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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

    Firebase

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers the Firebase suite of application development tools, available free or at cost for higher degree of usages, priced flexibly accorded to features needed. The suite includes A/B testing and Crashlytics, Cloud Messaging (FCM) and in-app messaging, cloud storage and NoSQL storage (Cloud Firestore and Firestore Realtime Database), and other features supporting developers with flexible mobile application development.

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    Pricing
    ApptopiaFirebase
    Editions & Modules
    Start Plan
    $79
    month
    Engage Plan
    $899
    month
    Grow Plan
    $1,499
    month
    Phone Authentication
    $0.01
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    Stored Data
    $0.18
    Per GiB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ApptopiaFirebase
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    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.—
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    Community Pulse
    ApptopiaFirebase
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    Apptopia, Inc.
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    ApptopiaFirebase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ApptopiaFirebase
    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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    Google
    Firebase should be your first choice if your platform is mobile first. Firebase's mobile platform support for client-side applications is second to none, and I cannot think of a comparable cross-platform toolkit. Firebase also integrates well with your server-side solution, meaning that you can plug Firebase into your existing app architecture with minimal effort.
    Firebase lags behind on the desktop, however. Although macOS support is rapidly catching up, full Windows support is a glaring omission for most Firebase features. This means that if your platform targets Windows, you will need to implement the client functionality manually using Firebase's web APIs and wrappers, or look for another solution.
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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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    Google
    • Analytics wise, retention is extremely important to our app, therefore we take advantage of the cohort analysis to see the impact of our middle funnel (retargeting, push, email) efforts affect the percent of users that come back into the app. Firebase allows us to easily segment these this data and look at a running average based on certain dates.
    • When it comes to any mobile app, a deep linking strategy is essential to any apps success. With Firebase's Dynamic Links, we are able to share dynamic links (recognize user device) that are able to redirect to in-app content. These deep links allow users to share other deep-linked content with friends, that also have link preview assets.
    • Firebase allows users to effectively track events, funnels, and MAUs. With this simple event tracking feature, users can put organize these events into funnels of their main user flows (e.g., checkout flows, onboarding flows, etc.), and subsequently be able to understand where the drop-off is in the funnel and then prioritize areas of the funnel to fix. Also, MAU is important to be able to tell if you are bringing in new users and what's the active volume for each platform (Android, iOS).
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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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    Google
    • Attribution and specifically multi-touch attribution could be more robust such as Branch or Appsflyer but understand this isn't Firebases bread and butter.
    • More parameters. Firebase allows you to track tons of events (believe it's up to 50 or so) but the parameters of the events it only allows you to track 5 which is so messily and unbelievable. So you're able to get good high-level data but if you want to get granular with the events and actions are taken on your app to get real data insight you either have to go with a paid data analytics platform or bring on someone that's an expert in SQL to go through Big Query.
    • City-specific data instead of just country-specific data would have been a huge plus as well.
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    Usability
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Firebase functions are more difficult to use, there are no concepts of triggers or cascading deletes without the use of Firebase functions. Firebase functions can run forever if not written correctly and cause billing nightmares. While this hasn't happened to us specifically it is a thing that happens more than one realizes.
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    Support Rating
    Apptopia, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Our analytics folks handled the majority of the communication when it came to customer service, but as far as I was aware, the support we got was pretty good. When we had an issue, we were able to reach out and get support in a timely fashion. Firebase was easy to reach and reasonably available to assist when needed.
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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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    Google
    Before using Firebase, we exclusively used self hosted database services. Using Firebase has allowed us to reduce reliance on single points of failure and systems that are difficult to scale. Additionally, Firebase is much easier to set up and use than any sort of self hosted database. This simplicity has allowed us to try features that we might not have based on the amount of work they required in the past.
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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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    Google
    • Makes building real-time interfaces easy to do at scale with no backend involvement.
    • Very low pricing for small companies and green-fields projects.
    • Lack of support for more complicated queries needs to be managed by users and often forces strange architecture choices for data to enable it to be easily accessed.
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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.