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Pendo Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about Pendo?

The Pendo Team really cares about your success. I've been working with them for about 3 years and they've helpled me every step of the way in getting Pendo incorporated into several applications. When ever I have a roadblock, their team is there to help us through it or find other solutions. They listen to our feedback and check in regularly to see how they can better serve us and provide more value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

I wish there was a chatbot option and better stying tools out of the box but they've built a solid platform that anyone can use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Analytics and guides help us see what is most effective for our users and where they spend their time. Segments let us know who needs outreach and integrations help us automate tech touch. Feature adoption and utilization is helping us in planning for the future. We are also now better able to inform our customers about events, updates and opportunites for eductation on the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Pendo?

Pendo helps you deliver better software experiences for happier and more productive users and employees. Pendo helps product teams ask and answer questions like: What features are customers or employees interacting with? Which are they ignoring? What parts of the product are driving delight or frustration? From these same insights, you can easily set up in-app guides without any coding to drive software adoption, provide support, and generate better leads, right inside the application. With Pendo, you can help your users get the most value from your software so that you can drive growth, efficiently.

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Pendo is on a mission to elevate the world's experiences with software. Organizations around the world use Pendo to accelerate and deepen software product adoption.


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Pendo.io
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2013
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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20,453 Twitter followers
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994 employees on LinkedIn®
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Pendo.io provides a product cloud that helps companies build better software by understanding user behavior, collecting feedback, and delivering in-app guidance.


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Pendo Demo - Dashboard
The dashboard is composed of widgets that provide snapshots and visualizations of your data, allowing you to quickly view and compare different figures. Each Pendo user can create their own unique dashboard to access the metrics that matter to them at a glance.
Pendo Demo - Understand feature adoption
Pendo’s analytics show which features customers use, how much time they spend in your application, trends over time, and aggregate results across accounts, users, and custom segments.
Pendo Demo - Easy guide creation
Apply consistent formatting and create web and mobile guides quickly with guide templates.
Pendo Demo - Support your users when and where they need it
Increase customer satisfaction with self-service resources. Provide a variety of tips, resources, and walkthroughs that give your customers help on-demand while they’re using your application.
Pendo Demo - In-app NPS
Pendo lets you serve NPS to active product users in-app for two to 10 times higher response rates, while still using email delivery for inactive users. NPS Analytics show you exactly how product usage correlates with your NPS responses.
Pendo Demo - Collect and understand user feedback at scale
Gain a direct line to the voice of the customer and give users the ability to quickly provide feedback any time. Solicit product and feature requests directly within your application.
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Rajath S.
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Associate Product Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Pendo?

Pendo has completely changed the way I work, and honestly, I love everything about it!

Analytics – What a game-changer! Our org used to have WalkMe, and pulling analytics was a nightmare. It was an all-day task—extracting reports, cleaning them up, putting them into Excel, and then creating Pivot charts just to make sense of the data. But the first time I saw Pendo’s Dashboards? Mind blown. Everything I needed was right there, beautifully organized and easy to analyze.

Guides Configuration – Next level! The flexibility Pendo offers here is incredible. The code block is hands down my favorite feature. Initially, I missed the auto-click trigger from WalkMe, but then Pendo introduced Automate, and wow—it’s not just auto-click, but auto-fill too. It’s like getting a bonus on top of a bonus!

Overall, Pendo is an absolute game-changer, and I couldn’t imagine my work without it now. 10/10, highly recommend! 🚀 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

There's literally nothing to dislike about Pendo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Analytics – What a game-changer! Our org used to have WalkMe, and pulling analytics was a nightmare. It was an all-day task—extracting reports, cleaning them up, putting them into Excel, and then creating Pivot charts just to make sense of the data. But the first time I saw Pendo’s Dashboards? Mind blown. Everything I needed was right there, beautifully organized and easy to analyze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brittany C.
BC
Enablement Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Pendo?

I like the abilitiy to leverage Pendo as another communication tool for customers. Sometimes email communication can be overwhelming or become stale. Pendo allows for us to switch up how we onboard, educate and introduce new features to our customers. In addition to that, with the wealth of data available, we're able to integrate that data in other systems to leverage Pendo activity in customer conversations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

Sometimes the ability to setup guides can be finicky and challenging. Overall it's easy, but when creating step-by-step guides, sometimes they are time consuming to complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

With a lot of changes to the software we're using, we like to identify what customers are and aren't doing when using our backend system. Pendo provides visibility to assist with technical escalations, to assist with eductational resources and also to help with onboarding and retention conversations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KS
Customer Success Specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Pendo?

I analyze results within Pendo frequently, at least a few times a week, and monitor the responses from our customers via NPS and an in-product survey. Pendo provides a comprehensive view of user behavior and feedback, making it easy to understand how customers interact with our product and what they value most. Its analytics allow us to pinpoint trends, prioritize high-impact features, and identify areas for improvement with data-driven clarity. The feedback tool is especially helpful for capturing user input in real time, giving us a direct line to customer needs and helping to prioritize feature development. With Pendo, we can centralize insights across user segments, enabling a more targeted and effective approach to improving customer experience.

Customer support at Pendo has been great, with our team receiving weekly workshops on data analysis and responsive support from our representative when a question comes up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

One downside is the challenge with survey data extraction—currently, Pendo’s export options can be limited, making it difficult to retrieve survey responses in a format suitable for detailed external analysis. Integration of API keys for our data extraction process within Pendo has not been implemented, however, I think this would help to improve the experience. Additionally, Pendo doesn’t capture metadata at the precise moment a survey is taken, which can lead to inconsistencies in tracking user context and make it harder to align feedback with specific behaviors or segments.

Another drawback is the lack of customization within individual NPS and guide reporting columns, restricting our ability to tailor reports to specific needs or group insights in meaningful ways.

Additionally, implementing tags is very manual and has been an extensive process for our team to complete. If tagless data collection or automated tagging was enabled, this would save so much time. These limitations can require additional manual work to fill in gaps, reducing the overall efficiency of Pendo’s reporting capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pendo is helping us understand user behavior to enable data-driven decisions to improve our user experience within our products. We are also using Pendo to collect and manage feedback which allows us to streamline the collection of data and centralize and align cross-departmental teams with that data. Although I'm not working in this area, our company also uses Pendo to improve onboarding processes and feature adoption within our products using tool tips and guides to help increase time-to-value for our users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JW
Associate Product Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Pendo?

Pendo is a great tool to get your app or web product up-to-speed with real-time analytics. It's great for your daily at-a-glance look to view a dashboard and see how your product is performing, and great if you want to spend more time in the product discovering Pendo's other internal products (Orchestrate, Guides, and more).

It's fairly easy to use once things are up and running. Pendo is a great product, and their technical account managers/customer support are the best I've ever worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

Getting used to using Pendo has a bit of a learning curve, but it does pay off. Implementing Pendo all over your site (tagging pages, creating track events, creating dashboards) also can be slow at first, but Pendo as a company and their technical account managers/customer support helps us along the way with every single question we have. As a technical product, things can be tough to understand at first, but that is the only obstacle I'm facing currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pendo has helped us develop baseline product analytics for our web and our app. Previously, we did not have a real-time solution for analytics and relied on manual reports from an external vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BS
Product manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Pendo?

"Great reports can be created, intuitive to use, and new features are added frequently.

Sometimes it is not obvious how to define a feature's rule (custom CSS), but the built-in "framing" and Pendo tagging aid is a pretty good idea.

We had a lot of support during implementation, and even afterwards for a while. Even now, we can reach out to the CS team if a question arises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

t's hard to visualize which user (anonymized) is connecting to which account, so viewing reports in a batch with filtering is not the easiest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

analyzing user behaviour, feature usage

it helps a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lisa R.
LR
Member
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Pendo?

I love that you can customize the guide and include video. It is helpful to follow the different templates and segment based on your product users and salesforce integrations. I create a pendo pop up almost monthly and this is super easy to use with templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

For some reason the preview sometimes doesn't reflect the changes I have made in the storyboard. I find the multiple-page saving to be cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

I primarily use pendo for in app education and training in addition to product updates and product marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CM
Data Scientist
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about Pendo?

Pendo makes it easy for us to track user actions in detail; we can also audit sites to find pages without tags or with obvious problems; and it uses all the data retrieved from these tags to improve site speed. Constant updates completely improve our user experience and the interface is intuitive. The customer service is highly rated and very responsive. We have been able to improve site performance metrics, search engine traffic, and content quality by using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

It was a little difficult for us because setting up external reports is complex and requires specific processes. However, with the help of technical support, which is very attentive and prompt, we were able to figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting comprehensive information about a service used to be a huge hassle, but with Pendo we can now track all the software services the company needs through the web. Behavior patterns and potential opportunities can be graphically displayed. The ability to run surveys and get immediate feedback has also helped us to improve the introduction of new services or features. It has ensured that our website loads properly and automatically checks that the analytics codes are collecting the right data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Pendo?

Great for event-based tracking that is compliant with the required privacy laws AND is a handy in-app messaging (guide) tool that helps to launch quick surveys and onboarding.

Before starting to use Pedno, we had demo with quite a few Pendo competitors (like Heap, Hotjar, Amplitude, PostHog etc.), the reason we chose Pendo was that it seemed easy to use, and more importantly compliant with the required privacy laws in our industry (example: PII). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

We use Pendo heavily for guides as well, and we have found the quality of the guides could be improved (when we compare them with other in-app messaging tools). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Pendo, we used to just develop features and release them, without having a way to track (or never prioritized), so most of our efforts were based on assumptions, opinions, anecdotes, listening to noisy customers. With Pendo, the first thing we have been able to achieve is knowing what is working for our customers and what isn't, and this has helped us tremendously to prirortize our efforts in the right direction and create more impact.

Out initial purpose of getting Pendo was to solve our analytics problem (as mentioned above), to enable data-driven decision making for our internal team when building/improving our product. The other we as company were facing was customer implementation (onboarding) and customer communication (when new features are released), so Pendo came in handy for us as a in-app messaging tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Pendo?

Ease of use of configuration and navigation. Within minimal tutorial review, I was able to set up guides, review metrics and create reports. The flexibility in how, where, and when guides can be deployed is powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

Sharing a guide with a user without deploying and turning it on makes it difficult to share something in draft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use guides to direct our users on new features, where they are, how to access, and how to use them.

We use behavior tracking to go in depth to understand our users. It feels like we've deployed an assistant with every user that logs in to track each and everyone one of their clicks. This helps to understand where certain pain points may be and how much users are utilizing certain features. If we believe a feature should bring efficiency to their workflow, we can use existing metrics as baseline and then track new metrics once new features are released. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AO
Product Owner
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Pendo?

The analytics on the use of our product is amazing. You can look at client usage as a granular level, this helps us to understand the needs of our clients and create workflows and guides to benefit the client experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pendo?

Realising you do not need Tags for everything, but that is more of a user issue and not Pendo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Pendo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pendo solve an array of solutions, from analytics, to onboarding clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.