--- title: Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews meta_title: 'Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 61 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft Visual Studio App Center works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 61 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Mobile Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Visual Studio App Center ships iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps faster and with greater confidence by automating their lifecycles. It also connects your repository and, within minutes, builds in the cloud, tests on thousands of real devices, distributes to beta testers and app stores, and monitors real-world usage with crash and analytics data. ## Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Visual Studio App Center, enabling effortless updates and automation in development. (2 reviews) - Users find **app development easy** with Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, facilitating seamless updates for their projects. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **configuration ease** of Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, allowing effortless updates to their mobile apps. (1 reviews) - Users value the **fast delivery speed** of Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, enhancing customer satisfaction with timely updates. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **simplicity of updates** in Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, enhancing their app development experience. (1 reviews) - Solution Efficiency (1 reviews) - Time Management (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face **network connectivity issues** during updates, which can hinder their overall experience with the App Center. (1 reviews) - Users find Microsoft Visual Studio App Center **expensive** , suggesting a lower price could attract more users. (1 reviews) - Users struggle with **poor documentation** of governance and policies, leading to confusion and inefficiencies. (1 reviews) - Users mention **pricing issues** with Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, suggesting lower costs could increase user interest. (1 reviews) - Users report **network connectivity issues during updates** , which complicate the overall experience and functionality of the App Center. (1 reviews) ## Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Reviews ### 1. Code push is a great for version controlled applications **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** One advantage of using react native in the application is that you have the ability to code push. Our company would often roll out bug fixes, and if it is a critical bug, we'll code push it out to older application versions to make sure the critical bug gets fixed in the older version. Having this last resort option is great and would strongly recommend companies install CodePush. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Code push has a poor system in upgrading the react native bundle in our application. For example, while loading the application, the user will face a white screen and have to wait to download before the application runs. If they have slow internet, then they would have a bad user experience. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving critical bug fixes in released applications, so this is a very great solution to mobile devices. Being able to push fixes to already released older applications is crucial for a successful business. ### 2. Visual Studio App expeirence **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** It is easy to access from launching visual studio **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** that you do have to launch it from visual studio **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Maybe accesible from desktop instead through visual studio **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just adding plugins and libraries ### 3. A lot of room for improvement **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** I love being able to write a single set of tests for multiple platforms and locales **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** App Center platform is buggy, especially for new OS version releases **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Give it a try, but expect issues, especially with new OS versions. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted a single app test platform that allowed us to write tests once (In Xamarin.UITest) and run the tests against multiple platforms and devices. ### 4. One of the best testing platform **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** It's fast and flexible, you can upload the app and use it immediately. I like HockeyApp because it works on Mac, iOS and Android, I have access to the crashes and to the feedback list. The iOS SDK is easy to integrate. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** Limited testers slot and you need to configure each beta tester manually. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** It's the right platform if you need to distribute your app immediately. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Beta test distribution and crash reporting. ### 5. Very nice but very expensive solution **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Newspapers | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** It has a very intuitive, consistent UI. It was still in Beta when I was using it, but it looked fantastic. Hardly the most important thing for an analytics platform but it made using it a pleasant experience. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** The price. It was still in Beta so we were using it for free on some of our newer apps, but some of the numbers that were talked about were huge. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Have a look into pricing before you spend too much time playing with integrations. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analytics for Xamarin apps. Unsurprisingly the integration with Xamarin apps was great, and it gave great information about user journeys. ### 6. HockeyApp saved me tons of debug cycles **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** HockeyApp provides full server-side symbolication with class names, methods, line numbers, and automatic grouping of similar crash reports. For iOS, Mac, and Android Applications! **What do you dislike about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center?** The prices were competitive, but I am looking for free. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Visual Studio App Center:** Apple makes it non-trivial to do testing on actual devices, this product makes it a little easier. **What problems is Microsoft Visual Studio App Center solving and how is that benefiting you?** We provide a ride sharing cordova app ## Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Discussions - [What is Visual App?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-visual-app) - [What is App Center used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-app-center-used-for) - [Is Visual Studio App Center Free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-visual-studio-app-center-free) - [What is Visual Studio App Center?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-visual-studio-app-center) - [View Microsoft Visual Studio App Center pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-visual-studio-app-center/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+11%3A20%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=10b70eec-cabf-4a7a-aa38-ee5375726de5&secure%5Btoken%5D=cd28e1560a9f2685f4e8ca5fd6ea4f181a329a832242f3959b003c72624f28ab&format=llm_user) ## Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Features **Agentic AI - Mobile Development Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Microsoft Visual Studio App Center Alternatives - [Firebase](https://www.g2.com/products/firebase/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (293 reviews) - [Xcode](https://www.g2.com/products/xcode/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (999 reviews) - [ServiceNow App Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/servicenow-app-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,038 reviews)