Testimonials

SmartSVN - it's just too good. After trialing it for about a week I purchased a license. It mops the floor with Xcode's Subversion support and allows me to do version control operations much faster than I could in the terminal. In general it makes so many things so easy that I find myself doing more with Subversion than I used to before.

Agileco was in need of a version management tool for our billing solution. Our initial research into commercial options revealed that the closest fit was licensed on a per-seat basis and would cost nearly $1,000 for only several developers. We felt the price for this solution was high but if it worked it would be justified. We proceeded to test the server and client portions of the offering. It failed miserably - the interface was outdated and clunky, and the learning curve was difficult, and we simpy could not get it to function in a manner that would meet our requirements.

After ruling out all the commercial options, we began exploring the options for SVN. The only product we could find that had a complete GUI for our developers was SmartSVN. We put it through its paces in our trial period and were so impressed at its performance that we purchased licenses well before the trial expired.

In terms of performance, the GUI performs quite well. The interface is both responsive and intuitive, there has been almost no learning curve - some of our team was familiar with CVS so this helps since SVN is similar to CVS. Never once have we needed to contact support and our team has found the need to consult the documentation on only a few occasions.

And most importantly, SmartSVN has proven itself as a reliable product, never letting us down or causing development delays.

So in the end, we have found that by combining SmartSVN with SVN and Trac, in the end we have a fully integrated SCM and Project Management system that allows our developers to collaborate like never before.

I thank SmartSVN for making an excellent GUI available - without their offering we would have never been able to implement SVN as we needed a cross-platform product since our developers are working on different platforms.

I hope this review will help other companies looking for a cost-effective way to implement enterprise level SCM & Project management.