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Crashlytics vs TestFairy: What are the differences?

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

What is TestFairy? Painless Beta Testing. 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 belongs to "Mobile Error Monitoring" category of the tech stack, while TestFairy can be primarily classified under "Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution".

Some of the features offered by Crashlytics are:

  • 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.
  • Now you'll get precise information on the performance of the devices that your apps run on. We'll let you know if the crash only happens on a specific model or generation of a device. We'll even tell you other information, like whether your app only crashes in landscape mode, or whether the proximity sensor is always on.

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

  • App distribution
  • Video recording
  • Crash handler

"Crash tracking" is the primary reason why developers consider Crashlytics over the competitors, whereas "Get video rec of the user on your app" was stated as the key factor in picking TestFairy.

9GAG, Yelp, and PayPal are some of the popular companies that use Crashlytics, whereas TestFairy is used by BillGuard, All Events in City, and Devotee. Crashlytics has a broader approval, being mentioned in 352 company stacks & 69 developers stacks; compared to TestFairy, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of Crashlytics
Pros of TestFairy
  • 78
    Crash tracking
  • 56
    Mobile exception tracking
  • 53
    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
  • 8
    Get video rec of the user on your app
  • 4
    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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What is 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.

What is 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.

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