Aptabase
Open-source, privacy-first analytics for mobile, desktop, and web apps. Anonymous event tracking, no cookies or device IDs, GDPR-compliant by default.
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Aptabase is an open-source, privacy-first analytics platform for mobile, desktop, and web applications. It captures custom events — button taps, feature usage, user flows — without collecting device identifiers, cookies, or fingerprints, making it fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR out of the box. Every tracked session is anonymous and untraceable back to a user.
Lightweight SDKs are available for more than ten frameworks including Electron, Tauri, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, and React Native, making integration straightforward across native and cross-platform stacks. A real-time dashboard surfaces event trends and usage patterns as they happen, and data can be self-hosted for full ownership of the underlying analytics.
Aptabase is a strong fit for developers and product teams who need actionable app analytics without the legal overhead of consent banners or the privacy trade-offs of ad-tech-driven platforms like Google Analytics and Mixpanel.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Aptabase comply with GDPR without a consent banner?
Aptabase deliberately avoids collecting device identifiers, cookies, or fingerprints, so every tracked session is anonymous and cannot be traced back to a user. Because no personal data is captured, events sit outside the strictest consent requirements of GDPR, CCPA, and PECR, which is why you typically do not need a consent banner. That is a core difference from ad-tech-driven analytics like Google Analytics.
Which app frameworks can I integrate Aptabase with?
Official lightweight SDKs cover more than ten frameworks, including Electron, Tauri, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, and React Native. That makes it easy to instrument native, desktop, and cross-platform apps with the same events API. The real-time dashboard and tracking behavior are identical no matter which SDK you choose.
Can I self-host Aptabase to keep full ownership of my analytics data?
Yes, Aptabase can be self-hosted, which gives you full ownership of the underlying analytics data and of the AGPL-3.0 codebase. Self-hosting removes any dependence on a third-party analytics vendor while keeping the same real-time dashboard and privacy guarantees. The managed cloud service is also available if you prefer not to run it yourself.
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