Crashlytics is very good at what it does: grouping stack traces, symbolicating native frames and telling you a build is unstable. It is free, and for pure crash triage it remains excellent.
What it cannot tell you is what the user was doing. A crash on the checkout screen and a crash on the settings screen are the same severity in Crashlytics and wildly different in reality. Nohmo keeps the whole session — screens, taps, funnel position — attached to the crash.
Nohmo vs Crashlytics, feature by feature
| Capability | nohmo | Crashlytics |
|---|---|---|
| Crash grouping and stack traces | Included | Included |
| Native NDK symbolication | Partial | Included |
| Crash-free rate | Included | Included |
| Session leading up to the crash | Included | Partial |
| Funnels and retention | Included | Not included |
| Rage-tap / silent failure detection | Included | Not included |
| Crash rate per release, side by side | Included | Partial |
| Free | Not included | Included |
Which one should you pick?
Choose Crashlytics if…
- •You need the deepest possible native crash analysis, particularly NDK and C++ frames.
- •Crash triage is the only job and you have no interest in product analytics.
- •It must be free.
Choose Nohmo if…
- •You want to know which flow a crash is killing, not just that it happened.
- •You are already paying for a separate analytics tool and would rather have one bill.
- •You care about the failures that never throw an exception.
Where Nohmo falls short today
- •Crashlytics is free and Nohmo is not.
- •Crashlytics symbolicates deep native frames, including NDK, more thoroughly than we do.
- •Crashlytics has years of stack-trace deduplication heuristics behind it; ours are younger.
Why teams choose Nohmo
Crashes in context
Every crash carries the screens and taps that preceded it, and the funnel step the user was on when it happened.
Release health, compared
Crash-free rate per app version against the build it replaced, so a regression is obvious rather than inferred.
The failures that never throw
A button that silently does nothing never reaches Crashlytics. Nohmo catches the repeated taps that follow.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to remove Crashlytics?+
No. Both can run at once — our crash handler chains the previous one, so Crashlytics keeps receiving everything it did before.
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.
The verdict
Keep Crashlytics if deep native symbolication is the priority. Choose Nohmo when the question after a crash is "what was the user trying to do", which is the question that decides what you fix first.
Comparison reflects our understanding of Crashlytics as of 2026; third-party products change — check their site for current details.