Behind the app · May 26, 2026
2 min read · Trevor Edwards

A viewer, not another dashboard

HogWatch never writes back to PostHog. That single constraint is what makes it safe to hand your analytics key to a phone app.

When you connect an app to your analytics, the first quiet worry is "what can this thing change?" A tool that can edit your dashboards, insights, or events is a tool that can break them, on a small screen, with a fat thumb.

Read-only, on purpose

HogWatch is a viewer and nothing more. It reads your data and never writes back to PostHog, so you can connect it without worrying about an accidental edit. It is there for the glance, not for changing anything.

That restraint is the feature. A phone is for checking in, not for administering your analytics, and the app is shaped around that truth.

Quiet by design

It works with US Cloud, EU Cloud, and self-hosted instances, and it stays out of the way: no noise, no nudges, just your numbers when you want them.

Your analytics go straight from PostHog to your phone, with no HogWatch account and nothing of yours sitting on a server in between.