Amplitude Analytics vs. Sensor Tower

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amplitude Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Amplitude Analytics is an analytics platform for mobile and web. It is designed to help organizations segment users and analyze funnels, retention and revenue. Amplitude Analytics helps product marketers to achieve actionable insights from customer digital journeys and uses behavioral graphs to build customer-focused products. Amplitude also optimizes digital products for increased quality engagements, increased conversion rates, and long-term customer loyalty.
$49
per month (paid annually)
Sensor Tower
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Sensor Tower is a source of mobile app, digital advertising, retail media, and audience insights for the largest brands and app publishers across the globe.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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$49
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Growth
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Starter
Free
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Amplitude Analytics
Chose Amplitude Analytics
Amplitude Analytics is a robust platform that can take your data reporting beyond what's currently capable in GA. Heap is a great intermediate tool, that takes data analysis a step further and is an excellent product in it's own right. Mixpanel is the most comparable both have …
Chose Amplitude Analytics
Mixpanel was the top competitor to Amplitude when my organization was reviewing analytics tools. We went with Amplitude because it was more robust when it came to experimentation features and proactive insights. Amplitude also had an edge in team collaboration and data …
Chose Amplitude Analytics
Amplitude provides better capabilities to consume real time event data and provide meaningful insights compared to other products like Mixpanel. It also provides better data governance capabilities to maintain accurate and high data quality.
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  • Amplitude offers greater flexibility
  • It's easy to use compared to alternatives
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I think i am not the only one who loves it and want to stay with it. Go see for yourself. This really is a good one and the rest are good but i see that they lack productivity
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Amplitude Analytics provides much more granular data than Google Analytics and gives you much more flexibility in how you can segment and splice the data. It also provides the ability to create closed funnels, which I have yet to find out how to do in Google Analytics. …
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Amplitude Analytics & Mixpanel are both evenly matched in terms of features and value. Amplitude Analytics scores better in terms of conversion drives and cohort analysis in my opinion. In addition to that, Amplitude Analytics has done a lot more in terms of guiding …
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It's the best in class with all the bells and whistles. Other options could suit you just fine at a lower price point, but you need to be sure of what you are not getting and the switching cost associated with when you do need it.
Chose Amplitude Analytics
I think Adobe Analytics is ok for web analytics but just not nearly as good as Amplitude for mobile apps. I much prefer the Amplitude user experience. I think that it is much more well-designed for use with mobile apps and easier to set up the dashboards I need in order to …
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Amplitude has more advanced reporting whereas Mixpanel is mostly a “do-it-all” analytics tool. Choose Amplitude if you have enterprise-level marketing/users. Choose Mixpanel if you want to send notifications.
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Amplitude is more straightforward to the point of obtaining value from the data with very powerful tools and functionalities.
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I would say it's largely different; Looker was able to be embedded directly into the platform and was valuable for people creating their own dashboards whereas Amplitude is more valuable for understanding usage, performance, and health of the platform itself -- more for …
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Amplitude is much easier to implement and use, completely cloud based, and integrates with Segment.
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Amplitude Analytics has a better database than Adobe Analytics. Amplitude Analytics works a lot faster and is much easier to work with than the Splunk tool.
Chose Amplitude Analytics
We did research on a lot of other platforms and services available in the market, but found Amplitude Analytics best.
Chose Amplitude Analytics
I find Amplitude much easier to use than Mixpanel or GA are. The UX is easy to grasp and as long as you have an intuitive set-up or good documentation on how your events are set up it makes for quick onboarding. Looker does a better job of easily allowing customization with SQL …
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Amplitude is easy to implement and simple as compare to Adobe analytics(AEM)although there is a vast difference in terms of UI, functionality and cost. Most of the user specially product team like Amplitude as compare to AEM.
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I was not the decision maker
Chose Amplitude Analytics
Free pricing tier and the ability to work with personal user data were the most important advantages when we started using Amplitude.
Chose Amplitude Analytics
A lot of data can be tracked via manual tracking or linking to an excel sheet, but with such a huge amount of data, it is far easier to have all of it laid out in an easy to read format. The charts and graphs are easy to use and are really pretty user-friendly. The hardest part …
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Amplitude Analytics is an easier tool to use. It requires less knowledge of SQL and as long as you have notions of data analysis and retrieving data in general. It is much more user-friendly and allows for easy and quick reporting. It can be used by different teams and …
Chose Amplitude Analytics
We've used a ton of analytics tools and Amplitude allows us to do everything we need for free. The other options we tried were either not robust enough to report on user level stats, or cost $. The platforms in this space are super competitively aligned so functionality wise …
Sensor Tower
Chose Sensor Tower
Used other dashboards like Steamspy or SteamDB for insights into the PC gaming market.
Chose Sensor Tower
App Annie does not offer so many free webinars to potential clients as Apptopia. However, they are clearly the market leader, and their business proposition is very strong, and that is why I choose them over their competitors. Apptopia does more marketing and offers free …
Chose Sensor Tower
When comparing the free versions of App Annie and AppFollow, App Annie falls short. Not only is AppFollow more intuitive, it provides better data export integrations such as Slack (view and respond to reviews real-time), Google Analytics, multiple CRMs, etc. App Annie allows …
Chose Sensor Tower
We use Google 360 and are able to do a much deeper dive into the activity we see on our apps. I think App Annie is a great starting point product, but for more in depth analytics, something like a Google 360 or Adobe might be better.
Chose Sensor Tower
There aren't really any products out there that measure up to App Annie, because it does the job really well, and as far as I know, no other platform out there will allow me to import my apps and determine the daily analytics in such a unique and informative way.
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User Ratings
Amplitude AnalyticsSensor Tower
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8.3
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10.0
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Usability
7.7
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Availability
9.0
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Performance
10.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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7.6
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In-Person Training
8.0
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Online Training
7.0
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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Configurability
8.0
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Ease of integration
9.0
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Product Scalability
8.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
I would highly recommend Amplitude to people in the product and business analytics domains who have a need for deep, data-driven insights into customer behavior, accessible in a self-service platform. Amplitude stands out in its comprehensiveness and flexibility; once events are implemented, there are a multitude of options to combine, track, form journeys, and dive deeper into user behavior. Though the barrier for entry is a little bit steep, Amplitude is more friendly to non-technical users than other business insight platforms, without compromising the effectiveness of the analysis tools. Amplitude may not be best suited for web marketing analytics - traffic, page views, etc - since it is more focused on full-platform product analytics.
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I think that App Annie will be handy for the companies that provide service in multiple countries - so they have to deal with local competitors research and track the performance of the app (by the position and by the reviews) in different stores. I think that for a one-country app, many of the features will be less relevant. At the same time, App Annie offers custom plans, so I see how the user experience can be different.
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Pros
  • It provides me great answers about my critical questionnaire, by which I can easily explore behavioral data across any chart, persona, and cohort that are simple and intuitive to understand as they have made easy segmentation.
  • It offers its services for SQL queries due to which I have reduced the workload and save the time that was spent in finding out the technical aspects.
  • It is user-friendly and easy to use.
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  • The visuals in the platform are easy to read and understand and make it simple to understand the data you are looking at.
  • I find that the data in App Annie is very reliable in terms of the number of downloads we see on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
  • It gives me the ability to integrate the data here with other analytics and provide viewers and consumers good solid information on our performance.
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Cons
  • Some more clarity and examples of implementation with GDPR in mind
  • Some segregation inside user properties can be difficult to implement
  • Splicing information inside funnels could be more intuitive
  • User support for the cheaper tiers is hard to access
  • Pricing transparency really needs to be improved
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  • Their subscriptions are always customizable - so every time you want to access a new feature, you need to contact the team member.
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Likelihood to Renew
Great product Good value for the cost/initiate Support docs and FAQs are great - they limit the necessity of reaching out to in-person support. So when you do call them ... it is for a legit question/issue, no just a "where is it" or a "how to I do xyz123?"
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Well the fact that the freemium features are all that I need right now, I will most definitely continue to use it on a daily basis. I might upgrade to the pro version in the future if I need more data than what I am getting now. But for now it works great for what I need.
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Usability
It's a fairly straightforward platform that's beginner friendly. The biggest usability hurdle is most often created by your own team, as it's imperative to know what event sources are being sent to Amplitude and what those event names are. Within being properly onboarded by a team member it can be hard to get started using Amplitude. It takes time to understand what data your company may be sending to the product, the naming conventions of events (especially if there are old or deprecated events names
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Reliability and Availability
Alway up and running, or if there is a problem we can get back in the game right away. The reliability was a big selling point for me, and it was true when this company got it. Rollouts can be tough, but this was pretty seamless. Good support throughout the process, good documentation to handle questions/tips
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Performance
No issues, problems, or negative remarks from us!! We had a plan, vendor support was rock solid, our data folks have experience, OCM supported as needed, and we got the rollout done on time, on budget, and with only minor hiccups. SInce the rollout, most of us have already forgotten the hiccups and generally speak highly of the product
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Support Rating
I haven't used the Amplitude support other than their training docs so I can't speak too much to the in-person support but the docs are serviceable. Nothing too crazy but between the user tips, email notifications, and the decent number of docs I was able to get the support I needed to ramp up on the tool.
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I have not had to contact support a lot of times. The few times I did, I got correct and lengthy responses, but they took some time to answer. Their product is very complete, so unless you have a specific question, you will probably not need to contact support at any time.
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In-Person Training
Virtual Not bad considering the timeframe and turnaround. The biggest benefit was for my end-users to hear a voice (other than mine/ours! LOL) telling them about the new features and capabilities. The in-person training was really good for having an expert that knows the answers and could refer to past experiences, problems, solutions. THey were a great resource to ease the transition ... basically a "you are gonna be okay with this change ... you got this etc.!" kinda vibe
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Online Training
Good enough to get strong baseline. I always make sure our our users go to and/or focus on the vebndor-provided support docs rather than any formal training. Our instructors come and go, but written policy and how-to docs live much longer in a corporate setting. That said, the online training is sufficient. I like that the training curric is stacked and progressive.
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Implementation Rating
My team members all have background as data analysts, so Amp was pretty easy to for them. There was sufficient online training available. We also used the available support documents. The actual rollout went well. We did significant testing beforehand. We did a phased rollout, with partial silent rollout (part of OCM's plan) for the smallest line of business. THe silent one was "silent" b/c it was done without fanfare or public notices ... it was just a "we're doing some things, it wont impact your work or workday
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Alternatives Considered
Amplitude Analytics is a robust platform that can take your data reporting beyond what's currently capable in GA. Heap is a great intermediate tool, that takes data analysis a step further and is an excellent product in it's own right. Mixpanel is the most comparable both have very similar reporting/dashboarding functionality. Amplitude can often be preferred by product and data engineering teams for it's ease of setup and impressive analytics displays.
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App Annie does not offer so many free webinars to potential clients as Apptopia. However, they are clearly the market leader, and their business proposition is very strong, and that is why I choose them over their competitors. Apptopia does more marketing and offers free trials, but App Annie´s product is better on all fronts.
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Scalability
Like all the other grades, it was mostly an easy implementation ... we have experience people, the rollout in general is well planned, and the vendor was very supportive
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Return on Investment
  • Helped us determine actions that lead to an increase in install to sign up conversion
  • Helped us determine actions that lead to drop off while users invest
  • Helped us determine actions taken by paying users, increasing conversion of non-paying users to paid users
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  • App Annie has had neither a positive nor negative impact on our ROI or business objectives. Our team currently uses their free, very limited plan for data discrepancy with our main ASO tool. Otherwise, we have connected our apps and let the data flow in. We go in the account about once every 2-3 months.
  • With App Annie's data we have solidified that our other paid ASO tool we use has accurate data and that we will continue to pay for that tool. So in that regards, App Annie's provided us with a confirmation in our competitor ASO tool purchase decision.
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