I built an analytics dashboard for indie devs tired of paying $450/month for Sensor Tower
Hey IH đź‘‹
I'm a solo developer with apps and games published on itch.io, Steam, Google Play, and the App Store. For years I had the same problem: I had to check four different dashboards every morning just to get a basic picture of how everything was doing.
The "professional" tools? Sensor Tower starts at $450/month and doesn't support itch.io or Steam. Appfigures is cheaper but ignores both platforms completely. None of them were built with indie devs in mind — they're designed for growth teams at funded companies.
So I built AppWatch.
What it does:
Tracks your apps and games across itch.io, Steam, Google Play and App Store in one dashboard
Shows downloads, ratings, reviews, and crash rates in one place
Alerts you when something changes (rating drops, review spikes)
Steam integration live and in testing
Starts at €19/month — or free for up to 3 apps
The itch.io and Steam support is what I'm most proud of. There's basically nothing out there for indie devs who publish on both platforms and want real analytics beyond what each platform shows natively.
Where I'm at:
MVP is live at appwatch.dev. Users on the free plan but zero paying customers yet. Looking for indie devs who actually publish games or apps to try it and tell me what's broken, what's missing, and what would make them pull out their credit card.
Free plan, no credit card required.
My question for the IH community: What do you use right now to track your metrics across multiple stores? Spreadsheets? Native dashboards? Something else? I'm genuinely curious what the current workflow looks like for most indie devs here.
