A brand new app known as GoBlue has launched to assist these seeking to monitor their following on Bluesky, the Twitter-like social community that’s quickly grown in current weeks to achieve almost 24 million customers. Filling in a spot within the Bluesky ecosystem of third-party apps and utilities, GoBlue gives a easy interface for monitoring your individual Bluesky analytics in an iOS dashboard.
GoBlue’s developer Sven van der Zee famous the necessity for an analytics-tracking app amid Bluesky’s rise, because the social community turns into a extra viable competitor to Elon Musk’s X.
“I used to be an avid Twitter consumer prior to now [and] have been a each day Bluesky consumer since this month,” he tells TechCrunch. “Since switching over to Bluesky, I observed that you possibly can not see the stats within the app, so I made a decision to construct an app myself.”
At launch, GoBlue gives only a few instruments, together with these to trace metrics like new followers, feedback, likes, and reposts.
Your Bluesky metrics are displayed as bar charts on the app’s residence display screen, the place you possibly can view your stats both by the day, week, month, or yr. For these seeking to actively develop their Bluesky following, the power to see which posts are resonating with followers all through the day might be probably the most helpful side of the brand new app at current, because it enables you to see what time of day you added new followers or noticed elevated engagement together with your posts.
To make use of the app, check in together with your Bluesky deal with and an app password. (App passwords could be created from Bluesky’s Settings, permitting you to log into third-party purposes with out sharing your principal Bluesky password with these builders.)
For full entry to your stats, you’ll want to decide on the way you’d wish to pay: both the one-time $19.99 payment or a month-to-month or annual subscription at $3.99 monthly or $14.99 per yr, respectively.
For these tasked with managing social media accounts, GoBlue gives insights into primary development and engagement metrics that aren’t but out there within the Bluesky app itself. Plus, customers can monitor a number of Bluesky accounts from GoBlue.
The app is ad-free and has no each day limits on utilization.
The developer says GoBlue shouldn’t be but completed; he’s working now to introduce iOS Residence Display widgets and post-specific analytics, which might provide much more perception into what kind of content material works to draw consideration on Bluesky.
Curiosity in Bluesky has soared following the U.S. elections, as Musk leveraged X to marketing campaign for Trump. Different X customers are additionally exploring alternate options after Musk modified how the blocking perform on X works and up to date X’s privateness coverage to permit AI fashions to coach on X consumer knowledge. The expansion is spurring the event of extra third-party apps for Bluesky’s platform, the place they’re becoming a member of different common instruments like deck.blue, which gives a TweetDeck-like (column-based) format for Bluesky, those who help in constructing customized feeds, third-party apps like Tokimeki and Skeets, and extra.
