Appcues vs Driver.js

Appcues helps teams create in-product experiences for onboarding users, encouraging feature adoption, collecting feedback, and reducing support requests without engineering help for every change. Its formats include Flows, Checklists, Launchpads, Banners, Pins, NPS and Surveys, and Workflows. A Chrome extension, Appcues Builder, creates Flows, Pins, and Banners; Appcues Studio is a web dashboard for other experience types, targeting, themes, analytics, and administration. Mobile support covers native iOS and Android apps as well as React Native, Flutter, and Ionic through a mobile SDK. Mobile experiences include Flows, Surveys, Embeds, and push notifications, with targeting, translation, themes, and analytics. Appcues Analytics offers trends, funnels, paths, retention curves, contextualized events, segments, dashboards, reports, and AI analysis. Appcues AI is included on every plan and can plan, troubleshoot, build, segment, and analyze experiences using Appcues data. Pricing is on request; a free trial requires no credit card.

Driver.js is a free JavaScript library for product tours, page highlights, and contextual help. It can guide users through a sequence of steps or draw attention to a single page element with a popover. Clickable hints appear as pulsing beacons and open popovers, optionally with a page overlay. Listed uses include onboarding, interactive tutorials, feature adoption, form guidance, and focusing attention. Configuration can be applied globally, to individual steps, or while a tour is running. The library works with any framework or library as well as vanilla JavaScript; it can be installed using npm, pnpm, or yarn, or loaded from a CDN. Its homepage describes it as dependency-free and about 5 KB. Driver.js is open source under the MIT license, with personal and commercial use and no attribution required. The maker also lists accessibility and support for major browsers and mobile devices. The listed platforms are Android, iOS, and web. One API constraint is that only one Driver.js instance can be active on screen at a time.