# About Aptabase

Aptabase is an open-source, privacy-first analytics platform for mobile, desktop and web apps — an alternative to Google Firebase Analytics that collects no personal data, uses no cookies or device identifiers, and needs no consent banner.

Aptabase has been open source since 2023: the server is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and the SDKs under MIT. Source: https://github.com/aptabase/aptabase

## What it does

- **Real-time dashboard** — Data is updated in real time as users interact with your app. No need to wait hours to see what's happening.
- **Event tracking with custom properties** — Track button clicks, feature usage, configuration changes and more. Attach string or number properties to any event. You decide what to measure — nothing is tracked automatically.
- **Sessions, live view and session timeline** — See active sessions as they happen, a live geo view, and the timeline of events inside a session.
- **Truly anonymous data** — Sessions are completely anonymous and untraceable. Data is never linked to an identifiable individual — no pseudonymisation, full anonymisation.
- **No fingerprinting** — No device identifiers, cookies, fingerprinting or long-term user identification.
- **GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliant** — Aptabase collects no personal data, so your app stays compliant with strict privacy regulations without a consent banner.
- **EU or US data residency** — Choose data centers in Germany or the United States.
- **Debug / Release build modes** — SDKs detect debug builds automatically so experiments never pollute production data.
- **100% data ownership and CSV export** — It's your data. We don't sell it or use it, and you can export it at any time.
- **100% open source** — The server (AGPL-3.0) and every SDK (MIT) are open source. Inspect the code and contribute.
- **Lightweight SDKs for 17 platforms** — Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Electron, Tauri, .NET MAUI, Unity, Unreal, Godot, Python, C++ and JavaScript for web, React, Next.js, Angular and browser extensions.
- **Mobile-first dashboard with dark mode** — A built-in dashboard made for mobile so you can peek at your data on the go.

## Who it's for

### Who Aptabase is for

- Developers and small teams shipping mobile, desktop or web apps — indie developers, studios, open-source projects and SaaS teams.
- Apps that need usage insights (sessions, events, app versions, OS versions, countries) without collecting personal data.
- Teams that want GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliance by design, with no cookie or consent banner.
- Anyone who wants to own their analytics data, hosted in the EU or US.

### Who Aptabase is not for

- User-level analytics. Aptabase never identifies users, so it cannot report Monthly Active Users, per-user retention or funnels tied to individual people.
- Advertising attribution or targeted marketing. There are no advertising IDs, fingerprints or cross-app tracking.
- Marketing website analytics (page views, referrers, UTM campaigns). Aptabase is built for apps; for websites the team recommends Plausible.

## How the privacy model works

### Data collected

- The event name and the custom properties you attach to it (strings and numbers only)
- App version and build number
- Operating system name and version
- Device model
- Locale / language
- Country and region, derived on the server from the IP address (the IP address itself is not stored)
- A random, short-lived session id generated by the SDK, plus timestamps

### Data never collected

- Device IDs, advertising IDs or hardware identifiers
- Cookies, fingerprints or any persistent user identifier
- IP addresses (used transiently to derive the country and a daily-rotated anonymous hash, never stored)
- Names, emails or any other personal data

SDKs send no identifiers. On the server, Aptabase derives a temporary anonymous hash from the client IP, user agent and a salt that rotates every 24 hours, which makes it impossible to correlate sessions across days or apps. Analytics data is retained for up to 5 years.

## Hosting

- European Union (Germany): https://eu.aptabase.com — app keys start with `A-EU-`
- United States (Virginia): https://us.aptabase.com — app keys start with `A-US-`

## Pricing

Free up to 20,000 events/month. Paid plans from $10/month for 200,000 events up to $450/month for 50,000,000 events. No overage fees. Details: https://aptabase.com/pricing

## Contact

- Email: hi@aptabase.com
- Discord: https://discord.gg/d9d97unCUk
- GitHub: https://github.com/aptabase/aptabase
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/aptabase