CodeNOW vs. Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

CodeNOW

Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CodeNOW	N/A	N/A	CodeNOW is a DevOps platform for development teams that seek to achieve excellence in software delivery with cloud native architectures, boasting lower operational and investment costs. CodeNOW integrates 40 open-source tools in a single self-service portal that cover the full software delivery cycle (plan, design, code, release, deploy, monitor, secure). CodeNOW abstracts away the complexity of Kubernetes and cloud native architectures so you do need those extra hard-to-find DevOps engineers.	N/A
Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	Visual Studio App Center was a solution used to build, test, release, and monitor mobile and desktop apps, as well as to continuously monitor real-time performance. The product was discontinued in March 2025, and is no longer available.	$40 per month per build concurrency

Pricing

CodeNOW

Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

No answers on this topic

Builds: $40
per month per build concurrency
Standard Test Plan: $99
per month per build concurrency
Enterprise Test Plan: $499
per month per build concurrency

Pricing Offerings
CodeNOW	Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	CodeNOW	Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Azure DevOps Score8.1 out of 10	Azure DevOps Score8.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Azure DevOps Server Score8.5 out of 10	Azure DevOps Server Score8.5 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	CodeNOW	Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CodeNOW	Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Stratox Enterprises No answers on this topic	Discontinued Products Honestly, it's an all around solution that needs some enhancements. Need to build an app, check! Need to test that app, check! Need to debug that app, check! Visual Studio App Center is a well rounded platform for multiple types of builds and services. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Stratox Enterprises No answers on this topic	Discontinued Products It supplies the right native integration for test cases both IOS and Android Constant device updates means you are working with the right builds to support product use cases Excels in automated test cases that are easy to implement, monitor, and digest results Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Stratox Enterprises No answers on this topic	Discontinued Products Webview support was lacking User management seems a bit disconnected from the standard Microsoft ecosystem. Almost feels like you are managing local users and sharing access more than an enterprise solution Price could be better Buggy on some of the latest versions of windows Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Stratox Enterprises No answers on this topic	Discontinued Products The biggest benefit is in integrations and plug-ins, as well as the fact that it's not open source. I know open source is popular, but we have all been on the downside of open source and waiting for things to be voted up or a contribution to fix an issue. This alone makes VSAC a nice solution! Plus, it comes with a complete IDE integration of services, documentation, and is light weight Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Stratox Enterprises No answers on this topic	Discontinued Products Cut down on time to delivery enhancements and overall builds to users Helps test new proposed releases with ease Cuts down on local build issues as it does do a good job with local development environments as well Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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