Pendo.io review for a SaaS company
June 25, 2025

Pendo.io review for a SaaS company

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Pendo.io

Collect user behavior data and helps with insights about the health of our product. We have access to multiple analytics reports and we are able to identify low engagement users and take action to avoid a possible churn. It also helps us to create a user onboarding guide, without the need of developers working on it.

Pros

  • Collect retroactive data
  • Dashboard creation
  • Analytics reports
  • Collect user behavior data

Cons

  • Pendo.io Guides
  • Feature and page tagging on mobile apps
  • Being able to create a dashboard with widgets available on visitor and account page
  • Preventing churns
  • Saving time on accessing data
  • Ease to create a communication for direct users
It's really clean and consistent, all modules follow a pattern so every module has some similarity. The menus are well organized, feature descriptions are clear and it's easy to access the help center to fully understand how to use a feature. The help center documentation is always updated and clear. There are some small details that could be improved like the way we create create a custom segment inside a guide, once you select "custom segment", nothing happens, and after some time you might found out that there is and small edit icon when you hover on it and you are able to setup a custom segment clicking on it. The whole Pendo.io designer experience could be improved, removing the necessity to find github official guides with scripts that change guide polls behavior.
Pendo.io does a better job with data but not as good on user onboarding and communication. Userpilot started out as an user onboarding and in app guidance that lately became also a user behavior analysis tool. It seems that Pendo.io did the inverse way, it started with the main focus on data but later on decided to also became an user onboarding and in app guidance tool.

Do you think Pendo.io delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Pendo.io's feature set?

Yes

Did Pendo.io live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Pendo.io go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Pendo.io again?

Yes

Pendo.io does a really good job with data, it's easy to use, great flexibility when creating dashboards and reports, it has multiple integrations with different platforms and support for API integrations aswell. Pendo.io is not so good with the Guides and Resource center module. It offers a lot of customization but it needs some technical knowledge to fully use those tools. We are able to do what we want but it's not something easy to explain for a PMM how they can transform a radio button poll into a checkbox poll (it needs to use some JS but it's not the end of the world, just creates a big barrier for people who don't have any technical knowledge).

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