ...
TestFairy
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. ...
Crashlytics
Instead of just showing you the stack trace, Crashlytics performs deep analysis of each and every thread. We de-prioritize lines that don't matter while highlighting the interesting ones. This makes reading stack traces easier, faster, and far more useful! Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix. ...
Fabric
Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution. ...
Buddybuild
Buddybuild ties together continuous integration, continuous delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform. ...
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds. ...
Fabric by Twitter
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. ...
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. ...

TestFlight alternatives & related posts

HockeyApp

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Manage your betas and collect live crash reports for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and OS X apps.

Stacks169

Followers156

+ 1

Votes38

PROS OF HOCKEYAPP

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Crash analytics
11
Cross-platform
5
Mobile application distribution
2
JIRA Integration
2
Open source
1
GitHub Integration

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TestFairy

Painless Beta Testing

Stacks41

Followers76

+ 1

Votes29

PROS OF TESTFAIRY

8
Get video rec of the user on your app
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Landing Page
4
Better design
3
JIRA Integration
2
Cross-platform
2
Supports Enterprise IPA's (TestFlight doesn't/didn't)
2
GitHub Integration
1
Application full Log information
1
In-App Feedback
1
Single Sign-On
1
App Distribution

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Crashlytics

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The world's most powerful, yet lightest weight crash reporting solution. Free for everybody.

Stacks1K

Followers612

+ 1

Votes340

PROS OF CRASHLYTICS

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Crash tracking
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Mobile exception tracking
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Free
37
Easy deployment
25
Ios
15
Great ui
11
Great reports
10
Android
8
Advanced Logging
7
Monitor Tester Lifecycle
3
Mac APP and IDE Plugins
3
Great User Experience
3
In Real-Time
3
iOS SDK
3
Security
3
Android SDK
2
The UI is simple and it just works
2
Best UI
2
Light
2
Real-time
2
Seamless
2
Painless App Distribution
2
Crash Reporting
2
Beta distribution
2
Mobile Analytics
2
Deep Workflow Integration
1
IOS QA Deploy and tracking
1
Easy iOS Integration

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Fabric

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Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment

Stacks445

Followers305

+ 1

Votes75

PROS OF FABRIC

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Python
21
Simple
5
Low learning curve, from bash script to Python power
5
Installation feedback for Twitter App Cards
3
Easy on maintainance
3
Single config file
3
Installation? pip install fabric... Boom
3
Easy to add any type of job
3
Agentless
2
Easily automate any set system automation
1
Flexible
1
Crash Analytics
1
Backward compatibility
1
Remote sudo execution

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Buddybuild

A continuous integration, continuous deployment and user feedback platform for iOS and Android development teams

Stacks46

Followers60

+ 1

Votes41

PROS OF BUDDYBUILD

12
Easy setup
8
Beta testing
8
Crazy easy
7
GitHub Integration
3
Crash reporting
2
Cause it's just great
1
Good support team

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Firebase

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The Realtime App Platform

Stacks38.4K

Followers33.2K

+ 1

Votes2K

PROS OF FIREBASE

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Realtime backend made easy
269
Fast and responsive
241
Easy setup
214
Real-time
191
JSON
134
Free
127
Backed by google
82
Angular adaptor
68
Reliable
36
Great customer support
32
Great documentation
25
Real-time synchronization
21
Mobile friendly
18
Rapid prototyping
14
Great security
12
Automatic scaling
11
Freakingly awesome
8
Chat
8
Super fast development
8
Angularfire is an amazing addition!
6
Built in user auth/oauth
6
Awesome next-gen backend
6
Firebase hosting
6
Ios adaptor
4
Speed of light
4
Very easy to use
3
Brilliant for startups
3
Great
3
It's made development super fast
2
JS Offline and Sync suport
2
Push notification
2
Free hosting
2
Cloud functions
2
Low battery consumption
2
The concurrent updates create a great experience
2
.net
2
I can quickly create static web apps with no backend
2
Great all-round functionality
2
Free authentication solution
1
Simple and easy
1
Google's support
1
Free SSL
1
Faster workflow
1
Easy to use
1
Large
1
Easy Reactjs integration
1
Serverless
1
Good Free Limits
1
CDN & cache out of the box

CONS OF FIREBASE

31
Can become expensive
16
No open source, you depend on external company
15
Scalability is not infinite
9
Not Flexible Enough
7
Cant filter queries
3
Very unstable server
3
No Relational Data
2
Too many errors
2
No offline sync

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