The app growth stack

Comparison

Crash and error monitoring, compared

Xcode Organizer already shows crashes from the App Store, for nothing. These exist for what it does not: your own symbolication pipeline, errors that never crash, and history further back than Apple keeps.

There is no ranking on this page. Nobody here has run all 6 of these for a quarter, so a score would be invented. What follows is the shortlist, in alphabetical order, with one line on what separates each — and a link to the vendor’s own pricing page, because a price restated here would be out of date before you read it.

  • BugSnag

    Error monitoring framed around application stability rather than individual crashes.

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  • Embrace

    Real user monitoring for mobile, aimed at problems that never produce a crash log — hangs, slow screens, failed requests.

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  • Emerge Tools

    Not a crash reporter: app size analysis, performance testing and build diffing on each pull request.

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  • Firebase Crashlytics

    Free crash reporting bundled with Firebase, covering iOS, Android, Flutter and Unity.

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  • Luciq

    Bug reporting and in-app user feedback alongside crashes, so a report can come from the person who hit it. Renamed from Instabug.

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  • Sentry

    Error tracking and performance monitoring across the whole stack rather than mobile alone, with a self-hostable core.

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What you have to check yourself

None of this is knowable from outside, and it is where the decision actually gets made.

  • Whether it symbolicates automatically, and what that needs in your build — an unsymbolicated crash report is a stack of addresses.
  • What it costs at your event volume rather than your user count. A crash loop in one release is what produces a surprise bill.
  • Whether its crash-free rate agrees with Xcode Organizer. The two rarely match, because they count different denominators, and picking one to quote is a decision to make on purpose.
  • What the SDK collects, since you declare it on the App Privacy questionnaire as your own collection, not the vendor’s.
  • How long history is kept on the plan you would actually be on. Retention is often the limit that matters before volume is.

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