Projects side by side
Each app with its own key event. Numbers are never added across projects: apps count different events and can share people.
| App | Key event | Daily users | Change | Stickiness | D7 | Best funnel |
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For macOS
A free, open-source menu bar app
See where people drop out, from your menu bar.
FunnelRadar sits in your Mac's menu bar and reads your Mixpanel projects: funnel leaks, retention, stickiness and unusual days, side by side.
- Read-only
- No server, no account
- No analytics
- Free and open source
What it adds over Mixpanel's panels
Mixpanel shows one report at a time. FunnelRadar answers three questions.
Where do people drop out, who comes back, and did anything strange happen yesterday? Your projects side by side, without clicking through panels. The numbers below are made up.
Funnel leaks
The worst step of up to three saved funnels per project, worst first, with overall conversion against the period before.
Retention D1, D7, D30
From a pair of events you pick. A curve that flattens means people stay.
Cohort heatmap
Weekly cohorts by day. Blank cells are too young to know, so they never pull an average down.
Active users, compared
Each app as an index, so apps of any size can share one chart.
Biggest movers
Your top events, this week against last week.
Unusual days
Days far from the 28 before them get marked. Today is partial and would always look like a dip, so nothing is worked out from it.
Weekday pattern
Each weekday against an average day, over the last 12 weeks.
Stickiness
DAU/MAU of your key event, per full month, using Mixpanel's own monthly uniques.
Stays within Mixpanel's limits
The Query API allows 60 queries an hour and 5 at once, shared with everything else on the project. FunnelRadar takes a small part of that, on a schedule.
- Never sends a query when you open a view
- Checks each project every 2 hours, which costs one query
- Reads the full reports once a day, about a dozen queries per app
- One query at a time, 5 seconds apart, at most 40 an hour (10 or 20 if you prefer)
- Backs off for 5 minutes to an hour on a 429
- Each project's own time zone
- Up to three funnels per project
- Trend lines labelled as trends
- Ten languages
- Updates itself safely
In the app
A native Mac window, one click from the menu bar.
Screenshots use FunnelRadar's made-up demo apps.
Alerts
Hear about it before you go looking.
Notifications on your Mac with your own thresholds, each one once.
- Falling conversion
- Unusually busy days
- Unusually quiet days
- Falling retention
Remote Code on iPhone
Your funnels, in your pocket.
Remote Code brings FunnelRadar to your iPhone and iPad as a tab.
Installed from Remote Code
Install FunnelRadar and switch it on in Remote Code's settings, on the Mac or the iPhone.
The app doesn't have to be open
Remote Code starts FunnelRadar's hub on the Mac when the app isn't running. Two engines never share the query budget.
Stays on your devices
The hub listens on 127.0.0.1 only, its token is in a 0600 file, and the phone reaches it over Remote Code's encrypted link.
Setup
Four steps, and it opens.
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The Mixpanel tool
FunnelRadar reads your data through
mp, Mixpanel's official open-source CLI, and installs a pinned version into its own folder, about 300 MB. That needs Python 3.10 or newer; it usesuvif you have it, then yourpython3, then Homebrew. -
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Sign in
Your browser opens Mixpanel, and
mpkeeps the sign-in in FunnelRadar's folder, apart from anympyou use in a terminal. A service account works too. -
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Your apps
Pick the projects to follow, then each one's key event and retention events in Settings. The first full read takes about a minute per app.
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Notifications
Optional. Turn on the alerts you want and set your thresholds.
Privacy
Your numbers go to your Mac. Nowhere else.
Your data travels between your Mac and Mixpanel through the official CLI. FunnelRadar has no server, no account of its own and no analytics.
Read-only
mp can create dashboards, change flags and delete things. FunnelRadar's source protocol only has reads, so a mistake can't touch your account.
No server, no account
There is nothing to sign up for, and nothing of yours on a server of ours. There is no such server.
The official CLI holds the sign-in
mp does the sign-in and token refresh, in FunnelRadar's own folder. Signing out here doesn't touch an mp you use in a terminal.
Secrets stay in the Keychain
A service account's secret stays in your Keychain and reaches mp through its environment, never a config file.
No analytics
FunnelRadar makes no other requests, apart from installing mp during setup and the update check.
Cached on your Mac
Everything is kept in ~/Library/Application Support/FunnelRadar, in folders only you can read.
Get FunnelRadar.
Free and open source, under the MIT license.
FunnelRadar for Mac
macOS 15 Sequoia or later · a Mixpanel account
Or with Homebrew:
brew tap ardasnturk/funnelradar https://github.com/ardasnturk/funnelradar
brew install --cask funnelradarFrom the same workshop
Free Mac apps that work together.
MRRadarAll your subscription apps on one radar, for RevenueCat.
Remote CodeThe home of your coding agents on the Mac, with an iPhone app.
Try it without an account:
open -a FunnelRadar --args --demoFAQ
Questions & answers
What do I need?
macOS 15 or newer and a Mixpanel account. FunnelRadar itself is free.
Can FunnelRadar change anything in my Mixpanel account?
No. mp can change things, but FunnelRadar's source protocol has no way to ask it to.
Will it use up my query limit?
It stays at 40 queries an hour or fewer, one at a time, and counts them across restarts. A full read of one app is about a dozen queries, so above about three apps the first read spreads over more than an hour. A 429 stops the read and it waits.
Why is the download about 300 MB during setup?
That's mp, which FunnelRadar installs at a pinned version into its own folder, so nothing else on your Mac changes. The CLI is a pre-release and a new version may change its output.
Has it been tested on real data?
Yes, on one small live project: sign-in, projects, events, retention and the hub work. Reading funnels hasn't been tried on real data yet, because that project has none saved. If a number looks wrong, please open an issue.
Why are the newest funnel days left out?
Someone who entered a funnel yesterday may still convert, so a period ending yesterday always looks worse. Both 28-day periods stop 7 days before the last full day, which delays a real fall by a week.
Why aren't my projects added together?
Projects count different key events and can share people, so a total would mean nothing. The overview compares them as an index instead.
Can I try it without an account?
Yes. Run open -a FunnelRadar --args --demo to open it with made-up apps.
Do I need Remote Code?
Only for the iPhone and iPad. FunnelRadar works on its own on the Mac.
How do I uninstall?
Quit FunnelRadar and delete it (or brew uninstall --zap --cask funnelradar). Remove ~/Library/Application Support/FunnelRadar for a clean slate.
Is this made by Mixpanel?
No. FunnelRadar is an independent project that uses Mixpanel's official CLI. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mixpanel.