Countly

A privacy-first product analytics and customer engagement platform for web, mobile and desktop apps, for organizations that need full data ownership.

5.9k stars, 985 forks JavaScript On GitHub since May 2012

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What is Countly?

Countly collects usage data from websites and from mobile and desktop applications through its SDKs and shows sessions, events, funnels, retention, crashes and user profiles. It also handles engagement, such as push notifications and in-app messaging, and is built for organizations that must deploy on their own infrastructure, including regulated industries. This repository is the free Countly Lite edition; the company sells an Enterprise edition with more features. It offers 22 interface languages.

Good fit if

  • You build mobile apps and want analytics plus push messaging on your own servers.
  • Data ownership is a hard requirement.

Look elsewhere if

Before you adopt it

The Countly Lite License is AGPL-3.0 with additional terms under section 7, added in August 2014, that forbid removing Countly's logo and branding from the interface. Because of these terms we list it as source-available rather than plain AGPL. It runs with MongoDB.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Countly health: is it still maintained?

66 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    997 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 30 October 2026.
    30 / 30
  • Contributors
    3 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 97% of them.
    5 / 20
  • Releases
    15 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, 25.03.58, on 27 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 59% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 162 days.
    6 / 20
  • Security practices
    OpenSSF Scorecard 6.3 of 10.
    6 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Countly license: is it open source?

Countly uses Countly Product Analytics - Countly Lite License. It is source-available, not an OSI-approved open-source license: the code is public, but the license restricts how you may use it, usually commercially.

  1. May 2012First published on GitHub under AGPL-3.0.
  2. 15 August 2014Changed to Countly Product Analytics - Countly Lite License. Commit: Rename LICENSE.md to LICENSE
  3. TodayCountly Product Analytics - Countly Lite License.

How to run Countly yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
docker-compose.yml: 4 services (mongodb, proxy)
Setup effort
3 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
22 languages

Install instructions: countly.com or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Countly

Is Countly open source?

Not by the OSI definition. Countly uses Countly Product Analytics - Countly Lite License, which makes the code public but restricts how it may be used.

Is Countly still maintained?

Its health score is 66 of 100 (actively developed). It had 997 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 30 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 27 October 2026.

Did Countly change its license?

Yes. It moved from AGPL-3.0 to Countly Product Analytics - Countly Lite License on 15 August 2014.

How do I run Countly?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Countly?

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