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Simple Analytics vs Umami
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Simple Analytics and Umami — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Simple Analytics vs Umami: at a glance
What is Simple Analytics?
Privacy analytics tightening its API and moving IP blocking off the CDN
The feed stores each change several times — once with the body text captured as the title, once as a clean headline, sometimes a third time with a date prefix. Behind the duplication, three real changes: API v6 with proper interval support while v5 stays unchanged for compatibility, IP blocking moved off the bunny.net CDN so it works on custom domains and applies per site rather than account-wide, and Events Explorer readability work with column truncation, a full-width toggle and collapsible headers.
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.
Simple Analytics vs Umami: editorial side-by-side
Simple Analytics
0.0ANALYTICS
Privacy analytics tightening its API and moving IP blocking off the CDN
◆ Current state
The feed stores each change several times — once with the body text captured as the title, once as a clean headline, sometimes a third time with a date prefix. Behind the duplication, three real changes: API v6 with proper interval support while v5 stays unchanged for compatibility, IP blocking moved off the bunny.net CDN so it works on custom domains and applies per site rather than account-wide, and Events Explorer readability work with column truncation, a full-width toggle and collapsible headers.
◆ Where it's heading
The work is about removing borrowed constraints. IP blocking inherited the CDN's limits and blast radius; moving it in-house made it per-site and custom-domain compatible. API v6 does the same for time handling — hourly data separates day and hour, weeks and months carry explicit start dates — while keeping v5 stable so nobody is forced to migrate. Both are the moves of a product whose users integrate it and stay.
◆ Prediction
With v6 shipped alongside an unchanged v5, expect a deprecation timeline for v5 to be the next API announcement, though the entries do not name one.
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 Simple Analytics 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 Simple Analytics 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 Simple Analytics and Umami
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3mo agoUmamiv3.1.0: Boards, Session Replay and Web Vitals ⚡
- 3mo agoSimple AnalyticsEvents Explorer column handling (duplicate record)
- 3mo agoSimple AnalyticsAPI v6 adds interval support, v5 unchanged
- 4mo agoSimple AnalyticsIP blocking moves off the CDN
- 4mo agoSimple AnalyticsEvents Explorer improvements (duplicate record)
- 4mo agoSimple AnalyticsEvents Explorer improvements
- 4mo agoSimple AnalyticsEvents Explorer improvements (duplicate record)
- 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 Simple Analytics and Umami?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Simple Analytics and Umami are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Simple Analytics better than Umami?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Simple Analytics and Umami are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Simple Analytics?
Top Simple Analytics alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Simple Analytics alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/simple-analytics 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.