Heap Reviews & Insights

Score8.2 out of 10

381 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Heap are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface: Users have consistently praised Heap for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. It has been mentioned by many reviewers that the interface makes navigation and task completion easy.

Highly Praised Event Visualizer Tool: The event visualizer tool in Heap has received high praise from users for simplifying the process of defining elements to track engagement without the need for additional coding. Several reviewers have highlighted this feature as a standout aspect of the platform.

Auto-Capture Feature: Many users appreciate Heap's auto-capture feature, which automatically records all events on their website. This eliminates the need for manual tracking and saves valuable time for businesses. The convenience provided by this feature has been highly regarded by multiple reviewers.

Reviews

233 Reviews

Powerful Auto-Capture Tool for Data-Driven Product Teams

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a SaaS based enterprise specifically focusing on e-commerce and digital services. While Heap is primarily used for Product Analytics and User Behavior Tracking within our organization. We do in depth analysis of how user interacts with our platform such as sign up flows, checkout pages or content engagement. Before Heap we seriously face challenges in identifying drop off points and user friction areas and substantially requites our back end team monitor every tracking change. On the other hand Heap solves this issue drastically by providing auto capturing of events which significantly reduces manual intervention. This all together saved a lot of time and improves agility. From a business point of view our Market and Product teams utilizes Heap to prepare data driven strategies. We can now quickly test UI changes, Monitor conversion funnels and identify touchpoints drive the most engagement and revenue. Heap is a powerful tool for an organization looking to prepare planning roadmap and to significantly improve customer experience.

Pros

One the most interesting feature Heap provides is Automatic Event Tracking. Unlike other traditional tools that requires manual intervention Heap does it automatically by capturing all user interactions by default.
For example when we launched a new pricing page we were able to instantly analyze user behavior. All this has made it easy which pricing plan clicked most and where users drop off. This helps us to identify that users were not engaging with specific part of enterprise plan section and leads us to reposition it for better visibility.
Heap excels in building funnels on the fly. With traditional tools we had to define conversions but with heap can retroactively creates funnel using existing event data. For example if we tracked how many users went from blog spot to product signup and then to activation this all can be done with great ease as Heap tracks and captures all the necessary events.
Heaps Visual interface is quite easy to use and is not overwhelming for beginners. Even non technical team members from marketing and customer services can pull the insights on there own.
User Segmentation Feature is quite powerful, We can break down user properties like devices, Type, Location, Traffic Source and compare behaviors helping us provide personalize UX improvements and increase conversions.

Cons

Users unfamiliar with product analytics can find it overwhelming. As well as terms like "session replay", "properties", "virtual events" can be bit confusing at first and learning resource should be more beginner friendly or interactive.
Sometimes there is a noticeable delay in data availability. Especially for large data sets or High traffic days. Heap must work on real time data analytics as these lags and delays one can not rely on it while product rollouts and campaign launches.
Heap works as a great web platform but its mobile analytics capabilities are still not mature.
For small enterprises Heaps pricing could be unpredictable as it doesn't offer clear public pricing. It would be really helpful for enterprises if they had a very clear pricing plan.
Heap leads in event based analysis but reporting customization is limited to other BI tools like Tableau or Looker.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would give Heap 8 out of 10 and would definitely recommend it to colleagues especially those working in product, marketing, UX teams. The platform's Auto Capture technology, retroactive funnel analysis and ease of use for non technical teams make it stand out among analytics tools. However, I'm holding a perfect score because of few limitations like delayed data refreshes at times, a bit of learning curve for new users and less developed mobile app support. But overall, it's a highly valuable tool that has significantly improved how we track, analyze and act on user behavior. If your team needs deeper product insights without heavy developer reliance. Heap is one of the best choices available.

rishabh mishra

Senior Project Manager in Engineering at E2E Telelink India Pvt Ltd (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Heap : Simplified Customer Analytics for Dummies

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Heap is much better compared to Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics as I can label the user tracking events on an adhoc basis. It allows me to get insights quicker and make much better-informed decisions.

Team is now able to track how newly released features and releases recently gone live are performing and helps us get observability level as to what we can be done better for those that aren't performing upto the expectations. Heap is a great tool to help us understand how exactly users are engaging with our platform and what they see as trouble areas.

It helped us summarise out numerous interactions that are used to identify issues in the user experience.

Pros

Intuitive Dashboard
Frequent Releases from Heap team
Funnel Analysis

Cons

Custom Property Filters are lacking
Missing Integrations with Industry standard tools

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for tracking adhoc custom events and helped identify specific use-cases which we did not realized were important for our platform.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

An essential tool for studying user behavior!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The majority of our experience has been pleasant. With Heap, you have the ability and freedom to assess the user experience of your website at the most fundamental level and then build upon it. This tool, which again operates right out of the box, is the easiest available for determining how each button, design, feature, functionality, page, and tool affects our consumers.

Pros

Flexibility in how context-relevant data layers are displayed.
Easy and seamless integration with other tools we use like Kameleoon.
Various options for reports.
Excellent user experience overall.

Cons

Customer support has to be improved.
There may occasionally be some bothersome glitches.
To be able to use the platform, you do need to undergo proper training.

Likelihood to Recommend

For web/app event tracking, we utilize Heap. As a technology business, we rely heavily on the product analysis tool's successful deployment and tracking capabilities. Heap's quick chart generation and dashboard features are truly intended for product analytics. Although it may fall short for large enterprise-level businesses, it is excellent for small to medium websites and applications.

Anmol Dubey

Full-stack Developer in Information Technology at Azoora, Inc. (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Heap - Insights in the digital world

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Heap was used and tested for an insights platform. It can enhance the understanding of any type of customer behaviour and path. These insights can be used for better design of processes, understand the user experience, as well as make them use the platforms more. It can pinpoint areas of easiness and difficulty for the customers and this way enable solutions.

Pros

visualisation
provide insights
focus on pain points

Cons

features
stability
simplicity

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited to enhance understanding of any type of user behaviour when moving in a platform. These can then be used to enhance the user experience or the launching of more featurest that the uses deems important. It can also pinpoint items that seem difficult or complex for the users.

It lacks functionalities to make it fully customisable and this is a point that it might need some improvement.

Verified User

Team Lead (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Auto-capture every user interaction with no manual event tracking. No messy tracking plans. No custom ETL pipelines

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

How you use Heap in your organization?
We use Heap to auto-capture every user interaction in our website. it used by the product and marketing teams to better understand user behavior, find errors, and make more informed decisions about product changes.

What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case?
When one of our users informs us that he has encountered an issue with our site we use Heap to define events retroactively and immediately do analysis on those events.

Pros

Automates away the annoying parts of user analytics
Can define which pages people were on, what element they clicked on, the color of the button, the target text on the click, the actions users took before and after clicking, the users’ titles, what other actions users who click that button tend to take

Cons

Make some deeper and more specific tutorials for the tool
Heap does not work for native mobile apps because it doesn’t offer a way to define custom events

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenarios when Heap was well suited:
It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message.

Scenarios where it is less appropriate:
Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app

Verified User

Administrator (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

power of AI/ML meets with Best UI/UX to deliver optimal ROI

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we're having company portfolio site that we recently redesigned. to ensure optimal ROI, we went to the market and stumbled upon this magnificent gem of a tool.
even non-technical staff at our office seems to work with Heap just fine. it is heavily dependent on visual aspect like UI/UX. by no means, I'm implying that their backend logic is not sound. its advance and uses latest AI and ML practices to derive its results. they manage a perfect balance and gives best of both worlds.
some of the useful features that we heavily used were, session replay. we pin-pointed customers from certain industry and analyzed their behavior. for example one of our well established customer already had their applications running in cloud, they specifically navigated to the DR (disaster recover) part on the page. after collecting this insight, we approached them and it was a hit. we're now serving them DR solutions.

Pros

session replays
shows visual indicators of where users have clicked
effort analysis to detect UX improvements

Cons

pricing would be a likely aspect
speed seems to suffer a bit but at this massive scale, its not much to complain
customer service response was a bit sluggish

Likelihood to Recommend

least likely usage for this is to analyze a low traffic site. we particularly have fair amount of traffic so the matrix in end result are somewhat useful. if you're likely new company and have nominal traffic, you might work on your SEO first then leap forward for something like Heap.
it is optimal when used with nominal amount of traffic and have fair amount of analysts who can manage and utilize all this insights.

Zeel Pandya

SAP ABAP Consultant in Information Technology at AeonX Digital Solutions (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Heap Product analytics

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Heap to track and analyze user interactions on the product and determine adoption, usage and other funnel related statistics. There were many undefined events in the past for which we are now able to view the historical data easily, on the spot! It is also very helpful in building the entire funnel and journey of all the users and segment them into multiple buckets

Pros

Very easy to build quick dashboards for analysis- just a matter of minutes
Events can be tracked in near real-time ,without any latency
High support for self-serve with deep level of documentation
Intuitive platform with quick learning; no formal training needed for user adoption

Cons

Mobile version is suboptimal without flutter support
Graph analysis is very basic and sometimes calls for csv download for detailed analysis
Initial event and platform configurations are too detailed and clumsy

Likelihood to Recommend

Heap is very well suited for analysing and tracking user behaviour across tech apps- more so mobile apps. It is extremely useful for deep diving into engagement metrics, user journeys, user funnels and segmentation and understanding A/B test metrics for your product apps. The service is real-time and responsive. However, it is not well suited for basic application who need just high level analysis and it can be daunting in the beginning to set up tracking on the platform.

Verified User

Consultant in Marketing (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Robust software with great analytical capabilities

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Heap is assisting us in determining our next course of action. We have the ability to verify or disprove any default assumptions we may have. We are better equipped to determine when further in-app or other messages is useful or essential. Naturally, one of the fundamental components is the ability to locate friction points in a process that has been created for our clients.

Pros

Data flexibility
Understanding user interactions
Ease of A/B Testing

Cons

Requires additional segmentation
Difficult to learn

Likelihood to Recommend

The data visualizations are excellent and can be easily tailored to your requirements. We are able to track the appropriate data for any project we launch since you have a variety of ways to capture data from a certain Segment event (funnels, journeys, etc.). Heap's commitment to product improvement means that some of my charts and reports require periodic adjustment in order to take use of new capabilities. Occasionally, minor functionality changes as well, necessitating a second look.

Verified User

Team Lead in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

great automated data collection.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Heap to automatically collect data on our customer behaviour and try to understand the users and their journey. We try to intercept potential problems a user might stumble upon this way.

Pros

automatically gather data on behaviour of your users.
setup without needing people from engineering.
useful dashboards generation.

Cons

could be a little rough to get the hang of without some computer science background some times.
a lot of configuration is good, but also overwhelming, perhaps it can be put away in some advanced setting or so, just thinking out loud

Likelihood to Recommend

Currently we are testing AB testing, Heap allows us to better understand what is happening here and to zoom in on how we can improve A or B to eventually implement one or the other. It is quite well done

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Heap Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our company, we need to build customer's digital journey because we are not following well our customer nor understand them.
So we are using Heap for the digital insights that the software is giving us.

Pros

understand the digital journey of our customer
improve customer satisfaction
better follow customer conversion

Cons

simpler interface

Likelihood to Recommend

We really wanted to see the issues on our website, and on specific webpages that were not working well. But we couldn't understand why. Thanks to the behavior analytics, we were able to really put ourself in our customers shoes and experience exactly what they are experiencing when they are connecting on our website. We could see which parts were not working well and why the customer was stopping at one particular step.

Verified User

Contributor in Marketing (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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