Skate and the alternatives.

Skate does the task in your app, then checks the page. Most tools here guide users, or act through APIs. Each page says when to pick them.

Product tours and onboarding

Steps your team builds; Skate does the task with no steps to build.

• UserflowUserflow builds onboarding flows, checklists and surveys without code, and adds an Adoption Agent.→
• AppcuesAppcues runs in-app, email and push campaigns for onboarding and engagement.→
• ChameleonChameleon builds tours, tooltips and launchers, with HelpBar search and AI answers.→
• UserGuidingUserGuiding makes tours, checklists, a knowledge base and surveys, with an AI Assistant that answers.→
• Product FruitsProduct Fruits makes onboarding tours and checklists, with the Elvin copilot.→

Guidance and analytics suites

In-app guidance plus measurement, for large rollouts.

• PendoPendo combines product analytics with in-app guides, and gives your agents product context through its Agent Toolkit.→
• WalkMeWalkMe, now part of SAP, overlays enterprise apps with guidance, automation and AI that can take steps in the UI.→
• UserpilotUserpilot is a product growth platform: analytics, onboarding flows, surveys and session replay.→
• WhatfixWhatfix adds in-app guidance and analytics across your own and third-party apps.→

AI support agents

Answer, or act through APIs you connect; Skate acts in the UI.

• Intercom FinFin is an AI customer agent that resolves support conversations across chat, email, voice and more.→
• DecagonDecagon builds AI support agents for chat, voice and email, with logic written as natural-language procedures.→
• SierraSierra builds AI agents for customer service across chat, SMS, email and voice.→
• AdaAda is a customer service platform with AI agents across channels.→
• ChatbaseChatbase builds AI agents for chat, email and voice, trained on your docs and site.→
• Zendesk AIZendesk AI agents resolve support requests across messaging, email and voice, inside Zendesk.→

In-app copilots and assistants

Assistants inside your product; compare how they act and check.

• Command AICommand AI (formerly CommandBar) is now part of Amplitude, as Amplitude Guides and Surveys: tours, checklists, nudges and surveys.→
• FrigadeFrigade is an in-product assistant that learns your software by using it, and answers, guides or acts through Skills.→
• CopilotKitCopilotKit is an open-source SDK for building AI copilots into your own frontend.→

Building it yourself

A model, a tool per action, and upkeep.

• Building it yourselfBuilding your own in-app assistant: a model, a tool for each action, and the UI to approve and show results.→

Browser agents

Tools a visitor brings; the site owner has no say.

• Browser agentsBrowser agents such as Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity Comet and OpenAI’s agent are tools a visitor brings to act on any site.→

Product analytics

Shows where users stop, not what they wanted.

• Product analyticsProduct analytics tools such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog and FullStory measure what users do, for your team.→

Checked 1 Oct 2026, from each vendor’s public site. Prices and features change; each page links its sources.