Hotjar alternative that acts on what it sees
Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare and shows heatmaps, session replay, surveys and interviews, with AI summaries. It tells you what happened; it does not change your site. IntellQ measures attention per page block without recording anybody, and its agents use that to change marked page elements for the next visitor, then prove the change against control.
What Hotjar says it is
The Hotjar page says Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare, merged into one experience intelligence platform, and calls it the leading product experience insights platform for midsize and SMB teams. It lists heatmaps and attention maps, session replay, surveys and user interviews, and Sense AI summaries of heatmaps and recordings.
Paraphrased from contentsquare.com/hotjar/, read on .
Why teams look for an alternative
- Having heatmaps and nobody with time to act on them.
- Not wanting session recordings of customers at all.
- Wanting the insight and the change in one place, with proof it worked.
What IntellQ does about it
IntellQ is chat, an AI sales agent with product cards, live visitor tracking and conversion agents with memory in one script tag. The rows below are the ones that matter against Hotjar. See all 22 tools side by side.
| What it is | Agents that act on visitor behaviour, not a recording tool |
| Measures | Seconds and clicks per page block, at most twelve blocks a page, with an IntersectionObserver |
| Never records | Text, field values, cursor tracks or sessions; no IP addresses stored |
| Acts | Places each visit in an intent context and changes marked slots for it: set text, show, hide, same site link |
| Proves with | A holdout control on every change, sticky SHA-256 bucketing, one exposure per conversion |
| Also | Live chat and an AI sales agent with product cards in the same console |
| Price | 1,000 free agent credits with no end date, then USD 79 a month for 1,000,000 credits, unlimited seats |
When Hotjar is the better choice
If your work is research, watching real sessions, running surveys and interviewing users, Hotjar describes exactly that and IntellQ records none of it. Many teams run a replay tool for research and IntellQ for action.
Nothing on this page states Hotjar's price. Positioning and packaging change often, so read their site, read ours, and decide.
Questions
Does IntellQ record sessions?
No. It counts seconds and clicks per page block with an IntersectionObserver. No text, field values, cursor tracks or replays are captured.
Can IntellQ and Hotjar run on the same site?
Yes. They do different jobs and IntellQ's tag is independent of other scripts.
What does IntellQ do with attention data?
The Reader agent uses it to tell a page somebody read from one they scrolled past, which places the visit in a context such as pricing friction or checkout recovery. That context decides which strategy the agents consider.