HEATPOINTS VS PLERDY
Twelve tools that watch. One that predicts.
TL;DR
Plerdy is a Swiss-army CRO suite, a dozen real-user tools (heatmaps, replay, pop-ups, A/B, SEO checker) behind one tracking script, from ~$21/month. Everything it shows you requires a live site, traffic and, in Europe, a consent banner. Heatpoints answers the question no tracking suite can: what will a first-time eye do on this page, before launch, without a script, without a banner. Drop any image and get an AI attention heatmap in about a second, free and no account, plus a Chrome extension for live pages and a Figma plugin for your designs.
TWO PHILOSOPHIES OF THE SAME PROBLEM
Heatmaps
Session Replay
Pop-ups
A/B Testing
SEO Checker
Funnels
Event Tracking
E-commerce
Feedback
SERP Checker
AI UX Assistant
Chrome Ext.
“Where will the eye go, and why?”
Works on any image, a mockup, a screenshot.
No script. No traffic needed. No banner.
Feature by feature
| CRITERION | PLERDY | HEATPOINTS |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Records real visitors (12-tool suite) | Predicts attention (before launch) |
| Requirements | Tracking script + live traffic | An image, or a screenshot |
| Works before launch | — | Yes, mockups, screenshots, AI-generated pages |
| EEA consent banner | Yes, behavioral tracking | No, prediction runs on our servers; nothing is tracked |
| Session replay | Yes | No, deliberate (Clarity does it free) |
| Pop-ups / A/B / funnels | Yes, their breadth | — |
| Real-time attention overlay | Records sessions, needs a script | Chrome extension: live attention on any page you browse, behind logins |
| Contrast lens (what the eye skips) | — | Included, free |
| Design-tool integration | — | Figma plugin: heatmap over any frame |
| Entry price | Free tier (daily limits) · from ~$21/mo | Free, no account. Pro for ad-makers coming soon |
Honest note: if you run a live store and want replay, pop-ups and funnels in one inexpensive box, Plerdy is a reasonable Swiss-army knife, and Microsoft Clarity gives you the replay part free. We don't compete on breadth. We compete on the question none of them can answer: will this page work, before anyone visits it?
FAQ
What is Plerdy exactly?
An all-in-one CRO suite: real-user heatmaps, session replay, pop-ups, A/B testing, funnels, event tracking, e-commerce analytics and an SEO checker, about a dozen tools behind one tracking script. Free tier with daily limits, paid plans from around $21/month.
Does Plerdy have a predictive AI heatmap?
No. Plerdy's heatmaps are built from real visitor behavior, clicks, scrolls, cursor movement, recorded by a script on your site. It can't say anything about a page before it has traffic. That's the structural gap Heatpoints fills: predicted attention on any image, mockup or screenshot in about a second, free and no account.
Can Heatpoints show attention on a page I'm actually browsing?
Yes, through the free Chrome extension: it overlays a real-time attention heatmap on any page you browse, including pages behind a login that a tracking script can't easily reach. It's still a prediction from the model, not recorded sessions, so there's no consent banner and nothing is stored.
Which one should I pick?
Live store with steady traffic and you want replay, pop-ups and funnels in one cheap suite? Plerdy is a fair pick (so is the free Microsoft Clarity). Images that aren't launched yet, client mockups to review, or an allergy to consent banners? That's Heatpoints, and the two can coexist on the same site.
Twelve dashboards won't tell you if your NEXT page works.
One heatmap will. Free, about a second, no script.