BetaBuilder for iOS Apps App Reviews

This works well and indeed really facilitate beta distribution. Thanks for the app!

First of all, its a really nice app and makes ad-hoc distribution much more easier than apple does. But the OTA-link does not work on my iOS5 iPhone 4S. What can i do there?

bought it for OTA ): and OTA does not work on iOS5 …

Just working as it should. Thanks a lot. There are some critical issues in OTA, which need to be considered aside from this helpful app: - full qualified bundle names (no *) - special settings on IIS (MIME Types .ipa and .plist) - we had problems with https instead of http - exact URL (dont include / at the end) Nothing the app can do anything on (perhaps check the last point). So again: App is working perfectly (we used Xcode 4.5 and iOS4,5 and 6), but the whole thing of OTA need to be done very carefully

Very Bad app, don’t work on iOS 7+. What the app can do, you can find it for free by other websites. 10$ is too much for this functionality.

Love it. The app just save me a lot of time.

Anyone who distributes iOS apps through Ad Hoc knows how tedious it can be to get everything right as the developer, let alone explaining to users how to install or having to wait for them to get to their computers. BetaBuilder makes Ad Hoc distribution so much easier. Even better is that the developer leaves the template for the HTML open to customize in the Application Support folder. I know about the web site that offers this as a service, but this makes it easy to upload to our own servers (more comfortable with that even though I know my private keys are still private). With bookmarklets from Flow, it couldnt be much easier to send out a Beta or other AD Hoc app to users. Now I spend that same time writing an email l;etting users know what to look for and focus on in the version they get. This is worth more to me than $1.99, so if you use Ad hoc distribution, you should snap it up and save yourself the time of figuring out how to do it manually or waiting on a web site.

I have to say that this is great for fledging developers like myself who cannot afford multiple devices to test on. A friend of mine told me about it yesterday, and I am not disappointed. I have one feature request, and thats to be able to package multiple apps in the same directory. I dont want to have to create separate directorys for my apps, so it would be nice if I could add new apps, without having to delete the existing ones.

I use testflight for my beta program, but I still find BetaBuilder very useful: dragging and dropping the ipa to generate the manifest etc and dropping those files on my webserver makes it easy for me to send out custom builds to specific beta testers with targeted debug—builds I dont want to send to all the other beta testers.

Oh, so helpful. Decreases my time-to-tester significantly.

This little app is just amazing... it makes it incredibly easy to build the manifest and supporting files for ad hoc development on iOS devices. One of my co-developers is a state away, having the ability to build the deployment with this app and simply upload ipa builds with minor changes has saved TONS of headaches and time... Do yourself a favor and buy this app, its the best $1.99 Ive spent all year!! -Mark

Ive been using this since version 1.0. Was still using the same original version (which worked great btw) and decided to look online to see if there were any updates available and found out its in the app store. Happy to pay a couple bucks to the dev and to get my updates through the app store. This is a great tool for any indi iOS devs that have a need to host their own beta builds rather than using something like TestFlight or HockeyApp (in fact I use those tools but still need one off builds hosted on my own server once in a while for various reasons).

This morning, I had no idea how I was going to deploy beta apps to users. After finding this and trying it out, Im done. Love it. (Would give it six stars if there were a command-line version. ;-)

It workd great, except it doesnt seem to work on IIS 6 without some changes. I tried setting up MIME types on the server for both the ipa and the plist as well as web sharing and permission to the ipa file. When trying to download directly to a 4.0+ device, the install fails with "failure to connect to web site". If you use IIS personal web server that comes with XP, it works out of the box. Whatever the security setting are, or whatever else is required to make it work with IIS, need to be part of the instructions for this app. It also fails in the same manner on OSX Lion.

Simple and functional app.

This app works great. It generates the files so that they are ready for download. Also wanted to mention that its not quite fair to blame the app maker for IIS problems. Im also deploying in IIS & had to make those changes, but this isnt within the control of the BetaBuilder developer to deal with these issues. Apples installation process requires you to download a .plist (among other things) and IIS doesnt support that by default.

BetaBuilder make distributing over-the-air iOS Ad Hoc apps super easy! Ten minutes after I purchased the BetaBuilder, I had downloaded our beta to a newly provisioned iOS device and was running. BetaBuilders UI is simple and direct and the instructions for creating and populating the web-accessible deployment folder were as simple. Thank you for making BetaBuilder, Hunter.

I wrote a review for this app a year and half ago and still use this app almost daily in my iOS dev work juggling several projects. Could not live without it, just awesome!