tracker-control-android VS GoatCounter

Compare tracker-control-android vs GoatCounter and see what are their differences.

tracker-control-android

TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads. (by TrackerControl)

GoatCounter

Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data. (by arp242)
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
tracker-control-android GoatCounter
113 61
1,800 4,143
2.4% 2.2%
6.7 8.2
18 days ago 14 days ago
Java Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

tracker-control-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of tracker-control-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.

GoatCounter

Posts with mentions or reviews of GoatCounter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.
  • Show HN: Shareable Analytics for public stats. Customize sections and themes
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
  • A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
    47 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2024
    GoatCounter — GoatCounter is an open-source web analytics platform available as a hosted service (free for non-commercial use) or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy-to-use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo. The free tier is for non-commercial use and includes unlimited sites, six months of data retention, and 100k pageviews/month.
  • GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2024
    > Not sure when GoatCounter started

    "Hello, world" - arp242 committed on May 28, 2019 - 66a4d7f9b7af8dccacaf3ad8a9fb57a9f9008030 - https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/commit/66a4d7f9b7af8dc...

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
    Location: Ireland (Galway)

    Remote: yes

    Willing to relocate: yes

    Technologies: Go ("Golang"), Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Linux, Unix, PostgreSQL

    Résumé/CV: https://www.arp242.net/cv/cv-martintournoij

    Email: [email protected]

    I've been using Go as my primary language for the last seven years, although I don't overly care about the specific language and have experience with a wide variety of tools and languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, C, JavaScript, Lua, and probably some more. While I've mainly focused on backend in the last few years, I also have written plenty of frontend code over the years, from the "pre-jQuery" days to VueJS.

    In the last few years I mainly focused on GoatCounter (https://www.goatcounter.com) with the occasional contract job, but I'm keen to start working on something new for the longer term.

    I've got quite a bit of code on my GitHub, so you can take a look at that if you want: https://github.com/arp242/

  • Goatcounter: Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2023
  • Using Analytics on My Website
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2023
    I suggest using analytics that you can self-host, like https://www.goatcounter.com/ and renting a cheap vm to run it on along with your blog. It is way better, you have more control and you can be sure that javascript tracking is working for 100% of people using the site since you have full control over it not getting blocked by adblockers.
  • Ask HN: Is Google Analytics that useful?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
    I'm self-hosting GoatCounter and using it across all my websites.

    Apart from controlling my data, I also have more accurate visitor statistics, as it doesn't get picked up by script blockers, unlike GA.

    https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

    https://www.goatcounter.com

  • What has your personal website/blog done for you?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Sep 2023
    I first used basic google analytics but found it too invasive/heavy so I switched over to https://www.goatcounter.com/.

    For comments, most solutions were also too heavy, paid or had ads, but I finally found https://giscus.app/.

    So while I did add these 2 features, I'm happy with those variants that I managed to find.

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Location: Ireland

    Remote: yes

    Willing to relocate: yes

    Technologies: Go ("Golang"), Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Linux, Unix, PostgreSQL

    Résumé/CV: https://www.arp242.net/cv/cv-martintournoij

    Email: [email protected]

    I've been using Go as my primary language for the last seven years, although I don't overly care about the specific language and have experience with a wide variety of tools and languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, C, JavaScript, Lua, and probably some more. While I've mainly focused on backend in the last few years, I also have written plenty of frontend code over the years, from the "pre-jQuery" days to VueJS.

    In the last few years I mainly focused on GoatCounter (https://www.goatcounter.com) with the occasional contract job, but I'm keen to start working on something new for the longer term.

    I've got quite a bit of code on my GitHub, so you can take a look at that if you want: https://github.com/arp242/

  • Ask HN: Looking for Google Analytics alternative after v4
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tracker-control-android and GoatCounter you can also consider the following projects:

Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app

Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.

Fathom Analytics - Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

Magisk-Ad-Blocking-Module - Magisk module to block ads on android

Umami - Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

rethink-app - DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android.

GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

mullvadvpn-app - The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile

Matomo - Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!

tailscale-android - Tailscale Android Client

PostHog - 🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host.