Every free mobile development tier that clears our bar in 2026: 6 offers meet the criteria and 3 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 4 of them: on 3 the page we cite did not answer, and on 1 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

AgentDeals › Best Of › Mobile Development

Best Free Mobile Development Tools

Every free mobile development tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-11-14.

6 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 513 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 9 mobile development offers →
1
GetUpdraft
Free

Distribute mobile apps for testing. The free plan includes one app project, three app versions, 500 MB storage, and 100 app installations per month. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-10-18, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Full profile Alternatives www.getupdraft.com ↗
2
Expo stable
Free

React Native build and deployment platform — The Free tier is $0/month and includes up to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds with a low-priority queue, 60 min. on CI/CD Workflows, and access to Submit, Update, and Launch.

  • Free accounts are never charged overage. Once the month's free builds are used, new builds are unavailable until the quota resets on the first day of the next calendar month. You can upgrade or build locally instead. (From docs.expo.dev/billing/faq, read 2026-10-05.)
  • At peak times the low-priority queue used by free builds can wait 90 minutes or more. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-05.)
  • A free build times out after 45 minutes; paid plans allow 2 hours. (From expo.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-05.)
  • Free builds can run 5 at a time, of which at most 1 can be a macOS build. (From expo.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-30.)
  • Over-the-air updates on the Free plan reach up to 1,000 monthly active users, and there is no overage billing beyond that limit. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-05.)
  • The Starter plan costs $19 per month. It includes $45 of build credit and 3,000 monthly active users for EAS Update, compared to 1,000 in the Free plan. (From docs.expo.dev/billing/faq, read 2026-10-29.)
  • On a paid plan, once the build credit is used up, builds are billed per build. Android builds cost $1 on medium workers and $2 on large workers. iOS builds cost $2 on medium workers and $4 on large workers. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.)
  • On Starter, EAS Update costs $0.005 per monthly active user past 3,000, up to 200,000. It includes 100 GiB of bandwidth, then costs $0.10 per GiB. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.)
  • Unused build credit does not carry over to the next billing period. (From expo.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
  • Expo's Terms of Service grant a limited right to use the services for your own business purposes of building and deploying your own apps. They set no different permitted purposes for the Free plan. (From expo.dev/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
Full profile Alternatives Compare Compare expo.dev/pricing ↗
3
Loadly stable
Free

iOS & Android beta apps distribution service offers completely free services with unlimited downloads, high-speed downloads, and unlimited uploads.

Full profile Alternatives Compare Compare loadly.io ↗
4
Shake stable
Free

In-app bug reporting and feedback tool for mobile apps — The Free plan is $0 forever and includes 20 bug reports per month, unlimited crash reports, unlimited app users, limited integrations, 3 team seats, 1 app on the dashboard, 10,000 app installs, 1 month data retention, 1,000 logs in activity history, AI debugging, MCP server access, and access to the Slack community.

Full profile Alternatives Compare Compare www.shakebugs.com/pricing ↗
5
InstallOnAir
Free

Distribute iOS & Android apps over the air. Free plan: unlimited uploads, private links, install links active 3 days, or 7 days with a free account.

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: Builds uploaded by a registered user now expire after 8 days, down from 60. Registration is still free and uploads are still free. Source ↗
Full profile Alternatives www.installonair.com ↗
6
Appho.st stable
Free

Mobile app hosting platform. The free plan includes five apps, 50 monthly downloads, and a maximum file size of 100 MB.

Full profile Alternatives appho.st ↗

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Miradore
Free

Device Management service. Stay up-to-date with your device fleet and secure unlimited devices for free. The free plan offers basic features. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Full profile Alternatives miradore.com ↗
−1
Diawi
Free

Deploy iOS & Android apps directly to devices. Free plan: app uploads, password-protected links, 1-day expiration, ten installations. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-01, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-01, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Full profile Alternatives Compare Compare www.diawi.com ↗
−1
jamf.com
Free

Device management for iPads, iPhones, and Macs, three devices free. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Full profile Alternatives www.jamf.com ↗
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
best-of:Mobile Development
seed
948da8cd24c57529fba3124c504610c9e4c064351d424c266d4f09b627e8428c
tie_count
6

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
GetUpdraft Free Distribute mobile apps for testing. The free plan includes one app project, three app versions, 500 MB storage, and 100 ... not published
page omits the vendor · 2026-10-18		 2026-10-18 / 2026-08-26
Expo Free React Native build and deployment platform — The Free tier is $0/month and includes up to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds w... watch
effective 2025-10-09		 2026-10-26
Loadly Free iOS & Android beta apps distribution service offers completely free services with unlimited downloads, high-speed downlo... stable 2026-10-29
Shake Free In-app bug reporting and feedback tool for mobile apps — The Free plan is $0 forever and includes 20 bug reports per mon... stable
discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown		 2026-11-12
InstallOnAir Free Distribute iOS & Android apps over the air. Free plan: unlimited uploads, private links, install links active 3 days, or... — 2026-10-24
Appho.st Free Mobile app hosting platform. The free plan includes five apps, 50 monthly downloads, and a maximum file size of 100 MB. stable 2026-11-11

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free mobile development tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 6 free mobile development offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free mobile development tiers have held their terms?

6 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

More Best-Of Lists

Dev Utilities Design AI / ML Cloud Hosting Monitoring Email Storage Security Project Management Databases