The fully-featured React Joyride alternative
Flows is the React Joyride 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
React Joyride is a popular open-source React library for building guided product tours. It provides a declarative API and good control over tour steps, but everything beyond basic tours—state, logic, targeting, analytics, localization, and maintenance—must be implemented manually.
Flows is a modern product adoption platform that replaces hard-coded tours with workflows. You build UI using your own components, while Flows handles orchestration, state, branching logic, and delivery inside your product.
Flows vs React Joyride: Key differences
Key features | React Joyride | Flows |
|---|---|---|
Product toursBoth React Joyride and Flows can guide users through step-by-step product experiences. | ||
React-first integrationReact Joyride is built specifically for React. Flows provides React SDKs while remaining framework-agnostic. | ||
Floating componentsReact Joyride focuses on tooltips and overlays. Flows supports tooltips, modals, banners, and checklists. | ||
Embeddable componentsFlows supports inline components rendered directly inside your app layout, not just floating overlays. | ||
CustomizationReact Joyride customization requires writing and maintaining code. Flows lets you use your own components and design system. | ||
Workflow logicFlows supports branching workflows and conditional logic. React Joyride tours are linear unless you build custom logic. | ||
State managementFlows manages user progress, persistence, and completion automatically. React Joyride requires manual state handling. | ||
LocalizationFlows supports localization out of the box. React Joyride requires custom translation handling. | ||
AnalyticsFlows provides built-in analytics and tracking. React Joyride requires custom analytics integration. | ||
TargetingFlows offers advanced user targeting and segmentation features. React Joyride requires custom implementation for targeting specific user groups. | ||
Free planReact Joyride is free and open source. Flows offers a free plan with 250 monthly active users. |
Other differences
Hard-coded tours vs workflows
React Joyride tours are defined in code and tightly coupled to the UI structure.
Flows workflows are decoupled from UI structure and can evolve without rewriting tour definitions.
Build vs buy
With React Joyride, you’re responsible for building and maintaining everything around the tour: logic, targeting, state, analytics, and ongoing updates as your product evolves.
Flows removes the need to build onboarding infrastructure. You focus on UI and content, while Flows handles orchestration, delivery, and state.
From tours to workflows
React Joyride is designed for linear, step-by-step product tours and little else.
Flows supports full workflows with branching logic, inline components, and long-running journeys across sessions.
Part of your product
React Joyride 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 React Joyride code and re-testing tours.
Flows adapts naturally as your product changes, reducing maintenance overhead and long-term technical debt.
Team collaboration
React Joyride is developer-only. Product and design changes depend on engineering.
Flows enables collaboration between developers, designers, and product managers.
From library to system
React Joyride is a UI library, not a system for managing adoption over time.
Flows is a system for building, running, and iterating on product adoption workflows.
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