Sankofa Catch

Sankofa Catch is an error-tracking and performance-monitoring service for teams shipping web, mobile, and server software. It is especially suited to React Native teams using eligible OTA bundles; its appeal is broad event capture paired with an automatic recovery path, though quotas and retention vary sharply by plan.

Overview

Catch collects uncaught exceptions, unhandled rejections, native crashes, ANRs, breadcrumbs, transactions, web vitals, and server profiling data. It groups related events by exception type, normalized stack trace, and message, with custom fingerprints for teams that need more control over which errors are treated alike.

Alerts can trigger webhooks, Slack messages, or PagerDuty pages. With a configured Plan integration, a halt can also create a ticket. Catch’s rollback workflow is narrower: when error rates cross a configured threshold, it can send a halt webhook to Switch and trigger Deploy to revert an eligible React Native OTA bundle. That is a meaningful safeguard for teams using this release path, not a general rollback feature for every deployment.

Key features

Broad event capture: Official SDKs cover Web, Flutter, React Native, Android, iOS, Node, Go, Java, and Python. That breadth suits mixed client-and-server estates, while the range of captured signals gives teams more than crash counts alone to monitor.

Source maps and symbols: Catch supports JavaScript source maps, iOS dSYM bundles, Android ProGuard or R8 mappings, Android NDK symbols, and Flutter symbols. This coverage can make diagnostic data more useful across mobile and web stacks.

Privacy controls: SDKs provide a beforeSend hook to alter or discard events before transmission, and replay PII is masked at capture. Catch also states that data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest with AES-256-GCM, with server-side keys kept behind the customer’s KMS.

Self-hosting: Catch can run on customer infrastructure using the same binary; air-gapped operation is available on Enterprise. This makes the product relevant to teams with infrastructure constraints, although the air-gapped option sits at the custom-priced tier.

Compliance status: GDPR-ready operations are described as operational, while SOC 2 Type II is in progress with a Q4 2026 target. Organizations requiring completed SOC 2 Type II should not treat that target as present certification.

Pricing

Catch is freemium, with paid plans starting at $9/mo. The Free plan is billed $0/ month and includes 5k errors, 10k performance events, 500 profiles, and 500 replay views per month, 30-day event retention, 3-day replay retention, one project, three seats, and a live environment. That is enough for evaluation or a small side project, but the one-project and three-seat caps can constrain a growing team.

Starter costs $9 a month (billed $9/ month). It raises monthly allowances to 25k errors, 50k performance events, 2k profiles, and 750 replay views, with 60-day retention, two projects, five seats, and live plus staging environments. This matches the indie SaaS audience Catch targets, but five seats and modest quotas put a ceiling on wider adoption.

The $10, paid once Booster pack adds 25k error events to the current month and does not extend retention. It can cover a temporary error spike, but it does not increase performance-event capacity or solve a longer-term retention need.

Pro costs $24 a month (billed $24/ month), with 75k errors, 200k performance events, 5k profiles, and 1k replay views monthly; retention is 90 days, with five projects, unlimited seats, and three webhooks. It is a more practical fit for funded startups needing room for a larger team and alert routing, though the project and webhook limits remain.

Growth costs $60 a month (billed $60/ month) and includes 400k errors, 1M performance events, 25k profiles, and 3k replay views monthly, 365-day retention, unlimited projects and environments, and 25 webhooks. Those higher ceilings suit scale-ups that need long history and multiple environments; the step up from Pro is substantial, so teams should have a reason to use the extra volume or retention.

Enterprise has custom pricing, custom event volume and retention, SAML 2.0 SSO, SCIM 2.0, dedicated infrastructure, and a 99.95% SLA. It is the tier for organizations needing those controls and service terms, rather than a straightforward extension of a published monthly plan.

Platforms

Catch supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and web, as well as API and self-hosted deployments. That platform range, together with SDKs for mobile, web, and server languages, makes it a plausible fit for teams monitoring applications across several environments.

Who it's for

The plan ladder is aimed at indie makers and evaluators on Free, indie SaaS on Starter, funded startups on Pro, and scale-ups on Growth. React Native teams using eligible OTA bundles have an additional reason to consider Catch because its halt workflow can trigger a rollback. Teams that need completed SOC 2 Type II certification, or whose usage exceeds the published quotas without a case for Growth or custom Enterprise terms, should weigh other options.

Pros and cons

Pro: Captures a wide range of client and server events and pairs them with SDKs and symbol support across major web and mobile stacks.

Pro: Threshold-triggered rollback for eligible React Native OTA bundles connects monitoring to a specific release recovery action.

Pro: Free has useful monthly event and replay allowances for evaluation, while paid tiers scale retention, seats, projects, and volume.

Con: The Free plan has only one project, three seats, and three-day replay retention, so it is a limited long-term home for a growing team.

Con: The Booster pack adds error events only and does not extend retention, making it a narrow remedy for overages.

Con: SOC 2 Type II remains in progress, and air-gapped self-hosting is reserved for custom-priced Enterprise.

Alternatives

Consider BugSnag for a freemium option with a free tier that includes 1 user, 7.5K events, and 1M spans per month, plus a free trial. Backtrace is worth comparing if a single developer wants a free tier allowing up to 25k monthly errors and one month of retention. Airbrake offers a free developer tier and a $17 a month plan billed annually with 25,000 errors, one user, and one team, which may suit an individual or small team comparing paid error quotas.

elmah.io is a paid alternative with a $26 a month Small Business plan that includes three users, unlimited applications, and 10,000 messages per month. Rollbar has a freemium model and a free trial, while its Essentials price is shown as a dash. Embrace User Session Insights may suit teams focused on sessions: its free plan allows up to 1 million sessions per year, five users, and three days of event retention. Sentry Continuous Profiling is another freemium option with broad platform support. Bugsink is worth considering for self-hosting: its free self-hosted tier offers unlimited users and all features, with volume dependent on hardware.

For a broader shortlist, see Error Monitoring Software.

Verdict

Choose Catch if your team needs broad error and performance coverage across web, mobile, and server platforms, particularly if React Native OTA rollback is part of your release process. Its useful free allowance and clear growth path are balanced by plan-specific quotas, limited replay retention at the bottom end, and SOC 2 Type II still in progress. Look elsewhere if those limits or compliance status conflict with your requirements.