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Countly vs Heap: 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; Heap: Automatically capture every user action in your app and measure it all. Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.

Countly and Heap are primarily classified as "Mobile Analytics" and "Funnel Analysis 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, Heap provides the following key features:

  • Define analytics events using a simple, point 'n' click interface. People with zero coding knowledge can start tracking events and generating important metrics instantly
  • Automatically capture every user action in your iOS or web app and measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more
  • All analysis is automatically retroactive, so there's no need to wait days for data to accumulate. You can rely on each report to include everything from day one.
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Pros of Countly
Pros of Heap
  • 4
    Easy setup
  • 3
    Funnels
  • 3
    Great UI
  • 2
    Omni Channel
  • 2
    Custom Dashboards
  • 2
    Extensible via plugins
  • 1
    Custom Events
  • 1
    Secure
  • 1
    Extensible Product Analytics
  • 1
    Private Cloud
  • 1
    Cohorts
  • 1
    Push Notifications
  • 1
    Advanced Segmentation
  • 36
    Automatically capture every user action
  • 23
    No code required
  • 21
    Free Plan
  • 14
    Real-time insights
  • 11
    Track custom events
  • 10
    Define user segments
  • 7
    Define active users
  • 2
    Redshift integration
  • 2
    Fun to use

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Cons of Countly
Cons of Heap
  • 1
    User Profiles
  • 1
    Push Notifications
  • 1
    Crashes
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    What is Countly?

    Countly is a product analytics solution and innovation enabler that helps organizations track product performance and user journey and behavior across mobile, web, and desktop applications.

    What is Heap?

    Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.

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