Hotjar vs UXPin

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and UXPin (The Full-Stack UX Design Platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a modest lead over UXPin (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 35). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Hotjar is clearly ahead of UXPin. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is clearly ahead of UXPin. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Hotjar is ahead of UXPin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of UXPin. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), UXPin is ahead of Hotjar.

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. UXPin shows 879 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but UXPin's footprint is roughly 16.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Hotjar is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. UXPin looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.