Bitrise
About Bitrise
Bitrise is a cloud-based and on-premise mobile continuous integration and delivery software designed to help developers build, test, and deploy applications efficiently. The platform automatically configures the initial workflows of users based on the type of existing mobile stacks, such as Xamarin, React Native, Cordova, Flutter, and Ionic.
Key features of Bitrise include autoscaling, dedicated hosts, private hosts, web UI, multi-path pipeline management, step library, automated stack updates, SSO, test reporting, device testing, and group management. It enables managers to catch inconsistencies and bugs before they reach production to minimize the potential negative end-user experience. The system uses virtual machines to run builds, allowing teams to control when, how, and where to run builds.
With automated testing and building, Bitrise lets organizations maintain build logs that facilitate collaboration and ensure issues and bugs are detected and resolved earlier. The platform enables teams to drag and drop notifications, triggers, and Steps to personalize the CI process according to individual requirements.
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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
Best CI for mobile apps by far
Reviewed on 2019/08/27
For mobile developers bitrise is a dream come true. With their focus on mobile they take out all...
For mobile developers bitrise is a dream come true. With their focus on mobile they take out all the hassle from the setup process so that even users new to CI should find it easy to setup up their app with bitrise.
Paired with the many predefined and community-provided steps there are very few use cases which can't be covered by bitrise workflows. And if you happen to hit a roadblock their team will aid via Slack or forum.
I have used bitrise on all mobile projects across multiple companies for over three years and never looked back to high maintenance self-hosted solutions like Jenkins. I'll wholeheartedly recommend it to every mobile developer I meet.
Pros
- extremely customizable
- supports yaml for configuration
- super friendly team overall, very developer friendly specifically
- support via Slack and forum
- generous free plan and fair and simple plans overall
- support open source and contributors
- huge steps library which you can use as building blocks for your build workflow
- anyone can contribute workflow steps
- good documentation
- SSH onto build machines for debugging
- initial setup just takes a few minutes and is highly automated
- lots of free open source apps for monitoring bitrise on desktop and mobile
- high availability
- hosted in the cloud -> no maintenance
- supports iOS and Android native as well as flutter and react native
Cons
- storing the configuration in your repository is a hassle and comes with several drawbacks, unfortunate as this would be my preferred way to do config
- workflow management can be cumbersome at times
- workflows could be a tad more flexible
- webapp sometimes could load faster
- API could be more extensive (e.g. they don't have any user login endpoints as of now)
- iOS builds could be faster
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Changed our Clients' Businesses
Reviewed on 2019/08/23
Bitrise totally revolutionised my clients' workflows. We do testing releases daily because the...
Bitrise totally revolutionised my clients' workflows. We do testing releases daily because the overhead of uploads & App Store/Google Play submission is all but eliminated. Especially for multi-flavour or multi-target projects, it is absolutely indispensable.
Pros
Reliable, mobile-focused build automation: it is easy to set up, highly reliable, provides the technical depth needed for extremely customised builds & is intuitive.
Cons
In some cross-platform projects using Ionic or React Native, it's easy to get to the build time limit & the pricing tiers ratchet up quite a lot when you get to the levels necessary to support that. That being said, the system more than pays for itself every month.
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Travis CIReasons for Switching to Bitrise
I found other CI products to be insufficiently focused on mobile development, unreliable & cumbersome.- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
It helped us streamline our DevOps
Reviewed on 2021/11/02
Pros
The Build Log feature made the team really organized and in the loop about what to build next and which task to prioritize.
It's always feels Meta to talk about software helps you build other softwares but I am sure that your DevOps will be streamlined with Bitrise.
Cons
The lack of Deployment Management, API and Approval Workflow.
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CircleCI- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A dream for mobile CI/CD
Reviewed on 2019/07/16
Bitrise has helped us simplify our mobile development process, keeping the builds and deployments...
Bitrise has helped us simplify our mobile development process, keeping the builds and deployments to app stores easy without relying on dedicated, on-site hardware.
Pros
Bitrise has completely solved our CI/CD needs for mobile app development, taking any complexity away and replacing it with easy to understand, repeatable pipelines that can be understood by any of the team. It was quick and easy to set up, get people on board and a tool we can now rely on.
Cons
Still a young platform, so things are sometimes a little shaky or slow.
Reasons for Switching to Bitrise
Bitrise's ease of use combined with complete flexibility , letting us simply customize our workflow to our exact needs.- Industry: Program Development
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best CI tool I have ever used
Reviewed on 2019/05/08
We are automizing all of our mobile services with Bitrise and the process could not have gone...
We are automizing all of our mobile services with Bitrise and the process could not have gone smoother. Way easier and more fun than the competitors.
Pros
GUI workflows that have easy to add/setup steps, links with most major services and business chats easily, can set a custom stack for each workflow, the UI/UX is really intuitive and constantly improving.
Cons
The build machines are a little weak but at the price I cannot complain
Reasons for Switching to Bitrise
Because the overall user experience and ease of use was miles ahead at a much better price.Bitrise FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Bitrise.Q. What type of pricing plans does Bitrise offer?
Bitrise offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$36.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of Bitrise?
Bitrise has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Bitrise support?
Bitrise supports the following languages:
English, Japanese
Q. Does Bitrise support mobile devices?
Bitrise supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Bitrise integrate with?
Bitrise integrates with the following applications:
GitHub, PagerDuty, Slack
Q. What level of support does Bitrise offer?
Bitrise offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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