Catch before they bounce vs Microsoft Clarity: free is great, free isn't a sales tool.

Microsoft Clarity is the most surprising free product in our category. Heatmaps, replays, rage clicks, dead clicks — all of it, no visitor cap, no nag. If your only question is 'where do people get stuck on my site?', Clarity probably gives you 80% of what a paid tool would.

We recommend it constantly. We also know exactly where it stops, because we have heard the same sentence from twenty founders: 'Clarity is great, but I still don't know who to call.'

Where Clarity wins

• Truly free, unlimited visitors, no upgrade pressure.
• Beautiful heatmaps and scroll maps out of the box.
• Frustration signals (rage clicks, dead clicks, excessive scroll) without setup.
• Lightweight tracker, fast install.

Where Clarity stops

There is no lead score. No pipeline view. No 'why this visitor matters' explanation. Clarity is a magnifying glass — it makes one session very clear. It is not a list that tells you which five sessions, out of 4,000, you should look at this morning.

What Catch before they bounce adds on top

• Every visitor scored 0–100 with a model trained on your conversions.
• Pipeline statuses so the same view serves sales triage and product debugging.
• Plain-English explanation of every score.
• Privacy-first by default: no third-party ad-tech baggage.

When to pick which

If you are a one-person team validating an idea and your only question is UX, stay on Clarity. It will not cost you a euro and it will work. The day someone on your team says 'I am drowning in leads and I don't know which one to talk to' — that day, Catch before they bounce starts paying for itself within the week.

Most teams move from Clarity to Catch before they bounce the moment sales becomes a real conversation, not a footnote.