Beta by Crashlytics vs Laravel Homestead

Beta by Crashlytics vs Laravel Homestead: What are the differences?

What is Beta by Crashlytics? Free, streamlined beta distribution for iOS/Android. 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.

What is Laravel Homestead? The official Laravel local development environment (Vagrant box). Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 5.6, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.

Beta by Crashlytics belongs to "Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution" category of the tech stack, while Laravel Homestead can be primarily classified under "Virtual Machine".

Some of the features offered by Beta by Crashlytics are:

• Dashboard that delivers detailed build, tester and developer information
• See the activity of both your developers and your testers. All in one screen.
• Integrated with Crashlytics- Get performance insight, starting with beta testing, all the way through App or Play store distribution.

On the other hand, Laravel Homestead provides the following key features:

• Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 5.6
• HHVM

"Dirt-simple integration" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Beta by Crashlytics, while over 18 developers mention "Easy to setup" as the leading cause for choosing Laravel Homestead.

Laravel Homestead is an open source tool with 3.11K GitHub stars and 1.32K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Laravel Homestead's open source repository on GitHub.

Balliza, Pitcherific, and Timekit are some of the popular companies that use Laravel Homestead, whereas Beta by Crashlytics is used by Airtasker, Hightail, and ZeeMee. Laravel Homestead has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Beta by Crashlytics, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.