Bitrise Reviews

- extremely customizable
- supports yaml for configuration
- super friendly team overall, very developer friendly specifically
- support via Slack and forum
- generous free plan and fair and simple plans overall
- support open source and contributors
- huge steps library which you can use as building blocks for your build workflow
- anyone can contribute workflow steps
- good documentation
- SSH onto build machines for debugging
- initial setup just takes a few minutes and is highly automated
- lots of free open source apps for monitoring bitrise on desktop and mobile
- high availability
- hosted in the cloud -> no maintenance
- supports iOS and Android native as well as flutter and react native

- storing the configuration in your repository is a hassle and comes with several drawbacks, unfortunate as this would be my preferred way to do config
- workflow management can be cumbersome at times
- workflows could be a tad more flexible
- webapp sometimes could load faster
- API could be more extensive (e.g. they don't have any user login endpoints as of now)
- iOS builds could be faster

Reliable, mobile-focused build automation: it is easy to set up, highly reliable, provides the technical depth needed for extremely customised builds & is intuitive.

In some cross-platform projects using Ionic or React Native, it's easy to get to the build time limit & the pricing tiers ratchet up quite a lot when you get to the levels necessary to support that. That being said, the system more than pays for itself every month.

The Build Log feature made the team really organized and in the loop about what to build next and which task to prioritize.
It's always feels Meta to talk about software helps you build other softwares but I am sure that your DevOps will be streamlined with Bitrise.

The lack of Deployment Management, API and Approval Workflow.

GUI workflows that have easy to add/setup steps, links with most major services and business chats easily, can set a custom stack for each workflow, the UI/UX is really intuitive and constantly improving.

The build machines are a little weak but at the price I cannot complain

Bitrise is very easy to setup especially when projects contain a Fastlane configuration. It has a nice style to it and great support for advanced questions turned out to be available at the click of a floating action button.

Pricing change for organisation's versus developers may be a bit steep for tiny startups.

Bitrise has completely solved our CI/CD needs for mobile app development, taking any complexity away and replacing it with easy to understand, repeatable pipelines that can be understood by any of the team. It was quick and easy to set up, get people on board and a tool we can now rely on.

Still a young platform, so things are sometimes a little shaky or slow.

-Tailored to the need of mobile developers. Less hacks necessary.
-Fast Support, helpful with Setup as well if needed
-Price sounds high but well...not really. You get a lot for that :)
-Fast reaction to new beta releases from Apple

-Did not find it sooner

Thats about it. Sure, got some wishes but i am optimistic that those would be handled fast once requested. Not missing anything for daily work.

Loved the incredibly easy workflow builder experience, which meant I was able to just choose what things I wanted to happen, and not have to fuss around with a bunch of yaml files and commit every change to see what's happening.

Incredibly easy to debug your workflow as well, as you get very verbose information about what's actually going on!

Also, very easy to setup a project, as they're smart enough to know what are good sensible defaults are for different types of native projects. This meant that once we imported our project from github, we were up and running in minutes, and just had to tweak some specific functions that we'd like to do!

Default experience was a bit slow, but after talking to their support, it does seem like there's ways to speed up our builds.

- Has ability to setup custom flows for build process.- Has ability to automate flows with external apps like JIRA/BitBucket- Has dashboard which has all details related to builds.

No issues faced so far with BitRise. Really satisfied with its ease of use.

Bitrise has number of quite great features . I used CI/CD for android and IOS build generation- Generating build from bitrise using branch and tag- generate build and can directly upload to play store. this i liked most- Running test case - generating build in very less time as compare to local machine

There are few issues which i faced in bitrise build- unable to find SHA1 for debug builds for android

+ the overall flexibility
+ the rich steps library
+ the ability to contribute to the steps
+ the ability to create your own step (haven't done this yet, but will definitely look into it in case i don't find what i need)
+ the amazing and fast blazing support
+ the competence of the support
+ the support for open source projects

- it requires some effort to initially get into and understand how workflows and steps works
- newcomers i've worked with, find learning the platform and understanding how to setup workflows, somehow difficult, but with enough time, they get used to it. I would rather blame the peoples, rather than the tools, because its like you get a powerful sport card, without even knowing how to drive :)

The workflow is easy to set up. Nice live view of the apps being built. I can add multiple apps, and see where your build is in the process. I can modify workflow with intuitive UI. I can easily connect Bitrise to my Bitbucket and Github pages and when I make a commit, I can configure Bitrise to run my tests, make my builds. I save a lot of time to let Bitrise do the work that would take a long time to do manually (including archiving the app).

Bitrise already has a pretty generous allowance for their free tier (Hobby Plan). It lets your play with Bitrise before committing to a paid plan. Maybe it can give more builds and longer build time on their hobby (free) plan.

Bitrise helps us using automated builds with different workflows whether we want to create a new release or run some tests before merging. The scheduled builds allow us to run UI tests nightly which is very useful.
They also have excellent customer support :)

Sometimes it can take a while to get a build running but it's part of the CI integration ;-)

How simple it is to wire up your mobile apps with this CI/CD platform. I'm really glad my tech lead introduced us to this platform, especially since we migrated from a platform that wasn't as mobile app friendly. For instance (and coming from an Android-client background), it's simple to run Gradle tasks to automate the builds to the point where it's easy to deploy it to the Play Store. Also, I love how easy it is to integrate UI and unit tests for each build workflow!

Coming from an Android-client background (and I'm not sure if it's our iOS engineers that could write the scripts better), but the iOS builds usually take two times longer than Android's. I was told particularly that the reason for that was due to it running on "Mac boxes" or something like that, and also because it's the Apple ecosystem after all. Either way, I'd like to see faster builds for iOS, if possible!

+Open source & detailed documentation that allowed for our engineers to make custom integrations that served our purposes (nightly builds, Slack command triggered marketing screenshot automation, automated localization upload from source, etc.)

+Architecture of Bitrise CLI with Bitrise SaaS platform makes it easy for our engineers to reason about what's going on in Bitrise's servers & test proposed workflow changes on their local machines.

+Simple, but incredibly detailed tools for iOS provisioning & code signing. Anyone who has had to deal with iOS code signing with Travis & CircleCI knows the struggle.

-Lack of email notification customization. As a larger org with engineers & management from various departments all wanting to have access to certain builds, certain workflows, etc, we quickly found that many people needed access but didn't want email notifications but there were no controls on the user-level to disable this, just the big app-level controls.

Bitrise is super simple to set up. Since it's focused on mobile continuous integration, the tooling and support they have make it really easy to configure workflows and install tooling that's needed for iOS and Android.

The hobby tier unfortunately is a bit difficult to take advantage of, with how long builds often take with iOS and Android. If the time were increased for free projects by a small amount, this would make it more viable to use for beginning developers (or people just working on tiny things in their spare time).

Bitrise offers Mac, Linux and custom docker environments. It has various ready to use build steps and a very intuitive editor for your build scripts. The price is very fair when comparing to other solutions

Managing build and projects might be harder than it should, since there is no API for creating projects.

- Ease of setup
- Endlessly configurable workflows
- Integration with all the tools we use (GitLab, Slack, ... )
- Always up-to-date stacks for building
- Great support team
- Helpful documentation and support resources
- Great logs for debugging failed builds

Builds could be a little faster (I think).

Ease of use. you can plug your repo in a couple minutes, then just start defining simple workflows in less than that.

It's very solid/reliable, yet with enough flexibility to cover pretty much all your needs.

I guess the error reporting could get some more love, but you got access to the output of the command and that's what really matters.

I'd love to see additional options, like a private maven repo for your artifacts.

- highly customizable, you can run any bash script and even use your own docker image for build environment
- supports monorepos using selective builds by path
- many integrations out of the box

- Because of high customizability it takes more time to setup then appcenter
- iOS automatic codesigning isn't ideal. Autoprovision step didn't regenerate provision profiles when new device was added and it didn't generate development profile when new capability was added causing build to fail. However you can use manual codesigning or fastlane match if you please.

Straightforward and beautiful interface

Logs sometimes take some time to load and the interface gets laggy.

Ease of customization
- It is possible to add, delete and change steps on GUI
- A wealth of standard step functions
- I can also prepare your own step by script
- Can edit steps on code with yml (Easy to deploy on other projects!)

Run multiple workflows
- I want to execute multiple workflows with one trigger, but the setting is difficult (if the workflow gets longer, it will take longer and it will also be difficult to change the workflow)

Builds app it's super easy, you can manage to connect app center, app store connect, google play store, slack and even more. I found Bitrise super useful in my daily basis.

The only thing that bothers me about Bitrise is the free trial. Machine are super slow. A single build can take up to 20 minutes, but I use Org Standard and that works like a charm.

- Easy to setup thanks to starter workflows
- Allows to reuse workflows easily
- Good tutorials

- Lack of stack customisation
- Slow compilation times

It is customizable and relatively easy to use product both as builer for installation packages and as sotfware. It also has intuitive web interface which can be easily accessible from mobile device which is convenient

That is easy, but not unexpected, the price. We that it is a bit over than it could have been, but Elite package is Elite package, right?)