TraceRN

A lightweight Sentry alternative for React Native

When a full APM stack is overkill: compare TraceRN vs Sentry for React Native and Expo — crash reporting, breadcrumbs, release health, and pricing.

Sentry is excellent. It is also broad — web, mobile, replay, performance, and a pricing surface that grows with everything you turn on. Many React Native teams only need a few things:

  1. Know when JS errors and crashes spike
  2. See what the user did before the failure
  3. Tell which release got worse after ship
  4. Stay inside a budget they understand

That is the niche TraceRN is built for.

What TraceRN optimizes for

NeedTraceRN approach
RN / Expo onlyNo web/server product surface
Crashes + soft failuresLogs, breadcrumbs, feedback, slow-fetch warns
Release healthrelease + session heartbeat
Offline phonesDurable queue + backoff
Host-app safetyPublic SDK methods never throw into your app
PricingFree hard cap; Indie/Team for maps and alerts

If you need session replay, full native crash pipelines, and multi-platform APM in one vendor, Sentry (or similar) may still be the right call. If you want React Native observability without enterprise sprawl, start with TraceRN.

Install in minutes

bash
npm install tracern-sdk
ts
import { TraceRN } from "tracern-sdk";

TraceRN.init({
  apiKey: "trn_live_xxxxxxxx",
  environment: "production",
  release: "1.4.2",
  enableSessionHeartbeat: true,
});

See the getting started guide and playbooks for checkout failures, stuck UI, and bad releases — problems that never show up as a crash group.

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