Clew vs Driver.js

Clew adds product tours, tooltips, modals and onboarding checklists inside a product. A team can add a script tag, then create and publish overlays in a visual editor without another site release. The widget supports React, Vue, plain HTML and single-page apps, including client-side route changes. Setup guides cover Google Tag Manager, AI coding assistants, WordPress, Webflow and Shopify. Clew tracks views, completions and dismissals with an anonymous in-browser ID, and says these counts do not use IP addresses or personal data. If a tooltip cannot find its target, Clew flags and skips that step. EU cloud hosting and a self-hosted option are available; the self-hosted plan is intended for banks, the public sector and regulated industries. The Free plan includes one site, one team seat and up to three published tours. Pro costs $14.99 a month and Business costs $39.99 a month. Pro and Business include a 14-day trial without requiring a credit card. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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.