Candu vs Stonly

Candu creates in-product onboarding, upgrade prompts, and announcements designed to match a product's interface. Experiences can appear inline or as overlays, including checklists, homepages, banners, empty states, modals, forms, and hotspots. Its editor supports reusable components, user segmentation, responsive layouts, CSS styling controls, and real-time publishing. Candu says its AI can build in-product UI from a prompt, screenshot, or design; users can review and edit before publishing. Analytics cover engagement, users, and content, and A/B testing is listed. Starter includes integrations and webhooks, while Candu says it connects with analytics providers. Launching experiences requires adding a JavaScript snippet to the product header. The Free plan is limited to overlays and three live experiences. Starter costs $199 a month, billed annually; Growth costs $799 a month, billed annually. Candu runs on web and extension, with mobile app support listed as unavailable. Its intended users include growth product managers, designers, and developers working on onboarding and product adoption.

Stonly is a customer-service knowledge platform for building and delivering interactive guides, articles, knowledge bases, and AI-assisted answers. Its guides combine instructions with choices, letting customers or employees follow a path suited to their situation. Teams can place guides on websites, help centers, and web or mobile apps through no-code triggers. The knowledge base supports articles and guides, with analytics, versioning, rights management, and multimedia content. AI Answers draws on structured, metadata-rich material to respond to questions, surface relevant guides, and support multi-step resolutions. Stonly lists integrations including Zendesk, Salesforce, Freshworks, ServiceNow, Slack, Google Drive, Notion, and Zapier. Plans include Basic, with 400 monthly guide views, five published guides, one language, and one team member; Small Business lists 4,000 guide views and five team members. New accounts receive a 14-day Small Business trial, then move to Basic without charge unless upgraded. Stonly is available on Android, iOS, and web.