Mite vs Instabug
Both tools collect bug reports from inside your app, and Mite sorts each one before you read it. They are built for different people, and one of them is probably wrong for you.
Choose Instabug instead if
- You need automatic crash and ANR capture, not only the reports a user chooses to send.
- You ship native iOS, Android, or Flutter builds as well as React Native.
- You need session replay to see what the reporter did before they filed.
- You want real-user performance monitoring alongside the feedback.
- You run in-app surveys or NPS and want them in the same SDK.
- Your procurement needs SSO, a signed security review, or a support commitment.
The short answer
Instabug is a mobile observability platform. It covers bug reporting, crash
reporting, performance monitoring, session replay, and in-app surveys, and it is
sold to product and engineering teams who have a budget line for tooling.
Mite does one narrower job. It collects bug reports and feature requests from
the people using your app, sorts each one as it arrives, and publishes your
release notes back to them. It is built for a developer shipping a React Native
or Expo app alone or in a small team, at a price that makes sense before the app
earns money.
If you need crash reporting and performance monitoring, Instabug is the better
product and you should buy it. If you need to hear from your users and you are
paying for the tool yourself, keep reading.
Side by side
| Mite | Instabug | |
|---|---|---|
| User-submitted bug reports | Yes | Yes |
| Device, version, and build context | Yes | Yes |
| Screenshots and attachments | Yes | Yes |
| Feature requests and voting | Yes | Limited |
| Public roadmap | Yes | No |
| Release notes and changelog | Yes | No |
| Automatic crash reporting | No | Yes |
| Performance monitoring | No | Yes |
| Session replay | No | Yes |
| In-app surveys | No | Yes |
| Platforms | React Native and Expo | iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, web |
| Built for | Solo developers and small teams | Funded product teams |
Where Mite is the better fit
You are the whole team. Mite assumes one person owns the queue. There are
no seats to buy, no roles to configure, and no workspace hierarchy to set up
before you can read your first report.
You want the first read done for you. Each bug report goes through one
model call that returns a category, one of the feature areas you saved, a
severity, and a likely duplicate among your open reports. Priority is written
only when severity is confident and you have not set one, spam and
non-actionable reports move behind a toggle, and nothing is closed for you.
You want the feedback loop, not the telemetry. A crash tells you the app
broke. A bug report tells you what the person was trying to do. Mite is built
around the second one, and it closes the loop: a reporter can see the release
note when you ship the fix.
Expo is a first-class target. The SDK is written for React Native and Expo,
so it captures the runtime version, the release channel, and the EAS update ID
along with the report. There is no native build step to fight.
The price fits a pre-revenue app. Mite has a free tier that is meant to be
used, not to expire.
Using both
These tools do not exclude each other, and many small teams run both. A common
split is Instabug or a crash reporter for the automatic signals, and Mite for
the things a user chooses to tell you. Mite does not intercept crashes, so the
two SDKs do not fight over the same handlers.
Moving from Instabug to Mite
The migration is small, because the surface is small. Install the Mite SDK,
point it at your app key, and remove the Instabug bug-reporting widget. Your
existing Instabug reports do not transfer, because Mite has no importer today.
Most teams leave the old history where it is and start fresh. A bug report loses
its value once the release it describes has shipped.
Last reviewed August 24, 2026. Instabug may have changed its product or pricing since then — check their site for the current details.
Try Mite on your Expo app
Install the SDK, ship a build, and read your first report. The free tier does not expire.