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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Unleash

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AUnleash is an open-source feature management platform. It's built for high scale and supports all the major programming languages. Unleash lets users turn new features on/off in production with no need for redeployment. A software development best practice for releasing and validating new features. Feature management platform Deployable on-prem, in private cloud, or hosted by the vendor Segments the rollout on application attributes or user…

    $80

    per month 5 users

    Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AVisual 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
    UnleashVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Builds
    $40
    per month per build concurrency
    Standard Test Plan
    $99
    per month per build concurrency
    Enterprise Test Plan
    $499
    per month per build concurrency
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    UnleashVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUnleash offers 3 pricing editions: □Open Source - it's a free and basic feature management solution hosted by the user. □Pro - 80$/month includes 5 team members with access to the full managed version □Enterprise - Includes SSO, unlimited team members, managed by us or Self-hosted. No credit card is required and the first 14 days are free. Contact sales.—
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    Azure DevOps
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    UnleashVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    UnleashVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bricks Software AS
    If you are writing apis and you make a logic change for eg change format of a number from showing no decimal points to 2 decimal points, and screen of your older version of ui app does not have enough space on screen which makes the ux break, instead of releasing a new version of the api you can toggle off the feature for app versions lower than the one being targetted so that api keeps responding with zero decimal points for older app and with decimal points for the newer version of the app
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    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
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    Pros
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    • 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
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    Cons
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    • 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
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bricks Software AS
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    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
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    Return on Investment
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    • 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
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    Unleash Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview of all feature togglesScreenshot of The Unleash architecture is designed with performance, resilience, privacy, and extensibility in mind. The Unleash Client SDK polls the Unleash API at regular intervals and caches all feature toggles locally. The interval is configurable from the client-side.Screenshot of Overview of all feature toggles across all environmentsScreenshot of The enhanced list of users helps track account activity. It can display and sort by when an account is last logged in, to find inactive accounts.Screenshot of Custom context fields extend the Unleash Context with more data that is applicable to any situation. Each context field definition consists of a name and an optional description. Additionally, a set of legal values can be defined, or whether or not the context field can be used in custom stickiness calculations can be selected, for the gradual rollout strategy and for feature toggle variants.Screenshot of API tokens can be used to connect to the Unleash server API.