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24 alternatives to Portal Beta

The creator of Peach is launching Portal, a new video app 🍑

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Portal Beta launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Portal▲89

   Video platform with peer-to-peer micropayments. No ads ever.

   2018 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Portal▲164

   Self-host open source apps in seconds

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   BetaList▲232

   Discover tomorrow's startups, today.

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   OZ▲65

   Video channel platform for creators

   2015 · oz.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Portal - Run apps on your own easy to use cloud server▲86

   2015 · portalplatform.net · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Beta Page▲243

   Be the first to know about the next big app

   2015 · betapage.co · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Ionic Portals▲84

   Supercharged web view for native apps

   2021 · ionic.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   AppStarter.io▲285

   Build native iOS prototypes online.

   2015 · jyx.uk.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Tryouts▲105

   Beta App Distribution for iOS & Android Apps

   2015 · tryouts.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Portal▲102

    A tiny editor portal inside your browser

    2020 · portal.devsync.co · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Tech.io Beta▲121

    Explore and create hands-on tutorials with any technology

    2017 · codingame.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Portal▲181

    Hey HN, I'm Zach, founder of Portal. Portal lets you share a live sandbox browser session as a link. Try it here: https://www.makeportals.com/try Instead of asking someone to sign up, install software, or book a demo for user research, onboarding, or sales, you send a link and they interact with the real product in a sandboxed browser environment, then you get session replays. Each viewer gets a fresh remote browser instance that starts from a defined state (URL, cookies, extensions, local files, etc). Sessions are isolated and expire automatically. The sessions have…

    Feb 2026 · makeportals.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Portal▲139

    A virtual world with spatial video-chat to be together

    2021 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Arcade Maker▲67

    New, lovely arcade shooter with orignal graphics & music

    2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

15. 15AR
    Augmented reality apps made hands-on interactive▲52

    2022 · portalble.cs.brown.edu · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Hatch▲125

    The app that loves you back

    2014 · hatchpet.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Primetime▲156

    New programming experiment by YouTube Gaming

    2016 · youtube.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    eNcade ▲63

    A Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console (Kickstarter)

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Arcade Trail▲149

    Crowdsourced game discovery & curation platform

    2017 · arcadetrail.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Animation Creator▲88

    App that let's you create cool animations to share

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Storie▲100

    Easily create and share mobile videos

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Beta by Crashlytics▲100

    Free, streamlined beta distribution for iOS/Android

    2014 · firebase.google.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Gelato▲6

    Create super sweet Dev portals

    2015 · gelato.io · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Sky Hoppers▲78

    Hop over the highlighted path to glory

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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