Best Session Replay Tools (2026): Top 10 Compared

Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare. Contentsquare states that the two platforms have merged, that anyone looking to try Hotjar signs up to Contentsquare, and that hotjar.com pricing redirects to the Contentsquare plan page. The Hotjar tools people knew, heatmaps, recordings and surveys, continue inside the combined product.

Session replay sits within a broader experience analytics platform. The free plan adds attention maps, error and performance monitoring, funnels, up to 100 survey responses a month and more than ten integrations, including Slack, Jira and Unbounce. Sense AI produces summaries of heatmaps and recordings, Sense Chat answers questions about the data in plain language, and LLM Connect exposes Contentsquare data to ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot through MCP.

Paid Growth plans are priced by monthly sessions, with a separate replay allowance. Larger organisations move to Pro and Enterprise, which begin at 1 million monthly sessions and are quoted. Product analytics and voice-of-customer modules are sold under separate plans.

Fullstory sells behavioural data products for analytics, workforce and data activation. Its Analytics plans include session replay, heatmaps, scroll and click maps, live session viewing, developer tools and tabbed browsing, so a replay follows a user across several open tabs.

Capture is tagless: Fullstory records interactions automatically instead of requiring events to be defined in advance, which the vendor presents as a way to avoid gaps in the data. Private and sensitive data is excluded by default, and configurable form privacy, sensitive data detection and restrictions by IP, location and user agent are listed in the plan comparison. StoryAI adds AI agents and one-click session summaries.

The plan table also lists retention analysis, journeys, metric insights and data management features, and Fullstory positions Advanced for trend discovery at scale and Enterprise for data science teams. Fullstory Anywhere sends behavioural data to a warehouse or activates it for personalisation, and a separate Workforce product applies session replay to employees' internal tools.

Microsoft Clarity is a free behaviour analytics tool. Its FAQ states that it is free forever, with no traffic limits, no limit on sites per account and no sampling, and Microsoft says it runs on more than two million sites and apps.

Session recordings show clicks, scrolls and page rendering, with Highlights marking key moments in a journey. Heatmaps show where users click, scroll and drop off, and can be compared across page versions. AI summaries condense recordings and heatmaps into takeaways, and a chat interface answers questions about the data. Clarity also reports how AI assistants cite and crawl a site, and offers Brand agents, an on-site shopping assistant.

A lightweight SDK covers Android, iOS, Flutter and React Native apps. An MCP server and a live browser extension extend Clarity to other tools. The capture script is open source, masking of user data is configurable, and data is held in Azure. Clarity must not be used on sites aimed at users under 18.

PostHog is a product platform with more than ten tools, including analytics, feature flags, experiments, surveys, error tracking and a data warehouse. Session Replay records clicks, scrolls, form inputs, page views, network requests and console logs and plays them back like video.

The replay player includes an event timeline listing autocaptured events, custom events, form interactions and errors. Each row opens event properties, exception details with stack traces and request headers, or web vitals such as LCP and INP. Filters narrow recordings by event, user property, time range and behaviour such as rage clicks.

PostHog AI finds, watches and summarises recordings, and the PostHog MCP brings the same capability into Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code and other agents. PostHog says more than 90 per cent of companies stay on its free tier. Adding a card keeps the same monthly free volume and raises the project limit, retention and support level.

Sentry is an application monitoring platform built around error monitoring and tracing. Session Replay adds a video-like reproduction of what the user did before and after an issue, so developers can see the steps that led to an error rather than rely on a bug report.

Replay is generally available for web and mobile. On the web it covers static sites, single-page applications and server-side rendered frameworks, including Electron, Next.js and Remix. Mobile replay supports Android, iOS and React Native. A Replays page lists sessions with filters, a details page shows the replay with its surrounding data, and organisations can restrict replay access to specific users on top of role and team permissions.

Pricing combines a base plan with volume. Each paid plan includes 50 replays, 50,000 errors and 5 million spans, and more replays are bought in advance at a discount or through a shared pay-as-you-go budget. Data above both limits is dropped rather than billed.

Datadog is an observability platform covering infrastructure, APM, logs, security and digital experience. Session Replay is part of its digital experience products and is sold as an add-on to Real User Monitoring or Product Analytics.

Browser Session Replay captures and replays the web experience alongside RUM performance data, which helps teams reproduce errors and study usage patterns. The RUM Browser SDK is open source and uses the rrweb project. Mobile Session Replay replays taps, swipes and scrolls in native Android and iOS apps, which helps reproduce crashes.

AI-powered summaries describe the user's intent, key actions, friction signals and outcome, with links that jump to the matching moment. Smart chapters split the timeline into labelled stages, such as browsing and checkout. Datadog prices replay per 1,000 sessions with a lower annual rate than month-to-month or on-demand billing, and states that multi-year and volume discounts are available.

Mouseflow is a behaviour analytics tool built around session replay, heatmaps, journey analytics and friction detection. Replays recreate individual sessions, and teams can star, tag, comment on, share and download recordings.

Heatmaps cover clicks, scrolls, geography, attention, movement and friction, and can be compared side by side. Friction detection flags friction events and JavaScript errors automatically, ranks affected pages and elements, sends notifications and can trigger feedback surveys when friction occurs. Form analytics show where users abandon or fail to submit forms, and conversion funnels link to replays of dropped and converted users.

Plans are sized by monthly sessions, website projects, funnels and retention, which runs from 1 month on free to 12 months on Premium. The plan comparison also lists data export, an open REST API, an MCP connection for LLMs, journey analytics, SSO and Mina AI.

Lucky Orange is a conversion optimisation tool for websites and online stores. It states that more than 500,000 websites use it.

Session recordings show how visitors move through pages, and dynamic heatmaps show clicks and scroll depth on live pages. Conversion funnels, page analytics and form analytics show where visitors drop out. Unlike most replay tools, Lucky Orange also includes live chat, a live visitor view of people on the site now, and unlimited surveys and announcements, so a team can act on what recordings reveal.

Plans differ by monthly sessions rather than features. Data storage starts at 60 days, with 90, 180 or 365 days available as upgrades, and extra websites cost $5 each. Discovery AI is also listed on the pricing page. Annual billing is about 20 per cent lower than monthly.

OpenReplay is an open-source session replay and product analytics platform that can be self-hosted. It presents self-hosting as a way to keep complete control of customer data, with no third-party processors and shorter compliance reviews.

Replays include errors, network activity, performance metrics and AI summaries, with built-in developer tools for reproducing bugs as if they happened in the engineer's own browser. Product analytics add funnels, user journeys, trends, heatmaps and web analytics. Co-browsing lets support teams join a live session, take remote control, annotate and start a video call without a meeting link. Spot handles bug reports, and an MCP server appears in the plan comparison.

Three deployment models are offered. The open-source edition runs on-premises on any cloud. Dedicated is a managed virtual machine in a separate VPC across 50 regions on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, or in the buyer's own cloud. Enterprise adds SAML, SCIM, audit logging, dedicated support and volume pricing.

UXCam is a product analytics platform with an integrated AI analyst, for mobile apps and websites. It states that it serves companies in more than 50 countries and processes more than 100 billion data points a month.

Session replay shows where users tap, zoom or drop off, and heatmaps, dashboards, funnels and retention tables sit alongside it. For apps, UXCam tracks frustration signals, unresponsive gestures, crashes, UI freezes and exceptions, and log capture and stack trace analysis are listed. The SDK records video on a background thread and uploads when the app moves to the background, and sensitive fields are blocked automatically.

Tara AI is the analyst layer. A lite version is included on Starter, and Tara AI Pro adds 1,000 or more monthly credits so the analyst can review more sessions. Plans are sized by monthly sessions, projects and user licences, and SOC 2, SAML single sign-on and regional data hosting are documented.