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Countly vs Piwik: What are the differences?
Countly: Real-time, open source mobile app analytics. Countly is the only open source mobile analytics tools with a wide set of features, including real-time update, multi-platform support, scalable infrastructure and a non-prohibitive license; Piwik: The ultimate open source alternative to Google Analytics. Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites. Privacy is built-in!.
Countly and Piwik are primarily classified as "Mobile Analytics" and "General Analytics" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Countly are:
- Real time dashboard
- Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry, Appcelerator Titanium and Unity3D SDKs
- Write and Read APIs
On the other hand, Piwik provides the following key features:
- Real time data updates
- Customizable Dashboard
- All Websites Dashboard
Piwik is an open source tool with 11.3K GitHub stars and 1.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Piwik's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Countly
- Easy setup4
- Funnels3
- Great UI3
- Omni Channel2
- Custom Dashboards2
- Extensible via plugins2
- Custom Events1
- Secure1
- Extensible Product Analytics1
- Private Cloud1
- Cohorts1
- Push Notifications1
- Advanced Segmentation1
Pros of Piwik
- It's good to have an alternative to google analytics35
- Self-hosted27
- Easy setup10
- Not blocked by Brave2
- Great customs0
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Cons of Countly
- User Profiles1
- Push Notifications1
- Crashes1
Cons of Piwik
- Hard to export data2