Ship quality apps faster with Bitrise. Get the infrastructure, tooling and expert support you need to deliver world-class mobile experiences with every single release.
Build on fully-managed VMs with all essential SDKs and mobile toolchains pre-installed, and Xcode updates within 24 hours of release.
Your builds run on top-of-range physical Apple silicon and Linux machines, with granular sizing so you can right-size for price vs power.
Easily set up parallel builds and test sharding via a drag-and-drop YAML-based editor, and get a simple visual overview of workflows and dependencies.
Bitrise offers SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliance, granular access controls, and essential security tests integrated directly into your workflows.
Automate builds, tests, and deployment with CI/CD purpose-built for mobile development.
Configure complex pipelines in minutes with our powerful drag-and-drop UI (or dive into the YAML if you prefer). Run multiple workflows in parallel to cut build times and optimize compute spend.
Trigger builds based on branch patterns, file changes, PR labels, and commit messages. GitHub merge queue support verifies changes automatically before merging multiple PRs.
No more cobbling together a pipeline from abandoned third-party plugins. Get 400+ ready-to-go Steps, maintained and verified by Bitrise, for Xcode builds, code signing, device testing, and more.
Coordinate multi-platform releases from a single dashboard and ship with confidence.
Manage iOS and Android releases with synchronized workflows, staged rollouts, and app store submission tracking. No more juggling multiple tools.
Create custom tasks and checklists for release sign-off. Track approvals, testing results, and compliance requirements in one place before shipping to production.
Distribute builds to internal and beta testers automatically. TestFlight and Google Play integrations support automated uploads as part of your release pipeline.
Identify bottlenecks and optimize your mobile DevOps performance with actionable analytics.
Track build times, queue times, test execution, and failure rates across your entire pipeline. Catch slow Steps and flaky tests before they impact team velocity.
Monitor credit usage, machine utilization, and build cache performance. Identify opportunities to reduce spend across your mobile CI/CD infrastructure.
Set custom thresholds for build failures, slow tests, or unusual activity and get notified immediately when metrics deviate from expected patterns.
Speed up builds by up to 83% with remote caching optimized for mobile development.
Get purpose-built caching for Bazel, Gradle, and Xcode with mobile-specific optimizations. No more wrestling generic caching solutions to work with mobile toolchains.
Cache artifacts live alongside your build machines to minimize egress fees and network latency. Faster cache retrieval without surprise cloud storage costs.
Bitrise handles cache eviction, compression, and cleanup to reduce manual maintenance, with diagnostics and cache‑key controls for troubleshooting slow or stale caches.
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“We talk about builds a lot less. We no longer have to explain last-minute delays to our stakeholders or why we can't release because we're waiting on a build server update.”
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“We have done a lot of integrations on many different platforms, but this one with Bitrise was particularly straightforward and seamless. It exceeded all of our expectations.”
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Yes, Bitrise is a complete CI/CD solution, with a specific focus on CI/CD for mobile apps. Mobile CI/CD is significantly more complex than web or backend CI/CD, and Bitrise solves for the specific challenges of building, testing and deploying iOS and Android apps. Bitrise also goes beyond basic CI/CD, with tools and add-ons that simplify mobile DevOps at every stage of the app development lifecycle.
Core CI/CD tooling includes a version control system (e.g. Git), a CI server or cloud CI service to run builds and tests, artifact storage, and a delivery/orchestration tool for deployments. Tools for security scanning and build monitoring are also commonly integrated. For mobile app development (iOS and Android), you will also need workflows for compilation, code signing, real device and emulator testing, and release management.
Mobile CI/CD is more complex than web or backend CI/CD for a few key reasons:
For these reasons, mobile CI/CD requires a separate, dedicated pipeline to handle compilation, code signing, device testing, and app store submissions.
While general-purpose CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions can technically be configured for mobile development, they require significant setup and ongoing maintenance to handle iOS and Android builds effectively. Jenkins requires manual configuration of macOS build agents, iOS code signing, and Android SDK management. CircleCI and GitHub Actions offer some mobile capabilities, but lack native support for critical workflows like automated code signing, real device and emulator testing, and app store deployment. Teams using these platforms for mobile often spend weeks on initial setup and considerable time maintaining custom scripts as iOS and Android requirements change. Bitrise eliminates this overhead by providing mobile-optimized infrastructure and workflows out-of-the-box.
For native iOS development, you need a CI/CD platform that provides reliable macOS build infrastructure, seamless Xcode integration, automated certificate and provisioning profile management, and streamlined TestFlight and App Store deployment. While you can configure Jenkins or GitHub Actions for iOS builds, maintaining macOS runners and managing code signing complexity often becomes a bottleneck. Bitrise is purpose-built for iOS development, offering dedicated macOS stacks with up-to-date Xcode versions within 24 hours, automatic code signing, and native integrations with TestFlight and App Store Connect. Our iOS-specific Steps library means you can build production-ready pipelines in hours rather than weeks.
Android CI/CD requires managing Android SDK versions, handling APK/AAB compilation, managing keystores for app signing, and coordinating releases to Google Play Console. CircleCI, Jenkins, and similar tools can run Android builds but require custom configuration for signing, testing on real devices, and Play Store deployment. Bitrise provides pre-configured Android build environments with all necessary SDK tools, automated keystore management, integration with Firebase Test Lab for virtual device testing, plus direct deployment to Google Play tracks (internal, alpha, beta, production). Whether you're building with Kotlin, Java, or cross-platform frameworks, Bitrise streamlines your Android CI/CD from commit to store.
The best CI/CD tool for mobile projects depends on your team’s needs, but obviously we’re going to say Bitrise is the best! But really: we are the mobile-first CI/CD platform. While tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions can be customized to run mobile pipelines, this often just leads to more glue code, more tooling drift, and more DevOps headaches in the long-run. At Bitrise, our big differentiators are that we offer macOS build environments, automated code signing, real device testing, app store deployment, and robust integration with cross-platform frameworks like Kotlin, Flutter, and React Native. All this is absolutely essential for mobile CI/CD, and with Bitrise you get it out-of-the-box and ready to go with minimal setup and maintenance.
Cross-platform mobile development frameworks (like React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, and Ionic) are software toolkits that allow developers to build mobile apps for multiple operating systems using a single codebase. Developers using cross-platform tools generally need a CI/CD solution that can handle compiling for both iOS and Android, platform-specific code-signing, and multiplatform testing and deployment. Bitrise provides out-of-the-box support for all major cross-platform frameworks, with dedicated Steps, pre-configured workflows, and optimized build environments for your framework of choice.
Yes! Bitrise offers a free tier with fully-managed, cloud-based build infrastructure. This is fundamentally different from "free" CI/CD tools like Jenkins, which require you to self-host your own infrastructure (i.e. pay for macOS hardware or cloud instances). With Bitrise's free tier, you get instant access to ready-to-go macOS and Linux build environments as part of the package. Our free tier is perfect for individual developers and small teams getting started with mobile CI/CD. As your project grows, you can explore paid plans for additional build capacity and advanced features. For more detail, check out our pricing page.
