
Mobile analytics tools record how people use a mobile app and show where users struggle and why. In practice, the term usually means product analytics tools that tell you why something is happening instead of just what is happening, using session replays, heatmaps, funnels, retention reports, user segmentation, and event tracking.
But there are a few other types of tools that fall under the mobile analytics umbrella that often get paired with each other or bundled into product analytics platforms:
Dev and technical monitoring tells engineers what the app was doing when something broke through crash reporting, ANR/UI-freeze detection, console logs, network requests, traces, and error tracking.
Experimentation lets teams test changes against each other and measure the impact through A/B and multi-variant testing, feature flags, and gradual rollouts.
Voice of customer collects feedback directly from users in their own words through on-site and in-app surveys, polls, interviews, and usability testing.
In-app engagement guides and nudges users inside the app to drive adoption or action through onboarding walkthroughs, tooltips, product tours, and app messages and push notifications.
Attribution measurement ties installs and in-app actions back to the campaigns and channels that drove them through install attribution, cohorts, ROAS reporting, and fraud detection.
App Store intelligence shows how the app performs in the store and against competitors through keyword rankings, ratings, review tracking, ASO, and competitor benchmarking.
Once you've decided which feature sets you need, you can dig into the tools that fit your requirements and compare them feature by feature. For example, mobile product analytics tools often include session recording but the recording quality will vary by tool. Some capture every user interaction on mobile, while others miss movements.
In this guide, we compare 15 top mobile analytics tools and what feature sets they offer and any major gaps in those offerings, starting with an in-depth look at our own product analytics solution for mobile apps and websites, UXCam.
But first, we’ll give a brief overview of the tools and share a few things to consider when comparing your options. Prices come from each vendor’s own pricing page and were checked in October 2026.
| Tool | Best for | Platforms | Pricing (October 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| UXCam | Mobile and web product teams, from startups to enterprises | Mobile apps and websites | 100k free sessions during trial, then custom pricing based on monthly sessions |
| Contentsquare | Experience analytics and voice of customer in one platform | Web-focused, some mobile | Free up to 200k sessions/mo; Growth from $39/mo billed yearly; Pro and Enterprise by quote |
| Fullstory | Web-first autocapture | Web-focused, weaker mobile | Free up to 30k sessions/mo; paid plans by quote; mobile is a paid add-on |
| Quantum Metric | Tying journeys to revenue | Web-focused, mobile added later | Custom quote only; no free plan |
| PostHog | Engineering-led teams that want to self-host | Web-focused, weaker mobile | Free for 1M events and 5k recordings/mo, then usage-based |
| Amplitude | Companies with dedicated analytics engineers | Web and mobile | Free up to 2M events/mo; Plus from $0; Growth and Enterprise by quote |
| Mixpanel | Event-based self-serve reports without SQL | Web and mobile | Free up to 1M events/mo; 1.5M events from $100/mo billed yearly |
| Microsoft Clarity | Free qualitative data | Web and mobile | Free, with no traffic limits |
| Firebase | Startups building on Google’s app platform | Mobile apps and web | Analytics, A/B Testing and Crashlytics free on both plans |
| CleverTap | Push, in-app and lifecycle campaigns | Consumer mobile apps | From $85/mo for up to 5,000 MAU; Pro and Ultimate by quote |
| MoEngage | Cross-channel engagement campaigns | Consumer mobile apps | By quote, priced by monthly tracked users; 1-year minimum |
| Glassbox | Highly-regulated industries | Web and mobile | Custom quote; no free plan |
| Appfigures | App store intelligence | iOS and Android app stores | Free plan; paid from $7.99/mo billed yearly |
| Adobe Analytics | Enterprises in the Adobe ecosystem | Web-weighted, some mobile | Custom quote (Select, Prime and Ultimate packages) |
| AppsFlyer | Install attribution for paid acquisition | Mobile apps | Free Zero plan; $0.07 per conversion after 12k free in year one |
The best mobile app analytics tools in 2026 are UXCam for session replay, heatmaps and product analytics across mobile apps and websites; Firebase for free event analytics; Amplitude and Mixpanel for event-based product analytics; PostHog for engineering-led teams; Microsoft Clarity for free session recordings; AppsFlyer for install attribution; and CleverTap for in-app engagement.
Regardless of the features you need, there are a few ways you can differentiate between tools that just touch on mobile offerings versus the top solutions.
Most analytics tools started on the web and added mobile later, which impacts what a tool offers and the quality of those features. For example, product analytics tools that started on the web typically have laggy session replay and frequently miss swipes and multi-touch gestures so heatmaps and other reports aren’t accurate.
Web-first tools also tend to have heavier SDKs and support for only a few frameworks.
Some platforms have limited data hosting options, won’t sign a DPA, or strip back what the tool can do once you turn on higher security settings. For example, with session replay, some tools only let you mask an entire screen rather than individual fields. You lose any visibility into that screen, which can be a problem if you have a bug on your payment screen, for example.
These gaps can make it hard to meet GDPR, HIPAA, or your own internal security policies. So, check each of these carefully against what your industry and customers require. It’s also worth looking at a vendor’s certifications because they can show that the company’s controls have held up over time and meet industry standards.
Nearly every tool now advertises an AI element built into their features, but the capabilities of that AI vary a lot. Many only read the surface-level data rather than analyzing the detailed data that you would see yourself. In a product analytics tool, for example, that means the AI reads your event metadata but never watches the session replays underneath, so it misses anything the numbers don't already show.
Additionally, most AI only provides answers when prompted and may answer without proper evidence to back it up.
Instead, look for an AI that views the same data you would, can provide insight into things you didn’t know to look for, and backs everything up with evidence.
If your team is able to get by with a basic free tool, this is easy to do. But most teams outgrow free tools and need more advanced features like segmentation, the ability to manage their web and mobile app from one platform, or ongoing live support.
But, most tools make it hard to predict your future costs because the different features are priced separately or simply because of how they price things out. For example, many product analytics tools charge based on events (or user actions). So every event you create and track adds to your bill whether or not that event is actually working or telling you anything useful. Other product analytics tools charge based on monthly recorded sessions so you just pay for the full dataset once and then analyze it in any way you want to.
Session-based pricing is much easier to predict costs over time and only grows as your app grows.
Next, we’ll cover the details of our own solution first because we know it best and then briefly cover 14 other solutions.
UXCam is a product intelligence platform that helps teams see how users actually move through their mobile and web apps so they can lift conversions and user retention.
Basic analytics tools can tell you what happened, like which screen users leave on or where they spend the most time, but UXCam pairs that with session replays, heatmaps, and user segmentation so you can understand why it’s happening.
We serve a wide range of industries, including retail and ecommerce, finance and banking, healthcare, delivery, fitness, education, real estate, telecom, and hospitality. And we support different app types including games, marketplaces, and SaaS products.
Finally, we support apps of every size, whether you’re a startup finding your first friction points or an enterprise managing millions of sessions.
Below, we share the details of how our platform is different from other product analytics tools available today.
UXCam, which covers mobile apps and websites, was built by mobile app experts, and we’ve spent over a decade refining our SDK to be ultralight at under 1 MB without compromising on:
Gesture capture: Every tap, swipe, scroll, and multi-touch is recorded accurately.
App performance: Even if you’re already running 10+ SDKs, ours won’t noticeably slow your app down or get in the way of a smooth user experience.
We support a broad range of mobile frameworks, including:
Native iOS, including SwiftUI
Android
React Native
Flutter
Cordova
Xamarin
NativeScript
Kotlin Multiplatform
And, we keep up as each one ships new versions, which many product analytics platforms struggle to do.
Installing UXCam takes five minutes or less and you have two options for how to do it:
Your dev team can install a single snippet of code.
You can use a tool like Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Desktop, connect our MCP server, and it’ll guide your AI agent through the steps for you.
From that point every tap, swipe, scroll, and screen visit is recorded automatically. There’s no tagging, no predefined event list, and no deciding what matters up front.
Not only is it extremely easy to set up and use, but we also built everything else on top of the captured data. This is the opposite of how most platforms were built, where autocapture was added as a layer on top of event analytics, and it has several benefits.
Everything lives on one platform, so nothing gets lost. When autocapture is a separate plugin added on later, the two halves don't always line up, and jumping from a funnel step to the session or heatmap behind it can return the wrong recording or an error. With UXCam, your funnels, heatmaps, user journeys, and reports all pull from the same data, so you can move between them and know the numbers and the recordings match.
Anyone can create an event, no code required. Most tools need a developer to code every event before you can track it, so you have to know what matters ahead of time and wait for the dev team to ship it. With UXCam, anyone can turn an action in a recording or heatmap into a trackable event with a few clicks, or ask Tara AI to build it for you. Your product's support and marketing teams stop waiting on engineering to get answers.
New events reach backward through past sessions. In most tools, a new event only applies going forward, so you lose that data on every session that already happened. Because UXCam records every session from day one, any event you define applies to past sessions too. The moment something catches your attention, like a broken button on your checkout screen, you can pull up every past session where it happened instead of waiting for new ones to roll in.
Further reading: 10 Session Replay Tools for Mobile for Product Teams & Devs
Tara AI lives in UXCam and unlike other AI agents that just read the metadata, she actually watches the session recordings like a member of your team would. Because of this, she can do a few things other AI assistants can’t:
She surfaces things you didn't know to look for. On your home dashboard, you'll find reports Tara put together on her own, flagging issues and opportunities before you thought to go hunting for them or they became a big enough issue to spot in other places.
She backs everything with evidence. Every finding links straight to the specific sessions, heat maps, and reports behind it, so you can click in and verify it yourself.
She gives you conclusions, not just numbers. Instead of reporting on events and metrics, she tells you what they mean, what to do next, and how confident she is, with a confidence score attached to each finding.
Plus, she's been trained not to hallucinate. If the data isn’t there to support an answer, she tells you instead of inventing one, so you can trust that what she hands back is grounded in your real data.
As we touched on earlier, you can also ask her to build things for you, whether that's an event, a funnel, a report, or any other analysis.
Finally, Tara understands and can respond in any language.
Further reading: How teams use Tara as their AI product analyst
Tara is trained as a product analyst, so she outperforms a general AI assistant on product analytics work. But pulling your UXCam data into a tool like Claude Desktop has its own advantage: because your other tools are connected there too, you can ask questions that cut across your whole business.
With our MCP connector, you can reach your UXCam data from inside Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor without opening UXCam at all. Connecting takes a quick sign-in with no key or config file to manage, and it's available on every plan.
Once it's connected, you can ask questions about your product data and pull live sessions, funnels, retention, and crash and event metrics straight into the AI tool you're already working in. And, because your data now sits alongside your other connected tools, you get answers that consider the full context of your business.
Security is the leading reason teams choose UXCam, especially in regulated industries like finance, insurance, and healthcare. Here's a brief overview of what we offer.
UXCam automatically masks or blurs sensitive data for you with no manual field tagging required.
You can mask all text fields, specific sections of a screen, or the entire screen, and set different rules per screen, so you keep as much visibility as possible without compromising security. You can also capture sessions as wireframes instead of screenshots.
You get data hosting options in the EU, US or Saudi Arabia.
We sign a DPA with every customer.
We hold SOC 2 Type II certification, and we're compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and PCI DSS.
All user data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
You can delete user data, discard IP addresses, hand customers a copy of their data, and set opt-in or opt-out rules.
We never sell your data to anyone, including advertisers.
Because UXCam already automatically records every session, it captures the technical issues that break the user experience and ties each one to the session where it happened. Instead of reading a stack trace and guessing at what the user did, you can replay the exact session behind the problem.
It automatically captures three signals on iOS and Android:
Crashes, with the stack trace and device state attached
ANRs (application not responding), snapshotting the main thread stack the moment the app hangs
UI freezes, flagged whenever the main thread goes unresponsive, with the affected sessions and users identified
From the issues dashboard, you can see how many crashes and freezes occurred, how many users and sessions they affected, and what share of your sessions were issue-free. You can filter UI freezes by duration, OS, and device, export the logs for any issue, and replay the affected sessions to reproduce the problem and fix it faster.
It also fits into the tools your team already uses. When a session turns up a bug, you can create a Jira ticket straight from it, linked to the recording, so the developer can watch exactly what the user did before it broke, with the device OS, app version, and crash logs already attached to the session. With UXCam Slack integration, crash alerts land in whatever channel your team watches for issues, so problems surface on their own instead of waiting for someone to notice.
UXCam is priced based on your monthly session volume. Onboarding and ongoing live support is included in every plan.
You can try everything free for 14 days (no credit card required). After the trial, you get a custom quote based on your monthly sessions.
UXCam was easy to integrate into our react native mobile app and the data has hugely helped us validate our proposition with users.
"Tara highlighted the top issues I would have spent 20 hours reviewing videos to find, and it did it very quickly." — Daniel Lee, Senior Product Manager, Virgin Mobile
It's super intuitive, it gives you great info with minimum effort about different devices, helps see what customers experience first hand, plus the integration was super easy.
UXCam gives a very good way to debug during development or do support with users to understand what happened with the video recording and playbacks.
Schedule a demo to see how UXCam can help you get to the why behind the what to improve conversions and retention.
Note: For the remaining brands, a green checkmark ✅ means they offer a comprehensive, competitive feature set in the category. A gray checkmark ☑️ means they offer some features in that category, but with notable gaps or limitations in that area. Also, the G2 ratings are accurate at the time of writing.
Contentsquare acquired Hotjar and Heap, added their own layer of features on top, and combined it all into one platform. While it’s a robust product analytics platform, the features are stitched together and the product lines are priced separately.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Voice of customer
☑️ Mobile product analytics (web-focused with a few features for mobile added through acquisitions)
☑️ Dev and technical monitoring (it includes error and speed analysis tied to its experience data, not a full monitoring suite)
Industries and app types they support: retail and ecommerce, finance, travel, telecom, media, and automotive.
Pricing (October 2026): Free for up to 200,000 monthly sessions. Growth starts at $39 a month billed yearly ($49 billed monthly), and Pro and Enterprise are priced by custom quote. Voice of customer and product analytics (Heap) are priced separately.
G2 rating: 4.6/5
Fullstory is a behavioral data platform based on tagless autocapture. It offers AI, but that AI only reads the event data; it doesn’t actually watch the sessions for you.
Feature sets they offer:
☑️ Mobile product analytics (web-focused, with a weak mobile offering)
☑️ Dev and technical monitoring (they offer console and network data on web, but no full APM)
Industries and app types they support: ecommerce and retail, financial services, SaaS, travel, and insurance.
Pricing (October 2026): A free plan covers up to 30,000 sessions a month. Business, Advanced and Enterprise plans are priced by quote, and mobile capture is a paid add-on.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
Quantum Metric is known best for allowing teams to directly tie product and journey analytics to revenue. It’s aimed at large organizations and the onboarding process and usability reflect that, so smaller companies may find it cumbersome.
Feature sets they offer:
☑️ Mobile product analytics (web-focused, with mobile as a later add-on)
☑️ Dev and technical monitoring (API errors and performance tied to sessions, not full APM or tracing)
Industries and app types they support: banking, retail, travel and airlines, telecom, and insurance; large enterprise consumer apps and sites.
Pricing (October 2026): Enterprise plans only, priced by custom quote based on digital properties, session volume and add-ons. There is no free plan or trial.
G2 rating: 4.6/5
PostHog is a developer-first, open-source platform you can self-host, which makes it popular with engineering-led teams that want control over their data. It bundles a wide range of tools in one stack, though most come as separate add-ons that are priced individually.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Experimentation
✅ Dev and technical monitoring
☑️ Mobile product analytics (more basic heatmaps, weak mobile offering)
☑️ Voice of customer (surveys only, no interviews or usability testing)
Industries and app types they support: SaaS, developer tools, and AI and tech startups; B2B SaaS and developer-led products.
Pricing (October 2026): Free each month for 1 million events and 5,000 session recordings, then usage-based pricing per product, such as $0.00005 per event. Platform packages start at $250 a month.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
Amplitude is an event-based platform for large companies with an engineering team dedicated to building and maintaining their product analytics. Pricing is based on tracked users and events, so costs can climb as your analytics mature even if your app doesn’t grow.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Experimentation
☑️ Mobile product analytics (strong quantitative analytics, but no native mobile heatmaps and support for only a few mobile frameworks)
☑️ Voice of customer (surveys only, no interviews or usability testing)
☑️ In-app engagement (in-app guides, but push, email, and lifecycle rely on synced tools)
Industries and app types they support: media, fintech, ecommerce, SaaS, travel, and gaming; large consumer and B2B SaaS.
Pricing (October 2026): Free for up to 2 million events a month with 10,000 session replays. Plus starts at $0 and scales with event volume, and Growth and Enterprise are priced by custom quote.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
Further reading: 7 Best Amplitude Alternatives & Competitors in 2026
Mixpanel is an analytics platform with a fast, self-serve interface that lets non-technical teams build reports without SQL. It also connects to your data warehouse, so you can analyze Mixpanel data alongside the rest of your business data in one place.
Feature sets they offer:
☑️ Mobile product analytics (strong event analytics, but mobile offerings are more limited)
☑️ Experimentation (experiments and feature flags are newer and less mature)
Industries and app types they support: SaaS, fintech, media, ecommerce, gaming, and healthcare; B2C and B2B SaaS and product-led growth apps.
Pricing (October 2026): Free for up to 1 million events a month. Growth starts at $0 and charges by event volume (1.5 million events cost $100 a month billed yearly), and Enterprise is priced by custom quote.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
Microsoft Clarity is an easy entry point for teams that want qualitative data for free. Because it's free, it's lighter on the analytics side and there's no paid support to fall back on.
Feature sets they offer:
☑️ Mobile product analytics (session replays on mobile are redraw only, not screen capture; basic quantitative analytics with no deep retention analysis or cohorts)
☑️ Dev and technical monitoring (JavaScript errors and Android crashes, with a Crashlytics link)
Industries and app types they support: any.
Pricing (October 2026): Free, with no traffic limits.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
Firebase is Google's app development platform, so its analytics come bundled with the backend tools many teams already use to build and run their apps. It's free to start, but the event analytics are capped and you need to pipe data into BigQuery to do any deeper analysis.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Experimentation
✅ Dev and technical monitoring
☑️ Mobile product analytics (500-event cap, rigid reporting, needs BigQuery for depth)
☑️ In-app engagement (push and in-app messaging, but limited lifecycle orchestration)
☑️ Attribution measurement (basic install and campaign attribution, not a dedicated MMP)
Industries and app types they support: mostly for startups in any industry.
Pricing (October 2026): Analytics, A/B Testing and Crashlytics are free on both the no-cost Spark plan and the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan. Deeper analysis in BigQuery is billed separately.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
CleverTap is a customer engagement platform first, so its analytics exist mainly to power push notifications, in-app messages, and lifecycle campaigns rather than to stand on their own. It's especially strong in emerging markets like India and Southeast Asia.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ In-app engagement
☑️ Mobile product analytics (analytics built to serve campaign targeting, not deep product analysis)
☑️ Experimentation (A/B tests campaigns and in-app experiences, not a full feature-flag system)
☑️ Voice of customer (in-app surveys only)
Industries and app types they support: fintech, ecommerce, gaming, media and OTT, travel, and food delivery; consumer mobile apps.
Pricing (October 2026): Core starts at $85 a month for up to 5,000 monthly active users, after a 30-day trial. Pro and Ultimate are priced by quote.
G2 rating: 4.6/5
MoEngage is a customer engagement platform built to run cross-channel campaigns across push, email, in-app, and SMS.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ In-app engagement
☑️ Mobile product analytics (reporting geared toward campaign performance rather than deep product analysis)
☑️ Experimentation (A/B tests messages and experiences, not full feature management)
Industries and app types they support: ecommerce, fintech, media and OTT, telecom, and food delivery; consumer mobile apps.
Pricing (October 2026): Growth and Enterprise plans are priced by quote, based on monthly tracked users, with a one-year minimum.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
Glassbox is a session-replay and analytics platform built for heavily regulated industries, with compliance and security baked into how it captures data. That focus makes it a fit for banks and insurers, but it's enterprise-priced and heavier to adopt than most.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Mobile product analytics (built web-first with mobile added later on)
☑️ Dev and technical monitoring (errors and performance within sessions, not full APM)
☑️ Voice of customer (feedback capture, not a dedicated VoC suite)
Industries and app types they support: banking, insurance, telecom, and retail; regulated enterprise web and mobile apps.
Pricing (October 2026): Priced by custom quote based on package, data retention and session volume. There is no free plan.
G2 rating: 4.9/5
Appfigures is an app-store intelligence tool, not a product analytics one. It tracks downloads, revenue, ratings, reviews, and keyword rankings, so it tells you how your app performs in the store rather than how people use it once they're inside.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ App store intelligence
Industries and app types they support: app publishers across any industry, including games, distributed through the app stores.
Pricing (October 2026): A free plan covers 5 connected apps. Paid plans start at $7.99 a month billed yearly ($9.99 monthly).
G2 rating: 4.2/5
Adobe Analytics is an enterprise analytics platform within the Adobe Experience Cloud, built for large organizations already invested in Adobe's ecosystem. It's powerful on the quantitative side but complex to run, and it's weighted toward web rather than mobile.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Attribution measurement
☑️ Mobile product analytics (strong quantitative analytics, but no session replay, heatmaps, or other qualitative tools)
Industries and app types they support: retail, media, finance, travel, telecom, and government; apps within the Adobe ecosystem.
Pricing (October 2026): Sold as Select, Prime and Ultimate packages, all priced by custom quote.
G2 rating: 4.2/5
AppsFlyer is a mobile attribution platform, built to tell you which campaigns and channels drove your installs and in-app actions, with a strong focus on privacy and fraud prevention. It's a different category from product analytics, included here because teams running paid acquisition often weigh it alongside these tools.
Feature sets they offer:
✅ Attribution measurement
☑️ Mobile product analytics (event and cohort data oriented to attribution, not product analysis)
Industries and app types they support: gaming, ecommerce, fintech, travel, and media; consumer mobile apps running paid user acquisition.
Pricing (October 2026): The Zero plan is free for owned media. Growth is pay-as-you-go at $0.07 per conversion after 12,000 free conversions in the first year, and Enterprise is priced by custom quote.
G2 rating: 4.5/5
The right mobile analytics tool for your team comes down to two things:
Does it actually offer features for the jobs you want to accomplish
Was it actually built for mobile
Many tools added a mobile layer to keep up with the trends, but that wasn’t what they were originally designed to do and it shows in the form of weaker mobile capabilities.
UXCam covers mobile apps and websites and was built by mobile app experts for teams and apps of all sizes, so you can drill down into the why behind the what. With UXCam, you get:
Full insight into both your mobile and web apps from one platform
Every session captured automatically from day one, no tagging or instrumentation, with events you can define retroactively against past sessions
Session replays, heatmaps, funnels, and journeys that all pull from the same data, so the what and the why always line up
Tara, an AI analyst who watches your actual sessions rather than just reading events, surfaces issues you didn't know to look for, and backs every finding with evidence
Enterprise-grade privacy and your choice of data hosting to meet compliance requirements
Simple session-based pricing, so asking more questions of your data never costs you more, plus live support from day one
Frequently asked questions about mobile app analytics tools
It depends on the job. For session replay, heatmaps and product analytics across mobile apps and websites, choose UXCam. Firebase is the best free option for event analytics, Amplitude and Mixpanel lead on event-based product analytics, Microsoft Clarity offers free session recordings, and AppsFlyer is the usual choice for install attribution.
Yes. Google Analytics for Firebase is free on both Firebase plans, and Microsoft Clarity is free with no traffic limits. Mixpanel (1 million events a month), Amplitude (2 million events), PostHog (1 million events and 5,000 recordings), Contentsquare (200,000 sessions) and Fullstory (30,000 sessions) also have free plans. Free plans usually cap data volume, retention or support.
It depends on the pricing model. Event-based tools such as Mixpanel and Amplitude charge by tracked events, session-based tools such as UXCam and Contentsquare charge by monthly sessions, and engagement platforms such as CleverTap charge by monthly active users. Entry-level paid plans start at around $40 to $100 a month, while enterprise tools like Quantum Metric, Glassbox and Adobe Analytics are priced by custom quote.
Web analytics measures website visits, such as page views, sessions and traffic sources, usually through a JavaScript tag. Mobile app analytics runs through an SDK inside the app and tracks screens, gestures like taps and swipes, crashes, app versions and retention by install cohort. Many tools started on the web and added mobile later, so gesture capture and framework support vary.
UXCam, Fullstory, Contentsquare, Quantum Metric, Glassbox, PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel and Microsoft Clarity all offer session replay for mobile apps, but quality varies. Some record the screen while others rebuild it from captured data, and web-first tools can miss swipes and multi-touch gestures. Check gesture capture, privacy masking and supported frameworks before you choose.
Usually, yes. Product analytics tools show what people do inside your app, while mobile measurement partners such as AppsFlyer tie each install and in-app action to the campaign or channel that drove it. Teams that run paid acquisition often use both and send attribution data into their product analytics tool to compare cohorts by source.
Ready to see UXCam on your own app? Try UXCam free for 14 days (no credit card required) and start recording in under five minutes, or schedule a demo to see how it fits your team.
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