Appcues vs. Apptentive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Appcues
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Appcues is online software for creating in-product experiences such as user onboarding, feature announcements, etc. without writing any code. (The vendor believes it's the non-technical people who oftentimes have the best information about a software user's needs and desires.) The goal of using Appcues is to improve product engagement within the user's own customer base.
$299
per month/billed monthly
Apptentive
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Apptentive allows companies to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across their mobile customer journeys. Their mobile customer feedback solution helps brands manage their brand reputation, prioritize product roadmaps, and measure customer experience down to individual customer IDs. With event-based targeting, brands can ask the right customers the right question at the right time, driving response rates higher than web and email. Apptentive’s ability to connect…N/A
Pricing
AppcuesApptentive
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$299
per month/billed monthly
Growth
$879
per month/billed annually
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppcuesApptentive
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
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User Ratings
AppcuesApptentive
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(7 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppcuesApptentive
Likelihood to Recommend
Appcues
It is well suited for SaaS products or services that have a highly complex user interface. Through Appcues, you can ensure that people discover all the existing and new features and make them understand the value of your product as soon as possible to address the evergreen issue of churn. But if your user interface is really messed up, you should change the product itself instead of using a tool like Appcues to explain everything on the screen.
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Apptentive
Apptentive is well suited for getting more feedback from mobile app users. It has all the tools to ask the right questions at the right time. It's less appropriate for simply an app metrics solution. While it provides metrics other mobile platforms would be better at compiling the correct metrics needed for insights.
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Pros
Appcues
  • As a whole, Appcues is very easy to use.
  • You can build templates to easily style future modal windows and tooltips.
  • They have great customer service! Any time I've had a question our support rep always gets back to me with solutions.
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Apptentive
  • Push notifications for app store reviews.
  • Targeted interactions based on in-app events.
  • Easy in-app messaging service for direct access to our support team.
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Cons
Appcues
  • We were extremely surprised that there are not any Appcues used in Appcues. The app is pretty easy to use, once you figure out how to use it. There were not any type of tutorials when we logged in that quickly walked through how to setup a flow.
  • Appcues has lots of support articles, however they are almost so numerous that it was hard to find simple onboarding documentation that we found useful.
  • The different tooltips and product actions are great, but being able to customize the different cues a little bit more by changing sizes and aspect ratios could be an improvement.
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Apptentive
  • Apptentive's metrics aren't as customizable as we would like but what it does measure it does a good job at.
  • Managing multiple apps (iOS and Android) can make for extra work because you're duplicating work on Notes and Events.
  • Finding the right way to interact can take multiple tests, surfacing best practices across the industry would be a help.
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Alternatives Considered
Appcues
It has a much, much better user interface, better customer care, and of course better pricing. This along with the fact that they were very accommodating for our use case ensured we went ahead with Appcues.
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Apptentive
We thought about Firebase, but we ultimately selected Apptentive because it is brand-agnostic. Using a Google app for an iOS application could have proved disastrous if the support for iOS had been lost down the line.
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Return on Investment
Appcues
  • Appcues has allowed us to quickly deploy user help features that target specific users, audiences, even customers with very little effort.
  • Appcues has helped gain user traction by providing helpful tooltips, tours, and other rich content, reducing the first-time user learning curve.
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Apptentive
  • Apptentive has helped us increase our app store ratings which results in better listings in search results, etc.
  • Apptentive has helped give us better insights from our users.
  • Apptentive has helped us better manage emergencies that we can address without an App Store update now.
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ScreenShots

Apptentive Screenshots

Screenshot of Sentiment and Topic Analysis - The Apptentive dashboard provides key insights into who customers are, what they care about, and how to communicate with them. Apptentive works from day one using machine learning and semantic analysis to bubble up key trends, so the user can stop guessing what customers want and recognize issues not readily seen.Screenshot of The Love Dialog shows how customers feel about a brand and mobile experience by asking one simple question, ‘Do you love our company?’. The Love Dialog allows users to track and analyze customer sentiment over time, and by app version.Screenshot of Apptentive’s Surveys can be changed without updating the app. Collect quantitative data and qualitative information with a tap. Optimized for mobile with in-depth targeting, gather thousands of responses to make faster data-driven decisions.