Primary focus
UserGuiding
In-app onboarding, product adoption flows, tooltips, and checklists.
Guide Agent
Portable product guides and documentation created from captured screen context.
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UserGuiding vs Guide Agent
UserGuiding is useful for in-app onboarding, tooltips, checklists, and product adoption flows. Guide Agent creates durable product content that can live anywhere: help centers, share links, exports, training docs, and public guides.
Summary
UserGuiding is built for no-code in-app experiences that help users onboard, discover features, and move through product adoption flows.
Guide Agent is built for guide content outside the app as well as inside a broader customer education workflow. It helps teams create tutorials, support articles, onboarding guides, training materials, and exports from captured product screens.
Best for
UserGuiding
- Teams that need in-app onboarding flows, tooltips, hotspots, and checklists.
- Product teams focused on feature adoption inside the application.
- Workflows where guidance should appear directly in the live product.
Guide Agent
- Teams that want to turn captured product screens into multiple guides for different audiences.
- Product, support, success, and training teams that need reusable guide content instead of one-off walkthroughs.
- Workflows where AI drafting, editing, sharing, exports, and analytics need to live in one guide workspace.
Feature comparison
Where content lives
UserGuiding
Guidance is mainly delivered inside the product experience.
Guide Agent
Guides can be shared, exported, published, and reused across help centers, training, onboarding, and support.
Reusable product context
UserGuiding
Builds onboarding and adoption experiences around live product usage.
Guide Agent
Keeps captured product screens available for future guides and audience-specific versions.
AI guide creation
UserGuiding
Helps teams build in-app product experiences without depending on engineering for every update.
Guide Agent
Lets teams ask the agent to create and adapt written product guides from screen context.
Content range
UserGuiding
Creates onboarding flows, tours, checklists, hotspots, and in-app messages.
Guide Agent
Creates support docs, product tutorials, onboarding guides, employee training, and software documentation.
Pricing model
UserGuiding
Uses product plans for product adoption and in-app guidance workflows.
Guide Agent
No subscription required. Pay with credits only when you create guides.
In-app guidance vs portable product content
UserGuiding is useful when the goal is to guide users inside the live application through onboarding and adoption experiences.
Guide Agent is better when teams need product content that can live outside the app too, including help documentation, training guides, support articles, public guides, exports, and internal process docs.
When to choose each
Choose UserGuiding
- You need in-app onboarding flows, tooltips, checklists, or adoption campaigns.
- Your guidance should appear directly inside the live product.
- Your main goal is product adoption through no-code in-app experiences.
Choose Guide Agent
- You want to capture product context once and reuse it across tutorials, demos, onboarding, support, and training.
- You need AI help shaping guides for different audiences without starting from a blank document each time.
- You care about publishable guides, exports, sharing, analytics, and sensitive information review in the same workflow.
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