A Free Bucket for Your Bits
June 14, 2017

A Free Bucket for Your Bits

Chris Putnam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bitbucket

I am currently using Bitbucket for my own personal projects. Bitbucket gives me a place to store and track the code for these projects, and share them flexibly with friends and colleagues - or keep them private as needed. Both the core git service and web interface have been reliable and fully featured in my experience.
  • Offers private repositories, even with their free service level.
  • Full featured, functional web interface.
  • Web interface includes editing for quick text changes.
  • Although the web interface is very full-featured, it is sometimes not intuitive to find the setting or feature you are looking for.
  • Allowed me to host private code repositories for free - saving the cost of paying for a similar service
  • Allowed collaboration with friends and colleagues on private projects, making them more efficient
BitBucket is the most full featured hosted service I've found that includes free private repositories. GitHub is as good, perhaps better in many ways, but charges for private repositories. Beanstalk has decent deployment tools built in which other services generally do not include. Gitorious, GitLab and similar products are self-hosted options - GitLab, when I last used it, had a decent feature set.
For proprietary work or private projects that you just aren't ready to share, Bitbucket has a fairly clear edge. For open-source projects, it's very difficult to beat GitHub - there's almost no reason to steer away from GitHub for open-source. However, they charge for private projects, while Bitbucket does not.