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    Countly

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Countly is a product analytics solution and innovation enabler that helps teams track product performance and customer journey and behavior across mobile, web, and desktop applications. Ensuring privacy by design, Countly helps the user to innovate and enhance products to provide personalized and customized customer experiences, and meet key business and revenue goals. Countly empowers companies of any size or location to grow their business by helping them securely process billions of…N/A

    Pendo.io

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.N/A
    Pricing
    CountlyPendo.io
    Editions & Modules
    Countly Enterprise Edition
    Personalized Plans
    per month per data point
    Countly Community Edition
    Free Forever
    *Free
    Free
    Base
    Contact sales team
    Core
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CountlyPendo.io
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCustomizable, with free Community Edition (free forever) and free Enterprise Edition trial (free for 1 Month).—
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    Community Pulse
    CountlyPendo.io
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Mixpanel
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Heap
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Whatfix
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CountlyPendo.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.5
    (130 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.5
    (43 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.1
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    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.1
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    Configurability
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    9.1
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    Vendor post-sale
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    CountlyPendo.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Countly
    Whether you're planning to include it into a website or a mobile application, this arrangement is simple to implement. The best feature has to be its superb "division," which allows you to delve deeper into your data without using SQL-like queries. On Ubuntu, the free "group version" can act organically aided.
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    Pendo.io
    Pendo.io is useful in generating great dashboards that present user analytics in the best possible view that could be used for analysis & derive key insights on what could be done if there's a feature that's not being recognized by end users or if there are any pain points where users are struggling more around a workflow which is technically not that difficult. Pendo.io also can be used to create impactful guides where intercatoin of a user with the Guide can be created in less steps & have relevant information about that workflow that the user is completing. Pendo.io's resource center can act as a one stop hub to present any sidewide updates which could be information of Prod releases, New KB Articles, Register to any event, & much more. Segments can be created in as many variation as one can. In fact, Segments are the ruling property or feature that works so handy, which reduces a lot of iterative work.
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    Pros
    Countly
    • Open-source and Self-hosted - Countly can be completely self-hosted, which makes it really easy to offset costs of a competing service like Segment or Mixpanel for early-stage companies.
    • A large number of SDKs and platform support - Countly provides fairly comprehensive support for mobile applications and general tracking. As a result, it's pretty easy to create comprehensive tracking of events for any company.
    • Custom queries, access to data - You have instant access to data and extensive customizability which makes this platform fairly easy to use for any purpose of user and market tracking.
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    Pendo.io
    • NPS Surveys
    • Feature usage insights
    • Identifying user behaviors using Replay feature
    • Clearly segmenting users in a way we want it to be
    • Identifying time spent on a feature/product to better understand what customers actually use
    • Documentation, in-app guides and help section
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    Cons
    Countly
    • No specific thing in mind. All is good except sometimes the customer service lags a little when you have problems setting up the tool.
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    Pendo.io
    • Dashboard is sometimes very slow to load
    • Preview is problematic if the Pendo.io user doesn't have access to the target environment or application where the guide is going to display
    • It would be ideal to have a gallery of thumbnail images of previously used guides to select from, either to pull a screen capture or to use as a template. It's cumbersome to go to the guides, find the one you want, click on Preview, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    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.
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    Usability
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    It is intuitive for core tasks like tracking feature usage, building Guides, and viewing dashboards. The interface is clean and well structured, making it easy for product managers and operational teams to get value quickly without heavy technical support. However, there is a noticeable learning curve when setting up advanced custom events, reports, or integrations, which can take some time and internal knowledge-sharing to master.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    Every time I have logged into Pendo, the service has been available for me to use. The page has never been down when I am trying to get info from there.
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    Performance
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    Everything loads fairly quickly and it's not slow. I don't use an integration, I log in straight in the webpage.
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    Support Rating
    Countly
    Countly practically does everything you need it to do. However, it can have challenges of its own sometimes.
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    Pendo.io
    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.
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    Online Training
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    Use Segment to install and cut developers out of the work cycle!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Countly
    Countly have two main elements that make it the better option. First is open sourced so you can edit with code new options and new events, also you can use a variety of plugins depending of the necessities of the users and the objectives of every analysis. The second characteristic is that is very easy to use and even if is open source and the code could seem complex everything is very intuitive.
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    Pendo.io
    I have just very superficial experience with Google Analytics but I do believe that Pendo.io is a much much better tool in pretty much all aspects of it. It has a ton more features and capabilities and even for the capabilities where there is overlap, Pendo seems to come out ahead easily. There are aspects that Pendo could improve for sure such as what metadata it captures from the users; an example of this is screen resolution which Google Analytics captures but Pendo does not.
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    Scalability
    Countly
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    Pendo.io
    The system is pretty flexible and scalable, I have used it in different browsers and devices without issues.
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    Return on Investment
    Countly
    • Allowed me to understand my customer on a deeper level
    • Allowed me to tweak my content and sales pages
    • Allowed me to better understand my target market.
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    Pendo.io
    • Reducing development time with in-app guides and resource center, with product management being able to agilely create guides in real time, this could be as much as 1 full time developer in savings.
    • Reducing business time scoping "rock fetches" than are proven to be invaluable based on analytics, each time 1 single piece of analtical data saves around ~20 hours across multiple resources.
    • Increasing user satisfaction with in-app guides and resource center
    • Increasing usage of key features through targetted messaging, those key features either drive costs ou of our business or add value to customers business.
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    ScreenShots

    Countly Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview - Product analytics platform to understand and enhance customer journeys in web, desktop and mobile applicationsScreenshot of Dashboard - Visualise metrics that matter the most to your businessScreenshot of User Profiles - Explore your product analytics data with individual user detailScreenshot of Crashes - Always be on top of crashes and exceptions in your applications, and resolve them quicklyScreenshot of Funnels - Track step-by-step goal completion rates inside your applicationScreenshot of Performance Monitoring - Keep track of your applications' network requests, perform code level profiling