App-analytics directory · 2026

Privacy-First App Analytics:
3 tools for mobile & desktop

For mobile (iOS/Android), cross-platform (Flutter, React Native, Unity), and desktop (macOS, Electron, Tauri, visionOS). No cookie banners, no IDFA, App-Store-friendly — these aren't web trackers. Independently researched by Mark Sutton.

🌐 Tracking a website instead? See 21 web-analytics tools →

3 App tools verified
11+ SDKs covered
0 IDFA / AAID required
Mark Sutton Mark Sutton, sole author

Why a separate list?

Web analytics and app analytics solve overlapping problems with very different constraints. Cookie banners, GA4 imports, EU-residency hosting — none of these matter inside a native app. What matters instead: SDK quality, App-Store-friendly attribution (no IDFA / AAID), crash reporting, custom events, and offline-first batching.

Putting Aptabase or TelemetryDeck head-to-head with Plausible makes neither look good — half the matrix is N/A. So we split them.

If you ship both a website and an app, look at both directories. A pair like Plausible (web) + TelemetryDeck (iOS) is a perfectly normal stack.

The 3 tools

Aptabase

🇮🇪 Ireland

Privacy-first analytics built for mobile and desktop apps — 11 SDKs (Swift/Kotlin/Flutter/RN/Tauri/Electron/Unity/etc), AGPL self-host, no IDFA, App Store-friendly

SDKs: iOS Android Flutter React Native Unity Desktop
  • Price: Free · free tier
  • License: AGPL-3.0 server / MIT SDKs
  • Hosting: SaaS + Self-host · EU
  • Founded: 2023
Read the full review →

Countly

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Mobile-first product analytics platform — 11+ SDKs, ISO 27001 + SOC 2, AGPL+brand-clause self-host, MAU pricing, founded 2012

  • Price: Free · free tier
  • License: AGPL-3.0 with Section 7 brand restriction
  • Hosting: SaaS + Self-host · EU
  • Founded: 2012
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TelemetryDeck

🇩🇪 Germany

Privacy-first app analytics for Apple platforms — Swift/macOS/visionOS/Android/web with native macOS dashboard, AWS Frankfurt + Azure EU multi-cloud, 0.7KB web tracker (smallest in directory)

SDKs: iOS Android Desktop
  • Price: Free · free tier
  • License: Modified MIT (SDKs only) / Closed backend
  • Hosting: SaaS · EU
  • Founded: 2020
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Already comparing app vs web?

A few of our older comparisons pair an app tool against a web tool (e.g. Aptabase vs Plausible, TelemetryDeck vs Umami). Those pages still exist for historical traffic, but the verdict is short: they solve different problems. Pick the right one for your platform.