European Heatmaps & Session Recording Software
European heatmap and session recording tools for understanding how visitors interact with your website. These platforms capture detailed behavioral data including mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, and form interactions, all of which constitutes personal data under GDPR. Prioritize tools that offer automatic PII masking, configurable data retention, and cookieless tracking options. 5 tools listed.
Mouseflow
Heatmaps, session replay, and behavior analytics. Danish company with EU-only data processing.
Rybbit
Open-source analytics with session replay and an EU-hosted cloud on Hetzner. Widely adopted, but it never names the company behind it.
PostHog
US-owned open-source product analytics with session replay, feature flags and experiments. EU Cloud runs in Frankfurt, but the parent is American.
TWIPLA
All-in-one website intelligence: analytics, heatmaps, and surveys, cookieless.
Smartlook
Session recording and heatmaps from Czech Republic. EU data processing.
Heatmaps & Session Recording compliance at a glance
- European-owned
- 3 of 5
- Hosting data in the EU
- 5 of 5
- Published DPA located
- 1 of 5
- Checked against vendor docs
- 1 of 5
Headquartered in: Denmark (1), United States (1), Not disclosed (1), Czech Republic (1), Germany (1).
1 listed here is not a European company. They are included because they can be used lawfully in the EU, we label the distinction rather than hide it.
European heatmaps & session recording software: common questions
Which heatmaps & session recording tools host data in the EU?
5 of the 5 heatmaps & session recording tools listed here host data within the EU: Mouseflow, PostHog, Rybbit, Smartlook, TWIPLA.
Which heatmaps & session recording tools are European-owned?
3 of 5 are European-owned (Mouseflow, Smartlook, TWIPLA). The remainder (PostHog, Rybbit) are listed because they are usable under GDPR, but they are not European companies, and we label them that way rather than hiding it.
Do these heatmaps & session recording tools offer a Data Processing Agreement?
We located a published DPA for 1 of 5: Mouseflow. Article 28 GDPR requires one whenever a provider processes personal data on your behalf. The others may still provide one on request. Many do not publish it.
What a DPA has to cover →Where are these heatmaps & session recording companies based?
Across 5 countries: Denmark (1), United States (1), Not disclosed (1), Czech Republic (1), Germany (1).