--- title: MonkeyRunner Reviews meta_title: 'MonkeyRunner Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 11 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how MonkeyRunner works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 11 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # MonkeyRunner Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Mobile App Testing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-app-testing) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About MonkeyRunner A monkeyrunner class that contains static utility methods. ## MonkeyRunner Reviews ### 1. easy testing for android **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2016 **What do you like best about MonkeyRunner?** With monkeyrunner, it is easy to snapshot screen for various languages. Giving easy preview for localization team to verify whether their translation need adjustment or not. It's also easy to verify if particular features is working as expected or not. The monkeyrunner also equipped with plugin architecture so that we can extends its capability even further. **What do you dislike about MonkeyRunner?** There's not much that I can dislike from monkeyrunner. This is particularly true, given that my usecase in this product is rather limited. One thing that I might find problem is when people need to test interaction within the app, it's quite hard to snapshot that interaction given the output of monkeyrunner is just an image. For interaction, we will need tools that can record video for verification. **What problems is MonkeyRunner solving and how is that benefiting you?** with monkeyrunner, we cut significant time in multiple language translation by autogenerating translated screens for translators to review, without waiting the actual APK. They just have to compare screen by screen. ### 2. A testing tool with multiple device control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joji J. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2016 **What do you like best about MonkeyRunner?** provision to write APIs for testing. Exceptional capability to add plugins to it. Multiple device control option is the best of all. **What do you dislike about MonkeyRunner?** Not 100% reliable. Lack proper documentation. **Recommendations to others considering MonkeyRunner:** Don't expect a good documentation for this. Even though this would be a good tool, self learning is what MonkeyRunner expects from a user. **What problems is MonkeyRunner solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test applications and devices at the functional/framework level and for running unit test suites. Easy to setup automated test cases. ### 3. A good test tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about MonkeyRunner?** The facility to write a behavior test, with the option to use a language less verbose than JAVA. **What do you dislike about MonkeyRunner?** Yet doesn't have a good documention about it, what difficulty to begginers. **What problems is MonkeyRunner solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is very good to take screenshots of an application for divulgation purposes, for example. And another good feauture is the possibilitie of behavior test, more than only unit tests that's are provide by JAVA standard. ### 4. Great Tool for testing UI **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John S. | Senior Android Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about MonkeyRunner?** Really flexible functional automated UI testing for Android. **What do you dislike about MonkeyRunner?** Typical use involves tapping by coordinates and using the keys, which is increasingly not ideal. **Recommendations to others considering MonkeyRunner:** Also consider espresso and Robotium - these tools all solve a similar problem. **What problems is MonkeyRunner solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easy to set up automatic tests, which means fewer bugs introduced, which means better software ### 5. MonkeyRunner **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle J. | Customer Service Representative, Hospitality, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2016 **What do you like best about MonkeyRunner?** The monkeyrunner tool provides an API for writing programs that control an Android device or emulator from outside of Android code. **What do you dislike about MonkeyRunner?** It's not always the most reliable system. ## MonkeyRunner Discussions - [What is MonkeyRunner used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-monkeyrunner-used-for) - [View MonkeyRunner pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/monkeyrunner/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-14+05%3A52%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5d9c14de-3bb9-45dd-9834-2926ecd035b8&secure%5Btoken%5D=4d89694934567edb36be32c9ffcda2b46ab11db2edd93b548a5017f02c77b8cf&format=llm_user) ## MonkeyRunner Features **Functionality** - Test Feedback - Test Variety - Emulation **Management** - Test History - Automation - Organization ## Top MonkeyRunner Alternatives - [Ranorex Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/ranorex-studio/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (243 reviews) - [Xcode](https://www.g2.com/products/xcode/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (999 reviews) - [BrowserStack](https://www.g2.com/products/browserstack/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,321 reviews)