Emerge Tools is joining Sentry

👋 We have big news: Emerge Tools is joining Sentry.

First things first: for current users, our tools will continue to work exactly as you'd expect. There's an FAQ at the bottom with more logistics, but we want to talk about Emerge's journey so far and why we're excited about what's next.

Our goal has always been to help developers build better apps. Now, we'll work with the incredible team at Sentry to build the best mobile tooling in the world.

How we got here

We actually founded our first company together building apps all the way back in 2011. Yes, that's right, we've been working together for 14 years 🫨

Josh (right) and Noah (left) in his parent's living room taking the photo for our first 'About us' page in 2011

After years of working on indie apps and then in big tech, we quit our jobs and founded Emerge Tools in late 2020 with a focus on app size. It's all too easy to make mobile apps bigger, leading to real problems: slower downloads, prompts to wait for WiFi, or users deleting your app to make room for more photos.

Josh (left) and Noah (right) working out of his garage after we bought the emergetools.com domain

Whether you're an indie or enterprise developer, app size shouldn't be hard. So we built Size Analysis, to help teams like Spotify, Square, and Tinder focus on building great apps and not worry about why a bump in Xcode version caused thousands of apps to spike in size.

We've tried to keep this same mindset as we've grown: make simple tools to demystify the hard parts of mobile. Too many teams end up building their own infra and tooling to solve the same problems. We wanted to make tools that worked out of the box. Just upload your app and get answers.

Now in early 2025, we've expanded to six products and have analyzed millions of builds. Along the way, we've been lucky to work with with some of the best companies in the world – OpenAI uses Snapshots to make sure ChatGPT looks great on all platforms, Duolingo safely deleted 1% of their codebase using Reaper, DoorDash reduced app launch by 60% with Performance Analysis, and many more.

Whether it's our many, many public app size breakdowns or being the first third-party to symbolicate SwiftUI (which Apple conveniently released symbols for a few months later), we're incredibly proud of the work we've done and think we've helped spark positive change in the community.

Looking forward

Today, we're joining Sentry.

Josh (left) and Noah (right) in the Sentry office after the acquisition announcement

Our goal to help developers build better products? It's one that Sentry has been focused on for over a decade. They've already helped over 4M developers across 130,000+ organizations worldwide — by combining forces here, everyone wins.

To every developer who's ever used Emerge: thank you. Your feedback and suggestions have shaped our product and brought us to where we are today.

We've never been more excited about the future. More to come soon!

FAQ

Can I still access my Emerge account?

Yes, if you're a current Emerge customer, there will be no changes to your service. You can continue to use our products as usual.

I have a paid Indie account, will anything change with my plan?

Nope! The Emerge Indie plan will continue to be the same.

I don't have an Emerge account, can I still sign up?

Emerge is not currently accepting new users while we work to integrate into Sentry. You can sign up for our waitlist to be notified when features launch within Sentry. You can also sign up to use Sentry here.

How can I stay up to date on the Emerge and Sentry integration?

There are a few ways to stay up to date with the Emerge and Sentry integration:

• Emerge x Sentry Waitlist
• Our Socials: X / Threads / Bluesky / LinkedIn
• For any other questions, get in touch with us here: [email protected]