Hotjar (now part of Contentsquare) does heatmaps, session replay, funnels and surveys. If you need all of that, it is the better product and this page will say so. But a lot of people install the whole suite, and its consent requirements, to answer one question: where are people clicking?
A full experience-analytics suite. You may only have wanted the heatmap. Everything below is checked against hotjar.com itself — but pricing and limits move, so confirm anything that matters on their own page before deciding.
| FeedPulse | Hotjar | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever at any traffic level. No session counting, no overage. | Free Basic tier exists, then paid plans scale with sessions — the per-month cost grows with your traffic |
| Signup | No account, no verification step. Paste and it works. | Account required, site verification required, snippet generated per site |
| What you get | Click and scroll heatmap. That's the scope, deliberately. | Heatmaps plus session recordings, funnels, feedback widgets and surveys |
| Required link back | None required. | None — it's a private analytics tool, nothing renders for your visitors |
| Cookies & privacy | No cookies, no session recording, no IP stored — nothing to consent-banner. | Sets cookies and records behaviour, so it belongs behind a consent banner; recordings need masking rules to stay compliant |
| Customisation | Pick the page, pick the date range, read the map. | Rich dashboard, segments and filters — far more than a heatmap view |
| Where the data lives | Aggregate click coordinates only. Never a recording of a person. | Stored on their side; free-tier retention is short and replay is sampled rather than complete, so check the current limits before relying on them |
| Removing it | Delete the snippet. Nothing left behind. | Remove the script and your historical data stays in their account until retention expires |
If you run conversion work for a living, Hotjar earns its price: session replay catches the rage-click you'd never find on a heatmap, funnels tell you which step leaks, and surveys ask the question the data can't. We do not replace any of that, and we are not trying to — we render one heatmap with no account and no consent banner.
Pick Hotjar when you need replay, funnels and surveys and have the consent flow to support them. Pick FeedPulse when you want to see where people click, today, without signing up or adding a cookie banner.
Pick Hotjar when you need replay, funnels and surveys and have the consent flow to support them. Pick FeedPulse when you want to see where people click, today, without signing up or adding a cookie banner. If you run conversion work for a living, Hotjar earns its price: session replay catches the rage-click you'd never find on a heatmap, funnels tell you which step leaks, and surveys ask the question the data can't. We do not replace any of that, and we are not trying to — we render one heatmap with no account and no consent banner.
That's the specific gap this fills. The FeedPulse heatmap stores aggregate click coordinates, sets no cookies, records no sessions and stores no IP addresses — so in most jurisdictions it needs no consent banner. Confirm against your own legal advice, but there is no personal data to disclose.
Nothing, at any traffic level. There is no paid tier to upgrade to, no session cap and no card on file — the whole product is free, including every other widget and all the SEO tools.