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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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
Account Security
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- 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
- United Kingdom
- 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
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import historical data by CSV
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Via CSV or API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
See Cohort analysis
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Revenue attribution
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 properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community


