About us
Testers Community is a Google Play closed testing company that gets new Android apps through Google's 12-tester, 14-day requirement and into production, for independent developers and small teams. We started in February 2024, a few months after Google introduced the rule, and today we are the oldest and the largest Google Play testing company in the world.
These are two separate programmes. The paid plans are run by our own testers. The free community app is developers testing each other's apps.
The scale
No.1 free testing community
50,000+
apps published through the free community
Our free Android app, live since day one, where developers test each other's apps to earn their own place in the queue. No other provider in this category runs anything like it.
No.1 paid testing provider
10,000+
apps taken live through our paid plans
Our managed service, run by our own paid team on their own Android phones, and the only route that carries the production access guarantee.
What we do
Two ways through Google's closed testing requirement, and we run both ourselves. The only real difference is whether you would rather spend time or money.
Free forever
Our original product, on Google Play since March 14, 2024. Developers test for each other, and 50,000+ apps have been published this way.
6 hoursuntil every tester is on your app
Managed, guaranteed
Our own paid team runs the whole closed test for you and hands you the paperwork at the end. Approved, or a full refund.
Google's production access application has 10 questions about your closed test. Every paid plan hands you answers written from your actual test, so you submit with confidence instead of guessing.
Pro adds a detailed App Store Optimization report on your store listing: keywords, screenshots and the changes that help your app rank higher on Google Play once it is live.
An optional $50 add-on. Two senior testers spend two hours each inside your app and deliver a 52-point QA report with every bug, its severity and the steps to reproduce it.
Why us
Starter is $15, and the price you see is the price you pay. There are no service fees at checkout and nothing added later.
Every tester on a paid plan opts in within 6 hours of your order, so day one of Google's 14 days starts the same day you pay.
Google asks for 14 continuous days. We keep your testers active for two more, free, so a quiet day never puts your count at risk before you apply.
Every paid plan carries the production access guarantee: approved, or a full refund. Our job does not end when the testers opt in. It ends when your app has production access.
We have run Google Play closed tests since February 2024, a few months after Google introduced the requirement, and taken 10,000+ apps live through our paid plans.
Once an app has been through Testers Community, its developer can come back to us with any Google Play problem, at any time. We have seen every hurdle in the Play Console, including the ones that appear after production access.
Who it is for
Anyone publishing a new app from a personal Google Play developer account has to clear closed testing first. These are the developers we see every day.
Where it started
In late 2023 we were two developers building an Android app called Duho. The app was finished. The store listing was finished. And then Google Play stopped us at the last door.
A brand new developer account could not publish anything until it had run a closed test with 12 real testers for 14 continuous days. We did not have twelve testers. Almost nobody does. We went through forums, Facebook groups, and Reddit threads, and every answer we found was unreliable, against the rules, or both. We got through eventually, but slowly, and with nothing you could call a path.
The day our app finally went live, one thought would not leave us alone: every independent developer on earth is about to walk into this exact wall.
So on February 1, 2024 we started writing the thing we wished had existed. We worked on it every day for 43 days, and then we put it through the requirement itself: 12 testers, 14 continuous days, the exact rule the app was built to solve. It passed, and on March 14, 2024 the Testers Community app went live on Google Play: free, credit based, developers testing each other's apps to earn their own turn. Two days later our first developer signed up.
Everything since has been the same job at a larger scale. The free community became the largest of its kind anywhere. Developers who needed a launch date they could count on asked us to run the test for them, so we built a paid team to do exactly that, and in May 2025 we brought it online for everyone.
The record
We started building the testing community we wished had existed while we were stuck behind the requirement ourselves.
Before shipping anything, we ran the Testers Community app through Google's closed test ourselves: 12 testers, 14 continuous days, the exact rule the app was built to solve.
The closed test passed, production access was granted, and the app went live. The product that clears this requirement for you had cleared it for itself first.
Two days after launch, somebody out there needed exactly the thing we had just built.
Developers with a launch date to hit wanted the test run for them. Someone paid for it the same day we shipped it.
Under three months from launch, spreading entirely by word of mouth, with nothing paid for and nothing promoted.
Nine months in, no other free Google Play testing community came close, and none does today.
The managed service came out of the app and onto the web: a paid professional team, a live dashboard, real reports, and the production access guarantee.
Another 50,000+ apps have gone out through the free community app, with developers in more than 180 countries.
Reach
Mumbai, Lagos, Istanbul, Sao Paulo, Jakarta, Warsaw. Reykjavik and Ulaanbaatar too. The requirement is the same everywhere, and so is the wall it puts in front of a first app.
The process
Starter or Pro, as a one-time payment. No subscription and no contract. Prefer to spend time rather than money? The free community app is always open.
Add our Google Group to your closed testing track. Your dashboard walks you through it with screenshots, and most developers finish in a few minutes.
Our own team of paid testers opts in and uses your app every day on their own Android phones. Your live dashboard shows the day count and every tester.
A feedback report on bugs, usability and performance, plus the production access report with your form answers.
Once the 14 days are complete, you submit the form with our answers. Google usually replies within a few days, and your app can go live.
At a glance
Questions
Testers Community is a Google Play closed testing company. It supplies the real testers Google requires, 12 or more for 14 continuous days, so new Android developer accounts can get production access. It runs a paid managed service and a free community app.
Work on Testers Community started on February 1, 2024, a few months after Google introduced the closed testing requirement. The community app went live on Google Play on March 14, 2024, and the managed service opened on the web in May 2025.
Starter is $15 for 15 testers and Pro is $25 for 25 testers plus a detailed ASO report. Both are one-time payments with no subscription. The community app is free.
In the free community app, developers test each other's apps to earn credits, so it costs time rather than money. The paid plans use our own team of paid testers, start within 6 hours, and carry the production access guarantee.
On every paid plan, all testers opt in to your closed test within 6 hours of your order. Google's 14-day clock starts as soon as they do.
Yes. Every paid plan carries the production access guarantee: approved, or a full refund.
Independent Android developers, students, freelancers, agencies and small startups publishing from a personal Google Play developer account. Developers in more than 180 countries have used it.
Email support@testerscommunity.com or use the contact page on the website. Pro plans include priority support.
Our mission
Every developer deserves a fair shot at publishing their app, whatever their team size, their budget, or who they happen to know.
The thing standing between an app and its first user should be the quality of the app, not whether you can find twelve people willing to open it every day for two weeks. That belief is the reason this company exists, and it still decides everything we build.
