Buddybuild vs fastlane: What are the differences?

Buddybuild: A continuous integration, continuous deployment and user feedback platform for iOS and Android development teams. Buddybuild ties together continuous integration, continuous delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform; fastlane: 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.

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

Some of the features offered by Buddybuild are:

• Frictionless Setup: set up a comprehensive CI system for your iOS and Android apps in just minutes.
• Customizable Workflow: use and extend buddybuild to meet the needs of your mobile development workflow.
• Test with Confidence: maintain and improve the quality of your code base with automated Unit and UI testing

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

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

"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider Buddybuild over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking fastlane.

fastlane is an open source tool with 25.7K GitHub stars and 3.93K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fastlane's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, fastlane has a broader approval, being mentioned in 91 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Buddybuild, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.