Glassbox vs. Smartlook

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Glassbox
Score 8.1 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Glassbox helps organizations make their customer’s digital experience intuitive and safe. It does this by capturing activity on mobile apps and websites and visualizing a holistic journey map. Using embedded AI Glassbox points to where CX is being compromised, the reasons behind it, and their potential value and empowers users to take action in real-time.N/A
Smartlook
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Smartlook is an analytics solution tool for websites, iOS/Android apps, and various app frameworks, that answers the "whys" behind users' actions. It helps users understand precisely how customers interact with website and app — watch recordings, create heatmaps, use automatic tracked events, and build conversion funnels. Data is seen on one central dashboard, which enables sharing and collaborating with colleagues. This is to support clear, data-driven decision-making for product managers,…
$55
per month 5000 sessions
Pricing
GlassboxSmartlook
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Pro
$55
per month 5000 sessions
Free
Free forever
per month 3000 sessions
Enterprise
Custom pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GlassboxSmartlook
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAll Smartlook packages support both web and mobile app platforms.
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Community Pulse
GlassboxSmartlook
Considered Both Products
Glassbox
Chose Glassbox
LogRocket is more suited for entry-level application and lacks the more advanced, in-depth analysis capabilities that we need, and that Glassbox offers.
Chose Glassbox
A key factor in our decision was Glassbox's real-time data export capabilities, which aligned perfectly with our needs, as does the ability to integrate Glassbox insights with our existing data systems.
Chose Glassbox
There is less data about the session in contentsquare so even when we saw users were leaving we could not tell why
Chose Glassbox
We chose Glassbox over ContentSquare because it offers an integrated VoC solution that is directly linked to session data. This gives us a much deeper understanding of the context behind the customer feedback.
Chose Glassbox
We required a solution that meets our rigid security standards, in other words, one that offers an isolated environment for data storage. As the only platform to offer Single Tenant storage, Glassbox definitely rises above the competition in this regard.
Chose Glassbox
We chose Glassbox instead of Contentsquare primarily because of Glassbox's built-in VoC solution, which is linked directly to session data. This feature really helps contextualize customer sentiment data and makes the feedback even more insightful.
Chose Glassbox
When we were looking into DEM solutions, we considered going with Datadog, but it focuses primarily on technical issues as opposed to capturing and analyzing user experience struggles (for example, why our customers are abandoning our site). This is really what we were looking …
Chose Glassbox
After considering both Contentsquare and Glassbox, we chose to go with Glassbox because it provided an environment that was more suited to our security constraints. (We require a Single Tenant solution, which only Glassbox was able to provide).
Chose Glassbox
  1. Improved understanding of customer behavior: Glassbox provides a detailed view of how customers interact with a website, mobile app, and other digital channels. This information is essential for understanding customer behavior and identifying areas where the business can …
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox is a customer experience management platform that provides various tools to help organizations understand and improve the customer journey. There may be other products that offer similar capabilities, such as FullStory, UserTesting, and Clicktale. These products may …
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox offered the server side capabilities we needed over anyone. Glassbox does not rely on massive custom event packages. Glassbox user interface is very simple and user friendly. The adhoc reports and fairly easy to use. It is an enteprise wide application and is not …
Chose Glassbox
Google Analytics is great in managing our campaigns and in telling us the levels of conversion. The same for our a/B testing tools which tell us which test is converting higher than the other. The problem with these tools is that they do not tell you the why behind the what - …
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox was able to provide a solution to both a technical and experience use cases. Glassbox put same emphasis on the technical and experience struggles which provide us with more data than any other tools we've seen. Glassbox also ties all events to revenue which helps us …
Chose Glassbox
The ability to integrate our current tools with Glassbox has been one of our major priorities. We have quite a lot of tools we use and we needed an analytics tool that could integrate with all of them: VoC, A/B testing, Google analytics, Adobe, Jira, and more. I love that all …
Chose Glassbox
The automatic tagging abilities were very important for us as we do not have the resources to tag all the website events. The 100% data is crucial to make more informed decisions. The Glassbox service team is also great and very helpful.
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox is an all in one tool which is excellent for multiple teams with multiple goals - customer service, UX/UI, product teams, and more. We were also really impressed with the Glassbox teams before signing - very professional and knowledgeable
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox has a very good integration with multiple product and customer feedabck tools such as A/B testing and VoC
Chose Glassbox
We needed advanced customization abilities and to relate campaigns to revenue both of which Glassbox does extremaly well
Chose Glassbox
More customization options, product road map is aligned with the market needs and great customer success team. The system is clean and very easy to use which made the learning of the different abilities a lot easier and much more smooth
Chose Glassbox
More intuitive, and the amount of data is really great. I loved the clean UI of the session replay.
Chose Glassbox
Adobe Analytics is more accurate with data but doesn't have the capabilities like Glassbox (interaction map, session replays, etc.) so we have to cross check data to ensure the information is accurate.
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox capabilities match our main use cases and can generate huge amount of business data in real time.
Chose Glassbox
The integrations abilities as well as the quick and easy implantation of the tool.
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox covers everything - from technical to experience related events and the integration with our existing tools is super important for us as we stream data from our VoC and analytics tools to Glassbox and can use one centralized system for all our use cases. The support is …
Chose Glassbox
More integrations and easily sharable data
Smartlook
Chose Smartlook
I like it more in different aspects such as pricing, capabilities, UI, etc. When it comes to the pricing, I have been using it for many years, and always was easy to use and to see what was happening with conversions. It's the most undervaluable tool these days. When I was …
Chose Smartlook
FullStory is more complex, detailed, better-looking and way more expensive. Therefore I think it makes sense to start with Smartlook at least. FullStory also has yearly plans which is really annoying. Hotjar doesn't have browser error logging which is a huge disadvantage for …
Chose Smartlook
Smartlook is the better overall value of all the solutions we've tried. Hotjar was overpriced, Lucky Orange seems more like an experimental project than a full-fledged product and Mouselflow seems to have some problems dealing with some types of browsers that we did not …
Chose Smartlook
For me personally, I use Smartlook more for the debugging side of things, so I wish it had more debugging/error reporting features.
Chose Smartlook
Like I mentioned, Smartlook is younger than FullStory and it seems like they're trying to improve. The dashboards are lacking. I wish I had more control over what I see there instead of the standard. We use the API to determine customer name and company and I'd like to see some …
Chose Smartlook
We use both intensively in our agency. Google Analytics is our first go-to analytics suite, but we often combine it with Smartlook to prove or disprove our hypotheses. Both our web design and marketing projects benefit greatly from this synergy. Google Analytics offers better …
Chose Smartlook
For me, Smartlook gathers everything a product designer or even a product manager needs. We have everything gathered in a single platform, and it's very powerful we can analyze everything we need. It's the only product where recordings are as well done. The UX/UI of the …
Chose Smartlook
Smartlook has all the features of the other products I have tried but was both simpler to use and cheaper.
Chose Smartlook
Smartlook seems smoother than Hotjar and it also offers more customizable options such as events and funnels.
Chose Smartlook
Compared to Hotjar, the first, and most important criteria for us is the performance impact on our customers. We've always had problems with Hotjar's rather resource-intensive script, which causes a noticeable degradation even on medium to high-performance client devices. In …
Chose Smartlook
Smartlook is better in tracking events, building advanced funnels, and filtering out the sessions than Hotjar. It's definitely cheaper and more user-friendly than Fullstory.
Chose Smartlook
Smartlook is far more cost-effective and simple to use for agencies with multiple clients than Hotjar, which targets the user companies more directly.
Chose Smartlook
So much simpler to the user and way more effective. The pricing for our requirement was also much better.
Chose Smartlook
The thing about Hotjar is they became too big too fast. They forgot what their product was all about and then started to charge an exorbitant amount for what is a glorified heat map. Smartlook has taken into account new features but always kept the essence of what they're …
Chose Smartlook
At my old company, we debated using FullStory, but I believe Smartlook was the better option financially.
Chose Smartlook
100% better. Microsoft had no support at all. They directed you to a forum where other users "could" assist, but there was no assistance.
Chose Smartlook
In terms of analytics, we are still using other products, which are more suited to our needs and more complex. In terms of user behavior and session recording, this is by far the best tool there is!
Features
GlassboxSmartlook
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Glassbox
9.6
Ratings
18% above category average
Smartlook
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access9.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile App Analytics9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Glassbox
9.5
Ratings
1% above category average
Smartlook
-
Ratings
Click analytics9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Funnel Analysis9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Session Recording and Replay9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
User Segmentation9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
GlassboxSmartlook
Small Businesses
Smartlook
Smartlook
Score 8.2 out of 10
Lucky Orange
Lucky Orange
Score 3.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Contentsquare
Contentsquare
Score 7.1 out of 10
Siteimprove
Siteimprove
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Contentsquare
Contentsquare
Score 7.1 out of 10
Contentsquare
Contentsquare
Score 7.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
GlassboxSmartlook
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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8.9
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Usability
8.7
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10.0
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Availability
-
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9.1
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Performance
-
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8.2
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Support Rating
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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7.3
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Configurability
-
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8.2
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Ease of integration
-
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9.1
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Product Scalability
-
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8.2
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Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
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9.1
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User Testimonials
GlassboxSmartlook
Likelihood to Recommend
I’ve found that Glassbox is particularly well-suited during marketing campaigns, because you can export and analyze data in real-time, track the campaign’s effectiveness, and gain immediate insight into how customers are interacting with your website. With these insights, we’re able to tweak campaigns on the fly to increase engagement and conversion rates. Similarly, since Glassbox allows us to monitor customer interactions in real-time, we gain immediate feedback on how our users are engaging with a new digital feature on our platform, for example. We can then quickly identify any usability issues or friction points, make adjustments in real-time to improve the user experience, and maximize the success of the new feature.
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Smartlook is best for screen recordings. Especially when you are running MVPs. However, its pricing is very high. If your daily visitors are too much then either you will have to lose many of your recordings or you will have to pay too much money.
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Pros
  • I like the ease of access that is provided to our internal users
  • Super easy integration with our site and other tools
  • The ability to navigate to any session, review the details and make actionable notes for resolution
  • The ability to exclude sensitive information from being recorded.
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  • Funnels are both easy to configure yet comprehensive enough to detect complicated customer journeys.
  • Real-time recording provides exceptional insights to our design & engineering teams.
  • Session recording is surprisingly lightweight and seems to cause no substantial performance degradation for our customers.
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Cons
  • It's a pretty powerful platform, and my sense is that most users don't utilize it to its fullest potential. Glassbox could help by offering a more comprehensive onboarding program (maybe even customized training sessions or live workshops tailored to the needs and use cases of FSIs)
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  • Events -- but I think this is something that we could improve ourselves in our system.
  • Create some suggestions for funnels and heatmaps.
  • Give general insights for a certain period of time, e.g. from Oct. 7th to 12th, 75 users left the checkout step and 60% of them left due to a payment issue. IDK just bringing some ideas!
  • Send an e-mail with main insights.
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Likelihood to Renew
The level of support from the Glassbox team and how much we have improved our conversion just after a few months
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As my ratings show, I have been absolutely delighted with Smartlook in terms of usability, cost, support, and its benefit to our organization. I have given it such high ratings because I think it has really benefitted our organization and I think it could do the same for other companies too.
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Usability
Glassbox is very easy to use, and with the AI features which it has inside, it has been very easy for us to not only find the relevant sessions but also summarize them and interact with the summary - so we now have all types of people in our org who use Glassbox - including those who are purely non-tech. Also, I must give a huge shoutout to our customer support team who have been instrumental in helping us get value from Glassbox
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Smartlook is very intuitive and simple for an average programmer (I don't know if it will be as simple for a normal user). We have never had to resort to looking for information on the web or ask for help for something we didn't understand or didn't work as expected.
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Support Rating
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I am always very happy when a company offers the option to use online chat, as I do not like to call customer support and writing an email is just too slow and cumbersome. I did not even expect a reply right away, yet it took the customer support team less than a minute to respond to my problem.
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Alternatives Considered
When we were looking into DEM solutions, we considered going with Datadog, but it focuses primarily on technical issues as opposed to capturing and analyzing user experience struggles (for example, why our customers are abandoning our site). This is really what we were looking for, which made Glassbox a perfect fit.
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Like I mentioned, Smartlook is younger than FullStory and it seems like they're trying to improve. The dashboards are lacking. I wish I had more control over what I see there instead of the standard. We use the API to determine customer name and company and I'd like to see some custom dashboards.
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Return on Investment
  • Glassbox has really taken us to the next level in terms of customer sentiment analysis and informed decision-making. We're capturing 100% of customer sessions, and with Glassbox we're able to address hidden issues and make decisions that enhance the experience of our entire customer base, as opposed to just a select few. Our strategic decisions are now based on accurate, comprehensive data, and we're seeing the fruits of this. Our customers are more engaged (and more loyal), our conversion rates are climbing, and our business is growing.
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  • We have increased the conversion rate from the beginning till now with 120%.
  • We redesigned our landing pages and decreased the bounce rate by 41%.
  • We rethinked and redesigned our menu structure and internal site linking to increase the time users spent on our site based on the data we got from Smartlook analysis.
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ScreenShots

Smartlook Screenshots

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