Bitly vs Confluence Data Center
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bitly
This app allows you to instantly create shortened URLs, share them easily across various platforms, and track their performance. It offers features like custom domains and back-halves for branded links. Access advanced features like QR codes and detailed analytics on the web platform.
- Instant link creation
- Custom domains and back-halves
- Simple link sharing
- Quick access to recent links
- Basic click count tracking
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Bitly – The #1 Link Shortener Create short links, share instantly, and monitor performance—all from your phone. Features: * Instant Link Creation: Create shortened URLs tailored to your brand, including custom domains and back-halves * Simple Link Sharing: Share your shortened links directly from the app via text, email, or social media * Quick Access: View your recently created links for convenient reuse * Tracking Essentials: View click counts for your links to monitor performance Looking for QR Codes, landing pages, or detailed analytics? Visit Bitly.com on your mobile or desktop browser, where you can access our full suite of URL shortening, QR Code, and landing page products. Trusted by millions for creating and sharing shortened, trackable links. * Download Bitly and start creating short links that perform. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock features such as custom domains and analytics.
Confluence Data Center
Collaborate with your team from any location using this mobile application. It allows for creating and editing content, receiving real-time notifications, and accessing team projects. Designed for self-hosted Confluence Data Center and Server sites.
- Create and edit pages
- Real-time push notifications
- Quickly find recent pages
- Browse spaces via page tree
- Save pages for later
- Like, comment, and share pages
- Search Confluence content
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Stay in sync with your team, wherever you are, with the Confluence Data Center and Server app. PLEASE NOTE: The app works with self-hosted Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server sites running Confluence 6.8 and later. Features: • Create and edit pages • Stay up to date with your team's work with push notifications for @mentions, replies, page shares, and tasks • Quickly find pages you’ve recently viewed or worked on • Go to any space and browse using the page tree • Read pages or save them to read later on any device • Like, comment on, and share pages • See the latest activity from your Confluence site • Search all of Confluence, or search within a specific space From document creation to project collaboration, over 30,000 companies have discovered that Confluence is a game-changing way to share ideas, work on projects, and get stuff done. Do I need the this app or the Cloud app? To check if this is the right app for your site, open Confluence in your browser and go to Help ( ? ) > About Confluence. If your Confluence version number is 6.8 or later you can use this app! If your version number starts with 1000, then you'll need the Confluence cloud app instead. What we collect Before you log in, this app will send us some anonymous information including your device, operating system version, carrier, day and time, country, and your language. If the app crashes for any reason, we also receive anonymous information in crash reports. This helps us make sure the app is working well. Tell us what you think Shake your device with the app open to message the product team. We want to hear from you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bitly at 3.3 against Confluence Data Center's 2.5. Bitly also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 21%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Confluence Data Center's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bitly holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 171 and 73 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Bitly's written reviews are positive against 21% of Confluence Data Center's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Bitly | Confluence Data Center |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (171 ratings) — better | 2.5 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews — better | 20.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 171 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bitly, Inc. | Atlassian |
Customer experience
Bitly
Confluence Data Center
User reviews
Bitly
From 171 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 📊 Useful analytics
- 🚀 Convenient link sharing
- 💡 Great tool for social media
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🔍 Missing key features like link customization
- 📉 Inaccurate or missing analytics data
- 🔒 Security and privacy concerns
Confluence Data Center
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Enterprise grade finally
- 👍 Good app
- 👍 Excellent UI Interface
- 👍 Amazing product
- 👍 Works very well.
Room to improve
- 😞 Very poor!
- 😞 Super outdated
- 😞 Abstürze und unzureichende Configuration
- 😞 Still useless
- 😞 Slow
Bugs and requests
Bitly
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues and inability to connect to server
- Disappearing or non-updating link data
- Crashes when trying to perform basic functions
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for multiple accounts
- Improve UI and user experience
- Expand analytics and reporting capabilities
- Integrate with more social platforms
Confluence Data Center
Reported bugs
63 issues- Page content disappears when scrolling
- Tags are not displayed
- Search is abysmal
- Link clicks open in the browser
- App crashes
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- Cannot resolve internal addresses
- Does not handle dark mode well
- App doesn't register correctly for URLs
- Cannot display multiple first-level directories
- Cannot display Chinese characters
- Cannot insert pictures
- Pages taller than 2-page height after a small scroll cause crash
- App crashes instantly
- App does not recognize SSO
- App does not work over VPN
- Constantly getting errors when using VPN
- App crashes when entering credentials
- Cannot get a secure connection under iOS 13.X
- Login credentials not remembered
- Font issues when writing pages
- Difficulty finding saved or previously edited pages
- Unspecified error
- Page rendering is poor
- Login timeouts
- App is incompatible with the latest version of Confluence
- Cursor issues within table cells
- Cannot edit pages properly
- Pages not updated after publishing
- Refresh does not update the page
- Cannot browse hierarchy from current page
- Manual refresh required
- Design not adapted for tablets/phones
- Cannot increment/decrement bullet lists
- Cannot mention others using @
- Cannot add action items with checkboxes
- Severely lags behind Confluence cloud
- Pagetree doesn't work
- Cannot see subpages for any page
- Does not display some macros like children display
- App would not work with the site
- Filters for unauthenticated access required
- App doesn't work with SSO like the browser does
- Cannot attach files
- Cannot insert macros
- Cannot switch to desktop view
- Rendering is like mobile view
- Widgets on pages don't work
- App does not update pages when server pages are edited
- Cannot use page templates to create new pages
- Page editing limited to text, lists, bold/italic
- No @ or [ or // references
- No linking at all
- App crashes on startup
- App does not specify requirements
- App crashes when entering server URL
- App crashes when entering credentials
- Login issues with DuoMobile
- App only says 'not found' with DuoMobile
- Cannot browse anonymously
- Limited to stock page elements
- App crashes when entering credentials
- App crashes when entering server URL
- App crashes on startup
Requested features
33 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to access calendars
- Support for SSO login
- Dark theme
- Auto login feature
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- Support for Roadmap Planner
- Ability to add quick drawings
- Longer token life for SSO
- Support for client certificates
- Ability to upload images
- Offline support
- Support for tables
- Search function within the app
- Search inside the page
- Ability to upload files
- Support for blog posts
- Ability to save multiple instances and switch between them
- Anonymous browsing
- Support for add-ins
- Deep linking for reviewing
- Ability to use page templates to create new pages
- Support for @, [, // references
- Inserting tables
- Adding pictures
- Indenting
- Adding table rows
- Support for widgets like search boxes, Task Canvas, Gilphy graphics
- Mobile first approach for Confluence development
- Improved login/password UX (auto login or iOS saved password)
- Support for DuoMobile two-way security
- Ability to edit tables properly
- More editing tools
- Create and modify content on Confluence based Wiki
In-app purchases
Bitly
No in-app purchases
Confluence Data Center
No in-app purchases
Questions
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