The Truth About Pendo Alternatives

Many companies claim to be “the alternative”to Pendo, but don’t be fooled by point solutions posing as product platforms. Pendo One is the only unified Product Experience platform that ensures your users do what you want them to do so you can drive revenue growth and increase retention.

How to Choose

When comparing Pendo alternatives, it can seem like there’s more similarities than differences, but there are core elements and critical requirements that can make or break your success.

Product analytics, feedback, in-app guides, session replay tools, product discovery features: All of these should not only be part of any comprehensive product experience platform, they should each work in concert with one another to drive both a better user experience for your customers and better business results for your employees.

Here’s what to watch for as you evaluate your options:


Pendo

Amplitude

Fullstory

GainsightPX

Heap

Mixpanel

WalkMe

WhatFix

Product Analytics
Auto-tracking

Pendo

Amplitude

Fullstory

GainsightPX

Heap

Mixpanel

WalkMe

WhatFix

Multi-product portfolio analysis

Pendo

Amplitude

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Native visitor and account insights

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Session recordings

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Product engagement scoring

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Sentiment analysis

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

In-app Guides
No-code guide building

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Native behavioral targeting

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Personalized resource center

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Voice of the customer
Collect, organize, and prioritize user feedback

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Collect qualitative sentiment data using NPS & Polls

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Communicate releases with Roadmaps

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Enterprise ready
Designed for apps you build and apps you buy

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

SOC2 Type 2 in all five trust principles

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX

Host data in US or EU data centers

Pendo

AMPLITUDE

Fullstory

GAINSIGHTPX

HEAP

MIXPANEL

WALKME

WHATFIX


Automatically collect every feature click, mouse hover, page load and focus event in an application. Tag features at any point and retroactively organize that raw captured data for analysis.

Manage multiple apps in a product portfolio and analyze usage across both web and mobile apps using a holistic view.

Understand not only individual-level behaviors, but also organize visitors by account, organization, or company. This is critical for B2B companies or products designed to be used by teams.

Watch playbacks of user interactions.

A single number that represents the combined impact of feature adoption, return user stickiness, and new user growth.

Analyze senitment data like NPS by layering in product usage information. See correlations between page/feature use and user sentiment.

Build and style guides with a point-and-click designer, no coding or CSS knowledge required.

Analytics backbone to enable precise behavior-based segmentation. For example, you showing a tooltip to users who have not yet tried a new feature, or ask for feedback from users who have used it more than 5 times in a certain week.

Personalized in-app helper that houses additional in-context and help including support articles, FAQs, in-app guides, and more.

Collect user feedback without requiring them to leave an application. Natively tag, assign, and prioritize feedback to help drive product planning and prioritization.

Pendo makes it easy to survey your audience, supporting NPS, multiple choice, and open text question formats.

Communicate priorities and visualize your product strategy with Roadmaps.

Designed for software that companies build for and deliver to their customers and the software that companies buy or build for their employees.

SOC 2 Type 2 certified on all five trust principles with zero exemptions.

Customers can choose between having their data hosted in data center facilities in either the United States or European Union.

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