The fully-featured Ngx UI Tour alternative
Flows is the Ngx UI Tour alternative for teams who have outgrown hard-coded product tours and want flexible, scalable workflows inside their product.
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TL;DR comparison summary
Ngx UI Tour is an Angular library for building guided tours using tooltips and step-based overlays. It integrates well with Angular apps but leaves workflow logic, targeting, persistence, and analytics entirely to your codebase.
Flows is a product adoption platform that works across frameworks. You bring your UI components, and Flows handles orchestration, workflows, targeting, and lifecycle management.
Flows vs Ngx UI Tour: Key differences
Key features | Ngx UI Tour | Flows |
|---|---|---|
Product toursBoth Ngx UI Tour and Flows can guide users through step-by-step onboarding experiences. | ||
Angular supportNgx UI Tour is Angular-only. Flows supports Angular and other frameworks. | ||
Floating componentsNgx UI Tour supports tooltip-based overlays. Flows supports tooltips, modals, banners, and checklists. | ||
Embeddable componentsFlows supports inline components rendered directly inside your app layout, not just overlays. | ||
CustomizationNgx UI Tour customization happens entirely in code. Flows lets you reuse your design system components while centralizing logic. | ||
Workflow logicFlows supports branching workflows and conditional logic. Ngx UI Tour tours are linear unless you build custom logic. | ||
State managementFlows manages user progress, persistence, and completion automatically. Ngx UI Tour requires manual state handling. | ||
LocalizationFlows supports localization out of the box. Ngx UI Tour requires custom translation handling. | ||
AnalyticsFlows provides built-in analytics and tracking. Ngx UI Tour requires custom analytics integration. | ||
TargetingFlows offers advanced user targeting and segmentation features. Ngx UI Tour requires custom implementation for targeting specific user groups. | ||
Free planNgx UI Tour is free and open source. Flows offers a free plan with 250 monthly active users. |
Other differences
Library vs platform
Ngx UI Tour is a UI library embedded directly into your Angular app.
Flows is a platform that orchestrates workflows while staying deeply integrated with your product.
Beyond onboarding
Ngx UI Tour focuses primarily on onboarding use cases.
Flows supports onboarding, feature discovery, education, re-engagement, and upsell workflows.
Part of your product
Ngx UI Tour overlays tooltips on top of your UI, which can feel bolted on as your product evolves.
Flows workflows live inside your product and can be built using your own components and design system.
Maintenance and ownership
Every UI change or new requirement means updating custom Ngx UI Tour code and re-testing tours.
Flows adapts naturally as your product changes, reducing maintenance overhead and long-term technical debt.
Team collaboration
Ngx UI Tour changes require developer involvement for every update.
Flows enables collaboration between developers, product managers, and designers.
Time to value
Ngx UI Tour is fast to start but becomes harder to extend over time.
Flows is designed for fast iteration without accumulating onboarding debt.
Switch from Ngx UI Tour to Flows today
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