The top alternatives to Hotjar are Smartlook, Lucky Orange and Mouseflow, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. Smartlook is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks Smartlook as the top alternative to Hotjar — Qualitative analytics with session recordings for web and mobile.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
Smartlook offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to Hotjar in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to Hotjar using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are Smartlook, Lucky Orange, Mouseflow.
Matomo is an open-source alternative to Hotjar listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
