Inspectlet vs ReplayBird

Inspectlet records website sessions so teams can review visitors’ mouse movements, scrolling, clicks, and keypresses. Its heatmaps visualize eye-tracking, clicks, and scrolling, including on dynamic content. AI Session Insights can identify patterns such as rage clicks, JavaScript errors, conversion drop-offs, form abandonment, and unusual navigation. Users can also ask questions in plain English and receive analytics answers with tables, breakdowns, and replay links. Other tools include A/B testing, conversion funnels, form analytics, feedback surveys, and JavaScript error logging. Inspectlet runs on the web and supports React, Angular, Vue, and other JavaScript-heavy frameworks. Installation options include a JavaScript snippet, browser and React packages, Google Tag Manager, and a WordPress plugin. The free plan costs nothing and covers 2,500 recorded sessions per month across up to three websites, with one month of retention. Paid plans start at $39 a month. Recording stops when the monthly limit is reached, while existing recordings and heatmaps remain accessible. Retention ranges from one month on Free to 24 months on Enterprise.

ReplayBird is a product-analytics, session-replay, and heatmap service for examining how users interact with a product. Session replay records events, mouse movement, clicks, and scrolling; its error analysis can inspect console logs and stack traces. Analytics include funnels, customer-journey analysis, form analysis, speed analysis, and frontend error tracking. The service says installation can use one JavaScript snippet, with options for React, Angular, Plain JavaScript, Vue, Segment, Freshpaint, Magento, Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, WordPress, and Shopify. ReplayBird runs on the web or on customer infrastructure. Self-hosted environments include Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, private AWS, GCP, or Azure instances, and on-premises data centers. Self-hosting includes data-residency options, retention policies, audit trails, and access controls. Users can block IPs and mask sensitive data; the pricing page lists GDPR and CCPA compliance. Plans include Free at free and Startup at $31 a month, billed monthly.