Alternatives to popular onboarding tools

Outgrew your current product tour or onboarding platform? Each roundup ranks the best alternatives for a specific tool — Appcues, Pendo, WalkMe, Userpilot, UserGuiding, React Joyride, Shepherd.js, Driver.js, Intro.js, and others — across developer experience, framework support, bundle size, accessibility, licensing, pricing, and project health (release cadence, open issues, maintainer responsiveness). We also flag the migration cost: API surface differences, behavioral gaps, and the migration patterns that have worked for teams who have already made the switch. Use these to shortlist three options worth a serious evaluation.