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What's the best user onboarding tool: Pendo vs. Stonly vs.?
Let's talk sleek user onboarding tools. Pendo vs. Stonly vs.? What have you found that is easy to integrate and reasonable pricing for an early startup budget?
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We're using Intercom. Product Tours and Banners are a gamechanger.
You'd shared a great recommendation for Userflow in the past. Do you find Userpilot just as good, or are they better in different ways? Which would you recommend most to folks today?
TBH, I still prefer Userflow because their approach is fundamentally different. But for those who prefer the way Appcues works, Userpilot is a strong alternative.
We recently started using Stonly for customer onboarding of our free plan users at Piwik PRO, and have very positive experience with their product and team.
It may not be as advanced as some of their competitors yet, but your customer data is hosted in the EU, you can get a proper data processing agreement signed with them, and are at this nice early stage where your customer feedback may be quickly turned into the feature!
There was a Capiche discussion about product onboarding tools a while back, and Userflow and Intercom came highly recommended. Might be worth checking those two!
Have you tested any tools so far?
Will check it out! We FINALLY tried Intercom yesterday and it's a winner. We didn't try it initially coz we thought it was just chatbots and too expensive, BUT found the startup package and product tours really really helpful. Others we tried - Pendo was too expensive for us (very good looking functionality and UI), tested Stonly coz we saw it on Product Hunt (but it's buggy right now and didn't reply to 3 emails in a row for help).
Nice, glad to hear that! Yeah, Intercom's startup plan makes it much more affordable—and at least according to Intercom pricing stories others shared, you may be able to negotiate it down a bit at least once you're out of the startup plan.
Curious: What features are most important for your team with a onboarding tool?
Good luck!
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Banners is awesome. I do think the development of Product Tours has been a little light on the ground however.