Semaphore vs Visual Studio App Center

Overview

Semaphore

Stacks190

Followers187

Votes83

Visual Studio App Center

Stacks113

Followers232

Votes4

Semaphore vs Visual Studio App Center: What are the differences?

Semaphore: The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams. Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams; Visual Studio App Center: Continuous everything – Build, Tes, Deploy, Engage, Repeat. Automate the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Connect your repo and within minutes build in the cloud, test on thousands of real devices, distribute to beta testers and app stores, and monitor real-world usage with crash and analytics data. All in one place.

Semaphore and Visual Studio App Center can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.

Some of the features offered by Semaphore are:

Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools
Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches

On the other hand, Visual Studio App Center provides the following key features:

Build
Test
Distribute

According to the StackShare community, Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 70 developers stacks; compared to Visual Studio App Center, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Semaphore	Visual Studio App Center
Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.	Automate the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Connect your repo and within minutes build in the cloud, test on thousands of real devices, distribute to beta testers and app stores, and monitor real-world usage with crash and analytics data. All in one place.
Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools;Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines;Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches;Secrets and Dependency Management;Powerful Command Line Interface;Autoscale and Pay Only What you Use;Project Timeline Shows All Development Activities at a Glance;Dashboard Shows You All Projects That You Participate in;Seamless GitHub Integration - One Click To Add a Project;Automatically Test Your App After Every Change;New Branches are Added & Removed Automatically;Know If a Pull Request Is Good To Merge;Review Every Version in Branch History;Easily Run Your Tests in Parallel Threads;Projects are Autoconfigured for Testing;	Build; Test; Distribute; Crashes; Diagnostics; Analytics; Push; CD/CI;
Statistics
Stacks 190	Stacks 113
Followers 187	Followers 232
Votes 83	Votes 4
Pros & Cons
Pros 20 Easy setup 15 Fast builds 14 Free for private github repos 8 Great customer support 6 Free for open source	Pros 1 Show error issues for mobile devices 1 Slack integration 1 For Mobile apps diagnostics and tracking 1 Bug tracking integration
Integrations
GitHub Slack Heroku Docker Kubernetes	GitHub Bitbucket Azure DevOps Slack

What are some alternatives to Semaphore, Visual Studio App Center?

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

Codeship runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

NativeScript

NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

TeamCity

TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.