A new app called GoBlue has launched to help those looking to track their following on Bluesky, the Twitter-like social network that’s rapidly grown in recent weeks to reach nearly 24 million users. Filling in a gap in the Bluesky ecosystem of third-party apps and utilities, GoBlue offers a simple interface for tracking your own Bluesky analytics in an iOS dashboard.
GoBlue’s developer Sven van der Zee noted the need for an analytics-tracking app amid Bluesky’s rise, as the social network becomes a more viable competitor to Elon Musk’s X.
“I was an avid Twitter user in the past [and] have been a daily Bluesky user since this month,” he tells TechCrunch. “Since switching over to Bluesky, I noticed that you could not see the stats in the app, so I decided to build an app myself.”
At launch, GoBlue offers just a few tools, including those to track metrics like new followers, comments, likes, and reposts.
Your Bluesky metrics are displayed as bar charts on the app’s home screen, where you can view your stats either by the day, week, month, or year. For those looking to actively grow their Bluesky following, the ability to see which posts are resonating with followers throughout the day could be the most useful aspect of the new app at present, as it lets you see what time of day you added new followers or saw increased engagement with your posts.
To use the app, sign in with your Bluesky handle and an app password. (App passwords can be created from Bluesky’s Settings, allowing you to log into third-party applications without sharing your main Bluesky password with those developers.)
For full access to your stats, you’ll need to choose how you’d like to pay: either the one-time $19.99 fee or a monthly or annual subscription at $3.99 per month or $14.99 per year, respectively.
For those tasked with managing social media accounts, GoBlue offers insights into basic growth and engagement metrics that aren’t yet available in the Bluesky app itself. Plus, users can monitor multiple Bluesky accounts from GoBlue.
The app is ad-free and has no daily limits on usage.
The developer says GoBlue is not yet finished; he’s working now to introduce iOS Home Screen widgets and post-specific analytics, which would offer even more insight into what sort of content works to attract attention on Bluesky.
Interest in Bluesky has soared following the U.S. elections, as Musk leveraged X to campaign for Trump. Other X users are also exploring alternatives after Musk changed how the blocking function on X works and updated X’s privacy policy to allow AI models to train on X user data. The growth is spurring the development of more third-party apps for Bluesky’s platform, where they’re joining other popular tools like deck.blue, which offers a TweetDeck-like (column-based) layout for Bluesky, those that aid in building custom feeds, third-party apps like Tokimeki and Skeets, and more.
