Appcircle vs GoCD
Appcircle
appcircle.ioGoCD
gocd.orgSide by side
| Figure | Appcircle | GoCD |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Continuous Delivery Software | 8.4 (#9) | 8.6 (#4) |
| Integrations | Appcircle lists hundreds of ready workflow steps, including Fastlane, SonarQube, BrowserStack, Firebase App Distribution, and AWS Device Farm. | GoCD has a plugin architecture and its plugin catalog includes integrations for Docker, AWS S3, Kubernetes, LDAP/AD, GitHub, Slack, and other tools. |
| Purpose | Its stated mission is to simplify and automate mobile development workflows for teams of all sizes. | GoCD is an open-source continuous delivery and release automation server. |
| Security | Appcircle says source code is fetched only during builds, build agents are isolated temporary virtual machines, and repository access uses read-only tokens. | The 26.1.0 release notes describe fixes for API authorization bypasses and cross-site scripting, and recommend upgrading to that version. |
| Support | Appcircle offers documentation and community support, while dedicated SLA support includes ticketing, security and legal assessment assistance, prioritized feature requests, and a dedicated customer success manager. | A GoCD project status post says commercial support ended in December 2020 and that there has been no commercial or enterprise support offering since January 2021. |
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In their own words
GoCD
GoCD is an open-source server for continuous delivery and release automation. Its Value Stream Map follows changes from commit to deployment, showing upstream causes and downstream effects while allowing users to navigate jobs. Workflow models can coordinate dependencies and parallel execution, and traceability tools compare files and commit messages across builds. GoCD can pass a once-built binary through pipeline stages, run cross-platform tests in parallel, and report the changeset and platform where a test failure began. It supports delivery workflows for Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and other cloud environments; Kubernetes use can include dynamically scaled agents. Plugins connect external tools, with catalog options for Docker Registry, S3 artifacts, Kubernetes agents, and secrets managers. The project is self-hosted, free under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and offers packages for Windows, macOS, Debian, RPM, and ZIP, plus Docker and Kubernetes/Helm options. New installations do not require authentication. GoCD 26.1.0 requires Java 21 as its minimum supported version.