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AppsFlyer
Mobile attribution and marketing analytics measuring which campaigns produced which installs
As of 31 August 2026, AppsFlyer's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. The mobile measurement partner most large app advertisers use to decide where their acquisition budget goes. Softwr lists it under Mobile Development. AppsFlyer is available on iOS, Android, Web.
Overview
What AppsFlyer does
AppsFlyer attributes app installs and in app events to the campaign, network and creative that produced them. It integrates with several thousand ad networks, deduplicates their competing claims, and produces the numbers both sides agree to bill against. Beyond attribution it sells deep linking, fraud protection, incrementality measurement, audience segmentation and a raw data export product. It was founded in Israel in 2011 and is the largest independent vendor in the category. The commercial mechanic a buyer must understand is the pricing unit. Attribution is charged per attributed conversion on an annual commitment, so the cost of measurement scales with the number of installs you buy. A campaign that doubles in volume doubles the measurement bill alongside the media bill, and the overage rate applied once the commitment is exhausted is usually worse than the committed rate. Negotiating the commitment level is the most consequential part of the contract. The second thing that changed the category is Apple's privacy framework. Since App Tracking Transparency, iOS attribution for users who decline tracking runs through SKAdNetwork and its successor, which delivers delayed, aggregated and partially obscured data. No measurement partner can restore what was removed. What AppsFlyer sells on iOS now is modelling and aggregation on top of Apple's postbacks, and a buyer comparing vendors should ask specifically what is measured deterministically and what is estimated, because the demo screens do not distinguish them.
What people use it for
- An app spending meaningfully on paid acquisition across several networks that need reconciling against one source of truth
- Publishers who suspect they are paying for fraudulent installs and want them rejected before billing
- Teams that must move event level marketing data into a warehouse for their own modelling
- Apps running deferred deep links from web, email and social into specific in app content
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about AppsFlyer.
- Pricing is per attributed conversion on an annual commitment, so a successful quarter raises the measurement bill in step with media spend and overage rates above the commitment are usually punitive.
- iOS attribution lost genuine capability when App Tracking Transparency arrived, and a good deal of what the interface now shows is modelled rather than observed, which the reports do not always make obvious.
- The headline price covers attribution only; deep linking, fraud protection, audiences and raw data export are separate modules, so the quoted figure and the invoice differ substantially.
- Self attributing networks such as Meta and Google report their own numbers, and reconciling those against AppsFlyer is ongoing work that no vendor eliminates.
- Historic attribution data does not transfer between measurement partners, so switching vendors resets year on year comparisons and effectively locks in the incumbent after a couple of years.
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What people choose instead of AppsFlyer
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- AppsFlyervsMixpanel
Mixpanel: Cheaper event analytics where paid acquisition attribution is not the primary need
- AppsFlyervsFirebase
Firebase: Free install attribution adequate for apps whose spend is concentrated in Google networks
Pricing
What AppsFlyer costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
AppsFlyer
On request
- Annual commitment purchasing a volume of attributed conversions, with overage charged above it
- Deep linking, fraud protection, audiences and raw data export are priced as separate modules
Capabilities
Features
Multi touch install attribution
Deduplicated attribution across thousands of self reporting ad networks
SKAdNetwork and iOS aggregation
Handling of Apple postbacks with modelled figures where deterministic data is unavailable
Deep linking
OneLink deferred deep links routing users to the right content after install
Fraud protection
Detection of install hijacking, click flooding and bot traffic before it is billed
Raw data export
Event level data delivered to your own warehouse or storage bucket
Incrementality testing
Holdout based measurement of whether spend caused conversions or merely correlated
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How is it priced?
Per attributed conversion against an annual commitment, plus separate fees for the additional modules. Negotiate the commitment carefully.
Did App Tracking Transparency break attribution?
It removed deterministic device level attribution for users who decline tracking. What remains on iOS is aggregated and delayed, and vendors fill the gap with modelling.
Can we take our data if we leave?
You can export raw data while under contract. Attribution history itself does not migrate to another vendor.
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