Burstly Acquires TestFlight, Launches TestFlight Live With Realtime Analytics

TestFlight, a web service that helps developers manage iOS beta testing, has been purchased by Burstly and is launching TestFlight Live, a real-time dashboard that highlights actions and revenue for iOS apps.

The TestFlight Live feature set is broken down into four segments: engagement, audience, revenue, and stability. The goal of the product is to provide a real-time display of the important factors happening in your app right now. It is available via Safari on desktop, iPad, and iPhone.

Coming to TestFlight in March:
● Better performance – we are putting the finishing touches on an infrastructure overhaul that includes moving to managed dedicated hosting led by Anchor Systems (http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/09/github-designing-success/)
● New UI for both desktop and mobile – completely revamped with improved workflows and more flexibility so we can continue to expand the product.
● Desktop app + expanded API = screaming fast uploads, local IPA validations, and the most important bits of TestFlight on your desktop. The side effect of a rich desktop app is a rich API. We are excited to see what you will create with an expanded API.
● Faster customer response times and an improved knowledgebase – we have grown our support team to make the TestFlight experience more enjoyable.
● Hiring! If you're excited to create amazing products that solve problems in all of the areas of the mobile app lifecycle, please let us know.


TestFlight and Burstly will continue to be independent products. TestFlight remains a free service and optional paid features will be introduced in the future. TestFlight will continue to build the best developer tools and will include Burstly features only to improve product functionality (as in the case of adding revenue to TestFlight Live), and vice versa for Burstly products.

TestFlight Live
We always planned on launching a production version of TestFlight, but we wanted to push ourselves to start solving production problems and not simply copy the beta feature set. Along with help from the Burstly team, we think we have taken a great first step with TestFlight Live. Our goal with TestFlight Live is to provide a real-time dashboard that displays actions, symbolicated crash reports, and revenue. For the first time, developers will have a single dashboard that provides enough information to derive insights into Revenue Per User (RPU) and Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) to better understand your app business. Previously, this level of information would be from multiple sources and there was no easy way to collect it.

Burstly was the key contributor to the revenue portion of TestFlight Live, in addition to the concept they actually developed the APIs that make it possible. The revenue source options in TestFlight Live enable developers to include app sales data, in-app purchase data, and ad network revenue from multiple partners. You do not need to work with Burstly to pull in any of this data. If you do not want the revenue segment in your dashboard, we have provided a way for you to hide it.

You can learn more about TestFlight Live at the link below...


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