Datally alternative
Datally is gone.
Here's what to use instead.
Google shut down its Datally app in 2019. Android picked up some of its features. For the rest, and for iPhone and Mac, there is Dataly.
The short answer
Datally was Google's Android app for seeing and saving mobile data. Google removed it from the Play Store in October 2019. On Android, turn on the built-in Data Saver to limit background data, and use a tracker app to see usage per app and per day. Dataly is a free tracker for iPhone, Android and Mac, with a similar name but a different maker: it is not a Google app.
What Datally did
- Showed how much mobile data each app used, and your overall usage.
- Let you block background data for chosen apps.
- Pointed you to nearby public Wi-Fi.
What replaced it on Android
Android now has most of the controls built in. Go to Settings > Network & internet to turn on Data Saver, see usage per app, and set a data warning or limit. The names differ slightly between Pixel, Samsung and other phones.
What Android still does not give you is a clear day-by-day history, Wi-Fi usage you can actually use, or your other devices alongside your phone.
Dataly: a tracker for every device
- Daily and monthly Wi-Fi and mobile data on iPhone, Android and Mac.
- Per-app usage on Android and Mac.
- Pair your devices over Wi-Fi and see each one's usage side by side.
- A daily limit with an alert when you pass it.
- Free. It counts how much data you use, never what it is.
Download Dataly or compare it with other trackers in the best data usage apps. To cut usage further, see How to Save Mobile Data.
Not the Dataly you were looking for? There are a few apps with similar names. This one is the data usage monitor at usedataly.com.
Questions
- What happened to Google Datally?
- Google removed Datally from the Play Store in October 2019. It had launched in 2017 to show data usage per app and block background data on Android. Much of what it did is now built into Android's own Data Saver and data usage settings.
- Is Dataly the same app as Datally?
- No. Dataly is a different app with a similar name, made by OneWave, not Google. It tracks data usage on iPhone, Android and Mac.
- What is the best Datally alternative?
- On Android alone, the built-in Data Saver handles background data, and a tracker such as Dataly, My Data Manager or GlassWire shows usage per app. If you also have an iPhone or a Mac, Dataly is the one that tracks all of them and adds them up.
See it on your own devices.
Dataly shows your daily and monthly data use on each device you own, and adds them up in one place.