Hotjar vs Crazy Egg

Hotjar vs Crazy Egg: how they compare today.

Both started with heatmaps and grew from there. The main differences now: Crazy Egg has A/B testing and its own click views, while Hotjar has become part of the much larger Contentsquare.

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Maximizii click map filtered to dead clicks on a sample coffee shop home page, listing elements such as a badge that people click and nothing happens
The real dashboard, on sample data from a made-up coffee shop.

In short

Crazy Egg gives you several click views and built-in A/B tests, but says it doesn’t track mobile apps. Hotjar, now part of Contentsquare, gives you surveys and the wider platform, with native mobile SDKs on Contentsquare. Choose Crazy Egg to test changes. Choose Contentsquare for breadth.

Side by side

Hotjar and Crazy Egg compared
Hotjar (Contentsquare)Crazy Egg
New accountsCreated on ContentsquareOpen
HeatmapsClick, scroll, move, attention, rageClick, scroll, confetti, overlay, list, move
Session replayYesYes
A/B testsExperimentation on ContentsquareYes
SurveysYesYes
Mobile appsYes, on ContentsquareSays it doesn’t offer this
CookiesFirst-party, with a cookieless mode on ContentsquareFirst-party

What’s said here about Hotjar, Contentsquare and Crazy Egg comes from its own site, checked in November 2026: Hotjar is now Contentsquare, Contentsquare heatmaps, Crazy Egg heatmaps, Crazy Egg FAQ. Products change, so check anything that matters to you.

If you only want maps

Both are more than you need if heatmaps are all you’ll open. Maximizii does click, scroll and attention maps with no cookies and no recordings, and works in app webviews. It has no surveys or tests. See Maximizii against Crazy Egg and against Hotjar.

Questions

Which is better, Hotjar or Crazy Egg?

If you test changes as you go, Crazy Egg’s A/B testing is handy. If you need surveys and a broad platform, Hotjar’s successor Contentsquare has more. Note that new Hotjar accounts go through Contentsquare now.

Do they both have session recordings?

Yes, and Maximizii doesn’t.

Which works on mobile apps?

Contentsquare has native SDKs. Crazy Egg says it doesn’t track behavior in mobile apps.

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