A good Baremetrics alternative for multi-product founders

From the SoleOS answers series — written about our own product space; grounded in published definitions and documented behavior, never invented numbers.

A good Baremetrics alternative for indie founders with several products is one that treats "portfolio" as the default view, not an afterthought — meaning it can pull Stripe and RevenueCat data from more than one project into a single dashboard without you exporting CSVs or juggling logins. Baremetrics itself is a solid, mature tool for revenue metrics on a single Stripe account; it's just built around the assumption that you have one business, not ten. If you're running multiple apps, the gap shows up fast: separate accounts, separate dashboards, separate mental math to figure out what your total MRR actually is this month.

This isn't a "Baremetrics is bad" post. It's a good product for what it does. The real question is whether what it does matches how you actually work.

Where Baremetrics fits — and where it doesn't

Baremetrics connects to a billing provider (mainly Stripe, with some support for others) and gives you MRR, churn, LTV, and cohort views for that account. If you have one SaaS product with one Stripe account, this is a well-trodden, reliable setup. The metrics definitions are sound, the UI is clean, and it's been around long enough to have worked out the edge cases.

The friction starts when you have more than one product. A few common scenarios:

• Separate Stripe accounts per app. Baremetrics is generally scoped per account, so you either pay for and check multiple instances, or you don't get a unified view at all.
• Mixed billing systems. If one app bills through Stripe and another through RevenueCat (common for a web app plus a mobile app), you're already outside Baremetrics' core lane.
• App store revenue. If any of your products are mobile-first, App Store Connect and Google Play revenue doesn't naturally live next to your Stripe MRR in most single-account tools.
• The actual question you're asking. When you run several products, your real question is rarely "how's this one app doing in isolation" — it's "where should I spend my next hour, this app or that one?" That's a cross-product comparison, and single-account tools aren't built to answer it directly.

None of this means Baremetrics is the wrong tool. If you have one product and you want dependable revenue metrics with minimal setup, it remains a reasonable default. The alternative-shopping only really pays off once you're maintaining more than one thing and feeling the seams between them.

What to actually look for in an alternative

Rather than comparing feature lists line by line, it helps to ask a few pointed questions before switching anything:

Does it aggregate across billing providers, not just accounts? A founder with a Stripe-billed SaaS and a RevenueCat-billed mobile app needs both revenue streams reconciled into one number, not two dashboards you eyeball separately. See tracking Stripe and RevenueCat together for why this reconciliation is trickier than it sounds — the two systems report timing and refunds differently.

Does it show you the portfolio level by default? A tool that requires you to click into each project individually to build a mental total isn't really solving the multi-product problem, it's just hosting multiple single-product dashboards under one login.

Does it connect to app stores and analytics, or only billing? If your products are mobile or web-first, revenue alone doesn't tell you why something changed. Traffic (GA4), search visibility (Search Console), and app store metrics matter for diagnosing a dip, not just recording it.

What does it cost per project, realistically? Multi-account pricing on single-product tools can add up quickly once you're past two or three apps. Worth doing the actual math for your count rather than assuming a discount exists.

Do you actually need a dashboard, or a periodic signal? Not every product needs daily monitoring. Some founders are better served by lightweight alerts on their zombie or slow-growth apps than by another tab to check. It's worth reading signals vs dashboards: which do you actually need — or if that's not linked here, at minimum decide this before paying for either.

Where SoleOS fits (and where it doesn't)

Disclosure: SoleOS is made by the team writing this post, so take the comparison with that in mind — this isn't a neutral third-party review.

SoleOS is built specifically for the case Baremetrics doesn't target: one dashboard across Stripe, RevenueCat, GA4, Search Console, Bing Webmaster, App Store Connect, Google Play, Firebase, and Supabase, spanning up to 40 projects on the Portfolio plan (5 on Solo, 15 on Maker). The pitch is narrow on purpose — it's "mission control for your entire portfolio," not a replacement for deep single-product analytics tools like Baremetrics or a full BI stack.

Where SoleOS genuinely doesn't make sense: if you have exactly one product, paying for portfolio aggregation is solving a problem you don't have yet — a single-account tool or even a Stripe dashboard will serve you better and cheaper. And if you need deep transactional detail (dunning workflows, invoice-level dunning management, granular subscription lifecycle events), that's squarely Baremetrics or Stripe's own tooling's territory, not what SoleOS aims to replace.

What SoleOS does add for a multi-product setup: cross-project comparisons that surface which app is actually growing versus which one is quietly stalling, MRR projections built from at least 21 days of history with an R² of 0.6 as the reliability threshold, and an AI layer (via Anthropic) that only ever sees aggregated metrics and project names — never credentials, raw events, or your end users' identities, and it doesn't train on your data. Full scope details are in what SoleOS connects to and how SoleOS uses AI.

Pricing starts at $19/month for 5 projects (Solo), $39/month for 15 (Maker, the most popular tier), and $79/month for 40 (Portfolio) — all with a 7-day trial and yearly billing at 10 months' price for 12. Founding users lock in early-access pricing for as long as they stay subscribed. Full breakdown at SoleOS pricing, and a side-by-side is at SoleOS vs Baremetrics if you want the direct comparison. If you'd rather see it before connecting anything, the live demo runs on sample data with no sign-up.

If you're earlier than either tool suggests — say, one or two apps and you're not sure aggregation is worth paying for yet — SoleOS vs a spreadsheet is a fair place to start, including a free template.

The honest tradeoff

Switching tools has a cost: reconnecting accounts, re-learning a UI, possibly losing historical trend lines you'd built up. That cost is worth paying when the tool you have genuinely can't answer the question you're asking it — not because a competitor has a nicer landing page. If your actual pain is "I can't see my whole portfolio in one place," that's a structural gap, not a feature Baremetrics is likely to bolt on. If your pain is something else — bad dunning, unclear cohort retention, messy invoice states — the fix is probably inside Baremetrics or Stripe, not a new tool entirely.

Before switching anything, it's worth reading real numbers from a 10-app portfolio to see what running many small products actually looks like in practice, and whether the "portfolio" framing matches your own situation or not.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use Baremetrics and a portfolio tool together?

Yes, and some founders do exactly this — Baremetrics for deep dive on their flagship product's billing health, and a portfolio-level tool for the cross-product view. It's redundant spend if your flagship product is also your only product, but for a founder with one large app and several smaller ones, splitting the two jobs isn't unreasonable.

Does Baremetrics support RevenueCat or app store revenue?

Baremetrics' core strength is Stripe and similar web billing providers. If a meaningful share of your revenue comes through RevenueCat or direct app store billing, check current connector support directly on their site before assuming coverage — this is one of the areas that most commonly surprises mobile-first founders.

How many products do I need before a portfolio tool makes sense?

There's no universal number, but the practical trigger is usually when you can no longer hold your total MRR and per-app trend in your head without opening multiple tabs. For some founders that's at 2 products, for others it's at 5 or more. Measure your own time spent reconciling numbers each week before deciding.

Will switching tools lose my historical data?

Depends on the tool and how far back its connector can pull. Most billing-based tools (Stripe, RevenueCat) retain full history on their end, so a new dashboard can typically backfill trends going back to whenever your billing account started — but confirm this before switching, since analytics connectors like GA4 have their own retention limits.

Is a spreadsheet good enough instead of any of these?

For one or two products with simple billing, yes, often — a spreadsheet pulling monthly totals is cheap and transparent. It gets painful once you're manually reconciling more than a couple of data sources or more than a handful of products each month. See SoleOS vs a spreadsheet for where that line typically falls.