Bitrise, software from the company of the same name in Budapest, helps users automate daily app development tasks from building through testing to deployment. With Bitrise, users can configure these tasks with a visual Workflow editor, with over 330 service integrations ready to roll. All integrations or Steps are Open Source, so users can easily create their own and share it with others.
$31.50
per month
TeamCity
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
TeamCity is a continuous integration server from Czeck company JetBrains.
Mobile App Development: Bitrise is particularly well suited for mobile app development workflows. It offers native support for iOS and Android projects (we use it for iOS only), including automatic provisioning, code signing, and app store deployment. Its comprehensive step library and integrations with mobile-specific services like TestFlight make it an excellent choice for building, testing, and distributing mobile apps. Small Projects with Simple Build Processes: If you're working on a small project with a simple build process and minimal automation requirements, the full capabilities of Bitrise may not be necessary. In such cases, Xcode Cloud could be a more suitable and cheaper option.
TeamCity is well suited for an organization using continuous integration, meaning you release code to production often, and an agile project management system. There are free versions available for small teams and enterprise versions available for large teams with many different builds. TeamCity is probably overkill for basic e-commerce or blog website builds that do not require much development after the initial launch
Fully customizable build process. Each step of the build process can be parameterized and customized to address specific needs of particular applications. This allowed us to easily convert from a custom VM-based environment to our current Docker-based environment.
Manages large numbers of build agents seamlessly. This allows us to run multiple builds on many different applications in a most efficient manner.
Build steps can be managed in an arbitrary manner, allowing some parts of the process to proceed in parallel while restricting others to depend on completion of all relevant steps.
TeamCity runs really well, even when sharing a small instance with other applications. The user interface adequately conveys important information without being overly bloated, and it is snappy. There isn't any significant overhead to build agents or unit test runners that we have measured.
Bitrise is explicitly for Mobile apps, which gives a different way/structure to build the apps, and Bitrise is cloud and not need to host it somewhere explicitly. It is useful to automate the testing and deployment of the apps. Support is excellent and usually gets back to us in 1-2 days.
Jenkins relies on being open source as the primary driver for its success. This low cost is a huge factor for many companies, both small and large. The professional, free tier of TeamCity offers a huge amount of growth before ever needing to pay anything. I personally also find the user experience of TeamCity to be much better, both from a look and feel, as well as from an out-of-the-box feature set perspective. The big selling feature of ADO is its native integration with Azure. TeamCity integrates very well with out-of-the-box .NET support and greatly simplifies our use of another diverse tooling outside of the Microsoft ecosystem.
By standardizing the pipelines for mobile builds across different teams we allow the developers to focus on developing great apps and reduce the knowledge needed to maintain the CI / CD pipelines.
The simple and friendly interface allows for quick onboarding and easy learning even for non-developer roles.
Robust integration e.g. with Firebase for automated beta deployments allows quick feedback from internal testers.
TeamCity was a key contributor to our organization's adoption of Agile.
TeamCity made it possible to KILL "It works on my laptop" conversations with Developers. If it does not compile in TeamCity - the project is not deployable. TeamCity's easy to use interface made it possible to quickly adopt a "Deploy Only from TeamCity" policy, further ensuring TeamCity Builds were the gold-standard for well-configured source code.
