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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apptopia

    Score7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Apptopia offers mobile app data and market intelligence in a web tool. Mobile publishers and developers, service providers, and investors use Apptopia on a daily basis to understand and monitor competitors, inform business strategies, and identify emerging consumer interests and trends. Download, revenue, and usage estimates are available for every ranked app and publisher in the world. According to the vendor, Apptopia is unique in its ability to also offer SDK recognition and…

    $79

    month

    Kissmetrics

    Score9.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Kissmetrics is a customer engagement automation platform. This solution includes behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation.

    $150

    per month

    Pricing
    ApptopiaKissmetrics
    Editions & Modules
    Start Plan
    $79
    month
    Engage Plan
    $899
    month
    Grow Plan
    $1,499
    month
    Growth
    $500
    Monthly Tracked People
    Power
    $850
    Monthly Tracked People
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Monthly Tracked People
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ApptopiaKissmetrics
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$1,500 per installation
    Additional DetailsCustom plans are available, including the option for a robust API integration. Email sales@apptopia.com or call 1-855-277-8674 to learn more.What are Monthly Tracked People? Monthly Tracked People are unique visitors that engage in an Event on your website or with your product, that gets tracked by you in Kissmetrics. Monthly Tracked People can be anonymous or identified.
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    User Ratings
    ApptopiaKissmetrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ApptopiaKissmetrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptopia, Inc.
    If your business revolves around technology in apps, revenue generated by certain apps that are industry specific, Apptopia is the way to go. You can see data like DAU, MAU, ARPU, market leaders, SDKs, geographics, analytics. Literally anything you would want to know about mobile apps or the market and technology around them, you can get with Apptopia.
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    Kissmetrics
    [Kissmetrics is well suited for the] abandon cart scenario to re-engage users on the purchase journey. Engaging users to personalized content using the visit metrics derived from the data captured at each digital touch points. [Implementing] website campaign and journey orchestration is easy. You get visitor profile to segment upon using different visit metrics and action.
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    Pros
    Apptopia, Inc.
    • Beautiful UI, loved the traffic breakdown demographic
    • Lists were easily pulled
    • Great reports keeping tabs on new popular apps using new technology.
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    Kissmetrics
    • The more events you track and properties you send along, the more you can see how specific users use your product/service. The user based timeline gives you a perfect start point to get in touch with users, because you can see where they get stuck.
    • Tracking your traffic sources and how they influence conversions is awesome. You can get a perfect view of how much a traffic source contributes to revenue.
    • Funnel reports give you more insights into micro and macro conversion steps and give you actionable data to work with.
    • Customer support!
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    Cons
    Apptopia, Inc.
    • Some of the data seemed inconsistent when we checked with existing partners.
    • The lack of prospecting tool. Apptopia did not provide detailed contact info for companies.
    • Apptopia provided revenue data for mobile apps, but we found there was inconsistency with that as well.
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    Kissmetrics
    • Installing.... yes this is also a negative. While you can install and have the program running in minutes, if you use Unbounce, the form tracking process is quite complicated!
    • Updates... I feel like the product updates have slowed a lot lately. Thankfully, the product functionality is so amazing that it hasn't impeded the use of it. However, it is still disappointing to see less frequent software updates.
    • Occasionally clunky UI... there are a few reports that are really easy to mess up and leave you scratching your head on why it isn't showing you any data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Price sensitivity and the different choices that now exist in the Analytics industry. I think it makes sense for us sometime this year to rethink our analytics strategy to see how we may leverage the best of GA (which has included lots of new features and updates the past years_, Kiss and other tools as need be
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    Usability
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Right after login, you'll get to a dashboard which shows you a quick view on how your business is doing across the events you are tracking. There is no need to dig deeper than that unless you want to, in which case it's very easy to do so just by clicking on the metric on which you want more information. The interface is very intuitive.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    The application was very rarely down; during the period we used the application, I can think of only two or three occasions in which the site was down. Notably, at no time was the the performance of our own site compromised as a result.
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    Performance
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Speed improved dramatically as the service matured. Early iterations of the publicly-released application would occasionally provide slow processing of results, but those delays became much rarer occurrences during the last year that we used KISSmetrics. One of the more impressive views (which started out feeling more like a toy) is the live view of visits. Knowing that you could see, in real time, what events a user triggered, was gratifying and instructive.
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    Support Rating
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Our front-line product support person (Mika) is great. She is responsive and great to work with.

    However, the data accuracy issue described earlier is the reason for the low score here. This issue was escalated from front-line to support to level 2 technical support and then it disappeared into a black hole. Escalations, in general, do not go well. We get no response for days, or I have to chase things down. This is not acceptable. Marketing metrics are critically important to me and I need answers quickly. I cannot afford to wait around for days / weeks for a response.

    Just to be clear, these comments only apply to escalated support issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Again, we were fortunate to work with KISSmetrics as they built their application, but Hiten, their CEO and founder, was incredibly helpful to me personally, and to our metrics-driven business as a whole, as we adopted their tool.
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    Online Training
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    I loved this aspect of the product. It wasn't just that the documentation and online tutorials are great - which they are - the on-boarding process though was really stellar. Once you have set everything up, you get a welcome message followed by a step-by-step guide to get you started that is built right into the product interface. For example, the UI asks you to first do X, and then copy this code snippet and send it to your developer who will know what to do with it. When you come back after the first interaction with the product, it continues the process by explaining right in the UI how to track events etc. This kind of step-by-step approach is incredibly efficient. Although there are various forms of supporting documentation (PDFs videos etc) to support every step, you don't really need them. This approach means that you are up and running very quickly with virtually no training time or documentation consultation. Highly efficient process.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    In order to build trackability down to revenue, there was quite a lot of work to integrate Kissmetrics with our software and internal process. We had to build the hooks so that Kissmetrics could call back into our software and billing system, etc.. However, we didn't need additional expertise to do this. Once you understand the API, and you own systems, making it work is not too difficult. We did not require an outside consultant or anything like that
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptopia, Inc.
    We initially went to Datanyze for email hunting and list building. As we learned more about the feature they offer we realized their data was not as accurate as we needed. During our evaluation of the product there were lots of promises of Beta features or things in the future and not a ton of focus or confidence in what they offered currently. We did leverage and benefit from Datanyze for a decent amount of time, but when we evaluated a side by side comparison, Apptopia came out on top. Datanyze is a little different where they can pull lists of contacts, but at the end of the day we saw App data more important than those lists
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    Kissmetrics
    Kissmetrics is a next-level step up for people who are used to getting their tracking and reporting from Google Analytics or Shopify's CMS. While HubSpot arguably has a better user interface, Kissmetrics certainly has the power and usability necessary to track important conversion data and help you make better marketing decisions.
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    Return on Investment
    Apptopia, Inc.
    • Overall was poor ROI. It was not cheap and did not bring much value.
    • Reports seemed to be good at first but later found lots of inaccuracies
    • Could not find information on premium publishers
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    Kissmetrics
    • Unfortunately for this client (small business) the cost of Kissmetrics was just too prohibitive. But it's obvious that for a larger company that can afford it, the data would be invaluable to gain more insight in how to gain more active users and orders for a funnel.
    • The data provided really increases an understanding of how best to provide the right experience for the users...happy users equals increase in ROI.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Apptopia Screenshots

    Screenshot of Apptopia provides download, revenue, and usage estimates for every ranked app and publisher in the world.Screenshot of The Top New Apps report shows the best performing apps released within the last 30 days. Other reports include the breakout predictor and surge report.Screenshot of Publisher portfolio pages show performance metrics for every app in the portfolio, category penetration, and relevant contact details.Screenshot of Store category analysis ranks categories by downloads, revenue, and submissions. Details also include top apps and publishers in the category and analysis of category competitiveness.Screenshot of Real-time SDK recognition shows when SDKs are installed and uninstalled in every app. View the SDK vendor's page to see their category penetration and recent installs and uninstalls.

    Kissmetrics Screenshots

    Screenshot of Kissmetrics Activity Report is a part of our report suite called AnalyzeScreenshot of Kissmetrics Populations allow your to track your most important segment over timeScreenshot of Kissmetrics Campaigns allow you to engage your user with automated behavior-based emails when it is most effective