Bitrise Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Bitrise are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Quick and Easy Setup: Many users have stated that the setup process for Bitrise is quick and easy, with some reviewers even mentioning that they were able to have a build ready within 10 minutes. Users find the initial onboarding process of Bitrise to be smooth and straightforward, allowing them to quickly get their builds up and running.

Visual Representation of Steps: The visual representation of steps on Bitrise, as opposed to reading a yml file, has been praised by users for making it easy to set up complicated workflows. Instead of dealing with complex code configurations, users can simply drag and drop the desired steps onto the workflow canvas, providing a more intuitive and visually appealing experience.

Library of In-House and Community-Provided Steps: Users appreciate the extensive library of in-house and community-provided steps on Bitrise. With a wide range of pre-built steps available, users can easily integrate various functionalities into their workflows without having to start from scratch. Additionally, some reviewers have mentioned contributing their own custom steps back to the community, further enriching the platform's offerings.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Great CI/CD, with strong competition from XCode Cloud.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we have integrated Bitrise into our software development workflows to streamline our CI/CD processes. Bitrise has become an integral part of our development pipeline and is enhancing our overall efficiency. It is. Bitrise allows us to automate the building, testing, and deployment of our iOS applications, ensuring that our code is continuously integrated and delivered in a timely manner. By automating these processes, Bitrise saves us valuable time and reduces the chances of human error during manual deployments.

Pros

Easy Configuration of CI/CD pipelines.
Integration Capabilities in Slack, JIRA, Bitbucket.
Extensive Documentation and Community Support.

Cons

Pricing.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Bitrise is rising up and above.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 6, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bitrise is used for Mobile App development in my organization. It is really useful and gives us the flexibility to check which build is running and in which env along with OS details(iOS/Android). Also, it tells us the way where it is failing. Gives us the filtering mechanism if the dashboard is too long. It also gives the search feature incase if we forget the names of the apps deployed.

Pros

CI/CD
Cloud infrastructure.
Search for Apps.
Unit tests.

Cons

Latest Artifacts can be seen on dashboards.
Displaying who has kicked off the build.
Notification to the users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bitrise is only suitable for Mobile app development. Bitrise supports source code repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, and also you can connect with your SSO (Single Sign-On) with your private repositories with GitHub Enterprise. It gives a subscription model where it is free for one-time users and increases it fare as the usage grows up. It supports only a set of platforms. It would be good if there were more platforms supported as the user base of a variety of platforms is wide.

Aditya Reddy Bhavanam

Lead Software Test Engineer in Information Technology at IAG (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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The mobile first CI / CD solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bitrise.io as a standard CI / CD system for mobile application development in a corporate venture builder. Multiple teams of 4-6 developers each use the platform to automate the release process of both test and production versions to internal testers and customers on AppStore and PlayStore. Our setup interfaces with Google Firebase for beta deployments and makes use of FastLane actions to be agnostic of the CI / CD service itself.

Pros

Combination of GUI / text editor for build steps.
Ability to run your pipelines on local machines.
Open approach to develop build steps.

Cons

Documentation on the underlying systems like VMs could be more extensive to help with debugging.

Likelihood to Recommend

While Bitrise.io offers a ton of functionality for automating build and release processes for mobile apps it does not offer the general flexibility like CircleCI. So if you are looking for a single system to handle every CI / CD task you throw at it, look somewhere else. If you need something to power your mobile-first projects Bitrise.io is for you.

Christoph Halang

Technical Lead Innovation in Research & Development at Zeppelin Group (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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One of the most convenient CI/CD tools on the market.

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

April 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bitrise as our main CI/CD tool for mobile. It helps us maintain our release cycle and all the automated testing of our applications. Additionally, it helps us support a lot of internal repositories with different release cycles and pipelines. Bitrise seems to be the most convenient solution so far.

Pros

Ease of use
Responsible support
Convenient and fast backend

Cons

Scripts validation (particularly in GO)

Likelihood to Recommend

Bitrise provides a powerful set of tools for establishing a convenient CI/CD. It's easy to set up, manage, maintain and update. A modern and understandable web interface contributes heavily to the points mentioned above. Also, Bitrise is flexible and has the support of many external tools which makes integration and migration even easier.

Oleg Tretiakov

Senior Android Engineer in Research & Development at Delivery Hero (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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