Appium vs. Appsee Mobile App Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Appium
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Appsee
Score 4.6 out of 10
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Appsee is designed to offer mobile teams visual data on their app's user behavior. The vendor says they supply businesses with the actual "why's" behind their users' behaviors. With Appsee's unique user recordings and touch heat maps, businesses can make better informed decisions regarding their app's user experience and spend less time sifting through mountains of data. Appsee also automatically detects all screens, buttons and user actions within an app without the need to select…N/A
Pricing
AppiumAppsee Mobile App Analytics
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppiumAppsee
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AppiumAppsee Mobile App Analytics
Small Businesses
Swiftify
Swiftify
Score 9.0 out of 10
Smartlook
Smartlook
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Swiftify
Swiftify
Score 9.0 out of 10
Flurry Analytics
Flurry Analytics
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Swiftify
Swiftify
Score 9.0 out of 10
Flurry Analytics
Flurry Analytics
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppiumAppsee Mobile App Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(9 ratings)
3.3
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppiumAppsee Mobile App Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
JS Foundation
1. It's open source which supports range of languages, operating systems and languages. Well suited for Android and IOS mobile automation. Supports all kinds of apps, which makes it flexible and robust mobile testing tool 2. It is less appropriate where we need intercept network call to verify the API calls. Extensive coding experience is required to work Appium
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Appsee
Appsee was a great choice and addition before their struggle with Apple over user screen recording. Now that that's gone, its insights are rather basic and not worth the price point. This would be a perfect analytics platform for a company looking to increase its user experience, new on-boarding, or going through a redesign to see user activity and reactions, but not anymore.
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Pros
JS Foundation
  • It uses WebDriver API so it makes it easy to use for former web test automation engineers.
  • It can be managed via the command line via an extensive set of parameters.
  • It handles implicit waits at the server side that is especially valuable in distributed infrastructure.
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Appsee
  • User session recordings of individual users
  • Touch heatmaps and unresponsive gestures
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Cons
JS Foundation
  • Element browser sometimes is unreliable and has sporadic fails.
  • Appium running is a bit slow, compared to tests written with Appium and with Espresso or XCTest.
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Appsee
  • The user screen recording was quickly shut down on Apple devices after about a week of us using Appsee. Now it's just basic boxes which aren't nearly as helpful or insightful in bettering our user experience. If we would have known this would happen, or that Appsee didn't have that feature, we wouldn't have gone with them.
  • No integration with Branch (the world's best and probably biggest attribution platform).
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Alternatives Considered
JS Foundation
If you're an Apple developer, you use Xcode. It's practically a forced necessity. For system testing though, it doesn't have to be. You can have your development team focus on unit and integration tests in their platform and another team automate acceptance tests with a language they are more familiar with.
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Appsee
Appsee set itself apart from competitors with the user screen recording, but since that is no longer a good feature on iOS, it makes Appsee's competitive advantage obsolete. Its data analytics, funnels, and crash reporting are relatively basic or haven't lead to any breakthroughs. I would stay away from Appsee, save your money, and go for a platform like Mixpanel if possible, which has analytics, attribution, and engagement for the same if not cheaper price.
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Return on Investment
JS Foundation
  • Appium is open source, so it's free. That's budget friendly right there.
  • The ability to write mobile automation tests has saved considerable time for our manual test team, but that is true with most automation tests.
  • We use Sauce Labs with our other automation, but Appium works great with Sauce Labs, as well, if I needed to run on emulators and simulators.
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Appsee
  • Better conversion rates
  • Less bugs/crashes
  • Better user retention
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