Bloomfire vs. Storylane

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomfire
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Bloomfire provides knowledge engagement, aiming to deliver an experience that connects teams and individuals with the information they need to excel at their jobs. Their cloud-based knowledge engagement platform aims to give people one centralized, searchable place to engage with shared knowledge and grow their organization's collective intelligence.
$25
per month
Storylane
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Storylane, headquartered in Santa Clara, helps companies build interactive product demos in minutes with their eponymous no-code tool. Marketing users can embed guided product tours on their websites, landing pages , blogs or share them in email campaigns. Sales users can replicate the product and build custom demos tailor made for conversation. Storylane's no code editor enables users to personalize anything in the demo.
$50
per month per seat
Pricing
BloomfireStorylane
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25.00
per month
Starter
$50
per month per seat
Growth
$625
per month 5 seats included + $125 per additional seat
Premium
$1500
per month custom seats
Solo (1 Demo)
free forever
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BloomfireStorylane
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$25 No setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
BloomfireStorylane
Considered Both Products
Bloomfire
Chose Bloomfire
- Easier to use
- Easier to upload new information
- Easier to search
Chose Bloomfire
Bloomfire is the best platform to find updates on partner kickoff events and also Training and Enablement plans. we can find good articles related to partner sales talks which gives a good information on maximising mulesoft value proposition and maximise their investment by …
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Bloomfire has a good number of articles available to read and gain knowledge whereas other products don't provide such flexibility in knowledge sharing. It also provides recordings of various partner tech talks, partner webinars, Lab materials, training classes, and start …
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We cannot find some solutions for tableau both online and offline applications which ultimately disturbs client requirements. But on Bloomfire we can find a good number of articles and information on many Mulesoft concepts and integration LAB pics. We don't have frequent …
Chose Bloomfire
Salesforce also provides a free learning platform and some special access to partners on some trial heads where we can earn badges for the trials we complete. Bloomfire should also start such user-friendly practices which will help learners to access and learn them easily. They …
Chose Bloomfire
I didn't chose this system, but when I was hired by the company I was challenged to figure out the best use of it. I met with our representative and we went over ideas that would make using the site better and more appealing to learners. In the last year we have had a …
Chose Bloomfire
Salesforce has an awesome platform to learn which is called Trailhead, where their explanation was so innovative. for every trail we complete they provide us with a badge that can be shared on LinkedIn which further increases the number of Opportunities. We can find information …
Chose Bloomfire
In my opinion, Fuse is a dying database platform with user-friendly capabilities equivalent to trying to fit a square peg in a round hole... with a blindfold... underwater. Bloomfire's ease of use has been a tremendous upgrade in every way, other than video recording …
Chose Bloomfire
We utilize Teamwork for Project / Task Management. We looked at their functionality to house our guides, etc. Bloomfire was way ahead in terms of product functionality.
Chose Bloomfire
Hive is the closest competitor to Bloomfire that I have encountered. Its main benefit is the ability to manage individual tasks along with accessing larger hosts of information. I think that Bloomfire is better at the organizational component on a Macro level, however, Hive is …
Chose Bloomfire
Bloomfire is the first app we have used besides FTP.
Chose Bloomfire
It is what our company chooses to use and I am pleased with what I need it for.
Chose Bloomfire
Boomi is a no code platform where we cannot deal with bluk data. Here in Boomfire we can find good number of articles on mulesoft and salesforce integrations and we can easliy get back to client with best solutions. where-in boomi has not much flexibility compared to Mulesoft. …
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Bloomfire is so much better than Box or Google Drive as you are able to [have] context around the materials posted; so helpful.
Chose Bloomfire
I like Bloomfire because it is more concise with the work I do whereas Google search engine would provide broader information. It has just been so user-friendly, and easier to use [than] I could have imagined. I would use this program over any other that I have tried in the past.
Chose Bloomfire
We had not used any similar products prior to Bloomfire. All content was stored on internal servers.
Chose Bloomfire
Bloomfire is much easier to use than Microsoft SharePoint as a standalone knowledge base. Atlassian Confluence is pretty similar in this regard. All of these products shine in their own way, but Bloomfire does very well as a knowledge base.
Chose Bloomfire
Have not used anything similar.
Storylane
Chose Storylane
I felt Storylane was the easiest to learn and the most value for money among the other tools that I evaluated. Some of the tools are 10 times more expensive than Storylane and basically do the same thing. Storylane solved my purpose at a lower cost so I chose it.
Chose Storylane
The demo done by the team was brilliant and they were able to get us trial access immediately. Their gtm team was also able to accommodate our request on pricing and contract terms which really made us incline heavily towards Storylane. The product also was very well built and …
Chose Storylane
More cost effective and seemed more intuitive. Never really used other product so can’t fully speak to this.
Chose Storylane
Invision was previously used, it went away entirely. Figma seemed more developer focused vs use cases for presales
Chose Storylane
I used to have a subscription to Navattic at my previous startup and it's not bad either. They had the possibility to scroll the screen on the demo but the way to create the demo was less intuitive.
Chose Storylane
Storylane seems very comparable to Walnut in terms of functionality and ease of navigation in the tool. I'm using a full sandbox experience in Walnut, so it's not quite apples to apples, but the basic functionality is similar. I used product tool tips, AI text-to-speech, and …
Chose Storylane
They are both good products and pretty similar. Navattic definitely had some strong features, but with Storylane, they were incredibly responsive to requests for help and feature requests and it just "looked" better. Storylane also "felt" better in terms of working with it. …
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User Ratings
BloomfireStorylane
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
8.0
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Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
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Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
BloomfireStorylane
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Bloomfire is most appropriate in a medium to large business entity since onboarding can be difficult without an organized tool to prioritize job functions. It would be most well suited for positions that incorporate data analytics/reporting and consist of regular deliverables. So for example: if an accountant wants to learn how to compile a cash flow statement but also has to turn it into a client-facing presentation, there are resources specific to internal accounting and then separate resources (also in the accounting vertical) for data visualizations and client reporting.
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Storylane is the best platform for creating SaaS product tours to explain the functionality of your product. You can create multiple demos and replace the static non-interactive videos with demos created using Storylane. If there isn't anything functional in the product, consider using videos instead of a demo tour. Also, you can consider videos when visual appeal is a bigger factor than functionality explanation.
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Pros
  • Quickly reach out to whatever employee segment you want to reach by posting a topic and it will send a notification to everyone in that group with a link to the posting.
  • Bloomfire saves all of the previous posts so in your free time you can go to the site, and explore the various range of topics others have posted. The information on there will only be as good as the person posting it, but it will be people within your company and industry posting it. So it will always be helpful.
  • Bloomfire is a place to be noticed by your peers. Have a great topic you want to express, my company allows all to post there as long as we keep it professional. So you can share your ideas or experiences in a safe and productive manner. But we do have some fun on there too!
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  • Allows you to easily grab the visual assets to create a walk through.
  • The analytics that are integrated give you a very specific view of engagement.
  • Even the most complex web pages can be saved in Storylane, definitely a robust engine.
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Cons
  • Providing more videos about the differences between the dental plans.
  • Providing more videos about the differences between the carriers in regards to med supp or med adv.
  • Providing more videos about processes and functions that we at AWL have to do on a daily basis.
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  • It's not intuitive when I want to modify some of the text in the boxes
  • It's difficult when I wanted to copy a slide from one demo and drop it into another demo. It's never worked properly and this seems like it should be a relatively easy technical lift to offer - also it doesn't say that it won't work, it just simply made a mess of my slides.
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Likelihood to Renew
I am with a different employer now days where training is not part of my job description. If I ever found myself doing E-Learning again, Bloomfire would be the first interface I would recommend.
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Usability
Bloomfire is an easy-to-use platform for posting information and asking questions of my peers. It also has a user-friendly search capability. Yet like any other CMS, the secret to success rests in such items as the ability to use metadata to tag content or posts, and Bloomfire provides a wide range of options to make posting content and subsequently searching for it.
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Very easy to use as the extension integrates very well and is easy to setup in less than a day. The documentation provided also has very useful links that are easy to understand and implement. The CS team is also very proactive in helping setup and solve for queries if they do arise
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Support Rating
I have not needed to pose questions to the support team yet, as it is a very simple piece of software to use, however, its help documents and the bot ready to answer questions let me know I am in good hands. The help center could load a little quicker, but that's my only complaint.
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Alternatives Considered
- Easier to use - Easier to upload new information - Easier to search - Easier to share Bloomfire search-ability means much less work trying to organize and categorize documents. That means easier upload, which means more information gets stored there and used.
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Storylane seems very comparable to Walnut in terms of functionality and ease of navigation in the tool. I'm using a full sandbox experience in Walnut, so it's not quite apples to apples, but the basic functionality is similar. I used product tool tips, AI text-to-speech, and screen capture in similar manners with similar results.
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Return on Investment
  • Feedback from users in being able to perform transactions for members has greatly improved.
  • There has been an increase in engagement of material presented in posts by learners in training classes.
  • Reps and agents say they feel confident they can easily locate information if ever there is a need on the front line.
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  • I cannot attest to the ROI as I created Storylanes for my company shortly before making a career change. I anticipate that it will shorten the sales cycle as it will help champions convince decision makers who were not present during a live demo.
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ScreenShots

Bloomfire Screenshots

Screenshot of You are provided with a variety of options to brand your Bloomfire community, such as customizing its colors, displaying your organization’s logo, and building a custom Promo Bar. This creates an aesthetic that truly reflects your company’s culture.Screenshot of Bloomfire features an AI-powered search that makes sharing and searching for information a lot easier. It deep indexes every word in each piece of content, regardless of whether it’s a PDF, slide deck, video, or any other file type. The platform also creates tags for your content automatically. And if a video is uploaded, Bloomfire automatically transcribes it, making the spoken words searchable and allowing users to jump to the exact part of a video where certain keywords appear.

All of those features result in an easy and smart searching experience. There’s no need to navigate through folders or guess file names. All you need to do is perform a search like you would with Google. When searching, you can further narrow down your results based on categories such as author and content type.Screenshot of Bloomfire's AI enables you to search and find the video you are looking for based on its audio contents.Screenshot of Use Bloomfire while you work seamlessly across your favorite apps.

Storylane Screenshots

Screenshot of how Storylane captures screenshots, video and HTML Recordings for demosScreenshot of the no-code demo editor, used to customize text, images, graphs or any other kind of element appearing in a demo.Screenshot of an example of the tooltips, callouts and video popups that can be used to explain a productScreenshot of AI - not just for better buyer discovery but also for easier and quicker demo creation for sellersScreenshot of the one click process to share or embed demos anywhereScreenshot of demo insights, used to drive engagement and growth for for each lead