What is Hotjar and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Hotjar
- Crazy Egg
Crazy Egg gives you the competitive advantage to improve your website in a heartbeat without the high costs. ...
- FullStory
FullStory’s unmatched analytics engine automatically indexes every digital interaction with your site or app and empowers teams to measure, validate, and act on each experience at scale. ...
- Mixpanel
Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience. ...
- ClickTale
ClickTale tracks every mouse move, click and scroll, creating playable videos of customers’ entire browsing sessions as well as powerful visual heatmaps and behavioral reports that perfectly complement traditional web analytics. As a fully hosted subscription service, ClickTale is cost-effective and quick to set up. ...
- SumoMe
It is a suite of widget-like apps free to install on any HTML or popular CMS-based website. Designed to grow traffic and maximize content engagement, users can install tools including List Builder, Heat Maps and Share from a single plugin. ...
- Mouseflow
Mouseflow records videos of your site visitors and generates heatmaps highlighting areas users are clicking, scrolling and ignoring. Immerse yourself in their behavior to maximize conversions and customer satisfaction. ...
- Usabilla
It collects user feedback and improve your websites, apps and emails with Usabilla's Voice of Customer Solutions. ...
- Smartlook
Smartlook is a qualitative analytics solution for iOS and Android apps. Understand how users interact with your app — watch recordings, track events, and build conversion funnels. ...
Hotjar alternatives & related posts
- Very easy to use12
- Great insight information9
- Neat visualizations2
related Crazy Egg posts
FullStory
- See full user sessions8
- "Skip inactivity" during playback5
- Playback console errors as they happen5
- Speed up playback5
- Easy integration through Segment3
- Segment users based on actions3
- User event stream3
- CRAZY expensive after free plan1
- Expensive2
- If you're using it via Segment, it's all or nothing1
- We'll never get through all the sessions recorded1
- Doesn't integrate with our exception monitoring1
related FullStory posts
One of the challenges we've had to deal with as our product surface area has grown, is identifying and reproducing bugs. We use Sentry for exception monitoring, however, it's usually difficult to try to reproduce bugs. I first heard about FullStory from our friends over at Flexport (check out the Stack Story and you'll hear them mention it: https://stackshare.io/posts/how-flexport-builds-software-to-move-over-1-billion-dollars-in-merchandise). FullStory let's you record user sessions, and play them back to help you identify bugs and UX issues. You're even able to view the console errors live as they happen during the sessions!
We were pretty blown away at how comprehensive the product was at first, and it seems to be getting better every time I use it. Only complaint is that it's super expensive once you're in the hundreds of thousands of sessions so we had to stop trying to record logged out sessions, we only use it for auth'd sessions. We also started out using it via Segment but once we needed to watch out for the number of sessions we were recording we realized that it was impossible to restrict FullStory recordings on a per-page basis without ripping it out of Segment, so we ended up just using their JS snippet and putting that in the Rails views that we wanted to monitor closely.
The ability to share specific portions of sessions, speed them up, skip inactivity, and all sorts of other little features all add up to a really solid product that helps both our PMs and engineers improve our own product much quicker. I officially requested a Sentry + FullStory integration a while back https://twitter.com/yonasbe/status/871987738777616384, still waiting on this! #UserFeedbackAsAService #reproducing-bugs #sessionrecording #bug-squashing
Functionally, Amplitude and Mixpanel are incredibly similar. They both offer almost all the same functionality around tracking and visualizing user actions for analytics. You can track A/B test results in both. We ended up going with Amplitude at BaseDash because it has a more generous free tier for our uses (10 million actions per month, versus Mixpanel's 1000 monthly tracked users).
Segment isn't meant to compete with these tools, but instead acts as an API to send actions to them, and other analytics tools. If you're just sending event data to one of these tools, you probably don't need Segment. If you're using other analytics tools like Google Analytics and FullStory, Segment makes it easy to send events to all your tools at once.
Mixpanel
- Great visualization ui144
- Easy integration108
- Great funnel funcionality78
- Free58
- A wide range of tools22
- Powerful Graph Search15
- Responsive Customer Support11
- Nice reporting2
- Messaging (notification, email) features are weak2
- Paid plans can get expensive2
- Limited dashboard capabilities1
related Mixpanel posts
Functionally, Amplitude and Mixpanel are incredibly similar. They both offer almost all the same functionality around tracking and visualizing user actions for analytics. You can track A/B test results in both. We ended up going with Amplitude at BaseDash because it has a more generous free tier for our uses (10 million actions per month, versus Mixpanel's 1000 monthly tracked users).
Segment isn't meant to compete with these tools, but instead acts as an API to send actions to them, and other analytics tools. If you're just sending event data to one of these tools, you probably don't need Segment. If you're using other analytics tools like Google Analytics and FullStory, Segment makes it easy to send events to all your tools at once.
Hi there, we are a seed-stage startup in the personal development space. I am looking at building the marketing stack tool to have an accurate view of the user experience from acquisition through to adoption and retention for our upcoming React Native Mobile app. We qualify for the startup program of Segment and Mixpanel, which seems like a good option to get rolling and scale for free to learn how our current 60K free members will interact in the new subscription-based platform. I was considering AppsFlyer for attribution, and I am now looking at an affordable yet scalable Mobile Marketing tool vs. building in-house. Braze looks great, so does Leanplum, but the price points are 30K to start, which we can't do. I looked at OneSignal, but it doesn't have user flow visualization. I am now looking into Urban Airship and Iterable. Any advice would be much appreciated!
related ClickTale posts
related SumoMe posts
related Mouseflow posts
Usabilla
related Usabilla posts
Smartlook
- Good price plans9
- Works in web and mobile9
- Easy to use dashboard8
- Helps me to improve navigation and content layout6
- Easy to use for a newbie5
- Good data retention for historical analysis3
- The data shown is perfect2
- Works great for digital marketing research1