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Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
7 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
5-10+ depending on plan
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Data Export
Via CSV or API
As CSV or via API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly, monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
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