The market for DAP-s is growing, and many people are just getting familiar with the advantages that Digital Adoption Platforms can bring to their platforms. Now is the best time to get acquainted with the DAP market and see your options.
In this article I will discuss 3 alternatives to Userguiding, their pros and cons, to help you make an informed decision.
First things first - what is Userguiding?
Userguiding is a product walkthrough and user onboarding software as a service. It promises to help you create onboarding and product guides without any coding.
You can create product adoption tours, user onboarding experiences such as onboarding checklists, NPS surveys and more.
Userguiding is integrated with Mixpanel, Google Tag Manager, Slack and more tools.
While offering a solid feature range - Userguiding’s pricing is based on MAUs - monthly active users, which can come up quite costly very quickly as your user base grows.
Userguiding reviews
Userguiding has a rating of 4.2 out of 5 on ProductHunt based on 10 reviews, 4.7 out of 5 on G2 based on 75 reviews, and 4.7 out of 5 on Capterra (49 reviews).
Userguiding Pricing
Basic plan - up to 2 500 MAU - $99/mo
Professional plan - up to 20 000 MAU - $399/mo
Corporate plan - custom number of MAU - $699+ per month
MAU - Monthly Active Users
Userguiding has no free plan, which may make it difficult for smaller companies to evaluate it. To be fair, all paid plans come with a 14 day free trial.
Why consider Userguiding alternatives
Pricing - Userguiding limits their plans by number of Monthly Active Users. While this is a widespread approach in the SaaS industry, it is very restricting and unfair. In many cases, one may want to run tours only on a fraction of the customer base, thus overpaying for the rest of the users who may never interact with content from Userguiding.
“The price is a bit high. It would be great if there is a free plan and feature based pricing.”Complexity and confusing interface - based on the online reviews some users find it a bit difficult to understand how the software works. With plenty of tools, Userguiding can be considered a feature-rich platform, but it can become overwhelming.
Page targeting is too simple - as a customer experience professional, you may find it difficult to target your tours. Userguiding has page targeting, but it only works for page URL. There is a way to create customer segments, but it is separated from the guide targeting section, and options in segment creation are quite limited.
Tour building only with extension - Userguiding limits users to build tours only using the extension, which doesn’t give the complete picture of the tour. This also means the tour needs to be built in a specific browser. Also, settings for steps are very limited too. The absence of step triggers may be a serious problem when working in a single-page application environment.
Userguiding alternatives
Here are 3 great alternatives for Userguiding
Usetiful
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Stonly
1. Usetiful
Usetiful is a no-code Digital Adoption Platform that enables you to create highly targeted product onboarding experiences, such as product tours and onboarding checklists, as well as feature announcements, smart tips for forms.
Usetiful has a very democratic pricing and very sophisticated targeting and segmentation toolsets. It is straightforward to install and start using.
Usetiful has a theme builder that features customization toggles and custom CSS, which allow to entirely customize the look and feel of your content and make it feel like an organic part of your application.
Usetiful Pricing
Free forever plan - EUR 0 forever - limited to 1 product tour and 2000 assists per month, 1 team seats
Plus - EUR 29.9 / m - 5000 assists per month, 2 team seats
Premium - EUR 99 / m - 20 000 assists per month, 7 team seats
Enterprise - custom plan based on customer needs
Usetiful reviews
Usetiful VS UserGuiding
Summary
Usetiful is an excellent tool providing easy setup, sophisticated targeting, customization and good pricing.
But don’t stop here, check out the other two alternatives to Userguiding below.
2. Lou Assist
Lou Assist is an in-app announcement, hotspots and product tour SaaS.Though plans are relatively expensive and the pricing is based on MAUs, Lou features a free forever plan.
Like Usetiful, Lou Assist will not stop delivering content if your MAU’s exceed the monthly limit, this way creating a welcoming environment for growth.
Lou Assists’ Pricing
Free Forever - $0 - Limited to 2 announcements and 1 tour, 1 team seat
Startup - $99 per month or $948 annually - Unlimited tours and announcements, 3 team seats, 2 500 MAUs
Growth - $239 per month or $2388 annually - Unlimited team seats, 10 000 MAUs
Enterprise - starts at $3588 annually, 10 000+ MAUs
Even though Lous Assist’s pricing seems relatively fair compared with Userguiding, it is still based on MAUs, and the Startup plan is still pretty costly.
Lou Assist’s Reviews
Lou has a rating of 4.7/5 at G2, 4.6/5 at Capterra.
If you are looking for an alternative to Userguiding, we certainly recommend checking out Lou.
3. Stonly
Stonly provides interactive, multimedia guides. The pricing is based on guide views, an interesting departure from the industry standard and unfair MAU-based pricing.
Stonly is rich with templates, such as release notes, NPS survey, contact form and classic step-by-step guides.
If you reach the guide-view limit of your current plan, Stonly will automatically upgrade you to the next plan and notify you in advance - to ensure content is being served continuously as you grow.
Like Usetiful and Lou, Stonly has a free forever plan limited to 5 guides, no team seats and 1000 guide views per month.
Stonly Pricing
Basic - $0, 5 guides, no team seats, 1000 guide views per month
Starter - $49 per month, 30 guides, 3 team seats, 2 500 guide views per month
Business - $99 per month, unlimited guides, 5 team seats, 4 000 guide views per month
Custom - based on unique volume, support and integration needs
It’s worth mentioning that each plan in Stonly’s pricing is customizable, you can select additional team seats or more guide views for a premium cost that adjusts based on what you added.
Stonly Reviews
Stonly has a 5/5 rating on Capterra based on 5 reviews, and 4.8/5 on G2 based on 11 reviews.
Stonly is a sophisticated and complex tool, though a little costly, that can deliver good results with onboarding experiences.
Summary
Userguiding is a good tool that has its advantages and disadvantages. In this article we outlined top 3 alternatives to consider.
If you are looking for high customizability and excellent customer service all while maintaining a reasonable pricing - Usetiful is the best alternative. At the same time, no onboarding software works exactly the same in every use case. Also make sure to consider the other two alternatives to make an educated decision.