Open source · Self-hosted · AGPL-3.0

Know the exact
moment it lands.

Sondar tracks email opens and link clicks for Gmail — and keeps every byte on your server. Honest confidence levels, never inflated guesses.

live signal · sondar.localtracking
Last event
Sent · proposal-v3.pdf
Confidence
High · pixel + click
Built for teams who chose self-hostedPlausible-class privacy·GDPR-safe by design·No third-party metadata·Apple MPP-aware
01 — THE PRODUCT

Not a chart of guesses.
The actual signal, per email.

Every tracked message gets a live status pipeline, a full event timeline, and a per-recipient breakdown for group sends. This is the real dashboard — open it and click around ↗.

sondar.local/tracked
Tracked emails· real-time
Q3 partnership proposal
dana@meridian.co · 14:28
Clicked
Invoice #2041 — March retainer
priya@northloop.io · 11:02
Possible
Design review — v2 handoff
3 recipients · 09:47
Opened
Re: Contract redlines (legal)
h.voss@brandt-legal.de · 08:15
Delivered
Event timeline
14:28:11
Sent from Gmail
14:32:07
OpenedHIGH
Gmail · macOS · Chrome
14:35:02
Clicked linkHIGH
meridian.co/deck → 302

Open tracking, honestly graded

Pixel-based opens tagged High or Possible — we tell you when a proxy prefetch is masking the truth.

Click tracking, the sure thing

A click is a human decision. Sondar records every link hit with redirect status, so you always have one signal that can't be faked by a mail client.

Webhook-first notifications

Opens and clicks POST straight to Slack, Discord, n8n or any endpoint — no polling, no inbox babysitting.

Per-recipient in group sends

Sent to five people? See exactly which of them opened, which clicked, and when — each recipient tracked independently.

Self-open & false-open filtering

Apple Mail Privacy Protection and Gmail image proxies are detected and filtered, so your own opens never pollute the data.

Gmail via a Chrome extension

Install the extension, bring your own Google OAuth credentials, and Sondar tracks straight from your Gmail compose window.

02 — SELF-HOST

Your server.
Your data. One command.

No SaaS account. No email metadata leaving your network. Pull the image, point it at your Postgres, and Sondar is tracking in under a minute — GDPR-safe because the data never leaves your infrastructure.

Docker Compose — Postgres + app + pixel endpoint, wired
Bring your own Google OAuth — no shared credentials, ever
Runs on a $5 VPS, a homelab box, or behind your VPN
~/sondar — zsh
~/sondar docker compose up -d
[+] Running 4/4
Network sondar_netCreated
Container sondar-postgresHealthy
Container sondar-appStarted
Container sondar-pixelStarted
Sondar v1.4.2 ready → https://sondar.local
~/sondar _
03 — THE HONEST PART

Every other tracker
lies to you about opens.

Apple Mail Privacy Protection pre-loads your tracking pixel whether or not the email was read. Closed trackers count that as an open and inflate your numbers. Sondar refuses to.

We grade every open by confidence, tell you why, and let you audit the logic — because it's open source.

High confidenceconfirmed

Pixel loaded from a real client IP, or a link was clicked. This is a person, reading your email.

Possibly openedproxy detected

A privacy proxy prefetched the pixel. Could be a read, could be a machine. We won't pretend to know.

No signal yet

Delivered, but nothing back. An honest blank beats a fabricated open.

04 — OPEN SOURCE

Don't trust us.
Audit the code.

Sondar is AGPL-3.0. Every line of the tracking logic — how a pixel becomes an "open", how a proxy gets flagged — is public. Fork it, self-host it, send a PR.

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05 — VS CLOSED SAAS

Same signal.
Without the surveillance tax.

Sondar
self-hosted
Closed SaaS
Mailtrack, etc.
Your data stays on your server
Honest confidence levels
inflated opens
Webhooks (Slack, n8n, Discord)
paid tiers only
Auditable, open-source code
GDPR-safe by architecture
DPA required
Monthly cost per seat
$0
$5–29

Track the truth.
Host it yourself.

Open the dashboard, or spin up your own instance in a minute.

Open the live dashboard
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Honest email tracking · self-hosted · AGPL-3.0