# ACRA/acra

Application Crash Reports for Android

Repository: https://github.com/ACRA/acra
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/acra
Homepage: https://www.acra.ch
Language: Kotlin
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: acra, crash-reports, android, android-developers
Last push: 2026-08-24T06:00:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 71/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 18, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5095, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 339, "gap_med": 189.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6502, forks 1127 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:43.885681+00:00)

## What it is
ACRA is an open-source Android library for crash reporting that catches uncaught exceptions, collects detailed device and application context, and sends reports to a backend of the developer's choice. It offers configurable user interaction (silent, toast, notification, dialog), multiple senders (HTTP, email, custom), and works even outside Google Play distribution.

## Use cases
- collect crash reports from my android app
- self-hosted crash reporting for android
- get detailed error reports from users' devices
- send caught exception reports without crashing
- crash reporting for apps not on google play
- notify users when the app crashes with a dialog or toast
- queue crash reports offline and send later

## When to choose
- you want a free, open-source crash reporter you can pair with your own backend
- your app is distributed outside Google Play (enterprise, beta, sideloaded)
- you need flexible report senders (HTTP, email) and customizable user interaction
- you need offline report queuing and detailed device data beyond Play Console

## When to avoid
- you prefer a fully managed commercial service with dashboards out of the box (e.g. Firebase Crashlytics)
- you need crash reporting for non-Android platforms
- you don't want to set up or choose a report receiver backend yourself

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, error-handling, logging
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: crash-reporting, android-library, error-tracking, bug-reporting, self-hosted-backend, android

## Member repositories
- ACRA/acra (main) score 71

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:43.885681+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:44:29.438755+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ACRA/acra (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:43.885681+00:00, sha 90b69acf2d79)
  - homepage: https://www.acra.ch (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:52.962755+00:00, sha 641196f22951)
  - site_page: https://www.acra.ch/docs/Setup (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:52.971981+00:00, sha 8654359c92ec)
  - site_page: https://www.acra.ch/docs/Backends (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:52.974195+00:00, sha 743c0e267c11)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.