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Aptabase vs MetricsWave 🌊

Targets mobile app analytics with a privacy focus, whereas MetricsWave is web-product oriented.

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What it is
Aptabase:Aptabase provides open-source, privacy-first analytics for mobile and desktop apps.
MetricsWave 🌊:MetricsWave is a privacy-first, event-driven web analytics platform for tracking revenue, product usage and real-time user behavior.
Best for
Aptabase:Privacy-first app analytics
MetricsWave 🌊:Privacy-first product analytics
Who it’s for
Aptabase:Mobile and desktop app developers who need analytics without tracking users.
MetricsWave 🌊:Product teams, agencies and European companies that need GDPR-compliant analytics.
Pricing
Aptabase:Freemium
MetricsWave 🌊:Free
Plans
Aptabase:Free $0 Β· Pay as you grow $10 per month Β· Pay as you grow $20 per month Β· Pay as you grow $40 per month Β· Pay as you grow $75 per month
MetricsWave 🌊:β€”
Open source
Aptabase:Yes, 1,825 GitHub stars
MetricsWave 🌊:β€”
Works with
Aptabase:Swift, React Native, Electron, Flutter, Tauri
MetricsWave 🌊:any website or app
DevHunt upvotes
Aptabase:6
MetricsWave 🌊:3
Launched on DevHunt
Aptabase:Jan 2023
MetricsWave 🌊:Jan 2023

Aptabase features

  • Lightweight SDKs. More than 10 SDKs (Swift, React Native, Electron, Flutter, Tauri, etc.) that are tiny and fast.
  • Real-time dashboard. Live view of events and session timelines updated instantly.
  • Anonymous data collection. All data is fully anonymised, no device IDs, cookies or fingerprinting.
  • Data ownership & export. You own all data and can export it to CSV at any time.
  • EU/US residency & self-host. Choose EU or US data centers or host the service yourself.
  • Debug/Release mode detection. SDK auto-detects debug builds to separate experiment data from production.

MetricsWave 🌊 features

  • Revenue tracking. Connect every interaction to revenue signals with attribution to campaigns and features.
  • Conversion funnels. Build custom funnels to see where sign-ups and purchases succeed or stall.
  • Custom dashboards. Arrange and pin the metrics that matter most on a personalized dashboard.
  • Real-time monitoring. Receive instant notifications for key events, errors or deployments.
  • Full product analytics API. Track any user action, feature adoption or business KPI via a straightforward API.
  • Drop-in integration. Copy-paste a sub-1 KB script or API call; works across major frameworks, sites and apps.

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