10 Best Tour Plugins To Guide Visitors Through Your App (2023 Update)

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What Is Guided Tour Plugin:

A Tour plugin allows you to quickly create an interactive, dynamic, step-by-step guided tour for specific elements within the document.

It is a commonly used UI component that provides an interactive, user-friendly interface to introduce tutorials, new features or featured content on the web applications.

The Best Guided Tour Plugin:

In this post, You will find a list of 10 best jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript tour plugins to help guide your visitor around your website or web application. Have fun with it and don't forget to spread the world.

Originally Published Jan 16 2018, updated Jan 16 2023

Table of contents:

Best jQuery Tour Plugins:

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.

https://www.jqueryscript.net/other/Bootstrap-Visual-Guide-Plugin-jQuery-Tour.html

[Demo] [Download]


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.

jQuery Feature Tours Plugin - Joyride

[Demo] [Download]


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 Step-by-step Guide Through Plugin For jQuery - TourBus

[Demo] [Download]


Guide Your Users Around The Web Application - jQuery Tour.js

A jQuery plugin that provides your users a configurable, navigatable, step-by-step, guided tour around your web application. The plugin has the ability to highlight a given element with a fullscreen overlay to introduce the new features or functions on the webpage.

Guide Your Users Around The Web Application - jQuery Tour.js

[Demo] [Download]


jQuery Plugin To Create Guided Website Feature Tours - PageIntro.js

A lightweight jQuery plugin for highlighting DOM elements and creating step-by-step interactive tours to introduce new features and recommended content on your web app.

jQuery Plugin To Create Guided Website Feature Tours - PageIntro.js

[Demo] [Download]


Best Vanilla JavaScript 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.

Simple Step By Step Site Tour Plugin

[Demo] [Download]


Interactive Guide For Web App – Driver.js

A lightweight yet powerful JavaScript library to create an animated, interactive, user-friendly visual guide for any web elements.

Interactive Guide For Web App – Driver.js

[Demo] [Download]


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.

Responsive Guided App Tour In JavaScript – shepherd

[Demo] [Download]


Create Interactive Guided Tours In App – TourGuide.js

A customizable, framework-agnostic, and feature-rich guided tour/onboarding library written in JavaScript (TypeScript).

Create Interactive Guided Tours In App – TourGuide.js

[Demo] [Download]


Create Guided Tours And Highlight Elements – Tooltip Sequence

Yet another JavaScript guided tour library that creates step-by-step tooltips to walk visitors through your webpage and highlight matched DOM elements.

Create Guided Tours And Highlight Elements – Tooltip Sequence

[Demo] [Download]


More Resources:

Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Guided Tours on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Tour and JavaScript Tour sections.