What is Storywise?
Storywise is a minimalist, open-source analytics platform designed for website and application owners who value simplicity and data privacy. Its core focus is on providing essential, easy-to-understand analytics without unnecessary complexity, ensuring that users can quickly access the metrics that matter most without a steep learning curve.
With full data ownership as a priority, Storywise allows users to self-host the platform and choose their own storage options, supporting multiple databases such as Postgres and SQLite. Users can export and import data at any time, making backup and migration straightforward. The platform is lightweight, fast, and welcomes community contributions to enhance its feature set while maintaining its commitment to simplicity and user empowerment.
Features
- Simple Design: Delivers essential analytics with an easy-to-use, streamlined interface.
- Privacy Control: Users can self-host and determine where their data is stored and how it's collected.
- Open Source Platform: Freely inspect, modify, and contribute to the codebase.
- Data Portability: Offers export and import features for seamless backup and migration.
- Multi-Database Support: Compatible with Postgres, SQLite, and TimescaleDB.
- Essential Analytics: Tracks unique visitors, pageviews, devices, browsers, referrers, and countries.
- Lightweight Performance: Fast and resource-efficient by design.
- UTM Tracking: Supports UTM tag analytics for marketing attribution.
- Community Driven: Open to new feature requests and pull requests.
- Upcoming Cloud Service: Managed hosting option in development for users preferring not to self-host.
Use Cases
- Monitoring website traffic for blogs and personal sites.
- Tracking key analytics for SaaS and web applications.
- Ensuring data privacy for projects requiring strict control over analytics data.
- Providing clients with privacy-respecting analytics solutions.
- Collecting simple, actionable metrics without intrusive tracking.
- Exporting website analytics data for external reporting or backup.
