Appcircle Features

It is both easy to use and functional. Once you log in, you can easily figure out what to do and how you should set yourself while not sacrificing on functionality. There are many tools around which offer either functionality or ease of use but not both at the same time. Appcircle is the one you should go with.

Types of roles among team members can be more diverse.

Makes all CI/CD operations incredibly easy

Dashboard could have better user experience

Many of the enterprises like ours can't use the cloud-based mobile CI tools due to security restrictions regarding keys and repositories. Other mobile CI tools don't provide a solution for this purpose and the traditional CI tools require too much effort and customization for mobile app pipelines. Appcircle makes a difference by providing enterprise deployment options. Keeping all of our development assets and the mobile CI/CD environment internal provides peace of mind. Plus, it's easier to use than many of the CI tools we tried.

The recommended way of deployment is via Kubernetes and not all enterprises are really adept on cloud-native apps. It would be great if they can provide some alternative enterprise deployment options.

Highly stable and robust. Also, always up to date. You don’t need to do anything for new Xcode version since Appcircle does it for you immediately after new Xcode version is released. It takes so much of this worthless work away and makes you focus on the part of the effort that brings value to your business.

Using such a tool requires some getting used to. Developers who do everything by themselves may not mentally be ready to leave redundant work behind.

Appcircle takes away the pain of dealing with many things at the same time. You can create different organizations for different apps with different certificates and provisioning profiles and keep track of all with it. It’s centralized tool that any app development agency needs.

If you want to fully benefit from it, you will need to spend some time to create different teams for apps, determine the test groups and upload the certificates accordingly. This is an understandable effort and you won’t regret after that. However, it will still require you to allocate space in the sprint plan.

You don’t need to have many devices to test your app or Macs to build it. Appcircle has them both. You can’t imagine how much money and time you save because of it.

By nature, cloud builds are slower than local builds although it is not Appcircle’s fault. Still it doesn’t really affect you since you can automatically build your app with the triggers without blocking any Mac.

I love how customizable this software is. I love how user friendly it is, how clean and aesthetically pleasing it is for my eyes. I love all about this app and the best of all is that is accomplished what it promises.

I do not have any flaw to state. Definitely I consider this software to be very awesome and fluid. I love everything about it, it does not have anything wrong.

Appcircle has everything what other tools have. Additionally, there are signing identity management and emulator/simulator. Appcircle still has room for improvement even though it is not lacking anything.

Carrying your project to such a tool is hard thing to do. However, Appcircle is very easy to figure out. They also provide onboarding sessions to help you get running.

- Autofill function/action fills the project-related areas out automatically- Distribute over Appcircle, no need a distribution tool- Create workflows by drag and drop- Store certificates in the cloud, no need to worry about certificates- Automatic version/build no increase- Quick customer support via Slack

- Sometimes I might need the professional package but it is kinda expensive

Working with many different startups, I had the chance to observe many different tools and use cases and I can confidently say that Appcircle combines the best features of other mobile CI tools in the market. It is easy to configure but also flexible. This is very important for startups that can't afford a dedicated DevOps resource. Any mobile developer can use the tool in a productive way.

Appcircle is a new product, so it took me a little convincing to have some of my mentee startups to try it out. Fortunately, it didn't let me down until now. Also, the free tier can be made a bit more generous.

It is very well-designed tool that offers so much potential for future even though it is already solid and working as intended. Developers of Appcircle seemed to have analyzed the pain points of app development properly before creating this tool.

Since it is a modern tool, it doesn’t offer prebuilt Xamarin or other older framework workflows. You should use customs scripts for that which is supported by Appcircle with Ruby and Bash.

Appcircle is highly customizable. Although it offers many prebuilt workflow steps while building the app, it also works with custom scripts which can basically do anything you want. So no matter how various the tools you use, you can make Appcircle work for you.

The more tools you use, the more integrations you need to set in Appcircle. So the time it takes to fully carry your projects is highly dependent on the variety and the quantity of the tools you use.

Appcircle is very easy to use and explore. You will easily set your project and get your first build in a couple of minutes. Even if you have any hurdles, their support team works quite well and fast. They are also willing to improve their tool with feedback and feature requests you provide. You shouldn’t be surprised if you see a feature you requested very recently.

You may be scared of exploring such a product at the beginning. However, it is very easy to use especially considering the other tools in the market.

Appcircle takes the burden of spending your time on cumbersome and redundant work. Big enterprises may not realize if their mobile team works inefficiently however if you don’t have abundant resources then you need to benefit from Appcircle’s capabilities. Cost of using it is much less than the advantages it brings.

Appcircle is a relatively new tool which shouldn’t intimidate you at all. Even if you didn’t hear about it too much before, you will surely hear it more often in the future.

Setting up a pipeline for mobile apps is indeed easy with Appcircle. I can automate pretty much everything after the code and it can handle cross-platform builds too. It's like just click and build but you can also do advanced configuration with the workflows. It is a breeze to use the workflow editor with its surprisingly efficient design.

It takes a while to get used to an established CI/CD discipline with the developers being used to do things on their own. The platform doesn't allow cutting corners. It's not so good for the developers, but great for the managers.

It is very easy to navigate in the tool. Even if you get stuck with something, their docs help a lot. Still got an issue? Just contact them and see how fast they help you out!

Free plan may not work for teams due to the limitations, though they already say it’s for individuals.

Their catchphrase sums it all. I used Appcircle in different ventures and I am highly satisfied with it in different use cases. We observed from the firsthand that Appcircle can handle different type of mobile app projects with different frameworks without any issues. Its appeal comes from the ease of use and high compatibility.

Its branch-based build structure makes it easy to use, but it may need some getting used to if you are coming from another mobile CI/CD platform.

We streamlined and automated mobile DevOps processes with Appcircle. They manage all updates efficiently as tagging code commits with hotel name triggers build for specific clients. Publishing the client apps under their own publisher accounts has also been automated. We linked various Google Play IDs and Apple Developer IDs to lead deployments in Appcircle. We use the Appcircle online emulator/simulator to provide clients instant app previews, where we can approve the final version immediately. All in all, the mobile CI/CD pipeline of the our apps is fully automated with tagged pushes from a single codebase.

All the features that we wanted are developed in a relatively short period of time. So we can tell that we are 100% satisfied.

Appcircle is a complete suite of modules for the entirety of the mobile CI/CD workflows. Such a unified and centralized approach works well and satisfies all the mobile CI needs of an organization. It also has the benefits of having enterprise-grade features like reports and team management.

I cannot specify any impactful disadvantages. Personally, I can make use of some additional automatic build trigger options, but the current selection is more than sufficient.

The speed, customer service, pricing, testing tools

Integration documentation can be improved.

It is highly scalable for big teams or organizations with numerous teams. Ability to set your users’ roles and permissions make it much more efficient. Once you create organizations and set the teams, you won’t have to worry about dealing with many projects at the same time.

I can say it still shows too much potential for growth even though the product is quite mature now. It may not be considered as one of cons though.

Reduces the costs significantly. Also makes the app development process much smoother.

Free plan has enough limitations for builds and distribution but not simulator although there is economical standalone simulator plan.

It is much less costly to use Appcircle than owning lots of devices. I highly recommend it to developers that want to test their apps with many devices.

You need to contact Appcircle sales team for an emulator plan that has enough limitations for you. The one you can purchase without connecting to them is not going to be enough for you for sure.