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# Compass Trace Overview

Compass Trace helps you analyze how organic and paid user acquisition activities may affect app performance.

You can use Trace to compare KPIs across apps, competitors, countries, and storefronts. Trace also helps you review spike points and the activities that happened around those performance changes.

Use this topic to learn how to set up Trace, read KPI charts, and review the activities behind KPI movement.

### Get started

- [About Compass Trace](https://helpcenter.mobileaction.co/en/about-compass-trace?hsLang=en)  
  Learn what Compass Trace is, when to use it, and how it helps you connect KPI movement with organic and paid user acquisition activities.

- [How to use Compass Trace](https://helpcenter.mobileaction.co/en/how-to-use-compass-trace?hsLang=en)  
  Learn how to select an app, add competitors, choose KPIs and storefronts, and set up your analysis in Trace.

### Analyze results

- [Understand KPI charts and activities in Trace](https://helpcenter.mobileaction.co/en/understand-kpi-charts-and-activities-in-compass-trace?hsLang=en)  
  Learn how to read KPI movement, review positive and negative spike points, add annotations, export CSV data, and use the Activities section to investigate what happened around a spike.

### Related links

- [Compass Explore Overview](https://helpcenter.mobileaction.co/en/compass-explore-overview?hsLang=en)
- [Compass Impact Overview](https://helpcenter.mobileaction.co/en/compass-impact-overview?hsLang=en)

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