Appcues vs. Pendo.io

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.

Incentivized

Pendo is very well suited for startups and mid size product companies who are looking for -

• Help in user experience building
• Measuring the impact of a feature on the requirement phase itself
• Advanced analytics to get a sense of how the product is working
• Insights about necessary changes that are required to make the product better

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Track usage across our platform (new and existing features) - where each customer clicks, how long they stay at certain areas within the software, etc.
• To promote new features.
• To train customers on how to use new features.
• To survey our customers within the software.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• I find the reporting and analytics to be a little light. They could improve custom reporting capabilities.
• Would like to see the capabilities of the Pendo tagging tool built into the platform. (don't launch a separate product). I find the tagging tool does a much better job at selecting the components to be tagged than the platform does.
• Sometimes takes a while to refresh counts when adding a new tag.

Incentivized

We have had an excellent experience with Pendo. When we've had questions or concerns, Pendo is very quick to respond and communicate with us. We have experienced top-notch customer support and customer engagement. We have actually modeled some of our implementation and product processes after Pendo's examples.

Overall, Pendo provides a smooth interface, especially with the most recent update, and I couldn't imagine using or learning any other platform so product focused. From the moment I log into Pendo, I know where I'm going and what I'm looking for and I'm able to find that, through the interface, in as little time as possible. This helps keep me focused on doing other tasks at work so I'm not overburdened with hunting things down in the system

They've been great anytime that we have needed help with something. They also have some really great help articles. We're able to figure most things out through their articles, but when we've had to call in they've been very helpful and we haven't had any problems. I'd highly recommend working with them.

Incentivized

The training schedule was well thought out and tailored to meet our needs. Chantelle stayed with us through the whole implementation and made sure that we were good to go.

Use Segment to install and cut developers out of the work cycle!

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

WalkMe is an industry leader, but they charge an arm and a leg. Working with them you get a lot of support and CSM time, but is it really worth that price tag? Pendo.io was an easy choice for that simple reason.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• We have had an ROI in reduced support contacts.
• We have had increased NPS scores due to our ability to target messaging for the right reasons to the right audience members rather than blanket distribution of information.
• Delayed deployment in certain environments (being worked through) has led to a delay in one business area, but it is not public facing yet so we aren't heavily impacted by that yet.