Standard mode Standard
The fullest picture. Unique and returning visitors, city-level location and browser versions. Use it for signed-in apps, or sites where visitors have given consent.
Eventfox features
Eventfox records page views and custom events, builds funnels and sessions, and lets you choose for every project how much it stores. It runs on your own server, in your own Postgres.
The privacy switch
Two modes, chosen per project
Most analytics tools make one choice for you. Eventfox lets each project run in Standard or Privacy mode, and it drops anything a mode doesn't allow before it reaches the database.
Privacy mode Privacy
No IP addresses, no cookies, nothing stored on the visitor's device. Counts sessions instead of people and shows country only. In most cases you won't need a cookie banner.
| Feature | Standard mode | Privacy mode |
|---|---|---|
| Page views, custom events and funnels | Yes | Yes |
| Pages, sources, UTM campaigns, browsers and devices | Yes | Yes |
| Unique and returning visitors | Yes | No, sessions instead |
| Location | Country and city | Country only |
| IP addresses stored | Yes | Never |
| Anything stored on the visitor's device | A random ID | Nothing |
| Session replay and heatmaps Planned | Optional, off by default | Not available |
Standard mode, set the way you want it
Standard doesn't have to mean everything. Each project has its own switches, so you keep exactly what you need and drop the rest before it's stored. Privacy mode simply turns them all off.
- Store IP addresses
- City-level location
- Browser and system versions
- Recognise returning visitors
- Remove email addresses from events
- Session replay Planned
Features
Product analytics, not just page counts
Custom events
Send any event from your site or app with one line of code, with up to 20 properties.
Funnels
See how many people get from one step to the next, and where they drop off. Included free.
Top lists
Pages, entry and exit pages, referrers, UTM campaigns, countries, browsers and devices.
Team roles
Admins manage settings. Viewers see every project's numbers and can't change anything.
Retention and deletion
Choose how long each project keeps data, and delete a single visitor's events on request.
Key rotation
Replace a project's public key with a grace period, so nothing breaks while your sites update.
Why Eventfox
What you get here that the free alternatives keep back
Other self-hosted tools are free, then keep their best features for their own paid cloud. Eventfox gives self-hosters the whole product.
Umami, Plausible: one fixed setting
You decide what's collected
Privacy or Standard mode per project, with switches for IP addresses, city, versions and returning visitors. Change your mind later without reinstalling.
Plausible CE: not included
Funnels for everyone
See where people drop off between steps. Plausible's free self-hosted version leaves funnels and journeys out.
Umami: cloud only
Email reports and alerts on your own server Planned
A weekly summary and a heads-up when traffic drops, sent from your install. Umami only offers these on its cloud.
Umami: cloud Business plan only
Session replay you host yourself Planned
Watch how visitors use a page, in Standard mode only, off until you turn it on, with typed text masked.
Others: a separate database
Fits beside your other apps
Eventfox lives in its own schema inside a Postgres you already run, including Supabase, and never touches anything else.
Free alternatives: community forums only
A person to email
Team and Business plans come with email support from the people who build Eventfox.
Install
Running in about ten minutes
- Rent a small server or use one you already have. Anything that runs Docker will do.
- Start Eventfox. The all-in-one setup includes its own database and free HTTPS.
- Add one script tag to your site, and events appear within seconds.
Already have Postgres, including Supabase? Eventfox can use it, in its own schema. Read the install guide.
# On your server
$ mkdir eventfox && cd eventfox
$ curl -fsSLO https://eventfox.dev/install/docker-compose.yml
$ curl -fsSL https://eventfox.dev/install/env.example -o .env
$ docker compose up -d
# On your site
<script defer src="https://stats.example.com/ef.js"
data-key="pk_live_…"></script>- Session view and CSV export
- Email reports and alerts
- Retention cohorts and user journeys
- Custom dashboards
- A read API, single sign-on and an audit log
- Session replay and heatmaps, in Standard mode only
- A/B tests