Your go-to for free private repositories!
December 13, 2017

Your go-to for free private repositories!

Jeffrey Cheng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bitbucket

Previously I was using it as the main development platform for work. I found the free private repositories very valuable for an early stage start up as well as very easy to integrate with CI and other tools. They have plenty of integrations prebuilt and their support is very responsive as well. I find it a very great alternative to GitHub and GitLab (which seems to be down almost every day at least for a couple hours).

I still use it personally for my own projects that I work on with friends and have almost no issue with the basic day to day features.
  • Bitbucket is almost never down and you'll always be able to access your repositories.
  • Easy to use integrations for CI and development tools.
  • Newly rolled out features are well thought out and do not take away from the UX and core functionality.
  • The settings of each repository are a little bit hard to navigate.
  • The list of all projects and repositories are also hard to navigate.
  • For a smaller team, keeping track of smaller projects all over the place is tedious.
  • Easy to integrate CircleCI for continuous integration
  • The new pipeline feature introduced a year ago was extremely helpful and easy to set up
It's well suited for any team ranging from 5+ people. If it gets smaller than that, it might just be easier to hold your repos on GitHub strictly because of the way the information is displayed on the page. Aside from that, all the standard features like issue tracking and making pull requests are going to be there. The UX/UI is not as friendly as GitHub but it is a solid tool for free private repositories.