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Overview

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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Recent Reviews

TrustRadius Insights

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
Incentivized
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
Incentivized
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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://heap.io/pricing?utm_medium=revi…

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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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!

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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November 17, 2022

Heap is Great!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very good UI
  • Very good graphs
  • Very easy to use, especially data visualizer
  • More usage for combo events
  • More examples in documentation to differentiate properties
  • Easier way to find what each project is
  • Don't like how the projects selection moved to the bottom left
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Charts
  • Customer insights
  • Tracking
  • I would like to see Verified dashboards that have been approved by different people.
  • I would like to know which dashboards people are using the most.
  • Tracking mobile isn't as easy as I would prefer.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reports are easy to access.
  • Metrics are reliable.
  • Interface is user-friendly.
  • It is a harder platform to use for self-service data analytics.
  • For larger organizations, metrics created by different departments are hard to understand their definitions.
  • I find it's hard to know where to go to get the right data.
November 17, 2022

Thanks Heap!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer support
  • Display/UX of metrics
  • Which metrics track what
  • Clearer or a visual path of what is being tracked
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Auto event tracking feature is great.
  • Very good UI.
  • Supports most of the Product analytics needs.
  • There might be some annoying bugs here and there.
  • Should provide more detailed level of data on the UI.
  • More chart types and some dashboard optimisations.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I love the customization that Heap allows in creating dashboards.
  • I enjoy the collaborative data points that all can reference in their dashboards.
  • I love the clean UI of Heap, making data beautiful!
  • 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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracking Campaigns.
  • Transparency to insights and reporting across your organization.
  • Tracking user journey.
  • Understanding marketing performance trough the different channels.
  • Flexibility in reporting which allows to create a wide range of insights.
  • It takes a lot of time to learn how to use it.
  • More refined UX/UI (could be nice).
  • Dashboard customization, categorizing and easier sharing would be great.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Heap provides an extremely granular look at web traffic data.
  • Heap allows users to look at individual sessions so you can see what a particular user did during their entire session.
  • Heap doesn't provide nearly enough in terms of support.
  • Heap is difficult to use because of the way reports are structured, so finding the data you need can be challenging.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's easy to add more measures using the Visual labeling.
  • We can keep our data private.
  • It's easy to build new charts.
  • Firefox support would mean a lot to my team.
  • It could be cheaper.
  • We've found bugs during updates in charts.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The Auto Capture function does indeed save quite a bit of time, and being able to build new reports off historical data is really valuable.
  • Interface is really intuitive and user-friendly. Much easier to pick up and use than GA.
  • Building reports out on the fly is really quick and easy, allowing you to give right into all kinds of analyses.
  • The Event Definition screen is really useful, giving a quick glance at the most used events, which you then decide to turn into conversions or goals if you want.
  • Could maybe do with some more guidance or out-of-the-box help in setting up ecommerce-specific reporting, as it almost always will need a custom setup.
  • There's quite a lot of extraneous data in the funnel reports, e.g., auto-suggestions of steps to add in, that I feel create more noise than clarity (I don't particularly want to add in a name field to the steps, for instance).
  • I find the Influence and Path reports pretty hard to fathom, so don't use them much. Can see how they would be useful, but they are too difficult to understand.
  • I found Marketing Channel set up weirdly difficult to wrap my head around, whereas it's much easier in GA. In general, more around attribution of marketing channels would be good.
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