ChartMogul alternatives for indie hackers

Updated 2026-08-04

ChartMogul is the tool most early-stage founders should probably start with, and saying otherwise would be dishonest. The free Launch plan genuinely covers you under $10k MRR, and its revenue-movement charts — new, expansion, contraction, churn, reactivation — are the best in the category.

So the useful question isn't "what's better than ChartMogul", it's "when does ChartMogul stop being the right fit?"

Three moments people leave

You cross $10k MRR. The free tier ends and pricing starts scaling with your revenue, which is exactly when a solo founder starts resenting the line item.

Your revenue stops being Stripe-shaped. ChartMogul ingests multiple sources, but it is built around the subscription-analytics model. If half your money arrives via the App Store, Gumroad or PayPal, you end up maintaining the very spreadsheet the tool was supposed to eliminate.

You want it on your phone. ChartMogul is a web analytics product. Excellent on a laptop on a Tuesday afternoon; not what you check between meetings.

The alternatives

Baremetrics

More operational — dunning, cancellation insights, forecasting. Substantially more expensive. Full comparison.

ProfitWell Metrics

Free with no revenue cap, so it solves the "I crossed $10k" problem directly. Web-based; a funnel into Paddle's paid products.

FRGMNT

Solves the second and third problems rather than the first:

• Five platforms in one figure — Stripe, App Store, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, PayPal. See the integrations.
• Native iOS, with a push notification per sale.
• No backend. Keys stay on your device; nothing is stored on a server.
• $49.99/year flat — it does not scale with your revenue, which is the specific thing that makes people leave ChartMogul.

What you give up: cohort analysis, segmentation, revenue-movement charts, churn analytics. ChartMogul is meaningfully better at all of it. FRGMNT answers "what am I making right now, across everything" and stops there.

The honest recommendation

If you are Stripe-only and under $10k MRR, use ChartMogul. It is free and better at analysis.

Consider FRGMNT when your revenue is genuinely fragmented across platforms, or when you want the number in your pocket rather than in a browser tab — or both, which is the usual case.

Plenty of people run both: ChartMogul for the monthly deep-dive, FRGMNT for the daily glance. They cost $0 and $49.99 respectively, so that is not an extravagant stack.