The Best Bluesky Analytics Tools in 2026: 13 Checked for Price, Login, and Real Metrics
For most accounts, the best Bluesky analytics tool is GraphTracks: free from your handle with no password, or $5 a month for Pro. Fedica has the deepest Bluesky-specific dashboard, and Metricool is the free pick if Bluesky is one channel among several. I checked all 13 tools below against their own sites on September 23, 2026.
Checking them turned up three things the rankings don't show. Four of the 13 work from a handle alone. Four want an app password, which can do almost everything your real password can. And two advertise a "reach" number that Bluesky doesn't record.
That's why I rewrote this page. The roundups I read for this query don't check any of it. TheBlue.social's comparison ranks TheBlue.social first without saying in the text that it's comparing against its own product. It lists RecurPost and Sprout Social at "Varies" and says neither has native Bluesky integration, but both vendors document Bluesky support in their own help centers. It and bskygrowth's roundup both credit Blueview with "reach per post," a metric I couldn't find anywhere in Blueview's app code. It's an easy mistake when the data model isn't obvious: Bluesky has no impression or view field anywhere in its protocol (I searched all 404 lexicon files), so any "reach" number is the tool's own estimate.
(Fair's fair, since I'm holding others to it: I make Agent Sky, a growth tool rather than an analytics one, so it isn't ranked here. More on it at the end.)
Every price below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, and every login method from their own docs or the login screen itself.
Which Bluesky Analytics Tool Should You Use?
13 Bluesky analytics tools, checked against each vendor's own site on September 23, 2026. "Handle only" = no Bluesky credential at all; "Bluesky login" = you approve on Bluesky's own OAuth screen and the tool never sees your password; "app password" = a stored credential with near-full account access.
| Tool | Best for | Price | What it needs from you | Claims "reach"/views? |
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| GraphTracks | Follower, lost-follower and block history | Free tier; Pro $5/mo | Handle only | No, says none exist |
| Bluesky Meter | A quick look at any account | Free (ad-supported) | Handle only, no signup | No |
| Clearsky | Who blocks you, lists you're on | Free (donations) | Handle; Bluesky login for list tabs | No |
| Blueview | Post + follower dashboard | No price published | Bluesky login, or handle for public data | No |
| SkyDeck (iPhone/iPad) | Follower history on your phone | Free; Pro $2.99/mo or $24.99/yr | Bluesky login or app password | No, says reach is estimated |
| Tracker – Manager for Bluesky (iOS/Android) | Unfollow alerts | "100% Free forever" on site; App Store lists paid plans incl. $2.99/mo | Not documented | Yes, "reach" |
| TheBlue.social | Follow-back cleanup + like-time heatmap | $9.99/mo on pricing page ($20 on homepage) | App password | No |
| Fedica | Deepest Bluesky dashboard | Free plan has no Bluesky analytics; $10–$19/mo annual | App password | No |
| Metricool | Bluesky alongside other networks | Free (1 Bluesky profile, 30 days); from $20/mo annual | Bluesky login | No, says API lacks it |
| Buffer | Light stats alongside scheduling | Free (30-day history); $5/channel/mo annual | App password | No |
| RecurPost | Scheduler with basic reports | No free plan; $9/mo | App password | No |
| Sprout Social | Agency post reports | From $79/seat/mo annual | Bluesky login | No |
| Hootsuite | Teams already on Hootsuite | From $99/user/mo annual | Bluesky login | Yes, "reach" (blog post) |
My picks, by situation:
- Solo account, $0: GraphTracks free + Clearsky. That covers engagement, lost followers, blocks and lists without handing anyone a credential.
- Serious creator: GraphTracks Pro at $5, or Fedica if you want demographics and don't mind giving it an app password.
- Brand on several networks: Metricool. Its help center is honest about what Bluesky can't measure, and even the free tier tracks five competitor profiles.
Two you might expect that aren't in the table. SkyStats, which older roundups still list, is an open-source project on GitHub, and I couldn't find a hosted version to test. BluePilot ($7.99/month) is a growth-automation tool like mine, not an analytics product. I've compared it head-to-head instead. (If you've seen "Bsky Tracker" in other lists, it's the Tracker app in the table.)
What Are the Best Free Bluesky Analytics Tools?
GraphTracks, Bluesky Meter and Clearsky are all usable at $0, and none of them needs your password. They can afford to be free because Bluesky gives the underlying numbers away. Likes, reposts, replies, quotes, saves, and follower, following and post counts are all public and readable without a login.
(I also built a free Bluesky analytics checker of my own. It works from a handle, compares your engagement rate with accounts your size, and lists your top posts, best post types and best hours. It keeps no history, so it isn't in the table.)
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GraphTracks is the most complete free option. It shows public stats for any account without a login, and it tracks ten metrics: "followers, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, mentions, posts, unfollows, blocks, and a weighted engagement score." Its Audience tab lists your lost followers, and a beta Account Health tab covers blocks and the lists you're on.
The free tier caps you at 5 dashboard page views a day. Pro ($5/month) removes the cap and adds best-time-to-post. The detail I trust most is its FAQ answer on views: "Bluesky doesn't expose view counts, so no tool can show them honestly." That's correct, and it's rare.
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Bluesky Meter is paste-a-handle-and-go, free and ad-supported: "No registration is required!" You get follower, following, post and repost counts, a sortable table of posts, and a posting-streak heatmap. The heatmap measures your consistency, not when your audience is online. There's no follower history, so it's a snapshot tool.
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Clearsky isn't a marketing dashboard. It's the X-ray of your account's standing: who blocks you, which moderation lists you're on, which starter packs include you. Most of it works from a handle, but the "lists blocked by" view now requires a Bluesky login, done over OAuth, and Clearsky says it never sees or stores your password. (And if it's unfollows rather than blocks you're chasing, I've covered how to see who unfollowed you on Bluesky separately.)
Blueview would sit on this list, but I couldn't find a price anywhere on the site, so it stays in the table and out of the free picks. The app is live, signs you in with Bluesky OAuth, and has a "Continue with Public Data" mode that works from a handle.
Which Paid Bluesky Analytics Tools Are Worth It?
Fedica if Bluesky is your main channel. Metricool if it isn't. The enterprise suites mostly aren't worth it for Bluesky alone.
- Fedica has the deepest Bluesky feature set I found. It tracks unfollowers "with timestamps and full history," breaks engagement down over time, and shows follower demographics (age, gender, occupation). There are three caveats:
- The free plan has no Bluesky analytics at all. Engagement stats start on Publish ($10/month billed annually, $15 monthly), and follower analysis on Grow ($19 annually, $29 monthly).
- The fake-follower audit sits with its Research tools, and the Research plan costs $79 a month annually.
- Treat the demographics as estimates. Bluesky profiles have no age or occupation fields, so Fedica has to infer them.
- Metricool is the strongest multi-network option. The free plan includes one Bluesky profile with 30 days of analytics and five competitor profiles, and it shows gained and lost followers as separate daily series. Paid Starter is from $20/month billed annually ($25 monthly). One catch: its help center says handles on custom domains aren't supported in its sign-in flow.
- Buffer gives you basic Bluesky insights free: engagement, follows and a growth chart. But "Bluesky data is collected roughly every 10 days rather than daily," and it can't backfill anything from before you connected. That's useful if you already schedule there, but it's not a reason to sign up.
- RecurPost ($9/month, no free plan) advertises a Bluesky report on its scheduler page, but one of its own help articles says "Analytics are not available for Bluesky." Try it before you rely on it.
- Sprout Social (from $79/seat/month) reports Bluesky at the post level only: engagements, reposts, likes, quotes. It has no follower growth for Bluesky.
- Hootsuite (from $99/user/month) says all paid plans support Bluesky publishing and listening. I couldn't find a help-center page documenting its Bluesky analytics, and its blog promises "engagement, reach, and clicks." At that price, you're paying for the rest of the suite.
Why Does It Matter How a Bluesky Analytics Tool Logs In?
Because a Bluesky app password isn't read-only. It can post, follow, unfollow, like and delete. It carves out only a handful of things: changing your email or password, deleting or migrating the account, and creating more app passwords (DMs are a separate opt-in checkbox). Everything else a tool could do with your real password, it can do with an app password.
That gives you three tiers:
- Handle only. GraphTracks, Bluesky Meter, most of Clearsky, and Blueview's public mode. The tool holds nothing. That's all a pure stats tool needs, because the data is public.
- Bluesky login (OAuth). Blueview, Metricool, Sprout Social, Hootsuite, SkyDeck, and Clearsky's list tabs. You approve on Bluesky's own page and the tool never holds a reusable password. Bluesky's own OAuth announcement in September 2024 told developers to "stop using the legacy App Password system for new projects."
- App password. Fedica, Buffer, RecurPost and TheBlue.social. That's justified when the tool also acts for you. All four schedule posts or manage follows, which needs write access. Just notice when a tool wants one only to draw you a chart.
None of this makes the app-password tools unsafe, since deleting the app password revokes it instantly. The point is that "which tool has the best charts" and "which tool should hold my credentials" are separate questions, and none of the roundups I read ask the second one.
Can Any Bluesky Analytics Tool Show Impressions?
No. Bluesky doesn't count views, so there's nothing for a tool to read. Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee closed the feature request in December 2023 with "we can't get an accurate count due to the open network," and the lexicons still have no field for it.
Two of the 13 tools advertise one anyway. The Tracker app's site promises "detailed metrics for any user's posts including reach." Hootsuite's Bluesky scheduling guide says you can "track engagement, reach, and clicks." Maybe each has a sensible model behind it, but neither page says the figure is an estimate. Three others (Metricool, GraphTracks and SkyDeck) say outright that it can't be measured. If a number in your report came from a model, label it an estimate and keep it apart from the numbers Bluesky actually counts.
Which Bluesky Metrics Actually Matter?
Four, and only one of them is exactly measurable.
- Follower growth rate: the slope, not the total. Is this week faster than last week?
- Engagement per post, relative to your follower count. If that ratio falls while followers rise, you're attracting the wrong audience.
- Follow-back rate. If you grow by following your niche, this is your efficiency number. It's the exact one, because follows are public records on both sides.
- When your followers engage. Heatmaps built on your audience (GraphTracks Pro, TheBlue.social, Fedica) beat generic best-time-to-post charts.
This is the part where I have an interest, so weigh it accordingly: Agent Sky is built around number 3. It follows accounts genuinely active in your niche on a paced schedule, then verifies a live follow-back before unfollowing anyone. It signs in with Bluesky OAuth by default, and app passwords work too. $9 a month, free to start. If you just want to see where your follow-back situation stands today, our free follow-back checker works from your handle alone.
Honest limits on all of this. I checked prices, plans and login methods on vendor sites, help centers and app-store listings on one day. I didn't buy every paid tier, and I didn't test whether each tool's numbers are accurate. Where a vendor's own pages contradict each other (TheBlue.social's pricing, Tracker's "free forever," RecurPost's analytics), I've said so rather than picked one.
Whatever you pick, the handle-only tools above cover the basics without a credential, and every number they show you was actually counted.
Quick FAQ
What is the best Bluesky analytics tool? For most individual accounts, GraphTracks. Its free tier shows public stats for any account without a login. Pro costs $5 a month, and it tracks lost followers and blocks as well as engagement. It connects by handle, with no password. For the deepest Bluesky-specific dashboard, including follower demographics and unfollowers with timestamps, pick Fedica, but its follower analysis starts on the Grow plan at $19 a month billed annually. If Bluesky is one channel among several, Metricool has a free plan that includes one Bluesky profile. Prices were checked on the vendors' own sites on September 23, 2026.
Is there a free Bluesky analytics tool? Yes, several. Bluesky Meter is free and ad-supported, needs no registration, and works on any handle. Clearsky is free and shows who blocks you and which lists you're on. GraphTracks has a free tier with public stats for any account. Metricool's free plan includes one Bluesky profile with 30 days of history, and Buffer's free plan includes basic Bluesky insights. They can be free because the counters they read are public: Bluesky serves likes, reposts, replies, quotes and follower counts to anyone, without a login.
Can Bluesky analytics tools show impressions or views? No tool can measure them, because Bluesky doesn't record them. There is no view, impression or reach field anywhere in the AT Protocol, so a tool that shows one is estimating it from engagement. Of the 13 tools I checked on September 23, 2026, two advertise a Bluesky "reach" figure: the Tracker app for iOS and Android, and Hootsuite (in a blog post). Three others say plainly that the number doesn't exist: Metricool's help center says "the API does not provide the impressions metric," GraphTracks' FAQ says no tool can show views honestly, and SkyDeck says any reach figure is an estimate.
Is it safe to give a Bluesky analytics tool my app password? It's safe in the sense that you can revoke it at any time. It is not a low-privilege key, though. A Bluesky app password can do almost everything your real password can, including posting, following and deleting. That access makes sense for a tool that also schedules posts or manages follows for you. It's more than you need to hand over for charts, because the counters behind them are public. When a tool offers it, Bluesky OAuth is the better choice, since the tool never holds a reusable password. For stats alone, a tool that works from your handle needs no credential at all.