Alternatives

Crashlytics alternatives

Crashlytics tells you the app died. These tell you what it cost you.

Crashlytics is genuinely good software. It groups stack traces well, symbolicates native frames properly including NDK, reports crash-free rates accurately, and costs nothing. Any page that opens by pretending otherwise is trying to sell you something.

The reason teams look for an alternative is almost never quality. It is scope. Crashlytics answers "did it crash", exhaustively and reliably. It does not answer "what was the user trying to do", "which release started this", "how much revenue did this cost", or "why is this screen losing people even though nothing crashed at all". Those are the questions that decide what a small team fixes on Monday morning, and they live outside the tool.

Six alternatives follow, each with what it does better than Crashlytics and what it does worse. Two of them beat Crashlytics on raw crash analysis. None of them beats it on price, because the price is zero.

Why teams look for a Crashlytics alternative

A crash with no product context

A crash on the checkout screen and a crash in the settings menu are the same severity in Crashlytics and wildly different in reality. Without the session — the screens, the taps, the funnel step — you are triaging by frequency, which reliably prioritises the wrong bug.

The failures that never throw

A button wired to a handler that returns early. A form that posts into the void. An endpoint answering 200 with an empty body. Nothing raises an exception, so nothing reaches any crash reporter — while the user taps four times and leaves. These are invisible to Crashlytics by construction, not by oversight.

How Nohmo detects them

Frequency is not impact

Crashlytics can tell you an error fired four thousand times. It holds no conversion data, so it cannot tell you which of those four thousand mattered. Ranking by count is the only option, and count correlates with traffic far more than with damage.

One more console to keep open

Crashes in Firebase, product analytics somewhere else, and no shared session or identity between them. Every incident starts with an act of manual correlation across two tools that disagree about what a session is.

The 6 best Crashlytics alternatives

Ranked for a product team, with the trade-offs stated in both directions. Where another tool beats ours, it is named and the reason is given.

1

Sentry

Teams who want the deepest error tooling and will pay per event for it

The most capable error monitoring platform available, and the honest first recommendation for most teams leaving Crashlytics for capability reasons. Distributed tracing, session replay video, source map and dSYM symbolication, release health, and SDKs for dozens of languages including your backend. The cost is billing complexity: errors, spans, replays, logs, cron monitors, uptime checks and profiling are each metered separately, so the invoice moves in ways that are hard to forecast.

Strengths

  • Best-in-class symbolication, grouping and release health
  • Distributed tracing and APM across backend services
  • Session replay video, and SDKs for almost any language you run

Trade-offs

  • Seven separate meters make the bill genuinely hard to predict
  • No product analytics — no funnels, retention or attribution
  • Substantially more tool than a small mobile team needs
Nohmo vs Sentry — full comparison
2

Nohmo

Our pick

React Native teams who want the crash and the session in one place

Keeps the whole session attached to the crash: the screens, the taps and the funnel step the user was on when the process died. Ranks bugs by estimated revenue lost rather than by frequency, by comparing sessions that hit an error against sessions that reached the same page and did not. Detects the silent failures that never throw. Product analytics — funnels, retention, install attribution — is in the same SDK at one flat price.

Strengths

  • Every crash carries the journey that produced it and the release that shipped it
  • Bugs ranked by estimated revenue lost, not by count
  • Catches dead taps, void form submits and empty 200s that no crash reporter can see
  • Funnels, retention and attribution included rather than bought separately
  • $49/mo flat per project during early access, normally $79 — no per-event metering

Trade-offs

  • Stack traces are raw today — no source map or dSYM symbolication, so traces are less readable than Crashlytics or Sentry
  • No Android NDK or C++ crash coverage, and no ANR detection
  • Younger deduplication heuristics than a tool with a decade of them
  • Not free
Nohmo vs Nohmo — full comparison
3

Bugsnag

Teams who want stability as a managed metric with clean release gating

Focused, mature and unusually disciplined about the one thing it does. Stability scores and release-health gating are first-class rather than bolted on, which makes it a natural fit for teams that ship on a cadence and want an objective bar for whether a build is good enough to roll forward. Less sprawling than Sentry, correspondingly narrower.

Strengths

  • Excellent stability scoring and release gating workflow
  • Strong mobile symbolication and grouping
  • Focused product with little to learn

Trade-offs

  • Per-event pricing that climbs at volume
  • No product analytics
  • Narrower ecosystem than Sentry
4

Instabug

Mobile teams who want crash reports plus in-app user feedback

Built specifically for mobile, and the only pick here that treats the user as a source of signal rather than only the runtime. In-app bug reporting, shake-to-report, screenshots and annotated feedback sit alongside crash reporting and performance monitoring. If a real fraction of your bugs are reported by humans rather than caught by handlers, this closes a gap the others leave open.

Strengths

  • In-app bug reporting and user feedback built in
  • Mobile-first throughout, including APM and network monitoring
  • Good session context around each report

Trade-offs

  • Priced per seat and per session, and not cheap at scale
  • Product analytics is thin compared with a dedicated tool
  • Mobile only — no help for your web surface
5

Embrace

Larger mobile teams debugging performance, ANRs and startup time

The most mobile-specialised option on this list. Full session-level telemetry, ANR capture, startup and rendering performance, and network diagnostics at a depth the general-purpose tools do not attempt. Aimed at teams large enough to have someone whose job is mobile performance, and priced accordingly.

Strengths

  • Exceptional mobile depth — ANRs, startup traces, rendering, network
  • Complete session telemetry rather than sampled snapshots
  • Strong at reproducing issues that only appear on real devices

Trade-offs

  • Enterprise pricing and an enterprise sales process
  • Considerable overkill for a small team
  • Mobile only
6

Countly

Teams who must keep crash data on their own infrastructure

Crash reporting and product analytics in one self-hostable platform. If regulation or policy prevents crash payloads — which routinely contain user identifiers and device detail — from leaving your infrastructure, this is the answer and the rest of the list does not apply. The trade is that you run it.

Strengths

  • Self-hostable, so crash data never leaves your servers
  • Crash reporting and analytics in a single platform
  • Open-source core

Trade-offs

  • Operational burden falls entirely on you
  • Crash analysis is less refined than the specialists
  • Useful plugins often sit behind commercial tiers
Nohmo vs Countly — full comparison

When you should stay on Crashlytics

Migrations cost more than the invoice they save. These are the cases where the honest recommendation is to close this page.

  • •You need deep native crash analysis — NDK frames, C++ symbolication, ANRs on Android. Crashlytics is genuinely excellent at this and most alternatives here, ours very much included, are weaker.
  • •Crash triage is the whole job. If nobody is asking which funnel the crash broke, the extra context every tool on this list sells you is something you will pay for and not open.
  • •It has to be free. Crashlytics costs nothing at any volume. Only Countly and self-hosted options come close, and they cost infrastructure and operational attention instead.
  • •You are already fully invested in Firebase — Remote Config, App Distribution, Performance Monitoring. Pulling crash reporting out of that console fragments a workflow that currently holds together.

Switching from Crashlytics to Nohmo

Run both in parallel first. Two weeks of side-by-side data on your own traffic settles the question better than any comparison page, including this one.

  1. 1

    Install alongside what you already have

    Nohmo chains the previous crash handler rather than replacing it, so Crashlytics keeps receiving everything it received before. Running both is the correct way to evaluate — you will see immediately which crashes each one catches and how they group them differently.

    bash
    npm install nohmo
  2. 2

    Wrap the app on mobile

    React Native uses the same package and the same credentials. Screen views, taps, native iOS and Android crashes and install attribution all come from this one provider.

    tsx
    import { NohmoProvider } from 'nohmo/react-native'
     
    export default function App() {
      return (
        <NohmoProvider projectId="proj_xxxx" apiKey="pk_xxxx">
          <RootNavigator />
        </NohmoProvider>
      )
    }
  3. 3

    Mount one provider

    Page views, clicks, sessions, JavaScript errors and native crashes are captured from here on. There is no second SDK to configure for errors, and no third for mobile.

    tsx
    // app/layout.tsx — Next.js
    import { NohmoNextProvider } from 'nohmo'
     
    export default function RootLayout({ children }) {
      return (
        <html lang="en">
          <body>
            <NohmoNextProvider
              projectId={process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_NOHMO_PROJECT_ID!}
              apiKey={process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_NOHMO_API_KEY!}
            >
              {children}
            </NohmoNextProvider>
          </body>
        </html>
      )
    }
  4. 4

    Replace manual crash reports

    Uncaught exceptions, unhandled promise rejections and native crashes are captured automatically, so most manual reporting calls can simply be deleted. Where you want an explicit record with your own context, send is the equivalent.

    tsx
    // Before — Crashlytics
    crashlytics().recordError(err)
    crashlytics().setAttribute('checkout', 'true')
     
    // After — Nohmo (most of these can just be removed)
    const { send } = useNohmo()
    send('JS_ERROR', { message: err.message, stack: err.stack, checkout: true })
  5. 5

    Give one goal a monetary value

    This is the step that pays for the migration. Once a conversion carries an amount, Nohmo can compare sessions that hit an error against sessions that reached the same page and did not — and price the gap. That is the number that decides what you fix first.

    tsx
    const { trackConversion } = useNohmo()
     
    trackConversion('user_created')
    trackConversion('purchase', { amount: 29.99, currency: 'USD' })

On your platform

React Native

React Native analytics and crash reporting

One npm install, one provider, and the instrumentation writes itself.

Flutter

Flutter analytics and crash reporting

Screens, taps and native crashes from one Dart package — no codegen step.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Crashlytics alternative?+

For raw error-monitoring capability, Sentry — it symbolicates better, traces across services and supports far more languages. For mobile performance depth, Embrace. For in-app user feedback alongside crashes, Instabug. For a React Native team that wants the crash tied to the funnel step and ranked by revenue lost, Nohmo. If data residency is the constraint, Countly is the only real answer.

Is there a free Crashlytics alternative?+

Sentry has a free developer tier covering 5,000 errors a month, and Countly can be self-hosted at infrastructure cost only. Nothing matches Crashlytics for free at scale, which is worth saying plainly: if budget is the binding constraint, staying is the rational choice.

Do I have to remove Crashlytics to add something else?+

No. Crash handlers chain, so a second reporter does not displace the first. Nohmo explicitly preserves the previous handler. Run both through at least one release cycle and compare what each catches on your own users’ devices.

Does Nohmo catch native crashes or only JavaScript?+

Both. Native handlers on iOS and Android write a record during the crash and report it on next launch, so the process dying does not lose the report. It covers uncaught JVM exceptions on Android and Objective-C exceptions plus Swift and signal crashes on iOS. It does not cover Android NDK or C++ crashes, or ANRs — for those, Crashlytics remains stronger.

Why are my Crashlytics stack traces more readable than Nohmo’s?+

Because Crashlytics symbolicates and Nohmo does not yet. Crashlytics resolves native frames through dSYM and ProGuard mapping files uploaded at build time; Nohmo shows raw traces today. Symbolication is on the roadmap, and until it lands this is a real, concrete reason to keep Crashlytics installed alongside.

What can Nohmo see that Crashlytics cannot?+

Three things. The session that led to the crash, including the funnel step the user was on. The estimated revenue a bug cost, by comparing sessions that hit it against sessions that reached the same page and did not. And silent failures — dead taps, forms that submit into the void, successful responses with an empty body — none of which raise an exception, so none of which appear in any crash reporter.

The verdict

Keep Crashlytics if deep native symbolication or a zero budget is the priority; on both counts it wins outright and we would rather say so than argue. Add Sentry if you need the strongest error tooling and can live with seven meters. Choose Nohmo when the question after a crash is "what was the user trying to do, and what did it cost us" — because that is the question that decides what gets fixed first, and it is the one Crashlytics was never built to answer.

Try Nohmo alongside Crashlytics

One npm package, one provider, and you are tracking analytics and errors — cookielessly. Nothing to remove while you evaluate.

No credit card required · $49/mo during early access (normally $79)

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Reflects our understanding of Crashlytics and the tools listed as of 2026. Third-party products change their features and pricing — check their own sites before deciding.