Fullstory vs Smaply

Fullstory is a behavioral analytics platform for businesses examining customer experiences across websites, web apps, and mobile apps. It brings together session replay, heatmaps, watched elements, tabbed browsing, and developer tools. Analytics features include dashboards, journey maps, conversion funnels, user segments and cohorts, mobile analytics, guides and surveys, and sentiment signals. Fullcapture collects behavior from web and mobile apps into a single stream processed on the server. Mobile replay reconstructs sessions from draw instructions rather than screenshots and supports iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, and Cordova/Capacitor. Teams can add custom event data through webhooks and JavaScript or HTTP APIs. Privacy controls allow captured elements to be masked or excluded, using either non-technical rules or code-first controls. A new account's 14-day trial includes up to 5,000 sessions, two weeks of replay and analytics retention, and 20 user seats. FullstoryFree lists 30,000 sessions, 10 seats, and one-year replay and analytics retention; its price is not listed. If its monthly session limit is exceeded, existing sessions remain accessible, but new ones stop until the next cycle or an upgrade.

Smaply is a web platform that brings customer research, journey maps, and metrics together to help teams prioritize customer-experience improvements. Journey maps support eleven lane types, drag-and-drop stages and cards, emotion charts, live data, images, embeds, and planning cards. Maps have autosave, version history, bulk updates, and live links that display the latest version. Smaply AI can draft maps from descriptions and extract quotes, sentiment, and themes from research transcripts; the Governance plan includes Research Hub. Teams can comment on map cards and use admin, editor, and viewer roles, although viewer access depends on the plan. Listed integrations and embeds include Qualtrics, Tableau, OneDrive, Google Docs, SharePoint, Google Sheets, Linear, Trello, Azure DevOps, Asana, and Jira. Smaply states it is ISO 27001:2022 certified, SOC 2 Type II audited, and GDPR and DSGVO compliant. The Free plan is limited to one personal workspace, 10 maps, 10 personas, three advanced cards per map, and no viewer seats. Paid plans start at $38 a month per editor, billed yearly; the Free plan begins with a 14-day full-featured trial.