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Hotjar Alternatives

9 tools that do what people use Hotjar for, ordered by how many websites use them, with the facts that usually decide the choice.

Why people look for an alternative to Hotjar

  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports

The weaknesses we list on the Hotjar profile.

  1. 1.Microsoft Clarity

    887,443 sites

    Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.

    Starting price
    Free plan
    Hosting
    Private Cloud
    Data stored in
    European Economic Area (EEA), United States
    Cookieless
    No
    Open source
    No

    Microsoft Clarity profileHotjar vs Microsoft ClarityWebsite ↗

  2. 2.Matomo Analytics

    331,736 sites

    A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.

    Starting price
    Free plan
    Hosting
    Public Cloud, On-Premise
    Data stored in
    European Economic Area (EEA)
    Cookieless
    Yes
    Open source
    Yes

    Matomo Analytics profileCompare with HotjarWebsite ↗

  3. 3.Crazy Egg

    62,261 sites

    A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.

    Starting price
    $29 per month
    Hosting
    Private Cloud
    Data stored in
    United States
    Cookieless
    No
    Open source
    No

    Crazy Egg profileHotjar vs Crazy EggWebsite ↗

  4. 4.PostHog

    46,091 sites

    An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.

    Starting price
    Free plan
    Hosting
    Public Cloud, Private Cloud, On-Premise
    Data stored in
    United States
    Cookieless
    Yes
    Open source
    Yes

    PostHog profileCompare with HotjarWebsite ↗

  5. 5.Amplitude

    27,807 sites

    Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.

    Starting price
    Free plan
    Hosting
    Public Cloud
    Data stored in
    European Economic Area (EEA), United States
    Cookieless
    No
    Open source
    No

    Amplitude profileCompare with HotjarWebsite ↗

  6. 6.Lucky Orange

    17,007 sites

    A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.

    Hosting
    Public Cloud
    Data stored in
    United States
    Cookieless
    No
    Open source
    No

    Lucky Orange profileHotjar vs Lucky OrangeWebsite ↗

  7. 7.Fullstory

    13,364 sites

    Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.

    Starting price
    Free plan
    Hosting
    Public Cloud
    Data stored in
    European Economic Area (EEA), United States
    Cookieless
    No
    Open source
    No

    Fullstory profileCompare with HotjarWebsite ↗

  8. Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.

    Starting price
    Free plan
    Hosting
    Public Cloud
    Data stored in
    European Economic Area (EEA)
    Cookieless
    Yes
    Open source
    No

    Mouseflow profileHotjar vs MouseflowWebsite ↗

  9. Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application

    Hosting
    On-Premise
    Cookieless
    No

    Open Web Analytics profileCompare with HotjarWebsite ↗

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