Session Recording

Grab the popcorn: Play back individual user sessions to watch how users interact with your product.

Understand how users are getting stuck

Debug faster, or build context on analytics performance. Nothing beats watching people use your product for real.

Quickly find the important moments

View recordings for users who completed a specific action or event. Watch how specific features are being used, or how bugs came about.

Block sensitive data

Add a CSS class to any element or input field you don’t want sent to PostHog. Avoid recording private data and protect user privacy while still getting the data you need.

How do PostHog Session Recordings compare?

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	Hotjar	Logrocket	Matomo	PostHog
Platform
Free plan	✔	✔	✔	✔
Open source	✖	✖	✔	✔
Self-hostable	✖	✔	✔	✔
Cloud hosting	✔	✔	✔	✔
Product analytics	✖	✔	✔	✔
Session Recording
Single-page app support	✔	✔	✔	✔
Mobile app recordings	✖	✔	✖	✖
Identity detection	✖	✔	✔	✔
Target recordings by URL	✔	✔	✔	✔
Target by sample size	✔	✖	✔	✔
Filter recordings by user or event	✔	✔	✔	✔
Rage-click detection	✔	✔	✖	✔
Privacy masking for sensitive content	✔	✔	✔	✔
Export recordings	✔	✖	✔	✖
Retention policy for recordings	1 year	1 month	24 months	PostHog Cloud: 3 weeks Self-hosted: No limit

“I was watching session recordings for our sign-up page and realized a lot of people were trying to click something that wasn’t actually a button. We wouldn’t have noticed that needed fixing without PostHog’s session recordings.”
Anubhuti MishraUI/UX Designer, Hasura