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Pendo.io

Overview

What is Pendo.io?

Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.

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Easy to use interface: Users have consistently praised Pendo.io for its easy-to-use and intuitive interface, with many reviewers stating …
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How I Pendo

9 out of 10
November 30, 2022
Pendo helps my team make data informed decisions about how to drive our product roadmap. It also helps us monitor how users are getting …
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Pendo

9 out of 10
July 19, 2022
Incentivized
We have upwards of nine enterprises' SaaS products. We use Pendo to track and understand user engagement and activity. We also use the …
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Pricing

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Free

Cloud

Base

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Cloud

Core

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.pendo.io/pricing/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is Pendo.io?

Pendo is a product experience platform that helps software product teams deliver products users love. With Pendo, product teams can answer questions like which features are customers using? Which features are they ignoring? Which ones are driving delight and which are causing pain and confusion? From these same insights, users can set up in-app messages, guides and walkthroughs without any coding to help users get the most value from products. By identifying the specific features and workflows that cause users pleasure and pain, the Pendo platform can be used to guide users through the rough spots and drive them to adopt the features that create raving fans.

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Pendo.io Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.

WalkMe, Mixpanel, and Heap are common alternatives for Pendo.io.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Pendo.io are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Easy to use interface: Users have consistently praised Pendo.io for its easy-to-use and intuitive interface, with many reviewers stating that it allows them to navigate the platform efficiently and complete tasks quickly.

Great customer support: Numerous users have commended Pendo.io's customer support team, describing them as phenomenal, responsive, helpful, and understanding. The positive experiences shared by these users highlight the high quality of support provided by the team.

Valuable analytics capabilities: Many reviewers appreciate the analytics features offered by Pendo.io, noting their simplicity and ease of understanding compared to other tools like Google Analytics. These capabilities allow users to track usage by account and individual user, helping them gain valuable insights into customer behavior.

Confusing User Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the software's confusing user interface, finding it challenging to navigate and perform tasks efficiently. The lack of intuitive design elements has resulted in a steep learning curve for new users.

Difficulty in Dashboard Management: There is a notable number of complaints regarding the difficulty of arranging dashboards and managing segments within the software. Users have mentioned that the process can be cumbersome and time-consuming, impacting their ability to organize and analyze data effectively.

Lack of Customization Options: Users feel restricted by the limited customization options available in the software. They desire more control over the interface, including the ability to personalize layouts, colors, and other visual elements according to their preferences. The absence of robust customization features has hindered users' ability to tailor the software to meet their specific needs and branding requirements.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Partha Roy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pendo.io doesn't try to fit every possible product management feature inside the application, rather it focuses on the user experience and analytics part. And they do that beautifully. Because they are focused on their strength so they are best in that, also their pricing is better than all the other competitors.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The organization of Pendo.io makes it much easier to use. We can also get more granular with our request to really dig down into what the root of the issue is and why we are being asked to improve something. We also have been able to better broadcast our wins internally and externally.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is night and day how simple Pendo.io is to setup and configure. You don't need to be a data scientist or engineer - the UI makes it incredibly easy. The competitors have a high barrier to entry to get started with simple tracking and reporting, which has been a massive problem for team-wide adoption.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ChurnZero is better at being more granular in terms of the specific product usage stats. Whereas in Pendo.io one can customize periods of time to make it much easier to drill into a specific month, quarter, year, or date range. This customization feature was one of the deciding factors for purchase.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I prefer Pendo because it monitors explicit interactions down to the minutiae if needed. It provided data on an individual account and user basis, as well as a holistic view across the entire customer base or segments. (which you can also define).
Myles Pickett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WalkMe is not as user-friendly and the analytics portion at the time was limited. However, their step by step guides and walk-thrus were great. So just depends on whats most important to you.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In using Amplitude, we found that the data set provided was not as comprehensive as that of Pendo.io's. We also found that the initial setup of the application across our sites and how to get their dashboard up and running was not as intuitive as it was with Pendo.io.
Jordan Chen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would say ChurnZero is nicer because it does get more granular in terms of the specific usage stats, but I would say that Pendo's customizable time frames make it much easier for me to drill into a specific quarter, date range, etc...
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had to start fast, and the capability of Pendo.io to track visitors' behavior with just a simple script is a powerful approach to accomplish that. And from there the team can start building more into Pendo.io with the reports and with sending more data for segmentation with the same script.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm not 100% sure why we went with Pendo.io. The organization has been using Pendo.io for over 4 years and it's so ingrained in our company that it would be really hard for us to move to another product. I have loved working with Pendo.io and don't want to move anytime soon.
January 23, 2020

Pendo.io is great!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Heap was an excellent option. We also wanted to have the onboarding experience built-in as well, which is why we ultimately went away from them. I did speak to current users, and they loved the functionality of that platform.
  • In looking at Google Analytics, the free version didn't have all of the functionality that we needed. And the premium version was too expensive.
Jennifer Gray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used a rubric to compare Pendo.io to the other tools listed. We scored/compared on the following items that were/are important to our company:

  • Ease of Use
  • Level of developer work necessary
  • Support included
  • Onboarding included
  • Tracking all data points
  • Necessary to tag all data points in order to have tracking
  • Saving and exporting reports
  • Segments (groups of accounts/users)
  • Funnels and Paths
  • Retention report
  • In-app guides
  • Survey tool
Pendo.io scored much higher than the other tools in all of these areas. The two tracking/tagging of data points was very important, and Pendo.io was the only tool that tracks all data points (every time a user clicks something) without us having to tag that element first. Aside from WalkMe, the other two tools did not offer in-app guides or survey tools).
One of the most significant reasons we chose Pendo.io was the fact that the Pendo.io product owner at our company is not a developer. Pendo.io is easy to set up and maintain for anyone, even without developer assistance.
Emily Hardin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used WalkMe for a couple of years, but because we are a single page application we had difficulty with the implementation crashing our site. WalkMe also uses cookies to track users, so every time one of our customers cleared his or her cache, they would receive announcements and surveys over again. These two issues in combination made for some bad data and kept us from being able to use the full functionality of the product. We have had none of these issues with Pendo.io, and the implementation team there has worked with our engineers to ensure that our install won't negatively impact our site.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo.io far and away blows Totango out of the water. While Totango offers in depth usage tracking, it is far behind the experience Pendo provides. Pendo.io is more flexible in what it can track (customizable), offers a far better end user UI/experience, and provides additional features that Totango does not offer (Guides, NPS tracking, etc.). Even Pendo's customer service is better than Totango's. The only place where Totango might have an edge on Pendo.io is in their reporting structure/functionality, which I outlined earlier.
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