Phabricator
About Phabricator
Phabricator is a free to download, open source suite of tools for supporting the software project development lifecycle. Designed to support single users and teams of collaborators, the platform of applications can be locally installed without cost while a cloud hosted supported package including additional support is available for a monthly fee. In summary, Phabricator comprises a browser-based dashboard that offers centralized accessibility to constituent apps for code review, repository hosting, change auditing, issue tracking, task management and more. With each application named individually but tightly integrated, Differential presents side-by-side code reviewing capabilities for monitoring changes, attaching inline anecdotes and comments, highlighting, plus the marking of resolutions as done. This can be combined with Arcanist, Phabricator's command-line tool (CLI) to streamline the pre-commit review workflow while "Herald" supports post-commit automated auditing with personal/global conditional business rules.
Diffusion then allows repositories such as Git, Mercurial and Subversion to be browsed, hosted locally or existing repositories connected from other locations. The Phriction wiki editor supports full Remarkup to compile and track documentation changes that can be rolled back historically. Customizable task management is then promised via Maniphest, enabling feature, issue and bug tracking with tools including custom fields for defining specific project tasks, search filters, plus drag and drop Kanban-style workboards for visualizing milestone progress. Remaining Phabricator applications then add collaborative coworker chat via Conpherence, along with the platform's own HTTP JSON-based Conduit API for interfacing with Phabricator in scripts.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Phabricator is the best hands down
Reviewed on 2020/10/28
Super useful software, that's really well built with the option to make it more serious or leave...
Super useful software, that's really well built with the option to make it more serious or leave little developer quips in.
Pros
Phabricator makes it really easy for you to move from setup to creating tasks and projects. It's secure, open source, multi-functional and honestly just amazing.
Cons
Not all the features are available right away, so it does require a little configuration to ensure it works the way you want it to.
Reasons for Choosing Phabricator
When I learned that Facebook uses Phabricator internally, I knew there must be a reason so I tried it out and never looked.Switched From
BugzillaReasons for Switching to Phabricator
Staying with Bugzilla wasn't really an option, while fully functional it does have some notable short-comings, kan-ban boards being just one of them. JIRA is just too complex a product in my opinion, plus it can become frustratingly slow.- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Better than Github
Reviewed on 2021/03/30
Definitely a great experience. I would recommend Phabricator to all my friends who work in...
Definitely a great experience. I would recommend Phabricator to all my friends who work in different industries.
Pros
I really like the interface of Phabricator. It's definitely user friendly.
Cons
The search engine can be improved when searching for this.
- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
A powerful tool that needs fine tuning
Reviewed on 2019/08/01
I'm happy with the solution, but I sometime feel frustrated not being able to address/find proper...
I'm happy with the solution, but I sometime feel frustrated not being able to address/find proper solutions to what seems to be simple/common situations for this kind of tool
Pros
Phabricator is an easy to implement and free tool, that can be used as a task/bug manager/tracker. It's pretty versatile and offers various pre-installed tools/plugins, with a lot of possible parameters to play with in order to create Projects, related tasks and link this to your repository solution (we are using Git).
It offers the possibility to work with lists or board (kan-ban style), it has a free sprint plug-in that allows to Phabricator to be used as a scrum tool.
Being free and stand-alone, it allows integrators/developers to come up with their own scripts and/or plugins.
Cons
It's a bit confusing at first, since the information can be presented in different style, at different places and, therefore, can be interpreted in different ways. The development is slow and a lot of features requested by paying customers as much as free users seem to take a long time before being addressed. It's understandable but could be a downer for potential users.
The community behind it is not as active as other solutions, so finding a solution to your problem could take time and effort.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Phabricator is phab....it's simply awesome
Reviewed on 2022/12/02
I mostly use phabricator on Post-release of applications and also project management with front-end...
I mostly use phabricator on Post-release of applications and also project management with front-end and back-end developers. The application sets the importance of my use case and can go deeper in thought. It made my decision-making capacity easier.
Pros
1) Creating tasks with the roadmap2) Ticket management with active repositories3) Diffusion4) Tasks assignment5) project management with larger dev team
Cons
1) Can develop the best user interface2) rarely they update the software
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Must have if use monorepo
Reviewed on 2022/02/03
Pros
Phabricator is a great tool for medium to large company. It provides everything need for a large group of engineers and is perfect for monorepo.
Cons
It doesn't have a good per-repo permission control or customization.
Phabricator FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Phabricator.Q. What type of pricing plans does Phabricator offer?
Phabricator offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$20.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Local Install = Free Hosted = $20 per user, per month (free 30-day trial available) Support pricing as follows: Community Support = Free Wood Support Pact = $1,000 per month Stone Support Pact = $5,000 per month
Q. Who are the typical users of Phabricator?
Phabricator has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500
Q. What languages does Phabricator support?
Phabricator supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Phabricator support mobile devices?
Phabricator supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Phabricator integrate with?
Phabricator integrates with the following applications:
GitHub
Q. What level of support does Phabricator offer?
Phabricator offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Chat
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