Comparison between TestFlight Live, QuincyKit and Crashlytics

Question

I am going to launch my app on the AppStore and I would like to keep track of crashes and fix them as soon as possible. If possible, it would be nice to collect also some additi

Answer 1

If we're only talking about crash reporting, Crashlytics is far better than TestFlight. (Never tried QuincyKit, so I can't compare the 3 options)

We've been using Crashlytics for over a year on Weddar and it has been great. Having tried other solutions before I have to say that before installing it I was kind of suspicious of the great features they were stating, but the installation was indeed done in about 5 minutes and it only added around 40-45Kb to the app.

The crash reports are incredibly detailed making it really fast to pinpoint solutions for the bugs and the updates to the sdk are pretty steady and stable. The team is incredibly supportive too. I remember that we had a problem with the new ARM7s when iPhone5 came out and they solved it in about 30 minutes.

I use TestFlight for user beta testing management so I've tried TestFlight Live SDK in the summer just to see if it was a solution to have all integrated in one service, but we had a really bad experience with it. I had 2 updates rejected in the App Store Approval for the first time (Weddar was launched in April 2011) and we lost about a month trying to catch the bug. When LIVE beta testing, no user would complain about any problem, we "solved" it by removing the TF SDK. Never quite understood what was the problem. We contacted TestFlight team and never had contact back. (Another big big detail is that TF SDK added about 800Kb to our app.)

So, even if I still use TestFLight for beta testing, if you're looking for a great and lightweight crash reporting SDK, I definitely say that you should use Crashlytics.

Hope this helps.