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Holistics vs Umami
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Holistics and Umami — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Holistics vs Umami: at a glance
What is Holistics?
A BI tool extending analytics-as-code to charts while smoothing the point-and-click path
Holistics is pushing on both of its surfaces at once. Custom charts now live in AML, definable as code, buildable through a GUI, and previewable against real data. Alongside that, Chart Suggestions recommends up to three chart types from selected fields in Explore, date range selection gained presets and typed shorthands, and theming picked up palette assignment at the theme level plus KPI metric styling. Dark mode landed in July. Entry titles arrive with mangled leading characters from the feed encoding.
What is Umami?
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
The window splits sharply. Four of six releases are December 2025 patches across the v2 and v3 lines, all responding to the same Next.js and React security advisories plus Docker build breakage — several shipped within days of each other because the first fix updated Next.js without the affected React versions. Then v3.1.0 in April 2026 delivered custom dashboards as Boards, Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a large batch of fixes.
Holistics vs Umami: editorial side-by-side
Holistics
5.0ANALYTICS
A BI tool extending analytics-as-code to charts while smoothing the point-and-click path
◆ Current state
Holistics is pushing on both of its surfaces at once. Custom charts now live in AML, definable as code, buildable through a GUI, and previewable against real data. Alongside that, Chart Suggestions recommends up to three chart types from selected fields in Explore, date range selection gained presets and typed shorthands, and theming picked up palette assignment at the theme level plus KPI metric styling. Dark mode landed in July. Entry titles arrive with mangled leading characters from the feed encoding.
◆ Where it's heading
The code-first modeling layer is being extended upward into visualization, which is where most analytics-as-code tools stop and hand off to a GUI. Doing both — code definition with a GUI editor over the same object — is the distinctive bet. The rest of the window removes friction from the exploration path, which is what makes a governed semantic layer usable by people who did not write it.
◆ Prediction
Expect more dashboard objects to follow charts into AML, since the pattern of code definition plus GUI editing plus live preview is now established and themes and KPIs are the obvious remaining candidates.
Umami
0.0ANALYTICS
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
◆ Current state
The window splits sharply. Four of six releases are December 2025 patches across the v2 and v3 lines, all responding to the same Next.js and React security advisories plus Docker build breakage — several shipped within days of each other because the first fix updated Next.js without the affected React versions. Then v3.1.0 in April 2026 delivered custom dashboards as Boards, Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a large batch of fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
The security cluster is a framework dependency showing its cost — an analytics tool inheriting its release schedule from Next.js advisories. v3.1.0 is where product work resumes, and its content is telling: Session Replay and Web Vitals move Umami past pageview counting into behaviour and performance, which is the territory occupied by heavier commercial analytics rather than the lightweight privacy-first tools it grew up alongside.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next releases to build on Boards and Session Replay rather than return to the counting core, since both are new surfaces that arrived with a single release and no follow-up yet.
Alternatives to Holistics and Umami
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Holistics or Umami.
Klipfolio
Dashboard analytics in slow maintenance, with admin controls the only moving part
Basedash
An AI BI tool turning itself into an API other products can build analytics on
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
ADManager Plus opened to third-party identity apps in January, then shipped six months of fixes.
VictoriaMetrics
Five of six VictoriaMetrics entries are scraped GitHub page furniture; one is a real LTS patch.
Sigma Computing
Sigma is moving data modeling out of its own UI and into the terminal.
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Recent activity from Holistics and Umami
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoHolisticsCustom charts become code in AML
- 4d agoHolisticsColor palettes assignable at theme level
- 8d agoHolisticsDate range presets and typed shorthands
- 10d agoHolisticsChart suggestions in Explore
- 16d agoHolisticsApp dark mode
- 1mo agoHolisticsKPI metric styling moves into dashboard themes
- 3mo agoUmamiv3.1.0: Boards, Session Replay and Web Vitals ⚡
- 7mo agoUmamiv3.0.3: Next.js security patch
- 7mo agoUmamiv2.20.2: Next.js security patch for the v2 line
- 7mo agoUmamiv2.20.1: React version fix and Docker build repairs
- 7mo agoUmamiv2.20.0: Next.js CVE fix for the v2 line
- 7mo agoUmamiv3.0.2: Next.js RSC vulnerability patch and UI fixes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Holistics and Umami?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Holistics is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Holistics better than Umami?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Holistics is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Holistics?
Top Holistics alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Holistics alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/holistics for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Umami?
Top Umami alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Umami alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/umami for the full list with editorial commentary on each.