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Overview

What is Fullstory?

FullStory headquartered in Atlanta offers a heat map and session recording / replay application, presented as a digital experience analytics solution that provides on-the-fly conversion funnels, advanced search capabilities, video-like replay of real user sessions, and robust debugging and developer…

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FullStory is a versatile tool that is relied upon by various teams, including customer support, product management, engineering, and …
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FS is great!

8 out of 10
March 14, 2023
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Helps understand edge cases and bad product behavior for our end users. Also assists in recreating temporary complaints and gaining useful …
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Great product.

10 out of 10
March 07, 2023
Incentivized
We use Fullstory to watch users utilize new features, measure funnels for trial sign up to paying customers, look for performance issues, …
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Popular Features

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  • Session Recording and Replay (47)
    9.7
    97%
  • User Segmentation (42)
    8.2
    82%
  • Heatmap tool (36)
    7.4
    74%
  • Click analytics (43)
    7.2
    72%

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Pricing

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$0.00

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.fullstory.com/plans

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

5.2
Avg 7.7

Results and Analysis

Tools that allow users to evaluate the results of website optimization tests (e.g. A/B, A/B/n, multivariate, and split URL tests), or view visitor interaction with webpages and specific site elements.

7.6
Avg 8.8
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Product Details

What is Fullstory?

FullStory is a Digital Experience Intelligence (DXI) platform that combines rich product analytics, robust session detail, and collaboration tools to deliver real-time insights that uncover opportunities on web and mobile experiences.

WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH FULLSTORY:

  • Proactively understand what is happening on a website, digital products, and mobile app with a complete digital experience data.
  • Discover why things are happening with qualitative information from robust session details.
  • Collaborate with tools designed to streamline workflow, share information, and drive meaningful action across UX, engineering, and product teams.
  • Better understand customer engagement, analyze behavioral data, identify opportunities for conversion, and creating impactful digital experiences.

FullStory aims to help brands to increase revenue through better conversion rates, improved organizational efficiency, and boosted customer growth and retention.

Fullstory Features

Customer experience management Features

  • Supported: Product usage analytics
  • Supported: Customer experience profiles
  • Supported: Customer experience dashboard
  • Supported: Customer journey mapping
  • Supported: AI-powered recommendations
  • Supported: Multi-channel customer feedback collection

Results and Analysis Features

  • Supported: Heatmap tool
  • Supported: Click analytics
  • Supported: Scroll maps
  • Supported: Form fill analysis
  • Supported: Conversion tracking
  • Supported: Goal tracking
  • Supported: Funnel Analysis
  • Supported: Session Recording and Replay
  • Supported: User Segmentation

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
  • Supported: Mobile App Analytics

Security and Administration Features

  • Supported: Platform single sign-on (SSO)
  • Supported: GDPR compliance
  • Supported: Secure web hosting
  • Supported: Audit logs

Additional Features

  • Supported: User Trends
  • Supported: Event Funnels
  • Supported: Dev Tools
  • Supported: Sentiment Signals
  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Session Notes
  • Supported: Webhooks
  • Supported: Data Export
  • Supported: Network Requests
  • Supported: Page Speed Metrics
  • Supported: Alerts
  • Supported: Exclude Sensitive Data
  • Supported: Custom Events
  • Supported: Shareable Session Links
  • Supported: Watched Elements
  • Supported: Custom Conversion Analysis
  • Supported: Priority Support Queue
  • Supported: Restrict by IPS, User Agent, or Location
  • Supported: SAML Single Sign-on
  • Supported: Consent API
  • Supported: FS.Identify API
  • Supported: Multi-org Management
  • Supported: Entry & Exit Page Data

Fullstory Screenshots

Screenshot of a custom dashboard to visualize data.Screenshot of FullStory's session replay, combined with dev toolsScreenshot of FullStory Conversions, used to illuminate problems in the digital experienceScreenshot of Fullstory for mobile appsScreenshot of FullStory search and segmentationScreenshot of quality insights on the most valuable pages

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FullStory Differentiated Data
Why Digital Experience Intelligence works for retail teams
Why SaaS product leaders choose FullStory

Fullstory Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

FullStory headquartered in Atlanta offers a heat map and session recording / replay application, presented as a digital experience analytics solution that provides on-the-fly conversion funnels, advanced search capabilities, video-like replay of real user sessions, and robust debugging and developer tools. The FullStory analytics engine automatically indexes digital interactions with sites or apps to empower teams to measure, validate, and act on each experience at scale. FullStory also boasts robust privacy tooling so users can manage privacy, consent, and selective exclusion of on-screen text.

Fullstory starts at $0.

Hotjar, Contentsquare, and Quantum Metric are common alternatives for Fullstory.

Reviewers rate Session Recording and Replay highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Fullstory are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

FullStory is a versatile tool that is relied upon by various teams, including customer support, product management, engineering, and sales, to track user interactions, identify pain points, troubleshoot issues, and improve the overall user experience. Customer support teams find FullStory helpful in investigating and understanding customer experiences on their websites or apps. The software's segmentation feature allows users to assess user interactions with web pages and identify areas for improvement. Product managers depend on FullStory to understand how users interact with features and identify pain points. Engineering teams benefit from FullStory's console events tracking feature when resolving bugs. Additionally, FullStory complements Google Analytics by providing detailed insights into user activity on each page, enhancing the customer experience. UX researchers utilize FullStory's heatmapping feature to gain a comprehensive understanding of how consumers interact with experiences. Overall, FullStory is a valuable tool that empowers businesses to improve customer experience and optimize their product offerings.

Based on user reviews, the most common recommendations for FullStory are to utilize its metrics tools and session playback, compare it to other tools to ensure it meets all needs, and approach it with a specific goal or hunch in mind.

Users suggest taking advantage of FullStory's metrics tools and session playback feature to gain insights into user behavior and prioritize necessary changes. They also advise comparing FullStory to alternative tools to evaluate which features and pricing structures align best with their requirements. Additionally, users recommend approaching FullStory with a specific goal or hypothesis in mind to make the most of its capabilities. These recommendations can help users understand how FullStory can support their team and enhance their understanding of user interactions.

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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it to diagnose user problems
  • Helps trace weird corner cases
  • Can visually see how users move
  • Provides logs
  • Better UX to help navigate for new users. Its complex
Helpful if you have diverse users and corner cases to try and track down, where just having server logs isnt enough
Alexander D. Webber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Describe how you use FullStory in your organization. To troubleshoot CX support issues. What are the business problems the product addresses, and what is the scope of your use case? We are a technical support team, and being able to assess agents' interactions with our SaaS platform really helps us to get to the bottom of issues more swiftly.
  • Tracking custom events like browser or connection errors.
  • Support dashboards - to track common errors.
  • Sharing evidence of issues with our Engineering + Product Teams.
  • Overages are not well managed by FullStory - especially for contractural-based agreements.
  • There should be options to avoid tracking certain parts of our portal - which in turn would reduce our fees - we do not need to track 100% of the session data we see via FS.
FullStory is the best support tool I know of.
March 14, 2023

FS is great!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Helps understand edge cases and bad product behavior for our end users. Also assists in recreating temporary complaints and gaining useful metadata around them. Very specifically when users encounter different errors with system inputs and therefore results in apparent user behavior (multiple refreshes, rage clicks, trying to navigate to different screens, etc.)
  • Captures the user experience well.
  • Good filters.
  • The interface is decent.
  • Session breakdown and result view can be easier to use.
  • More free seats.
  • Easier understanding of what the user has done in different session aspects/colors.
Great for identifying end-user behavior trends and bugs. We use it to track specific user journeys from sign-in to set-up problems where they claim to see a certain problem, but we don't see it in our system logs - so FS helps us determine a certain level of truth. This is especially helpful with getting timestamps of certain issues we can correlate internally.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our industry, the business is seasonal hence some quarters are heavier than the others. We love full story as it scales across all the features seamlessly and enables cross-functional teams to see the process, measure the outcomes, and narrow down the user behavior in a super simplified way. I led the FullStory implementation at my previous company and brought it to my team at a new company based on my delightful experience.
  • User behavior Tracking
  • Easy to create multiple dashboards
  • Insightful heat maps
  • User Session videos are long. Ability to tag a section such that it can be shared cross functionally
  • Ability to select a few sessions and provide a comparison based on the click maps. It has to be done manually today
  • Setup Alerts based on the user activity
Fulltstory is greatly suited for the product teams that are growing and have web or mobile apps. The biggest challenge that it solved for us is that we don't have to worry about creating customer events tags and embedding those inside the code to measure the user behavior. And the complexity of scaling the analytics as more and more feature experimentations are done is hugely simplified.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use this to track how users interact with our product. It helps us to see how users actually use our product vs what we anticipated they would do and helps us to improve our offerings and update our products to be more intuitive and useful, as well as identifying bugs or things that don't work as they should.
  • I really like the dead click feature.
  • It's easy to find sessions on specific pages I'm looking at.
  • It's awesome to actually watch what each user did in that session through video.
  • more plain speak and less code talk (the "if/then" stuff just let me type out what I want and you understand it.
  • Hard to sometimes find the right starting point or page where I need to begin a search.
  • Sharing with others is cool but would be cooler to interact on the website as a whole rather than sharing a link to a session, have like a shared stuff on the site (maybe that already exists?)
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.
Alice D'Orlando | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mainly use Fullstory for customer support. It helps us do the detective work to understand a customer's full online experience [and where they might have gone wrong on our website]. We also use Fullstory's segmentation to assess how users are interacting with our web pages and where there's room for improvement.
  • 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.
  • Sometimes it seems like we're missing sessions even before we've passed our quota.
  • Would be nice to get notifications regarding large dead click areas and insights on what to change.
  • Would be cool to have suggested people. For I.e. if a user comes in with one email but complains to us via another, it can be hard to find them. Can Fullstory connect the dots so we don't have to?
  • Pricing is pretty high. We'd like to get more sessions but it's too much $$$.
In my experience, Fullstory is super well suited for targeting a specific user's mistakes/struggles in their online sessions. For example, troubleshooting issues that customers complain about. It's also helpful to look at page success as a whole (for example, watching multiple customer journeys on a new website page to see if it's being used as planned). I think it is less suited for marketing insights, but maybe we just haven't explored much with that.
March 07, 2023

Full story review.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Fullstory to create a user journey in our platform, what are the most visited pages, and how much time is spent on these pages including a review of the features most used. Also, we can see where the customer gets confused and spends time on a certain page, we use that to figure out problems in these pages and improve the product.
  • Referrals to the first page seen by a user.
  • Fast forwarding when the user is not on the page.
  • Markers around on the video bar so we are able to jump to key points.
  • Time of the day, on every moment, it should show what the hour during the video was.
Depends on what the colleague is trying to achive. Attribution validation is possible by the Full story videos (when existing). The most useful feature is to actually see what your customers are dealing with, where they experience confusion, cold starts and etc. Overall a useful tool but not just for page visits since you can get that from trackers, but more for the ability to study the experience of users in the product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I and our product managers use FullStory to track product usage & metrics of releases, as well as to identify groups of users that are experiencing issues with our product. Our marketing team, support team, and sales team also use FullStory for various reasons.FullStory makes it easy to find patterns and share those insights throughout our teams.
  • Monitoring playback sessions.
  • Creating usage dashboards.
  • Finding usage patterns amongst users.
  • Troubleshooting user issues.
  • Sharing insights for team member alignment.
  • In product on-the-fly support chat.
If you’re looking for software to monitor playback sessions of users on your marketing site or inside of your product, then FullStory is meant for you. It does come with some analytics capabilities; however, deep analytics tools such as Sigma are more appropriate for product analytics tracking at this point.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize FullStory for several functions ranging from customer support through understanding our users better on the product side. Being able to quickly share a link to review user sessions allows departments to quickly collaborate around insights and/or problems users may be experiencing and to act on them in a quick manner.
  • Easily shows you the "what" users are doing.
  • Allows you to quickly segment users based on different criteria to evaluate behaviors or trends.
  • Makes it really easy to collaborate around issues that users are having.
  • Allows you to easily create dashboards, funnels, and metrics to compile data on what users are doing.
  • FullStory's pricing model around sessions can work really well for you or potentially work against you depending on your product setup.
FullStory is great at showing you "what" customers are doing. FullStory is not good at telling you "why" customers are doing something. However, knowing the what they are doing allows you to formulate the right questions to then continue research and connect with users to understand they "why" a lot better.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's great for identifying friction spots in the usability of your website, if you focus in certain important journeys, you'll find drop offs. From there you can identify why they are dropping off, then focus on that specific action to see if there are more users with the same frictions. I love the tools within it showing aggregated heatmaps, spot notes and direct integration to submit a ticket to dev with all technical info needed to debug. I do find some of the other areas difficult to use, like journeys, conversions, retention and events. I'm sure if I sat through tutorials, I'd figure it out...
  • screen recording
  • heatmaps
  • search
  • debugging
  • journeys
  • conversion
  • find & fix
I'd love to use for KPI tracking but data seems limited (lower than actual numbers), it's more for top level identification of frictions or issues.
It's perfect for a product owner to find future usability improvements and great for debugging.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Solve the needs to understand user flows. Our platform is very complex and simple analytics don’t tell the user flow story as good as with visuals. We have restriction in place in how we can track users and full story provides us a way to fully analyze the end to end these experience
  • User flow visualization
  • Immediate insights
  • Good sharing features
  • Dashboards hard to use
  • Funnels and metrics unclear
  • Session aggregation hard to use
If you need to get access to user insights and understand their on product experience but you have complex flows that require very deep understanding of how the product is used fullstory is well suited for you.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FullStory is a fantastic tool for anyone who want to gain deeper insights into their user behavior. I've found the platform to be incredibly user-friendly, with intuitive navigation and helpful features that make it easy to understand user behavior and identify areas for improvement.
One of the things I appreciate most about FullStory is that it allows examining features we developed without the need to add specific events during development.
  • The inspect panel which allows me to select specific buttons and add them to my search
  • Play speed options and skipping inactivity that allows me to quickly review user sessions
  • The Funnel card that shows me the presentage of users completing each step of the funnel
  • It's great when counting users, less clear for counting events
  • Would like to have the "user watched" on cheaper plans as well
  • I would like to see "time" (as in time to complete) take a larger part and be easier to analyse
Fullstory is a wonderful tool to get a quick estimation of feature adoption.
It also helps identifying areas where users are struggling with.
Another big plus is the developer panel that helps finding and fixing bugs.

It is less useful when trying to understand how many users saw something without them clicking.
Caroline Keem | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our product is not B2C but software used internally by our employees thus some of the FullStory tools are not relevant to us. However it has still been immensely helpful in a number of other ways. Our support team has been saved a lot of time and effort. Instead of trying to recreate bugs or go from a user's description they can simply observe the problem happening. We've used it to evaluate the effectiveness of new tool releases by monitoring their adoption and observing the behavior of non-adopters to see what they are doing instead. We've uncovered a number of new training opportunities and eliminated duplicate work which wasted our users time and lead to frustration. In addition the design team was able to observe unused tool sets and begin reimagining them to be more effective.
  • Monitor time on task and map changes over time
  • Monitor the usage of particular tools and show trends over time
  • Create really specific segments so that we can observe the patterns of a specific cohort of users
  • Create a direct link to any point in playback so that example is easily shared with support.
  • I'd like to see a way of measuring scroll-thrashing...when users are rapidly scrolling up and down
  • I'd like to export my dashboard as a pdf file so its easier to share
It's really helpful to our support team and saves a lot of time and energy that was formerly wasted trying to recreate bugs or getting a user on the phone and getting them to try to describe it. It's also helpful for seeing usage trends over time. Playback is particularly helpful in revealing user behavior.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Fullstory to understand how users interact with our site. We map our customer journeys to understand how website visitors funnel to our "money pages."
  • Tracking how users interact with our content; where they spend the most time on page
  • Building dashboards for specific things we want to track
  • Plotting out funnels in the user journey from website to demo
  • Sometimes it's confusing to build dashboards and get the correct information in the filtering so I see what I want to see
  • Use non-engineering language within platform
I know from listening to our engineering team that they get a ton of value from FullStory for users within our app. For marketing, we've also had success. I'd consider FullStory a valid alternative to Hotjar. For marketers who don't have budget for a Hotjar tool, they can easily join under the engineering plan. I think FullSotry is built for product teams, however, so if a marketing team is evaluating a tool to understand how users interact with their marketing site, it may not fit their use case 100%.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use FullStory after running each campaign or publishing content on our website to make sure the user experience is decent. This also helps me to improve the contents by tracking the insights of the user behavior on the browser. For example, using the heatmap lets us improve the website content, UX, and UI. In addition to that, I also use FullStory to have a better understanding of our buyer persona.
  • Heatmap
  • Users Screen-record
  • Insights and reports
  • Team annotation or notes
FullStory is well-suited for the SaaS industry to improve its product and user experience. It may also help the marketing team to improve its content and campaigns. However, it might not be the best suit to track user conversion and tracking the channels. I would recommend the combination of FullStory, and GA, and another CRM tool to get the most out of marketing campaigns.
March 06, 2023

Like magic 🔮

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Research customer behavior to improve UX and track down bugs. Monitor funnel performance to help improve our acquisition funnel. Help engineering team recreate issues or UX experiences that are unknown or differ accross device types. Use comments to document and communicate issues across teams. View network request history during issues that might occur.
  • Record the user behavior
  • Search sessions
  • Define funnels
  • Onboarding
  • Developer tools
It feels like magic. So easy to get an idea of how a customer behaved and some insight into how they were feeling.
Heather Siegel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I completely require Fullstory to properly analyze user data when it comes to prospecting strategizing, customer success, and product knowledge. The data is imperative to identify what users were visiting which sites, when, and how easily they were able to access vs being frustrated with certain aspects of the site. It is also key to my ability to identify where usage may be higher or lower across various products.
  • Date and time of customer usage.
  • Overall customer usage.
  • Quick view of reports/analytics across user data.
  • Drilling down on use - helps identify what works or doesn't in the product from a user perspective.
  • A very robust tool can feel overwhelming at times.
  • Would like examples of how to build reports, data, etc., on the home page.
  • Industry-specific guides on how to navigate and best use the data.
-Great for tracking overall user statistics as well as individual user or team data -Also fantastic for identifying scenarios where there is either a bug or user error - helps speed up the QA process -Can be helpful to segment or silo different categories of usage or usage across various products (assuming the products are browser-based with unique URLs -- might be more difficult if that's not the case).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use FS at PhoneBurner for many things. Our customer support team uses FS to track down specific events in which a customer might have experienced something negative. Our product team uses FS to observe key customers and ICPs. There are dashboards that serve to highlight insights that present us with usability, conversion, and other measurable data we'd like to monitor. Our development team leverages playback in FS to gather evidence of a given error or situation. Many of us simply enjoy watching users adopt a feature, so it helps our product and development teams celebrate when a given feature is successfully adopted based on expectations we set prior to the feature launch.
  • Playback is great.
  • Insights and reporting are great.
  • Linking directly to the customer and providing customer details is great.
  • Not sure if it's my computer, but I'm on Chrome and often don't see reflected the 7s of rewind I click when in playback view. Rewind just doesn't seem to actually rewind.
I described where it is well suited for us in my first couple of questions in this survey. However, I'm not sure if I'm qualified or experienced enough to report on any scenarios where FS is less appropriate.
William (Matt) Wood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FullStory provides us with insight into our user behavior and intent as they navigate our product. It is most heavily used by our Support team for debugging issues with the user experience, layout, and general navigation throughout the platform. Truly an invaluable tool that is relied on to expedite remediation on support issues.
  • Click Tracking
  • User Navigation
  • Data Analysis
  • Frustration Tracking/Scoring
  • Date/time an action occurs
  • Slow response times/rendering sometimes
  • Overabundance of features (not necessarily a bad thing)
If you own a SaaS product then purchasing this to compliment your Support team is a no-brainer. It provides valuable insight into the user journey from the emulated perspective of them. You can see exactly what they clicked on, where there was hesitation/frustration, key metrics around consumption and usage, among a slew of other features.
Tambi Younes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize FullStory for proactive exploration of consumer friction issues across our sites. The tool gives us great insight into consumer pain points, with metrics that give us impact for prioritization. We also utilize FullStory for replication of user errors, which gives us insight into quick fixes for bugs logged against our sites. Heatmapping is another area our UX Research team utilizes to understand how consumers are interacting with our experiences.
  • Watched elements make it easy to track specific consumer user flows & understand impact
  • The UI is simple & easy to use
  • The ability to quantify impact to CVR is hugely helpful
  • There is some very specific vocabulary tied to usage of the tool but it is straightforward once you're used to it
FullStory is a great tool if you're looking to optimize your digital experiences. We love it because it provides very specific impacts based on specific experiences or elements of an experience. We are able to capture great insights from direct consumer interactions, which has been a big unlock for us.
December 21, 2022

FullStory Review

Jennifer Wilson Craven, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we use it to track basic product usage (users and sessions) and to help provide additional engagement context for user experience/issues. We would like to continue surfacing user engagement metrics to improve product strategy, customer outreach, etc.
  • Event tracking
  • Customer Engagement
  • User behavior
  • Customer outputs (data exports)
  • Improved reporting/configuration for session playlists
  • Data lags/settling causing discrepancies in usage numbers tracked over time
Well suited for specific event tracking and understanding specific user behavior. Requires a good bit of configuration/system know-how to get certain features up and running. Less appropriate to use for foundational usage/audit logging and reporting that may be more appropriate to own in house.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I manage a Customer Service department, and FullStory has become an integral part of our support operations. Before we used FullStory, if a customer encountered a bug or problem on our website we had to try to coax them into sharing details so that we could quickly resolve the issue. These tickets often died on the vine when customers didn't care to spend time describing things for us, and our engineering team often couldn't recreate what was happening. Now, we can simply look up the user's FullStory session and submit that with bug and UX tasks. It's basically magic.
  • Tracks customer issues
  • Enhances understanding of customer problems
  • Shows UX and engineering teams exactly what changes are needed
  • Setting up segments can be tricky
  • Our Zendesk integration has never worked
  • The data dashboard is probably due for a refresh
FullStory is great for troubleshooting customer issues, especially when your customer base is in another time zone or composed of people who speak another language. It's also great for UI/UX projects, since you can see exactly what a customer is doing on your site and how they're interacting with your content.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FullStory is helping the product design team by giving them the ability to see not only the quantitive data of how many people did something but also the qualitative data of how they interacted with the user interface and where they might've hit a roadblock in the experience. This is key to our team being able to make an informed decision about how to improve our product.
  • Makes it easy to search for the things you're looking for with their search functionality
  • Is very intuitive to use, even for new users
  • Gives you a quick snapshot of the quantitive data of how things are going within a segment
  • Makes it super easy to add to your search by utilizing inspect mode and clicking directly on the elements of the UI you want to track
  • It's expensive to add more sessions onto your plan
  • We've had to pause the recording to save on using up all the sessions so the data we get from FullStory is skewed
  • It was hard to figure out how to remove saved segments from the list
FullStory is well suited to answer questions such as where in this particular application flow are customers having issues, where are they dropping off in the signup flow, and more specifically what was causing the confusion in the user interface. Depending on how you have it set up, FullStory is not well suited for the type of questions that you would have answered by an analytics tool--especially historical data, as it would be very expensive to have FullStory running on all the time, so your data is skewed because when you run out of sessions, the recording is turned off.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use FullStory daily to keep an eye on who is using my app, monitor daily activity, and get a peek into unique user moments. When a new feature is launched, FullStory becomes my dashboard, allowing me to monitor whether it is working as tested and if people are adopting the tool.
  • Analytics
  • User experience dashboard
  • User recording
  • Custom event monitoring
  • CSS selector tool can be finicky
  • Dashboard not customizable
FullStory is a product manager or CS team members dream. It allows us to quickly tap in and see what exactly is going on in the app for a specific user. On launches, it helps us watch adoption happen live. And, of course, tools like frustration mapping are helpful to identify weak UX points.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had to implement this for one of our clients to track user behavior and also debug issues that arise when users are lost or in a problem.
  • User interface is pretty easy to use
  • Has some cool features such as JavaScript console and debugging
  • Reports are very detailed and supports identification of different users
  • Pricing is a bit steep. They used to be fine, but increased by more than 2x on contract renewal, and told us they could not offer old price anymore.
  • Most SaaS continues to offer old pricing or special offers on contract renewal. Unfortunately, they didn't budge a bit. They forced us to move on with LiveSession (competitor).
  • User support is not as impressive as I thought. There is no online 24/7 support
  • Offer affiliate discounts. We felt left out, as a consultant, to recommend FullStory.
If budget is not an issue, just need to get all the features of a Video analytics tool; this is the best one around. It has a variety of features and really well-generated reports and filtering functions. If price is an issue (which in most cases it is), then don't go with them!
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