Appcues vs. Bytes Route

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Appcues
Score 9.1 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
Bytes Route
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Bytes Route is a codeless tool that enables non-tech people to provide in-app guides and tooltips for a smooth onboarding experience. It is designed to be straightforward so that it doesn’t require a developer or a consultant to use. It aims to enable the user to publish a first product tour in less than 2 minutes. *The initial set-up requires a one-time code snippet insertion in a web domain (near the end of the pages, right before the closing tag) to make the connection…
$0
per month team
Pricing
AppcuesBytes Route
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$299
per month/billed monthly
Growth
$879
per month/billed annually
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Free
$0
per month team
Startup
$19
per month team
Growth
$29
per month team
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppcuesBytes Route
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AppcuesBytes Route
Considered Both Products
Appcues

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Bytes Route
Chose Bytes Route
Bytes Route is simpler to use than the above competitors. It also has a cheaper price. It provides the bare minimum to create a tour, but this is sometimes better than having a bloated menu full of options that are confusing to understand how to use. It also helps that it …
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Best Alternatives
AppcuesBytes Route
Small Businesses
Pendo.io
Pendo.io
Score 8.2 out of 10
Pendo.io
Pendo.io
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Whatfix
Whatfix
Score 9.3 out of 10
Whatfix
Whatfix
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Whatfix
Whatfix
Score 9.3 out of 10
Whatfix
Whatfix
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppcuesBytes Route
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppcuesBytes Route
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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Caphyon
Bytes Route is very well suited for startups or small companies that want to provide their customers with a quick onboarding session that gets them acquainted with their app. It can also be used to provide on-demand tours for users that want to learn how to perform some specific actions, such as changing an account setting or changing something in their profile/dashboard, things that might be buried within multiple menus
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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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Caphyon
  • onboarding tours
  • new user guides
  • onboarding experiences
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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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Caphyon
  • no support for images
  • no support for more modals
  • no segmentation yet
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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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Caphyon
Bytes Route is simpler to use than the above competitors. It also has a cheaper price. It provides the bare minimum to create a tour, but this is sometimes better than having a bloated menu full of options that are confusing to understand how to use. It also helps that it provides an extensive documentation
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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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Caphyon
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