Microsoft App Center
Build, test, release, and monitor your mobile and desktop apps.
Overview
Microsoft App Center brings together multiple services, commonly used by mobile developers, into a single, integrated product. It allows you to build your apps in the cloud, test them on thousands of real devices, distribute them to beta testers and app stores, and monitor their usage and health with analytics and diagnostics services.
✨ Key Features
- Build (CI/CD)
- Test on real devices
- Distribute to testers and stores
- Analytics (usage metrics)
- Diagnostics (crash reporting)
- Push notifications
🎯 Key Differentiators
- All-in-one integrated suite of services (build, test, distribute, monitor)
- Strong support for Xamarin and React Native
- Large real device testing farm
Unique Value: Simplifies the mobile development lifecycle by providing a single, integrated platform for building, testing, releasing, and monitoring applications.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- All-in-one solution for teams building React Native and Xamarin apps
- Crash reporting and analytics for production mobile apps
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Teams that already have established, best-of-breed tools for each part of the lifecycle (e.g., Sentry for crashes, Bitrise for CI)
- Non-mobile applications
🏆 Alternatives
Offers a broader, more integrated feature set than specialized tools like Bitrise (CI/CD) or Sentry (monitoring), but each individual component may be less powerful than the dedicated best-of-breed alternative.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 30-day free trial
Free tier: 1 build concurrency with 240 build minutes/month, 30-day free trial for Test.
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