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    Smartlook (legacy)

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Smartlook was an analytics tool for websites, iOS/Android apps, and various app frameworks, designed to answer the "whys" behind users' actions. It helped understand how customers interact with website and app — watch recordings, create heatmaps, use automatic tracked events, and build conversion funnels. The product was acquired by Cisco, and Cisco later announced its End of Life (EOL), with renewals ending in August 2026.N/A

    Xperius

    N/AN/AXperius is a UX research repository and research operations platform for maintaining traceability between source material, findings, product decisions, and delivery work. It enables teams to analyze research recordings and documents, organize the resulting evidence, publish research reports, and connect findings to opportunities, business objectives, designs, and development tickets. Key Capabilities Research ingestion and analysis:…

    $696

    per year per credit (starting at 1 credit = $0.08)

    Pricing
    Smartlook (legacy)Xperius
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $696
    per year per credit (1 credit = $0.056)
    Growth
    $4,980
    per year per credit (1 credit = $0.04)
    Scale
    $9,948
    per year per credit (1 credit = $0.022)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Smartlook (legacy)Xperius
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Every plan includes every capability and unlimited seats. Plans differ by credit volume, and credits are pooled across the organization. Credits are spent on usage — uploading, transcribing and storing sources, asking the Qwin AI assistant questions, publishing reports, linked Jira and Figma items, showcase report views, and MCP requests. Working in the product is free: viewing, organizing and connecting evidence on the map, creating questions, findings, insights and opportunities, editing drafts, and inviting people. Credits arrive with each billing term and roll over indefinitely. You can top up mid-term at your plan's prepayment rate; usage beyond your balance bills at a standard rate of $0.08 per credit. Annual and monthly billing are available on all plans except Enterprise. Monthly plans available. Discounts available for students and startups (less than 10 employees), reach out for details. Contact us at sales@xperius.io.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
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    User Ratings
    Smartlook (legacy)Xperius
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (141 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
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    Usability
    10.0
    (75 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (107 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Configurability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Smartlook (legacy)Xperius
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Smartlook is best for screen recordings. Especially when you are running MVPs. However, its pricing is very high. If your daily visitors are too much then either you will have to lose many of your recordings or you will have to pay too much money.
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    Pros
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    • Funnels are both easy to configure yet comprehensive enough to detect complicated customer journeys.
    • Real-time recording provides exceptional insights to our design & engineering teams.
    • Session recording is surprisingly lightweight and seems to cause no substantial performance degradation for our customers.
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    Cons
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    • I feel nickel and dimed with the events and funnels.
    • We came from sessions being 30 mins of inactivity and now it's 5-10 mins. Session count has gone up significantly which we weren't prepared for.
    • Recording playback isn't as clean and maneuverable like FullStory.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    As my ratings show, I have been absolutely delighted with Smartlook in terms of usability, cost, support, and its benefit to our organization. I have given it such high ratings because I think it has really benefitted our organization and I think it could do the same for other companies too.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Every page, the tool setup pages and dashboards are built very well, the site structure is perfectly designed and intuitive to use. All functions are well documented and the help sections are really everywhere, you don't have to search for answers, as they are just popped up or max. a click away for your service.
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    Support Rating
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    Sofia P. is being our point of contact with the issues we faced. I was unsure about how to explain to her what was going on with the recording numbers (the recording has stopped before we were expecting to), but she readily understood and came with a solution for us in the same day. The problem was blocking our developer to test the integration, so it was great to have support so fast that he could continue his work.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    It has been a year between the time when I last used Hotjar and first started using Smartlook. I would say both tools are more or less equal when it comes to features, the only 2 differences I can think of are - price and customer support. Smartlook is cheaper and has superior customer services. You have the feeling when interacting with them that they genuinely care.
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    Xperius
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    Return on Investment
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    • Smartlook is used by different individuals from different organizations to have insights into different parts of products. It is used as the sole developer of our website as well as marketing campaigns.
    • Smartlook has an amazing feature which is tracking the activities of return users.
    • It gives reliable and efficient services.
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    Xperius
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Research questions, sources and findings on one canvas, connected where the evidence actually connects. Each question carries a status: unanswered, partially answered or answered.Screenshot of Pull findings straight from the transcript. Highlight a passage and it becomes a finding with the quote attached — tagged, summarized, and connected to the questions it answers.Screenshot of Record the decision, not just the idea. Frame the problem and the solution, then log go, no-go or still deciding with the reasoning behind it — connected to the evidence that prompted it.Screenshot of Record the decision, not just the idea. Frame the problem and the solution, then log go, no-go or still deciding with the reasoning behind it — connected to the evidence that prompted it.Screenshot of Where stakeholders find the research themselves. Published insights and opportunities in one branded hub, searchable in plain language, with comments and bookmarks — no extra licenses.