When comparing Localytics vs Geckoboard, the Slant community recommends Geckoboard for most people. In the question“What are the best mobile analytics tools?” Geckoboard is ranked 4th while Localytics is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Geckoboard is:
Extremely easy of use. Just download and get your reports.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Each funnel step can have several conditions applied to it
Pro Push notifications to segments and individual users
You can send one time or recurring push notifications using segmentation and demographic data for personalization.
Pro Plug-and-play application
Extremely easy of use. Just download and get your reports.
Pro Summarizes important information from multiple services
Geckoboard is a hosted status board that collects business information from many online services and customers own data sources, summarises it to distill the key messages and displays it in a way that's easy to understand and interpret.
Pro Real-time updates
Businesses use Geckoboard to pull important information locked up in disparate services together into one place to give a real-time status on the health of all aspects of your business.
Pro Developer API
Pro Mobile apps
Cons
Con Lacks an external API
No API for sending information from a mobile application / web backend to analytics.
Con Built-in installation tracking is limited
Localytics can track installation from some ad networks, but requires a third-party service integration to track from other sources.
Con No change graph for funnels
Con Data is not provided in real time
Unlike many competing products, updating data for Localytics requires waiting multiple days.
Con Sometimes needs to be refreshed
Dashboards are losing connection or not reflecting correctly. The quick refreshment fixes this.
Con Super expensive
Compared to what you can get from competitors such as Google Analytics, Geckoboard is insanely expensive
