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Rejourney live demo replay workbench showing a mobile session, event timeline, API calls, and user context
Tips from the Team

May 26, 2026 · 10 min read

Smartlook Alternatives: What to Use Before Cisco Ends Smartlook

Smartlook is entering end-of-sale and end-of-life. Here is how product, UX, support, and mobile teams should evaluate the next replay and behavior analytics tool.

Mobile app heatmap showing concentrated taps and attention across the right side of a coffee app screen
Tips from the Team

May 26, 2026 · 9 min read

Hotjar Alternatives: When Heatmaps Are Not Enough

How to evaluate Hotjar alternatives when your team needs replay, heatmaps, journeys, mobile evidence, and technical context in one workflow.

Rejourney live demo replay workbench showing a mobile session with timeline, API calls, and user context
Tips from the Team

May 26, 2026 · 9 min read

Fullstory Alternatives for Small Teams: Keep Replay Close to the Fix

How indie and small product teams should evaluate Fullstory alternatives when they need replay, journeys, heatmaps, mobile evidence, and debugging context without a heavy rollout.

Rejourney live demo dashboard showing active users, session volume, retention, degraded sessions, and acquisition sources
Tips from the Team

May 25, 2026 · 10 min read

Product Analytics Tools Show the Event. Rejourney Shows the Moment.

Why events, funnels, and cohorts need replay, journeys, heatmaps, rage clicks, crashes, and API context before teams can fix behavior.

Rejourney conversion funnel journey map showing launch, home, product detail, and cart paths
Tips from the Team

May 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Conversion Funnel Analytics: Catch Friction and Improve Retention

How product analytics, journeys, heatmaps, rage clicks, and replay turn funnel drop-off into a fix list.

Rejourney map view showing regional session health, user counts, session counts, and latency in Manila
Tips from the Team

May 25, 2026 · 10 min read

Churn is not a number. It is a story of Friction.

How retention metrics, heatmaps, rage clicks, crashes, performance, and replay turn churn analysis into a product repair workflow.

Permanent user loss by session event showing API errors caused 17.5% user loss while crashes caused 3.6% user loss
UX Research

May 18, 2026 · 4 min read

Ambiguity Kills App Growth

Why API errors can hurt mobile user retention more than crashes.

How We Keep Mobile Session Replay 17× Cheaper Than PostHog
Backend Technicals

May 06, 2026 · 8 min read

How We Keep Mobile Session Replay 17× Cheaper Than PostHog

The specific engineering decisions and great GDPR providers.

Rejourney Swift Package Is Now in Open Beta
SDK Technicals

May 05, 2026 · 12 min read

Rejourney Swift Package Is Now in Open Beta

The session state machine, two start paths, URLProtocol swizzle, visual capture backpressure, ANR ping-pong, and crash recovery checkpoints — how the native iOS SDK actually works.

Rejourney Hits 1.3 Million Session Replays in 3 Months
Backend Technicals

Apr 23, 2026 · 9 min read

Rejourney Hits 1.3 Million Session Replays in 3 Months

Lessons in edge security, durable pipelines, and scaling during a 10x traffic spike.

120Hz Map Performance: Hooking Native SDKs
SDK Technicals

Feb 17, 2026 · 4 min read

120Hz Map Performance: Hooking Native SDKs

Solving micro-stutter on Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Mapbox via delegate swizzling.

Rejourney Architecture
SDK Technicals

Feb 06, 2026 · 8 min read

Rejourney Architecture

How we achieved pixel-perfect replay with 3 FPS and zero main-thread impact.