Short · checked 29 September 2026
The Android crash-testing cloud that became Apptim.
An Android testing service built inside the Uruguayan testing firm Abstracta, whose automated monkey tried to crash apps on real devices, and which carried on under the name Apptim, spun off in 2019.
Monkop pitched itself as an "Android Testing Cloud that helps Devs and Testers to test their apps very fast and effortless." Its Stompstart listing, captured in August 2019 and marked public beta, explained the method. The service installed a native app and scanned it across OS versions, screen sizes and densities; then "a smart monkey uses and tries to crash the app" before sending a report on performance, security, compatibility and more. The listing gave California as its location.
Monkop came from Abstracta, a software testing company founded in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2008. A 2022 company history says Abstracta launched Monkop in 2013 as a tool that analysed the performance of native apps. In August 2016 an Abstracta blog post by Sofía Palamarchuk described it as a tool for testing Android apps on real devices, built by in-house developers led by its creator, Fabian Baptista. It could crawl an app on its own, run Robotium, UI Automator or Espresso scripts, plug into Jenkins or Travis, and run on a company's own server against a private device lab.
The tool later took a new name. An Abstracta post dated November 2015 now carries a section headed "Apptim (Formerly Monkop)", describing a free download that tests apps on a connected device and reports crashes, resource use and power consumption. A 2022 Abstracta profile of Palamarchuk says Apptim launched in 2019 as a startup "based on technology developed within Abstracta several years earlier" and became Abstracta's first spin-off, with Palamarchuk as chief executive and Baptista as chief technology officer. The post put Apptim's users at more than 250 active companies.
Abstracta's April 2026 guide to mobile performance testing still recommends Apptim, describing desktop and command-line tools that measure launch times, battery use, CPU and memory load and crashes on real devices. apptim.com still loads a page titled Apptim.