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    Countly

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Countly is a product analytics solution and innovation enabler that helps teams track product performance and customer journey and behavior across mobile, web, and desktop applications. Ensuring privacy by design, Countly helps the user to innovate and enhance products to provide personalized and customized customer experiences, and meet key business and revenue goals. Countly empowers companies of any size or location to grow their business by helping them securely process billions of…N/A

    Fullstory

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AFullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions by injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack. The technology's behavioral data transforms digital visit into actionable insights.N/A

    Heap

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.

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    CountlyFullstoryHeap
    Editions & Modules
    Countly Enterprise Edition
    Personalized Plans
    per month per data point
    Countly Community Edition
    Free Forever
    Business
    Contact Sales
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Free
    $0
    Up to 10k sessions/month
    Growth
    Starting at $3,600 annually
    Up to 300k sessions/year
    Pro
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects
    Premier
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CountlyFullstoryHeap
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsCustomizable, with free Community Edition (free forever) and free Enterprise Edition trial (free for 1 Month).Heap pricing is based on session volume. A session is a period of activity from a single user on your app or website. It can include many pageviews or events.
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Countly
    No answer on this topic
    Fullstory
    Chose Fullstory
    Smartlook seemed very early in its stage, so there seemed to be plenty of bugs with how it worked. FullStory just seemed a bit more put together and ready to service a bigger company like ours. The breadth of features also seemed to be favoring FullStory over Smartlook.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fullstory
    FullStory takes the best parts of session recording tools and analytics services. While it may not go as deep in the analytics area, it nonetheless provides a good suite of tools to work with. If all you need are the session recording capabilities, then there are few tools that …
    Incentivized
    Contentsquare
    Chose Heap
    Retroactive tracking really makes the difference. We use both Heap and FullStory.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap has an edge on Google Analytics due to auto-capture and ease of defining events. Heap has an edge on Hotjar, as it helps build funnels and has powerful filter/group by capabilities. FullStory is just session recording and focuses on one aspect of [the] engagement.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    We are able to use FullStory for a more comprehensive view of user interactions and see trends in end-to-end user workflows, although we don't have an enterprise license to their software, we just enable it on a user-by-user basis. It is easier in FullStory to see where the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Comparing to Mixpanel and Amplitude, the retro analytics option and the engineering light event implementation functions that Heap provides were crucial.

    Comparing to FullStory, Heap analytics BI options and the data complexity were the reasons.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    all of them may have their own strong suits but Heap is backed by best in class ML and AI algorithms. not only that all this powerful and robust backends are well handles also from the frontend. no matter how good your software is, if it is somewhat hard to navigate or to get …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    One of the key features of Heap compared to other tools is auto-capture. Heap is now introducing session recordings, thereby covering features from other competitors as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    From a startup perspective, Heap is one of the best and fastest ways to go from 0 analytics to nearly all of what one would need with the least amount of effort. It's faster and easier to implement than many above and it's better suited for quick quantifiable analytics that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    We selected Heap due to its simplicity in creating events as well as creating reporting on those events.

    No other tool comes close to the simplicity and ease of using Heap.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    The big thing for me, that I've mentioned already, is Heap storing all event data retroactively. That's what keeps me with Heap. Google Analytics is industry standard and connected very intimately with all of the ad networks, so we have to use it, even if I think Heap is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap's implementation is by far the easiest across the different analytics products I've used. The only downside is that the analysis part is a bit more confusing to set up, and sometimes the confidence of the auto track is a bit shaky, although, these issues can usually be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap is very similar to other tools out there including the ones I listed above. They all have a similar assortment of graphs, cohort analyses, and live views. Where Heap really stands apart is in its easy-to-use event visualizer, which lets you quickly create all the events …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Countly and Fullstory and Heap
    Feature
    Countly
    -
    Ratings
    Fullstory
    6.2
    19 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Heap
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    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile App Analytics00 Ratings6.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Countly and Fullstory and Heap
    Feature
    Countly
    -
    Ratings
    Fullstory
    9.2
    49 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Heap
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    Heatmap tool00 Ratings9.937 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings9.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis00 Ratings9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings9.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings7.923 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis00 Ratings8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay00 Ratings10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings10.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    Mixpanel
    Score8.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Mixpanel
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Heap
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Contentsquare
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Glassbox
    Score6.4 out of 10
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CountlyFullstoryHeap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (72 ratings)
    8.4
    (233 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.7
    (9 ratings)
    9.3
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
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    10.0
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    9.0
    (65 ratings)
    Availability
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    9.0
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
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    8.0
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    8.4
    (61 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
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    8.3
    (61 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    7.5
    (56 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
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    7.0
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
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    9.0
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    8.0
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    7.3
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    CountlyFullstoryHeap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Countly
    Whether you're planning to include it into a website or a mobile application, this arrangement is simple to implement. The best feature has to be its superb "division," which allows you to delve deeper into your data without using SQL-like queries. On Ubuntu, the free "group version" can act organically aided.
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    Fullstory
    It was extremely useful in identifying places in our product where things weren't functioning, or where it looked like action was available to the end user but in reality, it was not and therefore caused lots of confusion. It doesn't help as much in other scenarios to see what catches a user's Eye or where they go if they leave our application as well as an actual in-person interview would help with eye-tracking software.
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    Contentsquare
    Scenarios when Heap was well suited: It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message. Scenarios where it is less appropriate: Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app
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    Pros
    Countly
    • Open-source and Self-hosted - Countly can be completely self-hosted, which makes it really easy to offset costs of a competing service like Segment or Mixpanel for early-stage companies.
    • A large number of SDKs and platform support - Countly provides fairly comprehensive support for mobile applications and general tracking. As a result, it's pretty easy to create comprehensive tracking of events for any company.
    • Custom queries, access to data - You have instant access to data and extensive customizability which makes this platform fairly easy to use for any purpose of user and market tracking.
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    Fullstory
    • Tracks users' online experiences from start to finish.
    • Makes it easy to share a customer's experiences with the rest of my team.
    • Allows me to use different methods to find evidence of a customer's experience.
    • Shows page insights via segmentation that help me know where to improve my site.
    • Tracks error clicks and dead clicks for quick insights into site improvements.
    • Integrates with HelpScout for easy access to customer problem-solving.
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    Contentsquare
    • Realtime interactions which are captured automatically is a unique feature which no other product offers.
    • Low code implementation is a big plus for marketing teams, as there is less dependency on engineering
    • Detailed customer behaviours can be studied with captured replay sessions
    • Due to all the above points - it helped to improve customer experience
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    Cons
    Countly
    • No specific thing in mind. All is good except sometimes the customer service lags a little when you have problems setting up the tool.
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    Fullstory
    • The ramp-up time to learn the entire product can take a little while. There are just so many absolutely wonderful tools and different ways to look at the same type of information that it can take a new user a few weeks to understand and then more time to master. However, FullStory has a ton of training resources to help with that! A lot of my own teammates have taught themselves FullStory through those training resources.
    • The UX of the product is totally wonderful, but there are tiny things that make getting to certain parts of the product slightly more challenging (like clicking into a modal in a modal). Sometimes buttons or links are placed out of my field of view, but those are minor things I notice because I work in UX.
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    Contentsquare
    • I think Heap can improve its onboarding; I would love to see some info that is helpful for someone who isn't in Heap every single day.
    • Sharing dashboards can be tricky, it feels like a huge learning curve that I already have forgotten how to do.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    It's been a phenomenal tool for us; every department that uses it has found something new and unexpected that it can do that they're really excited about. Even if we *only* used it for bug triage, it would be worth our time and money. The fact that we can use it for so many other things as well--gauging how customers interact and use our site, identifying UI problems, etc.--is above and beyond
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    Contentsquare
    It's a great platform. I'm glad that one of our product managers introduced it because it has allowed us to create all kinds of new functionality. We're not only able to create a better product experience from our communications because of Heap, but we're also able to generate all kinds of helpful analysis.
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    Usability
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    Because everything seems to be easy to find and it doesn't take long at all to learn how to use the product
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    Contentsquare
    On a scale from 1-10, I find Heap to be incredibly user-friendly and easy to use. I enjoyed the training videos available and was quickly able to pick up how to create events and reports to track user interactions on our product. I would recommend Heap for its usability first and foremost.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    We've never had issues with availability
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    Contentsquare
    I've never run into any issues with Heap's availability, Heap is always there when I need it. I haven't run into any issues like application errors or unplanned outages during my 2+ years of using Heap. Each and every time I log in to Heap I have a completely functional experience
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    Performance
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    It seems the performance is really good and always loads quickly
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    Contentsquare
    Heap doesn't affect page load times considerably nor has a large impact [on] our overall score, as far as page loading times inside of the tool its pretty reliable to retrieve data as much as "instant" that it can be the delay seems to be on data getting tracked into the servers to be read but it's not significant.
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    Support Rating
    Countly
    Countly practically does everything you need it to do. However, it can have challenges of its own sometimes.
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    Fullstory
    They have been overall pretty responsive and proactive. The tool is pretty straightforward to use. Most of the questions we have had to work with them on our how to use new features or adjust our integration to ensure we are gathering all the data from all of our tools.
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    Contentsquare
    Heap support has allowed us to troubleshoot and test a lot of different items. Their support team is always helpful and friendly, even when we come to them with the most complicated questions. I think this greatly improves the value proposition of the product because their support team is knowledgable and friendly.
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    Implementation Rating
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    To successfully implement FullStory, it is important to plan your implementation carefully by defining your goals and user segments. You should also use tags and filters to analyze your user data, train your team to use FullStory effectively, and use FullStory in conjunction with other analytics tools to get a more complete picture of your user's behavior. By following these tips, you can gain valuable insights into your users' behavior and experiences, and use this information to improve your website or application.
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    Contentsquare
    The implementation was smooth and easy. The Heap team helped us with implementation and it went great! Within a few weeks, we were fully up and running and utilizing the platform to its full capability. This is an additional thing that has made this platform so great and we couldn't recommend it enough.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Countly
    Countly have two main elements that make it the better option. First is open sourced so you can edit with code new options and new events, also you can use a variety of plugins depending of the necessities of the users and the objectives of every analysis. The second characteristic is that is very easy to use and even if is open source and the code could seem complex everything is very intuitive.
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    Fullstory
    Smartlook is software that records users on a website
    and mobile app. Finding useful information within thousands of recordings is
    made quick and easy with features that help you accomplish this. I have chosen FullStory because it is easier to use and has more advanced features compared to Smartlook.
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    Contentsquare
    Heap offers a ton of functionality on a single platform.It also has an smart data science layer to offers suggestions for next steps in the analysis, allowing us to explore alternative paths we may not think to take. The low-code option for updating data is appealing, and there is a lot of automation with minimal engineering effort.
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    Scalability
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    Full story was easy to scale with the growth of our teams and organisation
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    Contentsquare
    The most challenging part of using Heap in a growing organization is the naming and structure in which reports and dashboards are organized. I work within the marketing department and our Heap leader internally works within the IT/Product department, which makes it challenging because we often don't speak the same language, so the learning curve has been steep without any specific use-case examples to leverage online.
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    Return on Investment
    Countly
    • Allowed me to understand my customer on a deeper level
    • Allowed me to tweak my content and sales pages
    • Allowed me to better understand my target market.
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    Fullstory
    • Triage for front end bugs - FullStory can sometimes help you spot a bug in action much more quickly than trying to recreate it on your own
    • Observing customers use new features and understanding why a new feature may be performing better or worse than expected
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    Contentsquare
    • It has helped us make decisions on what products to scope for our MVP based on the usage data.
    • It's allowed us to measure success with our beta product.
    • It's helped us view our conversion rates in an easy and usable manner.
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    ScreenShots

    Countly Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview - Product analytics platform to understand and enhance customer journeys in web, desktop and mobile applicationsScreenshot of Dashboard - Visualise metrics that matter the most to your businessScreenshot of User Profiles - Explore your product analytics data with individual user detailScreenshot of Crashes - Always be on top of crashes and exceptions in your applications, and resolve them quicklyScreenshot of Funnels - Track step-by-step goal completion rates inside your applicationScreenshot of Performance Monitoring - Keep track of your applications' network requests, perform code level profiling

    Fullstory Screenshots

    Screenshot of AI-generated Summaries used to Take Action More QuicklyScreenshot of a Visualization of Behavioral Data with Custom DashboardsScreenshot of Ready-made for AI Behavioral Data Straight to the organization's Data EcosystemScreenshot of Fullstory's Session Replay, Combined with Dev ToolsScreenshot of Mobile App Behavioral Data

    Heap Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.