Is AppForShare cheaper than BetaDrop?

Not on the first paid plan. Their Pro is $6.99 a month ($69 a year) for 500 MB files and 50 testers per app; our Pro is $12 ($5.99 in India and other regional countries) for 2 GB files and no tester cap. Prices as listed on November 9, 2026.

Does BetaDrop limit testers?

Yes, per app: 10 distinct devices on Free, 50 on Pro, unlimited on Studio, in a rolling 30 days. AppForShare meters bandwidth per month and does not cap testers.

Can I use a CLI on the free plan?

BetaDrop includes its CLI, API and MCP on Free. AppForShare's CLI uploads, MCP and webhooks start on Pro; npx appforshare check and the IPA, APK and AAB inspectors are free without an account.

Can I upload an .aab?

Yes on AppForShare with a free account; it becomes one APK testers install. BetaDrop accepts .ipa and .apk only and offers a browser converter.

Does either service register iPhones on Apple?

AppForShare does with your App Store Connect key (Pro), and Hands free also remakes the profile and starts the build (Team). BetaDrop collects UDIDs and exports them for Apple's portal.

Do both services check uploads for malware?

Yes. BetaDrop's security page says uploads are checked against taken down builds and a bundle ID blocklist and scanned for malware in the background. AppForShare checks every upload for known malware after the link is issued (ClamAV and a MalwareBazaar hash lookup, every plan, guests included) and holds a match for a person to review. It also gives you a Security scan of your own build (secrets, settings, library versions).

Is there a link that always opens the newest build?

Yes on both: their standing link (one on Free, up to 50 on paid plans), our channel link (one on Free, more on Pro and Team, with rollback and a custom address).

Who runs each service?

AppForShare: ZenTalk LLC, United States. BetaDrop: Immersive Mobile Designs Private Limited, Ahmedabad, India.

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AppForShare vs BetaDrop

BetaDrop (betadrop.app) is a build sharing service run by Immersive Mobile Designs Private Limited in Ahmedabad, India, launched in 2026. As listed on November 9, 2026, it has a Free plan, Pro at $6.99 a month ($69 a year), Studio at $19.99 a month ($199 a year) and Organization at $13.33 per seat per month from 3 seats. Prices include applicable taxes; cards are charged in INR or USD, and Indian customers get a GST invoice.

Much of the daily job is the same on both: a link and a QR code per build, testers who install from the phone browser with no account, a password per link, a link that always opens the newest build (their standing link, our channel), a CLI, a GitHub Action that comments on pull requests, an MCP server for AI tools, webhooks, UDID collection, feedback on the install page and a check of every upload for known malware. The jobs differ on tester caps, file size, .aab uploads, iPhone registration on Apple, the store steps after testing, and team plans.

Pick AppForShare if

You do not want a cap on testers. BetaDrop counts distinct devices per app in a rolling 30 days (10 on Free, 50 on Pro) and refuses installs past the cap. We meter bandwidth per month and never cap testers.
Your builds are big: 2 GB per file on Pro and 4 GB on Team, against 500 MB on their Free and Pro and 1 GB on Studio.
You build Android App Bundles: an .aab becomes one APK testers install (Free and up), signed with a test key or your own keystore on Pro and Team. BetaDrop accepts .ipa and .apk only.
You want iPhones registered on Apple from an onboarding link with your App Store Connect key (Pro), and on Team a hands free flow that also remakes the profile and starts the build. BetaDrop collects UDIDs and exports them for Apple's portal.
You want every build checked against App Store and Google Play rules, a Security scan of your own build, then a send to TestFlight or a Google Play track, a listing editor, a reviews inbox and rollouts (Pro and Team).
You manage testers: tester groups, join links, invite emails, install status and reminders, access codes and private projects on Team. BetaDrop says it has no tester groups and no per tester invites for builds.
You want feedback with screenshots from the install page or from inside the build with no SDK (every plan), screen recordings and Linear or Jira issues (Pro and Team) and replies by email (Team).
Your testers and clients should install in their own language: 13 install page languages including Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic.
You need a team: Team includes 5 seats for $39 a month ($19.99 in regional countries), with a custom domain and white label today.
You upload from CI with more than a shell line: fastlane and Gradle plugins, Diawi and Pgyer compatible APIs, and a hosted MCP server with OAuth sign in.

Pick BetaDrop if

You want a lower first paid price ($6.99 a month, $69 a year) or an INR invoice with GST. We charge in USD only.
You want CLI, API, MCP and webhooks on a free plan. Ours start with Pro.
You upload files up to 500 MB without paying. Our Free takes 150 MB, and 50 MB without an account.
You want a link that always opens the newest build with email followers on a free plan. Our Free has one channel without followers; the follow box is on Pro and Team.
You want your logo on the install page or star ratings on a free plan. Ours are on Team and on Pro and Team.
You need free hosting for a static site or any HTML page. Our store pages are generated pages for privacy policy, support and account deletion only, on Pro and Team.
You want an .aab turned into an APK in the browser without an account. Ours happens on upload with a free account.

Side by side

What it is: AppForShare
Test build sharing for iOS and Android with iPhone device registration, store readiness, a Security scan and App Store and Google Play release steps; BetaDrop
IPA and APK install links with standing links, UDID collection, feedback, webhooks, a CLI and MCP server, free browser tools and free static site hosting
Price: AppForShare
Free, Pro $12/month with a 7 day free trial, Team $39/month (5 seats). Yearly = 10 months. Lower regional prices in many countries.; BetaDrop
Free $0; Pro $6.99/month or $69/year; Studio $19.99/month or $199/year; Organization $13.33 per seat per month from 3 seats. Prices include applicable taxes; charged in INR or USD with a GST invoice for Indian customers
Free tier: AppForShare
Free account: 150 MB per build, links live 7 days, 2 GB storage, 10 GB of downloads a month, no tester cap, password, .aab, one channel, readiness check, feedback, 1 seat; BetaDrop
Free: 500 MB per build, 3 day links by default (up to 7), 1 GB storage, 5 GB of downloads a month, 10 testers per app, one standing link, logo on the install page, CLI, API, MCP and webhooks
Upload without an account: AppForShare
50 MB, link lives 3 days, 20 installs per link and 4 a day, with a private manage link; BetaDrop
One guest upload per device with a 24 hour link; later uploads need a free account. Guest size not stated separately (the upload box says up to 500 MB)
Largest file: AppForShare
50 MB without an account, 150 MB Free, 2 GB Pro, 4 GB Team; BetaDrop
500 MB on Free and Pro, 1 GB on Studio and Organization
Link life: AppForShare
3 days without an account, 7 days Free, as long as you subscribe on Pro and Team. On Free, $2 one time keeps one link live for 60 days; BetaDrop
Guest 24 hours; Free 3 days by default, up to 7; paid plans permanent while subscribed, with dated expiry up to a year (Pro) or 10 years (Studio)
Tester limits: AppForShare
No tester cap on any plan. Set your own install cap per link on Pro and Team; BetaDrop
Distinct devices per app in a rolling 30 days: 10 on Free, 50 on Pro, unlimited on Studio; installs past the cap are refused
Bandwidth: AppForShare
10 GB Free, 40 GB Pro, 150 GB Team a month; +50 GB for $10 on Pro and Team; BetaDrop
5 GB Free, 20 GB Pro, 100 GB Studio of build downloads a month
.aab: AppForShare
An .aab becomes one APK testers install (Free and up), signed with a test key or your own keystore on Pro and Team; the original .aab is kept for Google Play on Pro and Team; BetaDrop
Not accepted for upload; a browser tool converts an .aab to one APK (base module and install time asset packs, not feature modules)
Tester accounts: AppForShare
Open the link on the phone and install. No tester account, no extra app. Tester groups and install status with reminders on Team.; BetaDrop
No account to install; testers can follow a standing link by email
Tester groups and invites: AppForShare
Tester groups, join links, invite emails, status and reminders, access codes and private projects (Team); BetaDrop
No tester groups and no per tester invites for builds (their llms.txt); share links per build with a type, label, max uses and expiry
iPhone devices: AppForShare
Free UDID finder built in, saves devices to your account, imports UDID lists. Pro adds an onboarding link per app and one click registration on Apple; Team can register, remake the profile and start the build hands free; BetaDrop
UDID collection by email invite or open link, with export as CSV, a plain list or Apple's file; the developer registers devices, remakes the profile and re-signs by hand
Install page languages: AppForShare
13 languages incl. Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Spanish and Arabic, picked from the phone; BetaDrop
Not listed
Feedback: AppForShare
From the install page and from inside the build with no SDK, with screenshots (every plan, guests included) and a screen recording (Pro and Team); replies by email (Team); star ratings (Pro and Team); Linear and Jira (Pro and Team); BetaDrop
Rating and comment box on every install page, every plan including guest uploads; no feedback SDK
Store readiness check: AppForShare
Every account build checked against current App Store and Google Play rules, with a fix per issue (Free and up); npx appforshare check runs the same rules on your computer with nothing uploaded; BetaDrop
An install check before upload (CLI inspect and an API that reads the file and discards it): profile, expiry, bundle ID, signing, test only, debuggable
Security scan and upload screening: AppForShare
Security scan of your own build at upload: hardcoded secrets (masked), Android and iOS settings, library versions with a public advisory, mapped to OWASP MASVS (counts on Free, findings on Pro and Team). Upload screening on every plan, guests included: every upload checked for known malware (ClamAV and a MalwareBazaar hash lookup) after the link is issued, a match held for a person to review; an app ID blocklist, a file removed for abuse cannot be uploaded again, some guest Android builds held for review, reports reviewed by staff; BetaDrop
Uploads checked against hashes of taken down builds and a bundle ID blocklist, surveillance level Android permission sets refused or queued for review, then scanned for malware in the background after the link is issued. No scan of your own build for secrets or settings found
TestFlight and Google Play: AppForShare
Send to TestFlight or a Google Play testing track (Pro), production drafts, TestFlight groups and rollouts (Team), listing editor, App Store review checklist, reviews inbox (Pro and Team); BetaDrop
Not offered
Stable link: AppForShare
Channel links such as Beta and Live with rollback and a custom address (Pro and Team), email followers (Pro and Team), one channel on Free without those; BetaDrop
Standing links: 1 on Free, up to 50 on paid plans, with email followers on every plan
CI tools: AppForShare
CLI with release notes, channels, readiness gate, local check and pull request comments, GitHub Action, fastlane and Gradle plugins, Diawi and Pgyer compatible APIs; tokens can be read only or upload only with an end date (Pro and Team); BetaDrop
CLI and a GitHub Action with pull request comments on every plan; fastlane, Codemagic, Bitrise and GitLab recipes that call the CLI; read or publish tokens with a lifetime
AI coding tools: AppForShare
Hosted MCP server with OAuth sign in, npm MCP for local files, one time upload links for Claude and ChatGPT, upload from a public URL (Pro and Team); BetaDrop
Local MCP server with a token on every plan, including a one time upload link for chat assistants and upload from a public URL
Notifications: AppForShare
Email on every plan; Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram and signed webhooks (Pro and Team); BetaDrop
Webhooks on every plan with Slack and Discord formats; email to standing link followers
Team seats: AppForShare
Free and Pro 1 seat, Team 5 seats then $6 a month each; testers never need a seat; BetaDrop
Free, Pro and Studio are one person; Organization from 3 seats at $13.33 each, with owner, admin and member roles
Custom domain: AppForShare
Custom domain for install links on Team; BetaDrop
"Coming soon" on Studio and Organization
White label: AppForShare
White label install page on Team; BetaDrop
Logo on the install page on every plan; full white label on Studio and Organization
Trial and refunds: AppForShare
7 day free trial on the first Pro subscription; no refunds after payment, as our refund policy says; BetaDrop
No trial on paid plans; fees already paid are non-refundable
Company: AppForShare
ZenTalk LLC, United States; billing by Stripe; BetaDrop
Immersive Mobile Designs Private Limited, Ahmedabad, India; billing by Razorpay or Dodo Payments

	AppForShare	BetaDrop
What it is	Test build sharing for iOS and Android with iPhone device registration, store readiness, a Security scan and App Store and Google Play release steps	IPA and APK install links with standing links, UDID collection, feedback, webhooks, a CLI and MCP server, free browser tools and free static site hosting
Price	Free, Pro $12/month with a 7 day free trial, Team $39/month (5 seats). Yearly = 10 months. Lower regional prices in many countries.	Free $0; Pro $6.99/month or $69/year; Studio $19.99/month or $199/year; Organization $13.33 per seat per month from 3 seats. Prices include applicable taxes; charged in INR or USD with a GST invoice for Indian customers
Free tier	Free account: 150 MB per build, links live 7 days, 2 GB storage, 10 GB of downloads a month, no tester cap, password, .aab, one channel, readiness check, feedback, 1 seat	Free: 500 MB per build, 3 day links by default (up to 7), 1 GB storage, 5 GB of downloads a month, 10 testers per app, one standing link, logo on the install page, CLI, API, MCP and webhooks
Upload without an account	50 MB, link lives 3 days, 20 installs per link and 4 a day, with a private manage link	One guest upload per device with a 24 hour link; later uploads need a free account. Guest size not stated separately (the upload box says up to 500 MB)
Largest file	50 MB without an account, 150 MB Free, 2 GB Pro, 4 GB Team	500 MB on Free and Pro, 1 GB on Studio and Organization
Link life	3 days without an account, 7 days Free, as long as you subscribe on Pro and Team. On Free, $2 one time keeps one link live for 60 days	Guest 24 hours; Free 3 days by default, up to 7; paid plans permanent while subscribed, with dated expiry up to a year (Pro) or 10 years (Studio)
Tester limits	No tester cap on any plan. Set your own install cap per link on Pro and Team	Distinct devices per app in a rolling 30 days: 10 on Free, 50 on Pro, unlimited on Studio; installs past the cap are refused
Bandwidth	10 GB Free, 40 GB Pro, 150 GB Team a month; +50 GB for $10 on Pro and Team	5 GB Free, 20 GB Pro, 100 GB Studio of build downloads a month
.aab	An .aab becomes one APK testers install (Free and up), signed with a test key or your own keystore on Pro and Team; the original .aab is kept for Google Play on Pro and Team	Not accepted for upload; a browser tool converts an .aab to one APK (base module and install time asset packs, not feature modules)
Tester accounts	Open the link on the phone and install. No tester account, no extra app. Tester groups and install status with reminders on Team.	No account to install; testers can follow a standing link by email
Tester groups and invites	Tester groups, join links, invite emails, status and reminders, access codes and private projects (Team)	No tester groups and no per tester invites for builds (their llms.txt); share links per build with a type, label, max uses and expiry
iPhone devices	Free UDID finder built in, saves devices to your account, imports UDID lists. Pro adds an onboarding link per app and one click registration on Apple; Team can register, remake the profile and start the build hands free	UDID collection by email invite or open link, with export as CSV, a plain list or Apple's file; the developer registers devices, remakes the profile and re-signs by hand
Install page languages	13 languages incl. Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Spanish and Arabic, picked from the phone	Not listed
Feedback	From the install page and from inside the build with no SDK, with screenshots (every plan, guests included) and a screen recording (Pro and Team); replies by email (Team); star ratings (Pro and Team); Linear and Jira (Pro and Team)	Rating and comment box on every install page, every plan including guest uploads; no feedback SDK
Store readiness check	Every account build checked against current App Store and Google Play rules, with a fix per issue (Free and up); npx appforshare check runs the same rules on your computer with nothing uploaded	An install check before upload (CLI inspect and an API that reads the file and discards it): profile, expiry, bundle ID, signing, test only, debuggable
Security scan and upload screening	Security scan of your own build at upload: hardcoded secrets (masked), Android and iOS settings, library versions with a public advisory, mapped to OWASP MASVS (counts on Free, findings on Pro and Team). Upload screening on every plan, guests included: every upload checked for known malware (ClamAV and a MalwareBazaar hash lookup) after the link is issued, a match held for a person to review; an app ID blocklist, a file removed for abuse cannot be uploaded again, some guest Android builds held for review, reports reviewed by staff	Uploads checked against hashes of taken down builds and a bundle ID blocklist, surveillance level Android permission sets refused or queued for review, then scanned for malware in the background after the link is issued. No scan of your own build for secrets or settings found
TestFlight and Google Play	Send to TestFlight or a Google Play testing track (Pro), production drafts, TestFlight groups and rollouts (Team), listing editor, App Store review checklist, reviews inbox (Pro and Team)	Not offered
Stable link	Channel links such as Beta and Live with rollback and a custom address (Pro and Team), email followers (Pro and Team), one channel on Free without those	Standing links: 1 on Free, up to 50 on paid plans, with email followers on every plan
CI tools	CLI with release notes, channels, readiness gate, local check and pull request comments, GitHub Action, fastlane and Gradle plugins, Diawi and Pgyer compatible APIs; tokens can be read only or upload only with an end date (Pro and Team)	CLI and a GitHub Action with pull request comments on every plan; fastlane, Codemagic, Bitrise and GitLab recipes that call the CLI; read or publish tokens with a lifetime
AI coding tools	Hosted MCP server with OAuth sign in, npm MCP for local files, one time upload links for Claude and ChatGPT, upload from a public URL (Pro and Team)	Local MCP server with a token on every plan, including a one time upload link for chat assistants and upload from a public URL
Notifications	Email on every plan; Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram and signed webhooks (Pro and Team)	Webhooks on every plan with Slack and Discord formats; email to standing link followers
Team seats	Free and Pro 1 seat, Team 5 seats then $6 a month each; testers never need a seat	Free, Pro and Studio are one person; Organization from 3 seats at $13.33 each, with owner, admin and member roles
Custom domain	Custom domain for install links on Team	"Coming soon" on Studio and Organization
White label	White label install page on Team	Logo on the install page on every plan; full white label on Studio and Organization
Trial and refunds	7 day free trial on the first Pro subscription; no refunds after payment, as our refund policy says	No trial on paid plans; fees already paid are non-refundable
Company	ZenTalk LLC, United States; billing by Stripe	Immersive Mobile Designs Private Limited, Ahmedabad, India; billing by Razorpay or Dodo Payments

BetaDrop details checked on November 2026 from its public pages (BetaDrop, BetaDrop pricing, Standing links, Security, Collect UDIDs, CLI docs, MCP docs, llms.txt, Refund policy, Terms). Plans change; tell us at contact if something here is out of date.

Tester caps vs bandwidth: what happens on install number eleven

BetaDrop counts distinct devices that install one app in a rolling 30 days: 10 on Free, 50 on Pro, unlimited on Studio. The count is per app, so a new build does not reset it, and an install past the cap is refused. A round with 12 testers on Free, or a client QA team of 60 on Pro, hits the cap.

AppForShare does not count testers. It counts the bytes testers download in a month: 10 GB on Free, 40 GB on Pro and 150 GB on Team. A 50 MB build installed 20 times is about 1 GB. Over the cap, links say the owner needs more bandwidth, and nothing is billed on its own. If you want a cap, set your own install limit per link on Pro and Team.

Malware screening and a security scan are different jobs

BetaDrop's screening protects testers and the service: as its security page says, uploads are checked against builds already taken down and a bundle ID blocklist, Android builds with surveillance level permission sets are refused or queued for a person, and builds are scanned for malware in the background after the link is issued. It tells the uploader nothing about weaknesses in their own app.

Both services check uploads for known malware. On AppForShare every upload, on every plan and from guests too, is checked right after the link is issued: ClamAV opens the .apk or .ipa and checks the files inside, and the file's SHA-256 is looked up at MalwareBazaar. A match holds the build for a person to review. Its screening also refuses big brand and known malware app IDs, refuses a file staff removed for abuse, holds some guest Android builds with surveillance level permissions until a person reviews them, and asks every report for a reason. On top of that, AppForShare gives the developer a Security scan of their own build: hardcoded secrets shown masked, risky Android and iOS settings and library versions with a public advisory, each with a fix. It is findings and hints, not a certification.

Where BetaDrop is ahead

BetaDrop's Free plan is bigger than ours in several ways: 500 MB files, CLI, API, MCP and webhooks, one standing link with email followers, a logo on the install page and star ratings. Its first paid plan is cheaper ($6.99 a month, $69 a year), charged in INR or USD with a GST invoice for Indian customers. It offers free static site hosting, and has more free browser tools, including an .aab to APK converter. If those matter most, it is a fair choice.

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Questions

Is AppForShare cheaper than BetaDrop?: Not on the first paid plan. Their Pro is $6.99 a month ($69 a year) for 500 MB files and 50 testers per app; our Pro is $12 ($5.99 in India and other regional countries) for 2 GB files and no tester cap. Prices as listed on November 9, 2026.
Does BetaDrop limit testers?: Yes, per app: 10 distinct devices on Free, 50 on Pro, unlimited on Studio, in a rolling 30 days. AppForShare meters bandwidth per month and does not cap testers.
Can I use a CLI on the free plan?: BetaDrop includes its CLI, API and MCP on Free. AppForShare's CLI uploads, MCP and webhooks start on Pro; npx appforshare check and the IPA, APK and AAB inspectors are free without an account.
Can I upload an .aab?: Yes on AppForShare with a free account; it becomes one APK testers install. BetaDrop accepts .ipa and .apk only and offers a browser converter.
Does either service register iPhones on Apple?: AppForShare does with your App Store Connect key (Pro), and Hands free also remakes the profile and starts the build (Team). BetaDrop collects UDIDs and exports them for Apple's portal.
Do both services check uploads for malware?: Yes. BetaDrop's security page says uploads are checked against taken down builds and a bundle ID blocklist and scanned for malware in the background. AppForShare checks every upload for known malware after the link is issued (ClamAV and a MalwareBazaar hash lookup, every plan, guests included) and holds a match for a person to review. It also gives you a Security scan of your own build (secrets, settings, library versions).
Is there a link that always opens the newest build?: Yes on both: their standing link (one on Free, up to 50 on paid plans), our channel link (one on Free, more on Pro and Team, with rollback and a custom address).
Who runs each service?: AppForShare: ZenTalk LLC, United States. BetaDrop: Immersive Mobile Designs Private Limited, Ahmedabad, India.

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