Comparison
FluidKit vs Appcues
Appcues is a product adoption platform for web and mobile: tours, tooltips, surveys and announcements across a user's whole lifetime in your product. FluidKit does one thing, the first-launch onboarding flow of a consumer mobile app, and is priced for small teams. Pick Appcues for guidance inside existing screens across web and mobile. Pick FluidKit for the multi-step onboarding and quiz that decide whether a new user converts.
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At a glance
| Feature | FluidKit | Appcues |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | FluidKit: Onboarding flows for mobile apps, and nothing else | Appcues: Product adoption across web and mobile: tours, tooltips, surveys and announcements |
| Patterns | FluidKit: Full-screen multi-step flows with questions, inputs, progress and permission requests | Appcues: Modals, slideouts, tooltips anchored to your UI and embeds inside your screens |
| Platforms | FluidKit: Android at beta. React Native or native iOS is next | Appcues: iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter and Ionic, plus web |
| Billing requirement | FluidKit: None. Hand off to any paywall when the flow ends | Appcues: None. Appcues has no paywall product |
| AI | FluidKit: Generates a whole multi-step flow from a store link or screenshots | Appcues: No AI flow generation documented for mobile |
| Quiz answers | FluidKit: Every answer is returned to your code with onComplete(answers) | Appcues: Surveys with rating, single and multi-select and text questions |
| A/B tests and targeting | FluidKit: Per-version drop-off funnel at beta. A/B tests and targeting are planned | Appcues: Segments and event triggers. A/B tests by splitting segments, plus control experiments |
| Pricing | FluidKit: Free plan for one app. Paid plans priced by monthly flow viewers, not your revenue | Appcues: Plans by monthly active users, starting at up to 3,000 MAUs. Prices on request |
| Availability | FluidKit: Private beta from late November 2026 | Appcues: Generally available |
Choose Appcues if
- You need tooltips and embeds inside screens you've already built.
- You want one tool for web and mobile product adoption.
- You have a product team running guidance across the whole user lifecycle.
Choose FluidKit if
- Your biggest lever is the first-launch onboarding flow and quiz of a consumer app.
- You want public pricing with a free plan, sized for a small team.
- You want AI to draft the flow from your store listing in about 30 seconds.
- You want each answer back in your code to personalize what comes next.
Try FluidKit in the private beta
The beta starts in late November 2026 with Android apps invited from the waitlist in the order people joined. The first 50 apps get 50% off for life.
Join the waitlist