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Product Fruits vs Showpad

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Product Fruits

Customer Success

In app onboarding, tours and checklists priced by monthly active users, not by seat

From
$83.25/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Showpad logo

Showpad

Sales Enablement

Revenue Enablement Platform

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Product Fruits pricing is by monthly active users rather than by seat, so the bill grows with product success rather than with team size, and a viral month produces a cost increase the finance team did not plan for.; Showpad the pricing page names three tiers, Professional, Advanced and Expert, licensed per user, and publishes no figure for any of them, requiring a quote for each
  • They diverge on capability: Product Fruits covers Product tours, Showpad covers Content hub.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Product Fruits and Showpad actually diverge.

Attributes where Product Fruits and Showpad differ
AttributeProduct FruitsShowpad
Starting price$83.25/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer month by monthly active usersUnknown
PlatformsWebWeb, Mobile, Offline
CategoryCustomer SuccessSales Enablement
FoundedUnknown2011

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Product Fruits

  • Product tours
  • Hints and tooltips
  • Onboarding checklists
  • In app announcements
  • Surveys and NPS
  • Help centre widget
  • Segmentation

Only in Showpad

  • Content hub
  • Training
  • Coaching
  • Buyer engagement
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Slack

Both cover

  • Analytics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Product Fruits

  • A software company that wants to ship onboarding changes without putting them in an engineering sprintnot Showpad
  • A team evaluating product adoption tools that needs a real price before starting a sales conversation, which the category incumbents largely do not providenot Showpad
  • A product manager running activation experiments where the cycle time of a release is the bottleneck, not the ideanot Showpad
  • A small software business whose monthly active user count is under a few thousand and for whom Pendo enterprise pricing is out of reachnot Showpad

Showpad

  • Centralizing sales content and coaching materials for revenue teamsnot Product Fruits
  • Running AI assisted roleplay and certification for sales trainingnot Product Fruits

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Product Fruits

  • Pricing is by monthly active users rather than by seat, so the bill grows with product success rather than with team size, and a viral month produces a cost increase the finance team did not plan for.
  • Overage is not priced publicly. Product Fruits says the product keeps working above quota and that customer service will reach out to discuss a better fitting plan, so a spiky business should get overage terms in writing before signing.
  • The published rate card stops at Business, so any organisation beyond that scale is into a custom quote and loses the price transparency that made Product Fruits attractive in the first place.
  • There is no free plan, only a trial, so a team that wants to keep a small permanent deployment running without a subscription cannot, unlike some competitors in adjacent categories.
  • It is a smaller vendor than Pendo, Appcues and Userpilot, with a correspondingly smaller integration ecosystem and less depth in product analytics, so teams that want adoption tooling and analytics from one vendor will find it thin on the analytics half.

Showpad

  • The pricing page names three tiers, Professional, Advanced and Expert, licensed per user, and publishes no figure for any of them, requiring a quote for each

Pricing, plan by plan

Product Fruits

$83.25/month
  • Starter$83.25/month
    • 999 US dollars a year on annual billing, 111 US dollars a month if billed monthly
    • 1,500 monthly active users included
    • Tours, hints, checklists and announcements
  • Pro$140.25/month
    • 187 US dollars a month if billed monthly
    • Higher monthly active user allowance
    • Surveys, NPS and help centre widget
  • Business$280.5/month
    • 374 US dollars a month if billed monthly
    • Highest published monthly active user allowance
    • Advanced segmentation and analytics

Showpad

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Showpad review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Product Fruits if

  • You need product tours.
  • You also want hints and tooltips.
Product Fruits review

Choose Showpad if

  • You need content hub.
  • You work on Web, Mobile, Offline.
  • You also want training.
Showpad review

Questions people ask

Is Product Fruits or Showpad better?
Neither clearly leads. Product Fruits starts at $83.25/month and Showpad at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Product Fruits or Showpad?
Product Fruits starts at $83.25/month and Showpad at On request.
Does Product Fruits or Showpad run on more platforms?
Product Fruits runs on Web. Showpad runs on Web, Mobile, Offline.
What is Product Fruits best used for?
Product Fruits is most often used for a software company that wants to ship onboarding changes without putting them in an engineering sprint, a team evaluating product adoption tools that needs a real price before starting a sales conversation, which the category incumbents largely do not provide, a product manager running activation experiments where the cycle time of a release is the bottleneck, not the idea, a small software business whose monthly active user count is under a few thousand and for whom pendo enterprise pricing is out of reach. Of those, a software company that wants to ship onboarding changes without putting them in an engineering sprint and a team evaluating product adoption tools that needs a real price before starting a sales conversation, which the category incumbents largely do not provide are not what Showpad is typically brought in for.
What can Product Fruits do that Showpad cannot?
Product Fruits covers Product tours, Hints and tooltips, Onboarding checklists, In app announcements. Showpad covers Content hub, Training, Coaching, Buyer engagement. Both handle Analytics.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Product Fruits: How is Product Fruits priced?

By monthly active users. Starter is 999 US dollars a year, which is 83.25 a month, for 1,500 monthly active users, or 111 a month billed monthly. Pro and Business are 140.25 and 280.50 a month on annual billing.

Showpad: How does Showpad license its software, and what does per-user pricing mean?

Showpad licenses on a per-user basis. This means costs scale with the number of users on your account, though specific per-user rates are not published.

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Product Fruits: What happens if we exceed the monthly active user quota?

Product Fruits says the product keeps working for users above quota and that customer service will reach out to discuss a better fitting plan. Overage is not priced publicly, so agree the terms before signing.

Showpad: What are the three main Showpad pricing plans and how do they differ?

Professional tier includes Genie Assistant and standard integrations. Advanced adds Voice Chat, Deep Research, and Roleplay AI. Expert tier includes custom Genie Agent Studio and Field Seller Agent. All plans include mobile, offline, and browser access plus GDPR and SOC2 compliance.

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Product Fruits: Is there a free plan?

No. There is a free trial with full access and no card required, but no permanently free tier.

Showpad: Does Showpad publish pricing amounts on its website, or do I need to request a quote?

Specific dollar amounts are not publicly displayed. Customers must request a quote through the sales team. No trial period or pricing examples are mentioned.

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Product Fruits: How does it compare with Pendo?

Product Fruits is much cheaper and publishes its prices. Pendo has far deeper product analytics. If you need adoption guidance only, Product Fruits is the cheaper answer; if you need analytics too, it is not.

Showpad: How does support differ between Showpad's plan tiers?

Professional tier includes standard support. Advanced tier adds Sales Engagement Integrations and Developer Bundle. Expert tier provides priority support and advanced AI features.

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