Live chat & chatbots

YakDesk vs Tidio

Tidio focuses on chatbots and AI for e-commerce, not session replay. YakDesk gives you replay and heatmaps alongside the chat, so you can see why a visitor got stuck, not just that they left.

YakDesk Tidio
Session replay & heatmaps Yes No
Live chat & shared inbox Yes Yes
Pricing model Flat per-seat Per-seat + per-AI-conversation
See exactly what the visitor did Yes — full replay No
Data residency EU (Hetzner) EU/US
Rage-click auto chat invite Yes No

When Tidio might be the better fit

If you run a Shopify/e-commerce store and mainly want a chatbot and AI assistant to deflect and convert, Tidio's bot builder is purpose-built for that.

Switch in minutes

Paste one snippet and you're recording sessions and answering chats from the same inbox — flat $19/seat, every session recorded, 90-day retention on every plan, hosted in the EU.

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