Heatmaps, session recordings, and user behavior visualization
Heatmap tools (Hotjar, Microsoft Clarity, Crazy Egg, Mouseflow) reveal what visitors actually do on your site — clicks, scrolls, attention. Microsoft Clarity is free and excellent, which has reshaped the category's pricing.
Starting price, average user rating, and our pick for each category.
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Best overall | $39/mo | 4.6 |
 | — | $25/mo | 4.6 |
 | — | Contact sales | 4.5 |
 | — | $39/mo | 4.5 |
 | — | Free | 4.6 |
 | — | $9.99/mo | 4.5 |
 | Most affordable | $29/mo | 4.3 |
The heatmaps category is highly competitive in 2026, with Lucky Orange and Mouseflow both ranking among the top choices on Toolradar's assessment, followed closely by FullStory. The tight competition reflects how mature this market has become.
Pricing varies significantly among the top picks: Lucky Orange (freemium (free tier available)), Mouseflow (freemium (free tier available)), Hotjar (freemium (free tier available)) offer free access, while FullStory requires a paid subscription. Teams on a budget should start with Lucky Orange, which delivers strong value despite its free tier.
Website analytics with heatmaps and recordings
Lucky Orange shows how visitors use your website. Heatmaps, recordings, and surveys-user behavior insight for conversion optimization. The heatmaps are clear. The recordings reveal behavior. The price is accessible. Site owners wanting to understand user behavior use Lucky Orange for affordable behavior analytics.
Session replay and behavior analytics
Mouseflow is a behavior analytics platform that provides session replay, heatmaps, conversion funnels, form analytics, and friction detection to help optimize website user experience.
Digital experience intelligence
FullStory captures complete digital experiences for analysis. Session replay shows exactly what users experienced. Heatmaps and click tracking aggregate behavior patterns. Automatic frustration detection with Rage Clicks. AI surfaces insights from session data. Understand user behavior at the deepest level.
Heatmaps and session recordings
Hotjar shows how visitors actually use your website. Heatmaps visualize where users click, move, and scroll. Session recordings replay individual visits. Surveys and feedback widgets collect user opinions. Funnels identify where users drop off. See your site through your users' eyes.
Free heatmaps and session recordings
Microsoft Clarity is a free web analytics tool providing heatmaps, session recordings, and user behavior insights. Completely free with no traffic limits, GDPR/CCPA compliant, and integrates with Google Analytics.
Real-time web analytics with heatmaps
Clicky shows what's happening on your website right now. Real-time analytics with heatmaps, uptime monitoring, and visitor details-focused on immediate insight rather than next-day reports. Individual visitor tracking shows complete session activity. Heatmaps reveal where users click. The interface prioritizes live data over historical analysis. Site owners who need real-time visibility into traffic and behavior choose Clicky for analytics that update as things happen.
Optimize your website with heatmaps, recordings, surveys, and A/B testing to understand user behavior.
Crazy Egg is a website optimization tool that helps businesses understand how users interact with their websites. It offers a suite of features including Heatmaps, Session Recordings, Surveys, A/B Testing, and Web Analytics to visualize user behavior, identify friction points, and test improvements. This platform is ideal for marketers, product managers, web developers, and anyone looking to improve their website's user experience and conversion rates. By providing insights into what visitors are doing on a site, Crazy Egg enables users to make data-driven decisions to enhance content, design, and overall performance. It aims to make the web more usable by helping businesses optimize their online presence. Key benefits include easy setup with a single piece of code or popular integrations, unlimited team members and domains across all plans, and AI-powered analysis for deeper insights. It helps users identify areas for improvement, test new ideas, and ultimately drive more conversions.
The #1 website heatmap and behavior analytics tool built for eCommerce to drive revenue.
Heatmap is a comprehensive web analytics and behavior analytics platform specifically designed for eCommerce businesses. It moves beyond traditional analytics by focusing on revenue-based insights, helping online stores understand exactly what drives sales and what doesn't. The platform offers a suite of tools including interactive revenue-based heatmaps, AI-powered insights, screen recordings, and conversion funnels. This tool is ideal for eCommerce brands, marketers, and CRO professionals who want to optimize their websites for increased profitability. It eliminates the need for complex data layers and developer involvement, providing real-time revenue insights, identifying friction points in the customer journey, and offering actionable recommendations to improve conversion rates and average order value. Heatmap aims to be a "GA4 replacement" by providing more accurate data and actionable insights with an easy setup. Key functionalities include tracking revenue per session, per page, and per traffic source, visualizing user navigation through funnels, and offering AI-driven recommendations for website improvements. It integrates seamlessly with various eCommerce CMS platforms and split-testing tools, ensuring data privacy with GDPR and CCPA compliance.
All-in-one website analytics and optimization platform for understanding user behavior.
Howuku is an all-in-one website analytics and optimization platform designed to help businesses understand user behavior, identify roadblocks, and improve conversion rates. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools including heatmaps, session recordings, conversion funnels, and survey widgets, all accessible with a single tracking code. The platform is ideal for marketers, product managers, and growth teams looking to gain deep insights into how users interact with their websites. By visualizing user journeys, tracking events, and analyzing traffic sources, Howuku enables users to make data-driven decisions to optimize their site, streamline forms, and ultimately turn more visitors into buyers. It aims to be a user-friendly alternative to more complex analytics tools, offering essential features without clutter.
AI-driven session replay and analytics to identify user struggles, prioritize fixes, and track results.
FullSession provides AI-driven session replay and analytics tools to help teams understand user behavior, identify friction points, and improve conversion rates. It offers a comprehensive suite of features including session replay, heatmaps, funnel and conversion analysis, error tracking, and feedback tools. By visualizing user journeys, teams can pinpoint exactly where users struggle, whether it's during onboarding, checkout, or core flows. The platform is designed for product, growth, CRO, RevOps, engineering, and QA teams. It enables product teams to improve activation and adoption, growth teams to increase conversion without wasted experiments, and engineering/QA teams to reproduce issues faster. FullSession emphasizes privacy-friendly analytics with GDPR, CCPA, and PCI support, including sensitive input masking and robust data governance features. Its lightweight SDK ensures minimal impact on website performance.
Beyond the editorial top 10, these are also strong choices we've evaluated in the heatmaps category. Useful when the leaders don't fit your stack or budget.
Hotjar combines heatmaps, session recordings, and feedback widgets into one platform. For teams running CRO programs that need both quantitative (heatmaps) and qualitative (surveys/feedback), the consolidation saves vendor count.
For pure heatmaps without the surveys, Microsoft Clarity is free and competitive. Hotjar earns its cost when the broader feature set is used.
Clarity is free forever, GDPR-friendly, and competitive with paid tools on core heatmap + session replay. For most teams, Clarity is the right starting point and often the right endpoint.
Hotjar bundles heatmaps with on-site feedback widgets and surveys. If you want one tool for both, Hotjar earns its cost. If just heatmaps, Clarity is better.
Crazy Egg leans more toward CRO with its Snapshot reports and A/B testing features. Useful for performance marketers; less compelling for pure UX research.
Tools that didn't crack the headline list but deserve a look depending on what you optimize for.
OpenReplay is self-hostable session replay competitive with LogRocket/FullStory. Pair with Clarity or analytics tool for heatmap layer.
Each tool gets a Toolradar score from 0 to 100. It reflects how complete and well-sourced the listing is (a substantive description, verified pricing, and a quality logo) plus hands-on editorial curation for the tools we cover in depth. It is a completeness and ranking signal, not a review average. Real user ratings are aggregated separately from G2, Capterra, and our community and shown on each tool. We re-score on every product update and re-rank monthly.
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