# Inspectlet Live Alternative Without Keystroke Capture If you want Inspectlet Live's "who is on my site right now" view without streaming what visitors type, whoisbrowsing is a free alternative: it draws every current visitor's cursor, trail and clicks on your real page, and never sends keystrokes, form values or page text. If you need to see typing, form behaviour or recordings, Inspectlet does those and whoisbrowsing does not. ## What Inspectlet Live does Inspectlet's Live page is specific about what you get ([Inspectlet Live](https://www.inspectlet.com/feature/live)): - "A running count of every active visitor on your site, updated every few seconds." - "A live-sorted list of the pages being viewed most." - Live visitor cards you can filter by URL path. "Click any live visitor card to open their screen in a new window." - "See their cursor, their scroll, their typing", streamed "straight from their browser to yours with sub-second latency." The page frames it well: "Session replay is great for after the fact. Live is for right now." Inspectlet is also a session recording product. Its plans page says the free plan gives "2,500 recorded sessions per month across up to 3 websites", with no credit card and no time limit, and data retention "from 1 month on the free plan up to 24 months on Enterprise". The plans page lists Live View ("See who's on your site right now") as a feature, but does not say which plans include it ([Inspectlet plans](https://www.inspectlet.com/plans)). ## Inspectlet's privacy controls, to be fair Seeing "their typing" does not mean Inspectlet sees everything. Its privacy guide says ([Inspectlet privacy guide](https://www.inspectlet.com/guides/visitor-recording-privacy)): - "Password fields are automatically excluded by Inspectlet's tracking script and can never be captured." - The `inspectlet-sensitive` class replaces an element's content with `X` characters, and `inspectletIgnore` excludes an element entirely. - The dashboard has a **Censor All Inputs** toggle for each site. - Form interactions are captured, including "which fields were focused, typed into, or submitted (content can be masked)". So with Inspectlet, typing outside password fields is captured unless you mask it or censor all inputs. With whoisbrowsing, there is nothing to mask, because typing is never sent. ## Inspectlet Live vs whoisbrowsing | | Inspectlet Live | whoisbrowsing | |---|---|---| | Active visitor count | Running count, updated every few seconds ([Live](https://www.inspectlet.com/feature/live)) | Live counts per page, busiest first | | Most-viewed pages | Live-sorted list ([Live](https://www.inspectlet.com/feature/live)) | Side panel, busiest page first | | How you watch | Open one visitor's screen in a new window ([Live](https://www.inspectlet.com/feature/live)) | Every current visitor drawn together on your real page | | Cursor and scroll | Yes, sub-second latency ([Live](https://www.inspectlet.com/feature/live)) | Cursor with a fading trail and click ripples; phones and tablets as a scroll band | | Typing | Streams "their typing" ([Live](https://www.inspectlet.com/feature/live)); passwords always excluded, other inputs maskable ([privacy guide](https://www.inspectlet.com/guides/visitor-recording-privacy)) | Never keystrokes, form values or page text | | Recordings | Yes; free plan 2,500 recorded sessions a month ([plans](https://www.inspectlet.com/plans)) | None | | Data kept | 1 month on free, up to 24 months on Enterprise ([plans](https://www.inspectlet.com/plans)) | "Nothing about your visitors is stored on our servers." | | Free option | Free plan, up to 3 websites, no card ([plans](https://www.inspectlet.com/plans)) | Free, no credit card, no usage limits for now | | Cookies on visitors | Not stated by vendor | None | ## What whoisbrowsing sends, word for word This is the whole list, as it appears on our [privacy page](/privacy): > "Your visitors' browsers send the page, pointer position, clicks, scroll, device type, source, browser and operating system, and time on site. Never keystrokes, form values or page text." Two more rules apply. Query strings never leave the browser, and URL tokens in a path (UUIDs, long hex strings and long random tokens) are sent as `:id`. And visitors from the EU/EEA, UK and Switzerland, and browsers with Global Privacy Control, are never shown. ## What you see instead of a single screen Inspectlet opens one visitor at a time. whoisbrowsing puts everyone on the page you are looking at: - desktop visitors as coloured cursors with fading trails, clicks as ripples; - phone and tablet visitors as a see-through band over what they are reading; - arrows at the edge for visitors scrolled out of view; - one line per person with their page, source (Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, another site's link, or direct), approximate city, device, browser, operating system, time on site and pages this visit. It never identifies a visitor. "Near Austin, TX" is as specific as it gets. More on the drawing in [live cursor tracking for your own website](/learn/live-cursor-tracking-website) and [how it works](/how-it-works). ## When to pick Inspectlet instead Inspectlet is the better tool when: - you need to **see how people fill in forms**: which fields they focus, skip or abandon; - you want **recordings** to replay later, or **one visitor's full screen** while they browse; - you are debugging a specific problem where **typed input matters**, in fields you have chosen not to mask; - much of your traffic is from **Europe**, where whoisbrowsing shows nobody. Pick whoisbrowsing when you only want to know who is here and what they are pointing at, with nothing typed sent and nothing kept. ## Try it in a minute Add one tag to your pages: ```html ``` It is under 4 KB gzipped, loads with `defer`, and never changes how the page looks. Start on [/try](/try) with no account, or pick a platform from the [install guides](/install). Your own browser is never counted; to test, open your site in a Chrome Incognito or Safari private window while you watch. ## Related comparisons - [Lucky Orange alternative](/learn/lucky-orange-alternative) - [Clarity live users vs whoisbrowsing](/learn/microsoft-clarity-live-vs-whoisbrowsing) - [Best live visitor tools in 2026](/learn/best-live-visitor-tools) - All comparisons: [/compare](/compare). Home: [whoisbrowsing](/) ## Frequently asked questions ### What does Inspectlet Live show? Inspectlet's Live page describes a running count of active visitors updated every few seconds, a live-sorted list of the most-viewed pages, and live visitor cards that open a visitor's screen, showing 'their cursor, their scroll, their typing' with sub-second latency. ### Does Inspectlet have a free plan? Yes. Inspectlet's plans page says the free plan gives 2,500 recorded sessions per month across up to 3 websites, with no credit card and no time limit, and 1 month of data retention. The page does not say which plans include Live. ### Does whoisbrowsing capture what visitors type? No. Your visitors' browsers send the page, pointer position, clicks, scroll, device type, source, browser and operating system, and time on site. Never keystrokes, form values or page text. ### When is Inspectlet the better choice? When you need to see form behaviour, recordings or a single visitor's full screen, including typing in fields you have not masked. whoisbrowsing is live only and keeps nothing.