CommandBar is a User Assistance Platform (UAP). It is a tool that helps users navigate through your app by augmenting their experience with "nudges" and a chatbot-like interface. CommandBar is a great tool for onboarding new users and helping them get started with your app, but it's not for everyone— at $249/month for the most basic plan, it can be expensive for small teams or indie developers.
In this article, we'll explore some of the top CommandBar alternatives in 2024. We have found 8 alternatives to CommandBar, from similar onboarding tools to custom ChatGPTs for your app.
1. Rehance
We'd be remiss not to kick things off with Rehance, a more powerful and affordable alternative to CommandBar. With Rehance, you can add an AI-powered copilot to your SaaS app that can perform all the same tasks that your users can—and it can combine them, automate them, and remix them for maximum efficiency.
Rehance shines in its ability to get things done for users, particular in complex or powerful software that offers a lot of tools and features. Anytime a user gets stuck, Rehance's copilot can get things done for them.
In terms of pricing, Rehance is free for up to 100 messages per month. You can find out more about Rehance here.
2. Pendo
Pendo markets itself with the headline, "Get your users to do what you want them to do," and that's as good a summary as any of what their In-App Guides product does. If you've seen those modals that appear when you log into a software, telling you about new features or offering to walk you through a new workflow, you've likely seen Pendo in action.
Pendo is free for up to 500 monthly active users, so it might just be worth a shot!
3. Intercom
Intercom is a customer messaging platform that offers a suite of products for sales, marketing, and support. Their product tours feature is a great alternative to CommandBar, allowing you to create interactive tours that guide users through your app.
Intercom starts at $39 per seat per month, but it costs another $99 per month to add the Product Tours feature. Still, that's around half the price of CommandBar and scales up beyond 1000 monthly active users.
4. Appcues
Appcues is another great alternative to CommandBar. It offers a suite of products for user onboarding, feature adoption, and customer engagement, and boasts customers like MongoDB, Codepen, and ProfitWell.
Unfortunately, Appcues is on the expensive side, starting at $249 per month for up to 2500 monthly active users.
5. WalkMe
WalkMe is a digital adoption platform that offers a suite of products for user onboarding, training, and support. Their in-app guidance features allow for a chat-like experience where users can perform certain pre-determined actions through text.
6. Whatfix
Whatfix is a digital adoption platform that offers a suite of products for personalized user onboarding and in-app training. Unfortunately, Whatfix doesn't list their pricing on their website, and requires you to contact them for a quote.
7. ChurnZero
As you might expected, ChurnZero is all about bringing churn in your SaaS down to zero. The product focus is on onboarding and feature adoption, with similar features to CommandBar in those respects. Their pricing, like Whatfix's, is not available on their site.
8. Userpilot
Userpilot helps product teams build in-app engagement interfaces like modals and tooltips. Lots of companies use Userpilot, from Leadfeeder to SendInBlue.
Userpilot starts at $249/mo (seems to be a pattern, doesn't it?)
Conclusion
That's it for our list of CommandBar alternatives! These options should all deliver much of what CommandBar offers in its main product line. Of course, we're partial to our own solution Rehance—at least for software that's feature-rich and in need of automation.