HockeyApp vs TestFairy

Overview

HockeyApp

Stacks166

Followers158

Votes38

TestFairy

Stacks41

Followers76

Votes29

HockeyApp vs TestFairy: What are the differences?

HockeyApp: Manage your betas and collect live crash reports for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and OS X apps. HockeyApp is the best way to collect live crash reports, get feedback from your users, distribute your betas, and analyze your test coverage; 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.

HockeyApp and TestFairy can be primarily classified as "Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution" tools.

Some of the features offered by HockeyApp are:

Crash Reports- HockeyApp offers the most reliable and complete crash reporting for beta and App Store versions using open source frameworks. Providing full server-side symbolication with class names, methods, line numbers, and automatic grouping of similar crash reports.
Feedback- HockeyApp allows you to communicate with your customers. Users can create a support request, post an idea, or discuss a problem right from within the app.
Distribution- Upload your beta versions to HockeyApp and distribute them to your beta testers. Integrate our open-source SDK and your app will automatically be able to detect updates and offer the updates right within the app.Analytics- By integrating our SDK into your app, you'll get advanced metrics to get a better overview of the testing for your app. See which devices were tested, which testers used the app for how long, and which language was tested.

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

App distribution
Video recording
Crash handler

"Crash analytics" is the top reason why over 14 developers like HockeyApp, while over 7 developers mention "Get video rec of the user on your app" as the leading cause for choosing TestFairy.

According to the StackShare community, HockeyApp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to TestFairy, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Detailed Comparison

HockeyApp	TestFairy
HockeyApp is the best way to collect live crash reports, get feedback from your users, distribute your betas, and analyze your test coverage.	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.
Crash Reports- HockeyApp offers the most reliable and complete crash reporting for beta and App Store versions using open source frameworks. Providing full server-side symbolication with class names, methods, line numbers, and automatic grouping of similar crash reports.;Feedback- HockeyApp allows you to communicate with your customers. Users can create a support request, post an idea, or discuss a problem right from within the app.;Distribution- Upload your beta versions to HockeyApp and distribute them to your beta testers. Integrate our open-source SDK and your app will automatically be able to detect updates and offer the updates right within the app.Analytics- By integrating our SDK into your app, you'll get advanced metrics to get a better overview of the testing for your app. See which devices were tested, which testers used the app for how long, and which language was tested.	App distribution; Video recording; Crash handler; Community pages and landing pages; Remote logging; Performance monitoring; Customer feedback
Statistics
Stacks 166	Stacks 41
Followers 158	Followers 76
Votes 38	Votes 29
Pros & Cons
Pros 17 Crash analytics 11 Cross-platform 5 Mobile application distribution 2 JIRA Integration 2 Open source	Pros 8 Get video rec of the user on your app 4 Landing Page 4 Better design 3 JIRA Integration 2 GitHub Integration
Integrations
Hipmob	Jira Jenkins Bugzilla Slack Travis CI GitHub Unity PhoneGap Xamarin

What are some alternatives to HockeyApp, TestFairy?

TestFlight

With TestFlight, developers simply upload a build, and the testers can install it directly from their device, over the air.

Beta by Crashlytics

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.

Fabric by Twitter

Installing and managing a wide range of SDKs can be cumbersome and complex. Fabric solves this problem by combining all seven of our SDKs under one roof and organizing them into three Kits: the Crashlytics Kit, the Twitter Kit, and the MoPub Kit.

BoardingBot

BoardingBot will create a site for your app and allow users to opt-in to beta testing, and receive a TestFlight invitation automatically.

DryDock

DryDock is an open source iOS application that we built at Venmo to manage and install all of our internal builds, allow employees to download new experimental apps at any time and to easily share builds designed for a broader audience with their friends.

Updraft

It is a platform as a service for continuous mobile app delivery and beta testing. Easy distribute your iOS and Android beta apps to your product managers, testers or designers within your organization and get as early as possible feedback to your beta app. Remove bugs and improve your product to get the highest quality. Continuous enterprise mobile app delivery and bug reporting have never been easier!

Apperian

It is the leading enterprise-class mobile application management (MAM®) and security platform for the delivery of critical apps to 100% of users across an organization.

Releasable

It is a tool for companies to collect feedback from real customers prior to officially launching a product. The tool allows companies to manage all beta testing feedback from one central location, instead of using various disconnected tools for different purposes.

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