The fully-featured Vue Tour alternative
Flows is the Vue Tour alternative for teams who have outgrown hard-coded Vue.js tours and want flexible, maintainable workflows inside their product.
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TL;DR comparison summary
Vue Tour is an open-source Vue.js library for building guided product tours using tooltips and overlays. It is simple to get started but requires manual implementation for state, targeting, analytics, localization, and ongoing maintenance.
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, logic, and delivery across your product.
Flows vs Vue Tour: Key differences
Key features | Vue Tour | Flows |
|---|---|---|
Product toursBoth Vue Tour and Flows can guide users through step-by-step product experiences. | ||
Vue.js integrationVue Tour is built specifically for Vue. Flows supports Vue.js as well as React, Angular, and plain JavaScript. | ||
Floating componentsVue Tour focuses on tooltip-based overlays. Flows supports tooltips, modals, banners, and checklists. | ||
Embeddable componentsFlows supports inline components rendered directly inside your app layout, not just floating overlays. | ||
CustomizationVue Tour customization requires writing and maintaining Vue-specific code. Flows lets you reuse your design system components. | ||
Workflow logicFlows supports branching workflows and conditional logic. Vue Tour tours are linear by default. | ||
State managementFlows manages user progress and persistence automatically. Vue Tour requires manual state handling. | ||
LocalizationFlows supports localization out of the box. Vue Tour requires custom translation logic. | ||
AnalyticsFlows provides built-in analytics and tracking. Vue Tour requires custom analytics integration. | ||
TargetingFlows offers advanced user targeting and segmentation features. Vue Tour requires custom implementation for targeting specific user groups. | ||
Free planVue Tour is free and open source. Flows offers a free plan with 250 monthly active users. |
Other differences
Hard-coded tours vs workflows
Vue Tour tours are defined directly in Vue components and tightly coupled to the DOM structure.
Flows workflows are decoupled from UI structure and evolve without rewriting tour code.
Build vs buy
With Vue Tour, 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.
Beyond onboarding
Vue Tour is optimized for simple onboarding tours.
Flows supports onboarding, feature discovery, education, upsell flows, and long-running journeys.
Part of your product
Vue 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 cost
UI changes frequently break selectors and step definitions in Vue Tour.
Flows reduces maintenance by handling orchestration and adapting as your product changes.
Team collaboration
Vue Tour is developer-only. Product and design changes require engineering effort.
Flows enables collaboration between developers, designers, and product managers.
Library vs platform
Vue Tour is a UI helper library, not a system for managing product adoption.
Flows is a platform for building, running, and iterating on adoption workflows over time.
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