# Aptabase review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open source, privacy-first analytics for mobile, desktop and web apps Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Aptabase is an open source analytics service for apps. Developers add one of 17 SDKs and send events for the actions they choose; the dashboard shows them live and keeps data anonymous, with no device identifiers, cookies or fingerprinting. Data can live in an EU or US data center, or on your own servers. - **Category:** Website & Product Analytics - **Made by:** Aptabase - **Website:** https://aptabase.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you need MAU or retention, as it cannot report user-level metrics. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Aptabase has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month for up to 200,000 events, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Up to 20,000 events a month with every feature, no credit card required. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Up to 20,000 events a month, with unlimited apps and the full dashboard. | | 200K events | $10 per month for up to 200,000 events, billed monthly | The same features as every other plan; the price follows the event tier. | | 1M events | $20 per month for up to 1,000,000 events, billed monthly | Same features, a higher monthly event limit. | | 2M events | $40 per month for up to 2,000,000 events, billed monthly | Same features, a higher monthly event limit. | | 5M events | $75 per month for up to 5,000,000 events, billed monthly | Tiers continue at $140 for 10M, $240 for 20M, $300 for 30M and $450 for 50M events a month. | Read from https://aptabase.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Aptabase before buying. ## Key features - **Anonymous by design:** No device identifiers, cookies, fingerprinting or long-term user identification; the only link between events is a daily identifier derived from a salted hash that rotates every 24 hours. - **Event tracking:** Every call to the SDK's track function is one event. Nothing is tracked automatically. - **Live view and session timeline:** Data updates in real time, with a live view dashboard and a per-session timeline. - **17 SDKs:** Includes Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Electron, Tauri, .NET MAUI, web apps, browser extensions, Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, Python and C++. - **Data residency choice:** Store data in the EU (Germany) or the US (Virginia), or host your own servers. - **Export and data ownership:** Export to CSV at any time. The vendor says it does not sell or use your data. ## Good for - Indie developers and small teams shipping mobile or desktop apps - Apps that want analytics with no consent banner or personal data - Teams that prefer open source or self-hosted analytics ## Worth knowing - Without a user identifier, it cannot report user-level metrics such as monthly active users or retention, per the vendor's FAQ. - If you exceed your tier's limit, analytics pause until you upgrade or the next month starts; there are no overage fees. - Plans do not change automatically; you move to the next tier yourself. - More than 50,000,000 events a month needs a custom plan by email. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Aptabase is open source, privacy-first analytics for mobile, desktop and web apps, with 20,000 events a month free. Without a user identifier it cannot report monthly active users or retention. - **Value for money: B.** $10 a month for 200,000 events is inside the cheaper quarter of analytics tools, with every feature on every tier. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with 20,000 events and every feature, no card, which a small app could live on. - **Features: C.** Event tracking, a live view, 17 SDKs and export cover the basics, but with no user identifier it cannot report MAU or retention. - **Ease of use: C.** SDKs to add to your app code, and no store rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web dashboard with 17 SDKs, including Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Electron and Unity. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Aptabase's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among website and product analytics tools - Aptabase's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 70 of the 100 other website and product analytics tools we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 72 of 100) and worst on features (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $25 for the category: 14 of the 63 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 11 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/analytics ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Aptabase does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 70 of the 100 other website and product analytics tools we grade. It costs $120 a year. Aptabase is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Swift, Kotlin and Flutter among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Electron, Tauri, Unity, Godot **Tags:** Web analytics, Open source, Self-hostable, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [TelemetryDeck](https://toolgpa.com/tools/telemetrydeck): Privacy-first, cookieless analytics for mobile, desktop and web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aptabase-vs-telemetrydeck) - [PostHog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/posthog): Open-source product analytics with replays, flags and surveys. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aptabase-vs-posthog) - [Countly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/countly): Self-hosted product analytics for web, mobile and desktop apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aptabase-vs-countly) - [Plausible](https://toolgpa.com/tools/plausible): Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aptabase-vs-plausible) - [Umami](https://toolgpa.com/tools/umami): Open-source, cookieless web and product analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aptabase-vs-umami) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://aptabase.com/ - https://aptabase.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/aptabase Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).