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Privacy-friendly alternatives to the tools you know.

Replay tools show what one person did. Analytics counts what everyone did. Error trackers list what broke. They were built for people reading dashboards. Trace is analytics for the AI era: it ranks what to fix first, hands it to your coding agent over MCP, and checks the result, without recording anyone. Each page says when to keep what you have.

Replay and heatmaps

FullStory alternativeReplay and digital experience Hotjar alternativeHeatmaps, recordings, surveys Microsoft Clarity alternativeFree heatmaps and recordings LogRocket alternativeReplay for debugging

Product analytics

PostHog alternativeOpen-source product suite Mixpanel alternativeEvent analytics Amplitude alternativeAnalytics for data teams

Web analytics and errors

Google Analytics alternativeTraffic and campaigns Plausible vs TraceCookieless traffic analytics Umami vs TraceOpen-source traffic analytics Sentry and TraceError monitoring

At a glance

	Session replay	Rage and dead clicks	Browser errors	Funnels	No cookies by default	Self-host	Verdict per release
Trace	No, by design	Yes	With visits broken	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
FullStory	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Hotjar	Yes	Rage clicks	In recordings	Yes	No	No	No
Microsoft Clarity	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
LogRocket	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Enterprise only	No
PostHog	Yes	Rage clicks	Yes	Yes	Optional	Yes	Via experiments
Mixpanel	Yes	Yes	Console logs in replays	Yes	No	No	Via experiments
Amplitude	Yes	Opt-in	Only right after a click	Yes	No	No	Via experiments
Google Analytics	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Plausible	No	No	No	Cloud Business	Yes	Yes	No
Umami	Optional	No	Opt-in	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sentry	Yes	In replays	Yes	No	No	Yes	Release health

Checked 29 October 2026 against each vendor's public documentation. Spot something out of date? Write to hello@tracetells.com and we'll fix it.