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What is Heap?

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…

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Heap is a highly versatile analytics platform that has been widely used by organizations to collect and analyze customer data. Users have …
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Solid Data Tool

7 out of 10
December 15, 2022
Incentivized
Heap is currently used across my whole organization and has helped us to democratize our data greatly. The tool allows all employees …
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Heap Product analytics

9 out of 10
December 03, 2022
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We are using Heap to track and analyze user interactions on the product and determine adoption, usage and other funnel related statistics. …
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Heap Review

8 out of 10
December 03, 2022
Incentivized
In our company, we need to build customer's digital journey because we are not following well our customer nor understand them.
So we are …
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Good product

6 out of 10
December 03, 2022
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We want to see what is happening in our products and assess the users experiences. We wanted to see what features they are using most and …
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
Up to 10k sessions/month

Growth

Starting at $3,600 annually

Cloud
Up to 300k sessions/year

Pro

Contact Heap Sales

Cloud
Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Fibonacci Heap Demo

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Imogen Heap Performance with Musical Gloves Demo

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PANASONIC - BREAD MAKER (SD-P104) - (DEMO) BY HEAP SENG GROUP

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HAPPYCALL - 'DIAMOND' DOUBLE PAN (DEMO) BY HEAP SENG GROUP

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Heap: A Smarter Approach to Product

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The Gloves Music Controller Demo with Imogen Heap | Digital Transformation

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Product Details

What is Heap?

Heap analyzes datasets to illuminate hidden insights within the user’s digital journey, to act with confidence. Heap helps to see and understand every single thing users do, so product and marketing teams know where to make the most impactful improvements to the digital product or website.
  • Improve customer experience: Pinpoint exactly where users are struggling and make improvements to the customer experience, driving an intuitive, enjoyable user experience.
  • Speed time-to-market and optimize the impact of product and business teams: Rather than relying purely on gut instinct, leverage digital engagement data to test hypotheses and answer questions as they arise. With data-driven insights, confidently bring new features & experiences to market.
  • Build increasingly valuable features and experiences: Leverage data to build consensus on engineering investments that can be clearly tied to business outcomes.
Over 8,000 businesses use Heap to drive business impact by delivering better experiences and better products. Customers include companies in B2B SaaS, eCommerce, and Financial Services such as Twilio, Logitech, Snapfish, Eventbrite, Esurance, Northwestern Mutual, and e*Trade.

Heap Features

  • Supported: Autocapture (Codelessly capture every interaction/event in a product or website)
  • Supported: Event Visualizer (Locate, tag and name events with this tool)
  • Supported: Data Engine (Data Dictionary and Governance tools provide control and organization of data)
  • Supported: APIs (Augment data with flexible APIs)
  • Supported: Sources (Import data from other tools)
  • Supported: Reporting and Dashboards (Get insights on activation, retention, conversion, engagement and other key digital/product metrics)
  • Supported: Ad-hoc Analysis (Retention, Conversion, Funnel, Cohort analysis, etc)
  • Supported: Heap Connect (Bring user data with managed ETL into warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift)
  • Supported: Heap Activate (Drive action base on Heap data via connectors to Appcues, Marketo, Intercom, and Salesforce)

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.

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Heap Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, APAC
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Heap starts at $0.

Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, and Google Analytics 360 are common alternatives for Heap.

Reviewers rate Support Rating and Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 9.

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

Heap Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)40%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)20%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Heap is a highly versatile analytics platform that has been widely used by organizations to collect and analyze customer data. Users have found Heap to be a powerful tool for automatically tracking customer behavior and understanding their journey. From keeping metrics in check and tracking against key performance indicators, Heap has proved its effectiveness. It has helped teams track the performance of newly released features, identify areas for improvement, and understand both user and system behavior of applications.

Heap has been valuable in enhancing the understanding of customer behavior, improving user engagement, identifying pain points, and mapping out the user journey. It enables organizations to validate hypotheses, pilot test new features, and determine the success of those features. Users appreciate how Heap helps them identify issues in the user experience, summarize interactions, and ultimately improve the overall user experience. By delving into customers' digital journeys, Heap allows companies to better design processes, increase platform usage, and pinpoint areas of easiness and difficulty for customers.

In addition to these applications, Heap serves as a powerful tool for tracking and analyzing user interactions, determining adoption and usage statistics, segmenting users into multiple buckets, verifying default assumptions, locating friction points in processes, building customers' digital journey, creating graphs and charts for analysis in various industries such as healthcare and finance. Heap also supports funnel optimization by providing insights into drop-off points and channel performance. Whether it's the product team making data-driven decisions or marketing personnel measuring traffic sources and conversions, Heap offers valuable analytics data across different functions within organizations.

Overall, users rely on Heap to gain deep insights into user behavior, make informed business decisions, improve user experience based on audience segments, track conversion rates and usage patterns, measure product performance against competitors. It helps understand customer engagement with websites or apps, extract insights on users' tendencies within pages or forms. It evaluates clicks and funnels while monitoring various metrics such as conversions, page views, enrollment rates, etc. Heap's ability to provide comprehensive data analyses, flexible tracking capabilities, and valuable input for product decisions has made it an essential analytics tool for companies seeking to improve their understanding of customer behavior and drive business growth.

Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface: Users have consistently praised Heap for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. It has been mentioned by many reviewers that the interface makes navigation and task completion easy.

Highly Praised Event Visualizer Tool: The event visualizer tool in Heap has received high praise from users for simplifying the process of defining elements to track engagement without the need for additional coding. Several reviewers have highlighted this feature as a standout aspect of the platform.

Auto-Capture Feature: Many users appreciate Heap's auto-capture feature, which automatically records all events on their website. This eliminates the need for manual tracking and saves valuable time for businesses. The convenience provided by this feature has been highly regarded by multiple reviewers.

Confusing User Interface: Several users have expressed frustration with the user interface, particularly when it comes to defining reports. They feel that the current approach is confusing and suggest a simpler and more intuitive design.

Difficulties with Filtering and Group-by Selection: A number of users have encountered difficulties while filtering events in the graph report. Additionally, they mention that the group-by selection often gets reset in funnel reports, causing inconvenience and extra effort.

Steep Learning Curve: Users have found the learning curve for using the platform to be steep. Many feel that technical knowledge is required to use it proficiently, which can be a barrier for non-technical or less experienced users.

  • Implement Heap as soon as possible to start capturing all analytics and defining events easily. Prioritize creating a data strategy beforehand, including key performance indicators (KPIs) and meaningful analytics for the organization.
  • Complement Heap with other analytics tools to cover everything not planned for in regular analytics. Consider using Heap as a separate tracking system compared to traditional tools like Omniture or Google Analytics.
  • Thoroughly learn the documentation of Heap to fully utilize its capabilities. Do not hesitate to reach out to Heap support for assistance with any questions that arise.

Users also find Heap valuable for understanding user behavior, making data-oriented decisions, and improving products. They appreciate its ability to capture all analytics and save time by enabling more employees to build out analytics.

Attribute Ratings

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Madison Sophia Bennett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The use of Heap in the company is focused on the development of automated data collection and processing systems. [We use this] to obtain a complete analysis of different areas that require tools with robust analysis systems that can provide verifiable reports to know the possible changes that we must perform. [This allows our] clients [to] feel that we are continuously working to satisfy their needs and also to increase our vision of events and projects in relation to the data that we manage to process in Heap. Although Heap is not the only solution that we are implementing to perform data analysis of the behavior and interests of customers in the company, we can use this tool for more specific aspects that result in productivity growth in high percentages.
  • Robust automated analysis of customer behavior and interests helps make the necessary changes.
  • Heap has a fast and powerful data collection and processing system that takes into account every specific detail related to the web.
  • It also generates reports after data analysis that help my team to know the possible changes that we must make.
  • Heap is an intuitive tool that has good analytics and I don't really see anything negative about this product.
  • The usability is good, the technical support is attentive, it performs automated data analysis and also generates robust reports, these are the best features of this software and they are the ones that give me a satisfactory opinion.
Heap is more appropriate in scenarios that require rapid analysis of customer behavior and interests, such as events and projects on the web that have to have a robust data collection system and information processing of mutual interest between customers. Another plus point to recommend is the technical support made up of attentive, friendly, and expert people who are always available.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is much better compared to Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics as I can label the user tracking events on an adhoc basis. It allows me to get insights quicker and make much better-informed decisions.

Team is now able to track how newly released features and releases recently gone live are performing and helps us get observability level as to what we can be done better for those that aren't performing upto the expectations. Heap is a great tool to help us understand how exactly users are engaging with our platform and what they see as trouble areas.

It helped us summarise out numerous interactions that are used to identify issues in the user experience.
  • Intuitive Dashboard
  • Frequent Releases from Heap team
  • Funnel Analysis
  • Custom Property Filters are lacking
  • Missing Integrations with Industry standard tools
Well suited for tracking adhoc custom events and helped identify specific use-cases which we did not realized were important for our platform.
Anmol Dubey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The majority of our experience has been pleasant. With Heap, you have the ability and freedom to assess the user experience of your website at the most fundamental level and then build upon it. This tool, which again operates right out of the box, is the easiest available for determining how each button, design, feature, functionality, page, and tool affects our consumers.
  • Flexibility in how context-relevant data layers are displayed.
  • Easy and seamless integration with other tools we use like Kameleoon.
  • Various options for reports.
  • Excellent user experience overall.
  • Customer support has to be improved.
  • There may occasionally be some bothersome glitches.
  • To be able to use the platform, you do need to undergo proper training.
For web/app event tracking, we utilize Heap. As a technology business, we rely heavily on the product analysis tool's successful deployment and tracking capabilities. Heap's quick chart generation and dashboard features are truly intended for product analytics. Although it may fall short for large enterprise-level businesses, it is excellent for small to medium websites and applications.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
How you use Heap in your organization?
We use Heap to auto-capture every user interaction in our website. it used by the product and marketing teams to better understand user behavior, find errors, and make more informed decisions about product changes.

What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case?
When one of our users informs us that he has encountered an issue with our site we use Heap to define events retroactively and immediately do analysis on those events.
  • Automates away the annoying parts of user analytics
  • Can define which pages people were on, what element they clicked on, the color of the button, the target text on the click, the actions users took before and after clicking, the users’ titles, what other actions users who click that button tend to take
  • Make some deeper and more specific tutorials for the tool
  • Heap does not work for native mobile apps because it doesn’t offer a way to define custom events
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
Zeel Pandya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we're having company portfolio site that we recently redesigned. to ensure optimal ROI, we went to the market and stumbled upon this magnificent gem of a tool.
even non-technical staff at our office seems to work with Heap just fine. it is heavily dependent on visual aspect like UI/UX. by no means, I'm implying that their backend logic is not sound. its advance and uses latest AI and ML practices to derive its results. they manage a perfect balance and gives best of both worlds.
some of the useful features that we heavily used were, session replay. we pin-pointed customers from certain industry and analyzed their behavior. for example one of our well established customer already had their applications running in cloud, they specifically navigated to the DR (disaster recover) part on the page. after collecting this insight, we approached them and it was a hit. we're now serving them DR solutions.
  • session replays
  • shows visual indicators of where users have clicked
  • effort analysis to detect UX improvements
  • pricing would be a likely aspect
  • speed seems to suffer a bit but at this massive scale, its not much to complain
  • customer service response was a bit sluggish
least likely usage for this is to analyze a low traffic site. we particularly have fair amount of traffic so the matrix in end result are somewhat useful. if you're likely new company and have nominal traffic, you might work on your SEO first then leap forward for something like Heap.
it is optimal when used with nominal amount of traffic and have fair amount of analysts who can manage and utilize all this insights.
Rubu Gogoi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is mainly used to analyze the user interaction data. It captures the customer data to identify their behaviour to identify the pain points and optimize them for better customer experience
  • Extract data on specific customer activities
  • Real time reports can be extracted
  • Providing charts and graphs to understand data points effectively
  • Comparing data of different time funnel can be optimized
  • Too much data is generated, which require additional support to segment
To track campaign data and analyze user impressions based on their behaviour. Reports are generated to view conversion rate at every stage. Pain points can be identified to improve customer journey based on these reports
December 03, 2022

Heap Product analytics

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Heap to track and analyze user interactions on the product and determine adoption, usage and other funnel related statistics. There were many undefined events in the past for which we are now able to view the historical data easily, on the spot! It is also very helpful in building the entire funnel and journey of all the users and segment them into multiple buckets
  • Very easy to build quick dashboards for analysis- just a matter of minutes
  • Events can be tracked in near real-time ,without any latency
  • High support for self-serve with deep level of documentation
  • Intuitive platform with quick learning; no formal training needed for user adoption
  • Mobile version is suboptimal without flutter support
  • Graph analysis is very basic and sometimes calls for csv download for detailed analysis
  • Initial event and platform configurations are too detailed and clumsy
Heap is very well suited for analysing and tracking user behaviour across tech apps- more so mobile apps. It is extremely useful for deep diving into engagement metrics, user journeys, user funnels and segmentation and understanding A/B test metrics for your product apps. The service is real-time and responsive. However, it is not well suited for basic application who need just high level analysis and it can be daunting in the beginning to set up tracking on the platform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap is assisting us in determining our next course of action. We have the ability to verify or disprove any default assumptions we may have. We are better equipped to determine when further in-app or other messages is useful or essential. Naturally, one of the fundamental components is the ability to locate friction points in a process that has been created for our clients.
  • Data flexibility
  • Understanding user interactions
  • Ease of A/B Testing
  • Requires additional segmentation
  • Difficult to learn
The data visualizations are excellent and can be easily tailored to your requirements. We are able to track the appropriate data for any project we launch since you have a variety of ways to capture data from a certain Segment event (funnels, journeys, etc.). Heap's commitment to product improvement means that some of my charts and reports require periodic adjustment in order to take use of new capabilities. Occasionally, minor functionality changes as well, necessitating a second look.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an implementation partner, I was tasked with product comparison and choose between various marketing analytics platform. We did a comparitive analysis between Heap and Google Analytics. The scope of my use case was

1. Reduce dependency on engineering team to generate perpetual dashboards.
2. Provide real time data insights for re-marketing and personalization.
3. Quick and continuous site(s) level implementation, based on data insights.
4. Side by side comparison of historical data
  • 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
  • During our analysis, I could not find any such area of improvement as of now.
Heap is well suited for
1. Capture customer journey with session replay
2. Identify customer behaviour and improve overall customer experience
3. Frequent and quick implementations and modifications
4. Comparative analysis for historical marketing insights
Heap is not so well suited, if the aim is to capture only analytics data without any goals to improve upon customer experience / targeting appropriate users based on data tracking.



Sachidananda Choudhury | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In this modern world we always need to balance our organization objectives and the people's need which will eventually lead to successfully journey.

Heap does the exact same thing, it balances both using data analytics. using both predictive framework and adaptive framework it help to achieve the requirements.

In predictive framework it uses past data for analysis where as kn adaptive framework it uses data on fly to achieve the requirements.

Based on scenario we can use both the models.
  • This can be used to find is a Customer is about to leave a product or not
  • It can also help to know if any default might have based on customer's past performance
  • It can let us know what is the next best possible action that needs to be taken
  • Since Heap deals with lot of data, data base is a huge issue
  • Encryption and decryption algorithm has to be structured in a larger scale
  • Integration with other systems using heap is difficult, this has great scope for improvement
1. We were designing a banking framework for loan application, we needed to check the probability of a customer defaulting a loan, using Heap we were able to find the same as it depends on historical data. 2. We also check what is the next possible thing a customer can buy. We were using a AI model to test the same and the success rate is more than 90% for the same
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap has also allowed us to see user funnels and behavioral trends. Heap gives us the ability to distinguish different users based on the actions they conduct within our application. While utilizing the tool, from operations to product to business stakeholders, have a real-time pulse on how features are being used by end users, which helps them identify spots of friction and prioritize projects.
  • With the help of Heap, we are able able to monitor client and patient activity.
  • Heap can help you make better marketing decisions every day.
  • It assists marketers in developing their data literacy.
  • should provide data on the UI that is more in-depth.
  • Measurement can also be challenging because heaps are often prone to data loss.
Using this to capture the events within a particular time period is more beneficial.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Heap to better understand user behavior and our applications' system behavior. This helps us troubleshoot customer pain points in our system, and formulate a comprehensive solution to rectify the problem. Insights from Heap are also helpful with helping us prioritize what is urgent/important to our users.
  • Flexible and customizable
  • Great data visualizations
  • Easy to learn
  • Fast
  • Constantly changing/improving, need to tweak to incorporate new features
  • No Flutter SDK/ lacking mobile support
  • Limitations to graph analysis (not in depth enough)
Heap is a great resource if you want a fast, customizable way of visualizing and analyzing data. You can push data and generate high level reporting easily, and use them to make informed business decisions/troubleshoot client issues.

However, Heap is not recommended for tasks that require very niche/specific analysis, or complex integrations with other software. Also, Heap is ever evolving, so as new features emerge, they may come with bugs/inaccuracies that takes time to resolve.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our scope we mostly use Heap for identifying and fixing issues. Heap allows us to have immediate insight in all our user behavior by analyzing each step they take on our web domain. If a specific step performs less well, Heap will show us exactly where the performance dropped and why.
  • Analyze funnel behavior.
  • Watch replays of user sessions.
  • Extract data sets on specific user actions.
  • More intuitive interface for session replay.
  • Make it easier to perform different time comparisons within funnels.
  • Offer a cheaper price plan.
When performance drops on your website and you're not sure what might have caused it, Heap is an excellent tool to help you find out where the drop is coming from. It would also help to find more user insights from your customers and help you gain more control of your own data.
James Chia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap to track and analyze user interactions on our web platform.
  • Plug and play interface.
  • Non-developers can use it easily.
  • For smaller objects within a larger, it may be difficult to use the Visualisation Tool to target that smaller object for analytics.
Heap is great for quick deployment and analysis of user actions and pathways. However, sometimes when a web object is contained within a larger web object, I find I may sometimes not be able to pick out the smaller object for analysis.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented Heap to be able to track behavior on our patients' and clients' sides. The benefits of the service are felt across the organization: from ops to product to business stakeholders, Heap users at Cerebral have a real-time pulse on how features are being used by end-clients and to understand points of friction and to prioritize projects.
  • Tracks provider behavior in the EMR
  • Tracks results of AB tests
  • User behavior in onboarding funnels
  • How to structure events in funnels - there should be an option to add an OR in the last part of the funnel - i.e. people who subscribed to PLAN X or PLAN Y
  • The customer support is okay - but had hiccups during setup
  • Comparison paths - if we want to have two funnels but follow people who clicked "Yes" to a chart vs those who clicked "No" (there is the compare users option) but we cannot have two separate funnels side by side which would be ideal
Auto-capture, snapshots, and funnels are the reasons Heap is extremely valuable to a product organization that prides itself on understanding and improving user experience.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap allows us to clearly segment between users based on actions taken in our application. It has allowed us to create and test various product experiences, both in-app and through our CRM platform. Heap has also allowed us to view user funnels and behavioral trends while interacting with the application.
  • Behavior Tracking.
  • Segmentation.
  • Trend Analysis.
  • Better walkthroughs.
  • Wider Integration Options.
  • More frequent syncs with integrations.
Heap is great for behavioral analysis, user segmentation, and integration with CRM platforms. It allows us to define cohorts and analyze trends based on actions taken in our product funnels. This functionality has allowed us to create waitlists, abandoned cart flows, message preference segmentation, and more. This functionality has been exceptional in helping us better understand our users.
November 17, 2022

Heap is Great!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap to track usage metrics, especially with new product launches.
  • Visual dashboards
  • Organizing data
  • Data flexibility
  • Sensitive variants--I can get multiple different results from the same dashboard.
  • More explicit with dashboard filters.
  • Discovery of other data dashboards--can only find ones I've been linked to and I have to bookmark them.
We were using it to track conversion on a new product launch and it was good for that. Other teams seem to get a lot of success in using it to track different A/B test variants. It does a good job with data visualization, too, especially for our conversion funnel needs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap for a wide variety of business problems and use cases across the entirety of our product offering. It is becoming our primary user tracking system as it gets instrumented and integrated across our site while replacing an existing user tracking system that was subpar to Heap's product offering. Everything from customer acquisition, retention, checkout, and key conversion points is being measured in Heap. The properties make it easy to understand the factors that affect behavior and how different cohorts of users perform across various conversion points and funnels.
  • Easy implementation
  • Wide variety of report options
  • Properties and how they integrate into reporting
  • Scoping options (sessions who did x as opposed to just users who did x)
  • More types of averages besides just mean
  • Fast report load times for companies with high-volume data
  • More creative options when building dashboards
Heap is an incredible option in the user tracking space. I'd say the only time it may not be an appropriate option is for marketing teams who may want to plug up campaigns in ad platforms to specific key conversion points. But as far as digging into your product and understanding how your users behave, Heap definitely has a leg up on the competition.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use heap in our team to understand
- what's the most frequently done actions by the users of a specific cohort
- how much traction a feature gets after being launched in the first few days

The data derived with heap gives us clarity to make business decisions for both projecting as well as positioning anything in the product
  • Heap gives us clarity on the behaviour of the cohort analysing
  • The events creator plays a big impact because we can pretty much create anything and everything in product as events and track the trend of usage
  • The numbers derived on heap gives us clarity on the traction and helps us in strategizing activities that help derive better numbers for the business
  • The funnel view helps in clearly understanding where the dropouts are, for each and every step
  • functionality wise - heap is pretty good. Would love to see more usecases with videos as examples on the support portal. This will help when the user is figuring out the tool on their own
If you are looking to monitor the patterns of a cohort or the performance of a page or feature - heap is one of the best tools to assess and strategise and measure the effectiveness of the same, with the multitude filters available.
Or Tamir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Heap as a no-code dashboarding and analytics tool (mostly) for Marketers. It reduces overhead on our Data Science and Analytics teams as it removes requests for ad hoc analysis and dashboarding that Marketers can relatively easily build themselves in just a few clicks without having to rely on a Data Analyst build it out in something like Tableau.
  • Dashboards
  • Analytics
  • No code dashboarding
  • Could implement gamification to augment habit and frequency of using Heap features
Any type of data analysis should first be attempted in Heap. First and foremost, it brings data users closer to data analysis - that's always a good idea in a data-driven organization! Second, it helps Marketers not only to become more data savvy, but also to ask better questions that could be answered with data.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mostly use Heap to analyze top of funnel traffic and how it converts downstream, such as conversion on pages to purchase. We also rely on Heap to provide channel level data for marketing attribution modeling via Heap Connect. Heap is leveraged for creating custom events throughout our website, which is useful for joining to first party customer data.
  • Easy to use UI for non-technical users
  • Heap Connect is powerful for joining of website and channel data with internal data
  • Heap's Event Visualizer is useful for creating and tracking custom events
  • Data governance is difficult to manage and enforce in Heap
  • Creating dashboards can be time consuming and requires having several browser tabs open
  • Heap can be prone to data loss, which sometimes makes measurement difficult
In general, Heap is well suited for users looking to track page and custom events, and for joining such events to first party data. Compared to Google Analytics, the UI is far better and easier to use. It also makes it easy for non-technical users to get insights themselves. Heap is also useful as a way to get data inputs for marketing attribution modeling at the click level (ie, utilizing utm parameters).
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use heap to get analytics on webpages, events and interactions across both our webflow site and our webapp. We mainly graph events, and have recently started trying to use the alerts helpfully within the product team to notify us of any large changes in key metrics.
  • display segments on graphs
  • suggest events
  • visual labelling
  • discoverability of events, taxonomy of events, management of events. If i didn't set them up it's incredibly hard to find the right ones, verify what they are etc.
  • just make it easy for me to paste a URL and see some stats please. I have to define a graph, set the unique view count and then enter the path. That is so labrious for something that feels like it should be easy
  • customisation and consistency of graph colours across multiple reports. For example if we're looking at multiple graphs segemented by marketing channel I'd like email to be the same colour on each graph.
It's very hard to learn. It's very hard to discover as a non editor or someone who has set up the account. Its not particularly intutitive, sometimes feels like I really need to be a front-end engineer to define my events properly and accomadate edgecases (for example, the ID of a button on our webapp changing with a new deployment ruining a funnel) I have never understood or made good use of path analysis within heap.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Product level analytics: How are people coming to site, how long does it take for them to go through the customer journey, what parts of the journey is there the most drop off, how do different products compare
  • General analytics: What does channel level performance look like, how does it differ if at all from the company's main source of truth and other analytics platforms
  • Automated data collection
  • Product analytics
  • Pre-set reports
  • Pre-set report custimization
  • Custom reporting
  • UI configuration
  • Works well to collect product data in an automated fashion so devs do not need to code every event that you want to track
  • Assuming tracking is set up properly, funnel reporting has been straight forward and ease to create
  • Generally, off the shelf reporting can you get you around 70% the way to what you need
  • For custom queries or customization of re-build reports and dashboards, there is no functionality so for more complex scenarios, there may be a lack of options
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my company, we use Heap for product analytics. Specifically, we use it to understand customer interaction on the platform and the conversion funnels of different features we launch. We tend to use it during the pre-launch feature analysis process to get baseline numbers and also use it post-launch to understand the traction of the feature we launched.
  • Easy way to define events without engineers.
  • Simple interface and intuitive UI/UX.
  • Cheaper than other high end analytics tools.
  • More accurate tracking when doing visual labelling.
  • Events management after they are defined.
  • Integrations with other platforms.
Heap is great for smaller product org that do not have a ton of engineering bandwidth. Most non-engineers can go into the platform and use visual labeling to define the events they want to track and start doing their analyses right away. The learning curve is there but not super steep. It might not be the best solution when the company gets bigger and has stricter requirements for data accuracy and customization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Heap can be used to track user behavior on SaaS Platforms. It supports product development, both to improve existing features and to test and build new ones. Granular Heap data can be made available in Snowflake for complex analyses. In addition, a large variety of queries can easily be built by non-technical people through the UI. Heap also supports the integration with Salesforce, which allows running queries using data from Salesforce.
  • Flexible queries through UI without need to code.
  • Auto-capture most user behaviour automatically.
  • Allow server-side or other types of custom events.
  • Auto-capture can discourage users from systematically thinking about what to measure.
  • No statistical analysis of A/B test that consider significance.
Heap supports product development for SaaS platforms through a large variety of queries and auto-capture of events.
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