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Regroup directory by use; descriptions rewritten in house style

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== Free tier: Measuring without surveilling ==
Analytics, and the consent tooling that sits alongside it. The first group here is cookieless and privacy-preserving by design, several are open source and self-hostable, and they are listed first deliberately: for most small sites they answer the same questions as the advertising-funded alternatives without exporting visitor data.

Part of the [[Free Tier Services Directory]].

=== Privacy-preserving web analytics ===
* [https://aptabase.com Aptabase] — Open-source, privacy-friendly analytics for mobile and desktop applications, with SDKs for Swift, Kotlin and others.
* [https://beampipe.io Beampipe.io] — Simple, privacy-focused web analytics. Free for five domains and 10,000 page views a month.
* [https://counter.dev counter.dev] — Deliberately minimal web analytics, which is what keeps it privacy-friendly. Free, or pay what you like.
* [https://getinsights.io getinsights.io] — Cookie-free analytics, free up to 3,000 events a month.
* [https://www.goatcounter.com/ GoatCounter] — Open-source web analytics, offered as a hosted service and free for non-commercial sites.
* [https://hitkeep.com/ HitKeep] — Open-source web and product analytics with a free cloud plan for three sites.
* [https://rybbit.io Rybbit] — Open-source, cookieless alternative to Google Analytics. Free plan for small sites.
* [https://seline.so Seline] — Cookieless, lightweight site and product analytics.
* [https://dicloud.net/trackwith-privacy-focused-analytics/ TrackWith Dicloud] — Lightweight privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics, with unlimited page views on the free tier.
* [https://umami.is/ Umami] — Open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. Widely self-hosted; a hosted tier is also offered.

=== Product and site analytics ===
* [https://amplitude.com/ amplitude.com] — Product analytics. One million events a month across two applications.
* [https://appfit.io AppFit] — Combined analytics and product management tooling.
* [https://clicky.com Clicky] — Site analytics with real-time views. Free for one site and 3,000 views.
* [https://docbeacon.io DocBeacon] — Document sharing with tracking and engagement reporting.
* [https://gizmoanalytics.io/ Gizmo Analytics] — Analytics aimed at people running many small sites at once.
* [https://analytics.google.com/ Google Analytics] — The dominant web analytics product, free at the scale most sites operate at. Note that its model is advertising, and that using it places visitor data with Google — the reason most of the alternatives above exist.
* [https://heap.io heap.io] — Captures every user interaction automatically rather than requiring events to be defined in advance. Free up to 10,000 sessions a month.
* [https://hotjar.com Hotjar] — Heatmaps, session recordings and surveys. 2,000 page views a day.
* [https://logspot.io LogSpot] — Unified web and product analytics with embeddable widgets.
* [https://mixpanel.com/ Mixpanel] — Product analytics with unlimited history and EU or US data residency. 100,000 tracked users a month.
* [https://www.moesif.com Moesif] — Analytics for REST and GraphQL APIs rather than for pages. Free up to 500,000 calls a month.
* [https://posthog.com PostHog] — Full product analytics suite, also offering session recording and feature flags. One million events a month.
* [https://repohistory.com Repohistory] — Keeps GitHub repository traffic history beyond the fortnight GitHub itself retains.
* [https://statcounter.com/ StatCounter] — Long-established visitor analytics. Free plan covers the 500 most recent visitors.
* [https://statsig.com Statsig] — Analytics, feature flags and A/B testing in one platform, with a substantial free tier.
* [https://tracelog.io/ TraceLog] — Natural-language querying over e-commerce analytics.
* [https://usabilityhub.com/ usabilityhub.com] — Tests designs and mockups with real people and tracks visitors. Free for one user.

=== Pipelines, warehouses and reporting ===
* [https://avo.app/ Avo] — Keeps a single source of truth for what your analytics actually track, and generates type-safe tracking code from it.
* [https://www.getcensus.com/ Census] — Reverse ETL: pushes data from your warehouse back into the tools your team uses. Ten fields free.
* [https://dwh.dev Dwh.dev] — Observability for a Snowflake data warehouse. Free for personal use.
* [https://www.expensify.com/ Expensify] — Expense reporting with a free personal approval workflow.
* [https://hightouch.com/ Hightouch] — Reverse ETL for syncing customer data from a warehouse into other services.
* [https://rowzero.io Row Zero] — Spreadsheet that connects directly to databases, S3 and APIs, for datasets too large for conventional ones.
* [https://www.trackingplan.com/ Trackingplan] — Detects when analytics and marketing tags break or drift, and keeps a live record of what is being tracked.

=== Consent and privacy compliance ===
* [https://www.bearer.sh/ Bearer] — Privacy-by-design audits and workflows for meeting GDPR obligations. Free tier limited to small teams on the hosted version.
* [https://www.concord.tech/ Concord] — Consent management, data subject access request handling and data mapping. Core consent features free, with a fuller plan offered free to verified open-source projects.
* [https://cookiefirst.com/ Cookiefirst] — Cookie banners, auditing and multi-language consent management. Free tier covers one banner and a one-off scan.
* [https://www.iubenda.com/ Iubenda] — Generates privacy and cookie policies and manages consent. Free tier covers a limited policy and banner.
* [https://www.ketch.com/ Ketch] — Consent management and privacy framework. Most features free below a visitor threshold.

=== Currency ===
Compiled September 2026. Free tiers change frequently and nothing here has been independently verified — check the provider before relying on any allowance described above. Entries cover services with a standing free tier, not free trials.

=== See also ===
[[Surveillance capitalism]], [[Digital sovereignty]], [[EU AI Act]], and the other sections of the [[Free Tier Services Directory]].

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