Chartbeat vs CA Mobile Authenticator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chartbeat
Monitor website traffic and content engagement in real-time from anywhere. Understand how your content is consumed, identify top-performing stories, and analyze audience segments. Optimize your content strategy with flexible filtering and performance benchmarking.
- Real-time traffic monitoring
- Top-performing story identification
- Site and visitor metrics
- Audience segment analysis
- Flexible content filtering
- Week-over-week performance benchmarking
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Stay on top of traffic anywhere you go. Whether you’re at your desk, in the field, or just on the move, understand engagement with your content as it’s read and consumed across the web. Download the Chartbeat app and: - See your site’s top-performing stories and share them with your colleagues - View key site and visitor metrics, including sitewide engaged time and recirculation, and story-level running totals of pageviews and uniques - Track how content consumption differs between subscribing and non-subscribing audience segments - Dig into a particular section, author, traffic source, or referrer using flexible filters - Benchmark site performance and traffic patterns with week-over-week comparison graphs Please note: you must have an existing Chartbeat for Publishing account to use this app. For general inquiries, reach out to hello@chartbeat.com to learn more.
CA Mobile Authenticator
Enhance transaction security with two-factor authentication. Register your device and authenticate transactions via push notifications, simply approving or denying requests directly from your screen.
- Two-factor authentication
- Device registration
- QR code activation
- Push notification authentication
- Approve/Deny transaction options
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CA Mobile Authenticator works with CA Advanced Authentication product as two-factor authentication service to make your transactions more secure. Using CA Mobile Authenticator, you can register your device and link it to your account. You can activate the device using the QR code or manually specifying the details. This app allows you to authenticate transactions using Push Notification as secondary authentication. Now, you receive push notification with Approve or Deny options on the screen. Simply select Approve to approve or Deny to cancel the transaction. How does it work? Register your device for Push Notification Receive a Push Notification. Accept or deny the transaction.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chartbeat at 73% against CA Mobile Authenticator's 4%. Chartbeat also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.9). CA Mobile Authenticator's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chartbeat holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Chartbeat's written reviews are positive against 4% of CA Mobile Authenticator's.
Chartbeat ships an update every 8 months, CA Mobile Authenticator every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chartbeat | CA Mobile Authenticator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (18 ratings) — better | 1.9 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.0% of reviews — better | 3.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHARTBEAT INC | CA, Inc |
Customer experience
Chartbeat
CA Mobile Authenticator
In-app purchases
Chartbeat
No in-app purchases
CA Mobile Authenticator
No in-app purchases
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