Appcelerator (discontinued) vs. Appsee Mobile App Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Appcelerator (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Appcelerator was a mobile app development platform acquired by Axway in 2016. It has been discontinued.N/A
Appsee
Score 4.6 out of 10
N/A
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
Appcelerator (discontinued)Appsee Mobile App Analytics
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Offerings
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Appcelerator (discontinued)Appsee
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Appcelerator (discontinued)Appsee Mobile App Analytics
Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
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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
Appcelerator (discontinued)Appsee Mobile App Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
3.3
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Appcelerator (discontinued)Appsee Mobile App Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
I do not think I can recommend Appcelerator at this point due to the issues with Appcelerator studio, lack of good debugging support, lack of thorough documentation and forums and the additional cost overhead of licenses. The pros are just that it allows for cross-platform development. However, Cordova does a much better job of it and excels at places where Appcelerator currently struggles
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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
Discontinued Products
  • Adds structure to your code through Alloy framework.
  • Easy to integrate with iOS SDK and to build and run iOS apps.
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Appsee
  • User session recordings of individual users
  • Touch heatmaps and unresponsive gestures
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • It is very hard to debug your code. Breakpoints never worked for us even with the latest Appcelerator Studio and we had to rely on log statements to debug.
  • There is a need to purchase licenses from Appcelerator to run the code on a device or for creating iOS distribution builds. This is an additional cost when you have already paid for Apple developer program for precisely these things.
  • If things are broken due to lack to support between Appcelerator and a new iOS version, you pretty much have to rely on a new version release from Appcelerator for the issue to be fixed.
  • It is difficult to create enterprise distribution builds where the distribution certificate is owned by your organization's team and you only have a development certificate for the same.
  • The forums on developer.appcelerator.com are seldom helpful. It is hard to find solutions for issues even on other forums like stack overflow.
  • Documentation needs to be improved.
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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
Discontinued Products
Appcelerator makes you write a structured code whereas Cordova just packages your code and you are free to structure it. Appcelerator bridges your javascript code with native code and that would make it run faster than javascript code in Cordova apps. However, with recent mobile browsers, you would hardly notice any performance deterioration with Cordova apps. Appcelerator struggles with issues related to its IDE, debugging, documentation and forums and additional costs. Cordova makes it much more simpler to develop cross-platform apps with better developer support, debugging support, documentation and forums minus the additional costs.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • We were able to build and deploy a mobile app with Appcelerator. However, the platform still has issues and does not cover our needs as much as some of its competitor like cordova does.
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Appsee
  • Better conversion rates
  • Less bugs/crashes
  • Better user retention
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ScreenShots

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