Best analytics tools from indie makers
Understand traffic, users and revenue without the bloat.
These are the analytics tools indie makers have launched on IndieTide, ranked by the votes each one has earned.
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traffic.cx
Privacy-friendly web analytics that shows which sources bring paying customers
traffic.cx is web analytics for SaaS teams that connects site traffic to revenue. It shows which sources, campaigns and pages bring paying customers, not just visits, by linking to payment providers such as Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar and Dodo Payments. A payments API is also available for other providers. The analytics tracker works without visitor cookies by default, using daily visitor IDs. An optional cookie mode is available for longer visitor journeys. Teams can track sign-ups, clicks and purchases as goals, and view funnels to see where visitors drop off. Realtime visitors appear within seconds, with their source, the pages they read and their location. A live globe shows visits and sales by city rather than by person. Dashboards can be shared with clients or investors through a read-only link that can be turned off at any time. Paid plans add teams with owner, admin, editor and viewer roles, plus an API for querying stats and sending payments from your own code using API keys. Embeddable widgets can show live visitors, visit counts, charts or a revenue badge on a website or GitHub README. The Free plan costs nothing, needs no card and has no end date. It includes every feature on one site, with 3,000 events a month and the last 30 days of reports. Paid plans start at $5 a month for 5,000 events and add more events, more sites, full history, the API and teams. Pricing is in USD and includes tax, with yearly billing giving two months free.
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Seercraft
Track your competitors' Facebook and Instagram ads and see what to test next
Seercraft tracks your competitors' Facebook and Instagram ads from the public Meta Ad Library. Add the brands you compete with and it checks their ads every day, keeping each ad after it stops so you can see what changed over time. It groups near-identical copies of an ad into one idea, so a concept running in 30 versions reads as one line, and shows how long each ad has been running: the clearest public sign that a brand keeps paying for it. New and stopped ads land in an Inbox, grouped by brand and day. Discover searches ads across brands and sorts them by how long they've run. Boards keep saved ads with their media, so links never die. Briefs turn saved ads into creative briefs your team or creators can shoot, with shareable read-only links. It's built for creative strategists, media buyers, DTC brands and small agencies who check the Ad Library by hand every week. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
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CrowdYeti
Collect public data from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn and Threads
CrowdYeti collects public data from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn and Threads. You choose a Scout, a ready-made collector for one job, like the comments on a YouTube video or the posts on an X profile. There are more than 70 of them. Before a run starts, you set how many results you want and see the most it can cost in credits. The results open in a Data view where you can search them, tick the ones you want and export. You can download CSV or JSON, add them to Google Sheets or send them to your own webhook. For bigger jobs, you chain Scouts into a workflow. A workflow can filter the results, remove duplicates and run an AI step on each record. The Assistant helps you plan a collection and sets it up for you to review. You start every run yourself. Plans start at $29 a month, with a 3-day free trial.
How we rank
Every product here launched on IndieTide’s weekly board. They’re ordered by the total votes they’ve received from signed-in members since launch, and ties go to the product that was submitted first. Categories come from what makers list when they submit, and the order updates as new votes come in.