GetFeedback vs. Hotjar

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GetFeedback
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
GetFeedback from Momentive is a customer feedback solution designed to be easy-to-use, and measure the voice of the customer so companies can take action and provide an exceptional experience.N/A
Hotjar
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Hotjar is a conversion rate optimization tool for digital marketers. Features include heatmapping, visual session recording, conversion funnel analytics, form analytics, feedback polls and surveys, and usability testing. The tool is used by digital analysts, UX designers, web developers and product marketers. Hotjar was acquired by Contentsquare September 2021, and is now a Contentsquare brand.
$39
per month 100 daily sessions
Pricing
GetFeedbackHotjar
Editions & Modules
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Hotjar Observe - Plus
$39
per month 100 daily sessions
Hotjar Ask - Plus
$59
per month 250 monthly responses
Hotjar Ask - Business
$79
per month Starting from 500 monthly responses
Hotjar Observe - Business
$99
per month Starting from 500 daily sessions
Hotjar Scale - Business
$213
per month Starting from 500 daily sessions
Hotjar Ask - Scale
Contact Sales
per month unlimited volume
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GetFeedbackHotjar
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
GetFeedbackHotjar
Considered Both Products
GetFeedback
Chose GetFeedback
Google forms was very basic and didn't offer the same branding options as GetFeedback. GetFeedback gave us the ability to create a survey and have it look like our company. Google forms just always looked like Google forms. It wasn't individualized enough for our liking. …
Chose GetFeedback
Satmetrix actually replaced GetFeedback, by SurveyMonkey at my previous company with a lot of objection from myself. The rationale was: wanted quicker survey deployment and better analytics, neither of which was solved by bringing in Satmetrix as the issues were architectural …
Chose GetFeedback
GetFeedback has a professional appearance and dynamic content UI that is more trustworthy than other solutions. Additionally, the transitions and branding of GetFeedback are user-friendly on any device making survey response easy to manage. Finally, Salesforce integration is …
Chose GetFeedback
The only other product we have used recently is SurveyMonkey. GetFeedback has better UI, is easier to use, integrates much better with Salesforce, has better logic/workflow, and is better in almost every way. But SurveyMonkey excels at crowdsourcing data and reaching audiences …
Chose GetFeedback
It definitely has more functions than the other tools out there. I'd recommend them over most any other survey tool besides perhaps some epic one that costs thousands. For the low-cost survey option, this seems to be the best I've seen in the market so far to this date, so yeah.
Chose GetFeedback
We've actually selected both. FormAssembly gives us much more flexibility from a Salesforce integration perspective...but we like the look and feel of GetFeedback better so we tend to use that when the integration isn't as important.
Chose GetFeedback
As GetFeedback had solid integration with Salesforce, plus the Support team are so helpful, this swayed our decision.
Chose GetFeedback
We used to use the survey tool that was part of Gainsight, but it didn't allow for extensive customization or branding. Other departments have used surveymonkey but there were gaps with customization and importing the data into SFDC or the data warehouse.
Chose GetFeedback
At the time of our evaluation we found that the integration with our CRM just wasn't there. The pricing and the ability to customize the templates made the choice to select GetFeedback easy.
Hotjar
Chose Hotjar
Hotjar is the only tool like this that I've used. It is easy to use and beneficial. I would recommend it to anyone looking for this kind of tool.
Chose Hotjar
In my opinion, Hotjar is much easier to set up and use than Microsoft Clarity
Chose Hotjar
For surveys, I think Hotjar is better than Maze by a mile. The functionality is directly embedded in the SaaS or webapp which is a major plus.

Qualtrics is a survey powerhouse with many more functionalities for surveys as well as reports, but I think Hotjar has better UX and …
Chose Hotjar
Compared to Sprig and Usabilla, Hotjar has robust functionality. Again, as stated earlier, the ability to summarize rage clicks, trigger recordings for a/b experiments, and run intercept surveys on mobile is very useful. Hotjar is also noticeably more intuitive to use than …
Chose Hotjar
The fact that it has a trial period in which you can fully try each feature of the platform. The fact that is very intuitive for us to understand each feedback given by the users and to interpret how they move and what they observe on the pages we need to test.
Chose Hotjar
For us, Hotjar was really simple to implement and the user interface is really easy to use and get accustomed to. Some of the other products we evaluated didn't have as rich features and were way overpriced which made us choose Hotjar. Also, Hotjar allows you to capture …
Chose Hotjar
There was not something specific negative that we noticed in the other products, hotjar came in the discussion through a referral from one of our colleagues, was covering all the tickboxes that we had set and decided to move forwards with it
Chose Hotjar
Whatever software does, Hotjar does better. Integration and setup are really fast and you can have data to analyze in a few minutes. Also, the support team is very dedicated and there's a lot of documentation and examples you can follow.
Chose Hotjar
There are overlaps of a few features, but session recording is a unique feature of Hotjar.
Chose Hotjar
I have not used any other services and only used Hotjar so I cannot say how this service compares to others in their vertical. I have used Survey Monkey and I have found that their survey templates do not match that of Hotjar's. I also think that the reporting/tracking is more …
Chose Hotjar
Hotjar was significantly cheaper for us, and they’ve been brilliant at honouring their legacy pricing model which is much cheaper up until recently. We find that Hotjar also offers a wider range of tools that we would otherwise need to pay more for elsewhere like surveys. The …
Chose Hotjar
Cmparing with other products in the same vertical, we found the UX UI for Hotjar the best. It is easier to integrate with and has lot many more features as compared to its nearest competitors. We fount the product to be robust and accurate with lot of customizable options to …
Chose Hotjar
I liked the Hotjar User interface a little more and it seemed a little bit easier to set up. For some users with just the basic needs smart look was overly complicated. whereas in Hotjar everything you need is in one simple easy-to-view dashboard. Also, it offered more free …
Chose Hotjar
I test drove Lucky Orange and decided to keep Hotjar as the UI is easier to use. The competitor had no compelling features vs the ones offered by Hotjar. I also found the standard sound effects in Lucky Orange very overbearing and obnoxious.
Chose Hotjar
Hotjar was relatively more known to the team and they had past experience as well with the tool which made the adoption relatively easier. As such we didn’t find a lot of difference between the two tools when it comes fulfilling our use cases so for us specifically both were …
Chose Hotjar
They have a user-friendly website and product and the accuracy of the feature and also more development feature
Chose Hotjar
We used different tools but Hotjar combines several functionalities in one tool. So we used and are still using SurveyMonkey for bigger Surveys but it's handy to also have a tool where we can create short single questions surveys. We selected Hotjar because it is a good …
Chose Hotjar
Hotjar is the full deal and provides fantastic functionality and options for me to track my users on my website. The other software is good but I personally feel Hotjar is the best for purposes. I know it’s a little pricey, but if you use it right, it will ultimately help you …
Chose Hotjar
HotJars UX is much better Crazy egg has a bit more capabilities I.E. A/B testing.
Chose Hotjar
Hotjar has more robust functionality than CrazyEgg. Optimizely is a little more advanced and more expensive than what we needed.
Chose Hotjar
Google Analytics is a much more robust platform than Hotjar, but works great as a complement to Google Analytics - in other words, it was a matter of choosing both, not either/or. While there are workarounds for them on Google Analytics, heatmaps and screen recordings are much …
Chose Hotjar
Hotjar is better at taking screenshots from landing pages which help us better visualize clicks, scroll and mouse movements. With Hotjar, we can better see what users are doing on our landing pages. This way you'll have a much more accurate picture of how people arrive at …
Chose Hotjar
I've really liked Hotjar for our web app and haven't had a need to look for other products. We've used Hotjar for three years and it gets us the answers we need for our web app UI changes or releases. I've really enjoyed using it.
Chose Hotjar
I just find Hotjar to be simpler, cleaner, easier, and more flexible. Lucky Orange was a tool that another client of my had installed and, while it 'worked' and did similar things, I found that Hotjar was simpler. I don't know if there are cost differences between the two …
Chose Hotjar
Mouseflow matches nearly every feature that Hotjar offers – although, they may work a little differently.
The most relevant difference is in data capture. Hotjar offers unlimited options for heat maps, recordings, forms and comments as long as you are a paying customer. In …
Features
GetFeedbackHotjar
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
GetFeedback
7.8
Ratings
2% below category average
Hotjar
-
Ratings
Survey templates7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Themes8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom logo/branding7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
GetFeedback
6.1
Ratings
33% below category average
Hotjar
-
Ratings
Changes to live survey8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Question design help3.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple question types7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
GetFeedback
7.1
Ratings
15% below category average
Hotjar
-
Ratings
Survey logic flexibility7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
GetFeedback
4.9
Ratings
50% below category average
Hotjar
-
Ratings
Response tracking8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data export7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports1.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports2.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics4.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
GetFeedback
8.0
Ratings
8% below category average
Hotjar
-
Ratings
Access controls6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
GetFeedback
8.0
Ratings
3% below category average
Hotjar
-
Ratings
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Respondent restrictions7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
GetFeedbackHotjar
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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5.1
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Usability
8.0
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9.7
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Support Rating
10.0
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9.6
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Ease of integration
10.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
GetFeedbackHotjar
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great to standardize under a single survey tool. Because it integrates so well into Salesforce it is very useful if your business lives and breathes in SFDC. It's helpful if you have a lot of surveys you are sending at different points in the customer lifecycle. You will need to have your own email delivery tool to really take advantage of when you are engaging a customer.
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Hotjar is well suite for organizations that want to get a good glimpse into user behavior on their websites. The tool is easily installed through Google Tag Manager, and then users simply select which pages or paths they want the tool to analyze. After a few days, users can start seeing patterns develop, helping them understand what areas of the user journey flow they need to test out and improve. Hotjar is primarily for web-based experiences, not for mobile applications and other non-web digital applications.
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Pros
  • The way it works with Salesforce CRM and how you can create dashboards and reports based from criteria gathered in GetFeedback.
  • Customisable features are a big plus - allows you to choose what kind of question you want to ask.
  • Very easy to use interface and so easy to assemble a survey within minutes.
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  • Heat mapping is great on Hotjar. It is a good place to start when you are looking at the UX & CRO on your website. You can see the % of people clicking on elements on a page, how far they scroll, and mouse movements.
  • Hotjar is great for session recordings. These record the mouse movements, clicks, pages and scrolls of a user in video format. You can watch these to investigate what works well on a site and identify potential roadblocks and bugs.
  • Hotjar is great as it ensures that users details are anonymous; for instance, if you are watching a session recording, you cannot see what a user types in a form field, as Hotjar blanks this out.
  • Hotjar has a poll function, so you can have polls on your website.
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Cons
  • Survey submissions can notify only one email address so if you need individual responses to go to another individual you have to either set-up Salesforce workflows/email alerts or auto-forward rules in the email inbox
  • Salesforce integration and sync is great and usually reliable but occasional record ID changes cause a failure in a survey response to sync to Salesforce. GetFeedback has no way to notify the administrator of the record's failure to sync.
  • Easier to sync all data to Salesforce and do survey reporting within Salesforce than within the GetFeedback user interface
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  • The video recording feature is very slow to use. I know there is a very powerful process going on (saving your CSS and the DOM movements you make) but anyway it's slow to use.
  • Hotjar itself is heavy and has effects on your load times. This is a very important issue and I hope they're working on that.
  • Adding more segmentation would be nice. For example, being able to connect your API or more information to show relevant polls or feedback buttons to certain users. Aggregated info is hard to process.
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Likelihood to Renew
We have just renewed our annual license. I don't think we could move the company backwards at this point
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Even though the heat maps and user recordings were useful, our website was significantly slowed down after we installed Hotjar, so much so, that it took over a minute for our blog to load. The data that we gathered was not worth the length that it took our website to load.
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Usability
It is incredibly straightforward to use. Setup time is hours to days. When it is up and running, you can forget it exists. The Lightning Platform integration then starts to provide many options around creative use of the tools. It becomes more about where you can extend to your hearts content. Lightning App developers will have a great time here.
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So easy and simple to use! Straightforward anyone in the team is able to easily go in and set up anything in Hotjar. The UI is really simple. Whenever you give feedback to Hotjar they continously take on board the feedback and improve the tool.
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Support Rating
The few times, and I mean few, I have had to reach out to the support staff they were very helpful. I was also lucky enough to meet the developer at a users' conference. His willingness to hear what I had to say was impressive. After understanding his background coming from the CRM world I knew that he knew what we as users needed in the way of integration.
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Hotjar is a SaaS-based company, and as such has a good support service. Users can quickly submit support tickets through Hotjar's online portal. Enterprise customers get access to additional support members and have SLAs to support their larger, more complex needs. Overall, Hotjar is extremely reliable and I've never had to reach out to customer support.
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Alternatives Considered
Satmetrix actually replaced GetFeedback, by SurveyMonkey at my previous company with a lot of objection from myself. The rationale was: wanted quicker survey deployment and better analytics, neither of which was solved by bringing in Satmetrix as the issues were architectural around the self-built IP and NOT GetFeedback, which did precisely what it could with the data it had. Much like other NICE products I have encountered, the synergy with Salesforce is labored and incredibly challenging to get up and running. There was a lot of heavy lifting to get the two platforms to work with each other and the sentiment that I got from Satmetrix was that it wanted to be the centre of the CX world and would be much happier if Salesforce didn't exist. This is great if you a company that is solely marketeers but terrible if you want to leverage and use the multifaceted capabilities of CX strategies.
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Compared to Sprig and Usabilla, Hotjar has robust functionality. Again, as stated earlier, the ability to summarize rage clicks, trigger recordings for a/b experiments, and run intercept surveys on mobile is very useful. Hotjar is also noticeably more intuitive to use than Usabilla, with a cleaner interface and navigation.
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Return on Investment
  • Our response rate for our lead qualifying survey has been hovering around 55%. That doesn't mean that they complete the entire thing, but at least we are getting some answers back. It also allows us to weed out any leads that are outside of our scope of work. The survey when answered in its entirety gets a lead 13 steps down our customer journey map.
  • The automation of sending out the recruiting survey has allowed our recruiting manager to focus on qualified applicants and has completely eliminated the duplicate data entry of key information that the hiring managers required for determining if a candidate should be scheduled for a phone interview. Over the past year of using this survey we received 145 survey back. That is 145 manual emails that no longer had to be sent out by staff. You do the math on that time savings.
  • The new hire training feedback has allowed internal trainers to understand how to better tailor each session to on-board future employees in a more effective manner. With over 33 different training modules you can imagine how intensive our on-boarding process can be and if we can understand what works and what doesn't this only adds to the effectiveness of each trainer.
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  • Our UX team can now use hard data to back up and validate design decisions that we make. Our role as usability experts is becoming more respected and integral to business objectives because we now have data that can back up our field of study and prove that our roles are demonstrably useful and necessary.
  • HotJar allows our small team of 3 UX designers to get research data as if we were a much larger team. Instead of painstakingly using our time to do guerrilla research, endless user observations, and other types of manual testing, we can now get a significant portion of our data from HotJar.
  • Using HotJar is actually giving our team a sense of excitement and enjoyment in our day-to-day usability work. Instead of seeing UX as a chore, HotJar is making data gathering and analyzing more fun, because we can see tangible results from a much larger pool of user/user-data than we could in the past.
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