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A PostHog alternative when you only need mobile analytics

PostHog bundles analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments, with person profiles keyed on a distinct ID. Respectlytics does one job, mobile product analytics, from five stored fields and no identity at all.

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Why teams move off PostHog

PostHog does a lot, and does it in the open. Some mobile teams want less.

  • They only use analytics. When replay, flags and experiments sit unused, a tool that does only analytics answers the same questions with less data.
  • Person profiles. Events are tied to a distinct ID kept on the device and, once you identify a user, to a person profile with whatever properties you send.
  • Self-hosting is a project. The self-hosted stack runs ClickHouse and Kafka next to PostgreSQL and Redis. Respectlytics needs Docker and PostgreSQL.

PostHog and Respectlytics, side by side

Based on each product's public documentation as of 8 October 2026.

Scope PostHogAnalytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys and more RespectlyticsMobile product analytics
What an event is tied to PostHogA distinct ID stored on the device, with person profiles you can limit to identified users RespectlyticsA random session ID kept in memory, replaced every two hours and on each launch
Data per event PostHogAny properties you send RespectlyticsEvent name only; the API rejects any other field
Self-hosting PostHogOpen source; the self-hosted stack runs ClickHouse and Kafka alongside PostgreSQL and Redis RespectlyticsOpen source; Docker and PostgreSQL
Hosting PostHogUS or EU cloud RespectlyticsEU servers for every account, or your own servers
Session replay and feature flags PostHogYes RespectlyticsNot offered

What you see in Respectlytics

All of it comes from the five stored fields. Nothing about who the user is.

Conversion paths

The most common sequences of events in sessions that converted, found for you once you name your conversion events.

Drop-offs

The steps where sessions end, ranked by how many sessions each one loses.

Funnels

Any sequence of events you choose, with the conversion and the time taken at each step.

Conversion drivers

The events that sessions which converted did more often than the rest, with the size of the difference.

Segments

Conversion compared by platform, country, session depth and hour of day.

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When PostHog is the better choice

Stay with it if you use more than analytics, or need it across web and mobile.

  • Session replay, feature flags or experiments are part of your weekly work.
  • You want one tool for your website and your app, with shared user identity.
  • You analyse individual people's paths through your product.
  • You query raw events with SQL.

Switching, step by step

Capture calls become track calls. Identify calls go away.

Before: PostHog
PostHogSDK.shared.identify(user.id)
PostHogSDK.shared.capture("trial_started",
    properties: ["plan": "pro"])
After: Respectlytics
Respectlytics.track("trial_started")
  1. Install the Respectlytics SDK for Swift, Kotlin, Flutter or React Native, and configure it once at launch.
  2. Replace capture() with track() and drop the properties. Remove identify() and reset().
  3. If you keep PostHog for flags or replay, leave it in place and turn off its analytics capture.
  4. Update your privacy label and Data Safety form to match what your app now collects.

Prefer your own servers? The Community Edition is free and open source.

Questions buyers ask

Straight answers, including the ones that might send you elsewhere.

Is Respectlytics open source like PostHog?

Yes. The four mobile SDKs are MIT-licensed and the server is AGPL-3.0. The Community Edition runs on your own servers for free.

What do I lose if I leave PostHog?

Session replay, feature flags, experiments and person-level analysis. If you use those every week, PostHog is likely the better fit.

What does self-hosting Respectlytics need?

Docker and a PostgreSQL database. There is no ClickHouse, Kafka or Redis to run.

How Respectlytics compares with the other tools teams move from.

Firebase Analytics The same funnels, without device IDs Mixpanel Product analytics without user profiles Amplitude No user IDs, no IP addresses, no device IDs

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