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Ask HN: What is the best iOS analytics platform?

4 points| kevbam | 13 years ago | reply

I am close to putting my first iOS app to market. I am looking for a good free iOS analytics platform to track usage. I am used to Google analytics and think it provides good functionality for websites,but have tried it for apps before and found it difficult to use. Any good alternatives? Any advice you could give me on this would be greatly appreciated.

13 comments

[+] bjplink|13 years ago|reply

I use MixPanel in my apps and found it to be very easy to implement and use: https://mixpanel.com/docs/integration-libraries/iphone

[+] kevbam|13 years ago|reply

I heard Mixpanel is cool alright, have you tried flurry? How do they compare?

[+] escoz|13 years ago|reply

Google is beta testing a new version of google analytics specially made for apps, it's great. Unfortunately they're making it available to a small group of users for now, afaik.

[+] kevbam|13 years ago|reply

Sounds great, I am a big fan of google analytics. Will keep an eye out for the launch of the mobile specific one, but for now I guess I will go with flurry.

[+] nanijoe|13 years ago|reply

For people who have used flurry..Did the data collected turn out to make an actual difference in your revenue/downloads?

[+] rooster117|13 years ago|reply

I have added a bunch of custom events to my flurry analytics but in the end the amount of active users, session length and device type has helped us make very important decisions moving forward. Also it makes it so you don't have to wait a day to see your new user count.

[+] reallynattu|13 years ago|reply

Try Flurry

[+] kevbam|13 years ago|reply

Thanks for the advice, have you used it? Any downsides to using flurry? Their website says they are free, but they must make money somehow? Is my data safe?