Quantum Metric vs. Smartlook

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quantum Metric
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Quantum Metric is designed to help organizations build better digital products faster. Their platform for Continuous Product Design gives business and IT teams a single version of truth which the vendor describes as fast, quantified, and grounded on what customers actually experience. The solution ultimately aims to help teams agree on priorities, build products customers love, and innovate with speed and confidence.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
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Editions & Modules
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Pro
$55
per month 5000 sessions
Free
Free forever
per month 3000 sessions
Enterprise
Custom pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Quantum MetricSmartlook
Free Trial
NoYes
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
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Quantum Metric
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It is used for different functions; Quantum Metrics shows great advantages in the control and administration of data generated by a website. It allows the report and knowledge of online records, also the errors registered. Recordings of login sessions on web pages help resolve …
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Nowadays user journey is very important and for big companies you must use softwares like that
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Quantum Metric has unmatched support and is easy to use. The simple data visualization gave us an excellent analysis on specific pages and was a game changer. In other words, other tools may offer the same, but that's all. An easy-to-understand breakdown of how customers spent …
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its well suited for the environments for the workloads of huge transactions,huge I/O,avoiding delays for the workloads which need immediate attention with great workflows.For the great transformations and data mining it would be helpful,for great customer behaviorial, it would …
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Impressive interface to help me with getting a detailed journey of where my user is and clearly define the challenges these users face while moving from one step to another, backed with data points.
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Other tools might provide the tool in a very similar way, but that's it. Quantum Metric actually helps remove the abstraction from the data, their support is available in a very fast manner, they help us set goals and reach them, also helping us track them through the tool. …
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Quantum Metric is more sophisticated than Hotjar in every way (also much more expensive). If you've been using Hotjar and are ready for the next level of service, you should investigate Quantum Metric. However, if you have been using Hotjar and the service provides everything …
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Better Tech support & training; More features in the tool; Better reporting; Faster load time.
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Quantum Metric is a huge leap up from Mouseflow, which is very basic. Quantum offers more filters so I'm not sifting through thousands of recordings to find one or two. My organization uses Adobe for our everyday analytics and not Quantum. They do different things and I don't …
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Quantum's support is unmatched, and implementing new tracking is a breeze. Quantum makes it easy to dive beneath the numbers and see the customer sessions behind them. It enables more empathy and behavioral understanding.
Quantum's visualizations aren't as easy to use, and the …
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I found Tealeaf has many limitations related to logs and reviewing user sessions. Quantum Metric does not have these limitations.
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In other tools we cannot see the user journey, in other tools we need to write multiple queries but here the choice of filter is very easy. We can easily filter out the required data without any complicated query. It shows the customer journey like a video and we can play it …
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Quantum Metric feels a lot better when used. It is much smoother and seems much more reliable. It does not get stuck as much and finds the sessions a lot quicker.
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I haven't used any other products similar to QM.
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I have used other tools like Dynatrace. Quantum Metric is better suited to look for errors and spot issues in user sessions, it has a more friendly UI.
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The biggest QM advantage is that you can see customer's actions on the live preview and almost immediately. So you can catch customers up, on the session, while the customer is still using your portal. There is a lot of information provided on the session, like API calls and …
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I like it more because it is much more quick for searches and replays, also making dashboards is much more easy with QM.
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We were using Clicktale at the same time as Quantum for Order Form Optimization recommendations but found that the amount of time invested and the quality of the tool from Quantum just seemed like a better fit for our organization.
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Quantum Metric was the one who could provide a solution which worked across all platforms. (iOS, Android and Web).
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We selected Quantum Metric for its great user experience, fast replay and easy reporting.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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For me personally, I use Smartlook more for the debugging side of things, so I wish it had more debugging/error reporting features.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Smartlook has all the features of the other products I have tried but was both simpler to use and cheaper.
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Smartlook seems smoother than Hotjar and it also offers more customizable options such as events and funnels.
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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 …
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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.
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Smartlook is far more cost-effective and simple to use for agencies with multiple clients than Hotjar, which targets the user companies more directly.
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So much simpler to the user and way more effective. The pricing for our requirement was also much better.
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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 …
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At my old company, we debated using FullStory, but I believe Smartlook was the better option financially.
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100% better. Microsoft had no support at all. They directed you to a forum where other users "could" assist, but there was no assistance.
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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
Quantum MetricSmartlook
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Quantum Metric
8.7
Ratings
13% above category average
Smartlook
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile App Analytics8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Quantum Metric
9.1
Ratings
3% below category average
Smartlook
-
Ratings
Heatmap tool9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Session Recording and Replay8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
User Segmentation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
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9.0
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7.5
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8.9
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Usability
7.7
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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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8.7
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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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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9.1
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User Testimonials
Quantum MetricSmartlook
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're looking to go beyond session replay and have a tool with intelligence to show you specific issues, and prioritize those, I think this is a good tool. Retailers that have had ups and downs, and are maybe seeing an increase in their online traffic/sales, who want a better view of how to improve the customer experience. You need a fairly mature digital analytics environment for this to make sense. If you have a more basic analytics environment, or you don't have the people/skills to use all the information QM can provide, it's probably not a good fit.
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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
  • Identifying user pain points and frustrations. Quantum Metrics has a data point called Rage Click which shows when a customer has clicked multiple times back to back on a particular section of the website.
  • Replaying a session to see everything that is loading on the front end to the customer, as well as the backed end of the website, has been critical in troubleshooting the experience.
  • Heatmaps are a awesome tool we have found very useful in showing engagement with different content on the page, how far user scroll & drop off and to see a split side by side view of the same page in an a/b test.
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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
  • Quantum could share some use cases implemented by similar industries in accordance with the key problems as inputs.
  • We should be able to see some of the most common solutions that could be integrated within our product based on the step of the user journey I am at.
  • Expanding capabilities to integrate with high-level tools integrated.
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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
Quantum is a nice tool and is user friendly however I believe there always room for improvement. We have experienced minor issues with a few sessions which were solved by Quantum support reps in a timely manner and some of the dashboards are not as robust as other tools we use
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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
For a new user, it's pretty intuitive to onboard and start doing the basic functionalities. But QM has a lot of functionalities which can be leveraged by more team members (especially when you don't have analysts dedicatedly using this) if further enhancements to usability are made.
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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
I've been very impressed with the support Quantum Metric has provided. Our amazing Customer Success team has provided excellent service and has gone above and beyond in helping us use and understand the tool. We hold weekly calls with multiple teams and QM has been proactive in bringing things to our team's attention and making suggestions. The support has been one of the most important aspects of having QM and has allowed us to make great strides in improving how we use data and user research in our work.
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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
Quantum Metric has unmatched support and is easy to use. The simple data visualization gave us an excellent analysis on specific pages and was a game changer. In other words, other tools may offer the same, but that's all. An easy-to-understand breakdown of how customers spent their time is provided. It makes it easier to empathize with others and understand their behaviors. Quantum Metric offers the whole package, unlike other tools.
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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
  • The service is not cheap, so don't commit unless you're going to use it.
  • Really improved our tech support process by allowing us to identify problems much sooner.
  • Helped identify potential frustrations, which could be eliminated to reduce friction at checkout.
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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

Quantum Metric Screenshots

Screenshot of Industry specific Atlas guides helps improve sections of the user experience on a site or app.Screenshot of Quantum Metric Sales Funnel - Shows data in context with respect to previous weeks.Screenshot of Integrates NPS to quantify customer feedbackScreenshot of Performance timings can be calculated

Smartlook Screenshots

Screenshot of HeatmapsScreenshot of RecordingsScreenshot of DashboardsScreenshot of EventsScreenshot of FunnelsScreenshot of Analytics for websites & mobile apps