# Luciq vs. Sentry \| Solving the mobile crashes that Sentry can’t see

Sentry is full-stack, but mobile teams need a scalpel. Luciq offers crash reporting, Session Replay, and Repro Steps—context Sentry misses. Use Apdex scores and performance monitoring to ship higher quality, faster.

## The mobile-first alternative to Sentry.

Instant mobile metrics, out-of-the-box

Stop coding custom metrics. Sentry offers basic tracking, but Luciq delivers deep mobile context with out-of-the-box Apdex scores and performance reporting. Get actionable insights and crash data Sentry often misses.

Precision through mobile‑first context

Sentry is broad, but Luciq goes deep. Purpose-built for mobile, Luciq eliminates guesswork with Session Replay and ANR tracking. Get the full context Sentry misses to resolve issues before they impact your users.

Release-centric efficiency

Simplify the tracking and analysis of every release with Luciq’s release-centric model. Features like release comparison and alerting empower your team to effortlessly correlate performance changes with specific updates, setting Luciq apart from Sentry in optimizing the efficiency of your mobile app.

## Luciq vs Sentry: A deeper dive

### Sentry

Comprehensive Beta Testing and Bug Reporting

Luciq allows mobile-first teams to test their apps before releasing to ensure bug-free production apps.

- Bug Reporting with Repro Steps

- Bug Reporting with Custom Workflows

- Beta Releases Health Comparisons

- In-App Surveys & Feedback

- Advanced Debugging for Performance and Stability
  Luciq detects issues that happen specifically on mobile apps, providing critical insights to solve issues.

- Mobile Specific Metrics such as App Hangs, Force Restarts OOMs, Network Crashes

- Debugging using Experiments and Verbose Logs

- Debugging ANRs with Flame Graphs

- Root Cause Analysis with Smart Resolve AI

- Slow Screen Transitions Auto Detect

- Session Replay

- Customizable Team Ownership and Workflows
  Luciq provides mobile teams the ability to unite around a single metric, balancing technical quality and feature development.

- Automatic Assignment of Issues to Designated Teams

- Automatic Alerts When Spikes Affect Specific Code Areas

### Realtime Monitoring and Alerting
Luciq provides you with out-of-the-box alerting and monitoring that caters for all mobile-first metrics.

- ANR, OOM, App Hang Rates Monitoring

- Apdex, Crash Free Sessions and Crash Free Users Monitoring

- Customized Alerts and Integrations

## Pricing & Implementation

Luciq offers predictable, mobile-centric pricing and a streamlined SDK for rapid deployment. Scale your crash reporting and performance monitoring without hidden costs or complex integration. Get fast, transparent results.

### Pricing Model

- Per Session/Seats
- Events/Data Ingest

### Set-up Complexity

- Low (SDK)
- High (Requires custom instrumentation for mobile)

## Why Luciq works best for mobile-first teams

With Luciq, experience the best in breed mobile solution with your preferred observability solution.

- Align teams around one quality metric
- Identify crash frequency and severity
- Receive contextual bug reports from users
- See exactly what your users are experiencing
- Debug and monitor app ratings and reviews
- Take full control of your phased rollouts

## Customers

### Real teams. Real outcomes. Happier users.

> Luciq gives us a finger on the pulse of our users and their experience, helping us catch and fix major issues in production before their impact grows.

**Vivek Karuturi**  
*Native Apps Engineering Lead*

> “Luciq gives us a real-time safety net; we’re detecting and patching issues in under 30 minutes, often before our users or even our backend systems realize something is wrong."

**Tommy McIntosh**  
*Staff Platform Engineer*

> Before Luciq, we didn’t have a workflow. With a single centralized location for app data, developers could now quickly assess which situations needed their attention most urgently and strategize best solutions faster.

**Maxime Harter**  
*Engineering Manager*

> We have integrations with Luciq to manage our releases and automatically label them. Then we're able to go in very quickly and look at all the issues that were reported on that release version.

**DJ Tarazona**  
*Director of Engineering*