10 Best Tour Plugins To Guide Visitors Through Your App (2020 Update)
What Is Guided Tour?
Guided Tour is an interactive, wizard-style user interface that can be used to guide your users through a tour of your app.
Great for how-tos, application help, newbie guides, new features, featured content, and step-by-step workflow demonstrations of your web applications.
The Best Guided Tour Plugin
In this post, I'm glad to introduce you the 10 best (top-downloaded) and full free guided tour plugins implemented in jQuery and/or Pure (Vanilla) JavaScript. Have fun.
Originally Published Jan 16 2018, updated Jan 27 2020
Table of contents:
Best jQuery Tour Plugins:
Simple Step By Step Site Tour Plugin
Intro.js is a simple and fast js library that makes it easier to create Step By Step website tour guide with keyboard and mouse support.
Interactive Visual Guide Plugin For Bootstrap - jQuery Tour
A Bootstrap plugin to create an accessible, interactive visual guide that lets your users guide through / scroll between new features and functions in your web app.
jQuery Feature Tours Plugin - Joyride
Joyride is a cool and mobile-friendly jQuery plugin for easily and quickly creating feature tours for your website or web application using small tooltips.
Interactive Step-by-step Guide Through Plugin For jQuery - TourBus
TourBus is a simple yet fully configurable jQuery tour/walkthrough plugin for creating interactive. step-by-step introductions for your site/app components or features.
Interactive Tooltip-style Guided Tour Plugin - jQuery TourJS
TourJS is a jQuery-dependent tour library that helps you create customizable, interactive, tooltip-style, step-by-step tours to guide your users through your web application.
Vanilla JavaScript Tour Plugins
uxTour
uxTour.js is a lightweight vanilla JavaScript library which helps you create an interactive feature tour by highlighting the specified element with a circular mask.
Interactive Site Tour In Vanilla JavaScript – thunderTour
thunderTour is a pure vanilla JavaScript library for generating an interactive step-by-step feature tour for your website or web application.
Responsive Guided App Tour In JavaScript – shepherd
shepherd is a JavaScript library that creates an interactive, accessible, dynamic visual guide to let your users learn about new features and functions on your web app.
Dynamic Feature Tour JavaScript Library – Tiny Tour
Tiny Tour is a minimal, dynamic feature tour JavaScript library used to guide your users through a tour of your web app.
Step-by-step Tour With Spotlight Effect – spotlightjs
spotlightjs is a small standalone JavaScript library to create guided tours through your app by highlighting specific elements while navigating between steps.
Conclusion:
Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Guided Tour on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Guided Tour and JavaScript Guided Tour sections.