Google introduced its closed testing requirement in late 2023. We hit it ourselves within weeks, and by February 2024 we were building the answer. 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 one has taken more apps through Google Play testing than we have.
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.
OldestClearing this requirement since it was new
From $15Less than any comparable professional service
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GuaranteedApproved, or a full refund, on every plan
Where it started
Two developers, one wall.
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.
Play Console · Production
Complete the app content section
Set up your store listing
Have at least 12 testers opted in to your closed test continuously for the last 14 days
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
Every date, in order.
2024
Feb 1 2024
The first line of code
We started building the testing community we wished had existed while we were stuck behind the requirement ourselves.
Feb 20 2024
We put our own app through the requirement
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.
Mar 14 2024
Testers Community goes live on Google Play
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.
Mar 16 2024
Our first developer signs up
Two days after launch, somebody out there needed exactly the thing we had just built.
Apr 25 2024
Private testing, and our first paying customer
Developers with a launch date to hit wanted the test run for them. Someone paid for it the same day we shipped it.
May 30 2024
The community takes off
Under three months from launch, spreading entirely by word of mouth, with nothing paid for and nothing promoted.
Nov 23 2024
The largest free testing community anywhere
Nine months in, no other free Google Play testing community came close, and none does today.
2025
May 25 2025
testerscommunity.com opens to everyone
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.
2026
Today 2026
10,000+ apps live through the paid plans
Another 50,000+ apps have gone out through the free community app, with developers in more than 180 countries.
Reach
Developers in 180+ countries.
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.
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.