12 testers for Google Play, for free.
CloseBeta's group test costs nothing. Instead of paying, you add one Android phone to our testing pool. When 14 phones are ready, each one installs and opens the other members' apps every day for 14 days, so your closed test gets 13 testers: one more than the 12 Google Play asks for.
- Price
- Free, no payment
- Testers per app
- 13 phones
- Testing window
- 14 days in a row
- What you bring
- 1 Android phone with Google Play
- Starts
- When 14 phones are ready
- Privacy
- Members stay anonymous
No testers? Test together.
The group package is free. Instead of paying, you add one Android phone to our testing pool. Once 14 phones are ready, each one tests the other 13 members' apps for 14 days, on its own.
1.Get the group package and add one phone
Install the CloseBeta Farm app on an Android phone and link it to your account. The app walks you through every setting.
2.Wait for 14 ready phones
Your group starts as soon as 14 phones are set up, all at once. We email you when it starts.
3.14 days of automatic testing
Every day, each phone installs and opens every other member's app in the background. You don't have to do anything.
4.Anonymous, with a daily report
Nobody sees who the other members are. Each owner gets a daily report: how many phones tested the app, plus crash logs with only the phone model.
The pool rules
The pool only works if every phone does its part. Where there is time to fix a problem you are warned first; otherwise the phone, account and email are banned and your own test is canceled.
- No signal from the phone for 24 hours
- The app's permissions turned off
- An assigned app uninstalled
Three free ways to get 12 testers.
Every free route asks for something in return. Here's what each one asks of you during the 14 days.
Friends and family
- Cost
- Free
- What you give
- Favors: you ask people you know
- Finding 12+ people
- You ask around until you have enough
- Opening the app every day
- Up to each person
- If someone stops
- You often notice only when the count is short
- What you see
- What people tell you
Tester-exchange communities
- Cost
- Free
- What you give
- Your time: you test other members' apps by hand
- Finding 12+ people
- You post, swap and track who tests what
- Opening the app every day
- Up to each member
- If someone stops
- Members can leave at any time
- What you see
- What members tell you
CloseBeta group test
- Cost
- Free
- What you give
- One Android phone that stays on and online
- Finding 12+ people
- The pool puts 14 phones in a group for you
- Opening the app every day
- CloseBeta Farm does it on every phone, by itself
- If someone stops
- Phones that go offline are warned, then banned
- What you see
- A daily report with crash logs
Rather not use a phone of your own? Our paid packages bring real testers on their own phones. See packages