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WalkMe Alternative? Inline Manual Wins With Faster Time-to-Value (and Transparent Pricing)

Why pay enterprise DAP pricing and complexity for features you’ll never use? Inline Manual helps product teams improve onboarding, feature adoption, and in-app self-serve support—without heavy implementation or quote-only pricing.

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BEST FOR

• SaaS product teams shipping onboarding quickly
• In-app guidance, announcements, help center, and analytics in one place
• Transparent pricing and self-serve trial-first evaluation

NOT IDEAL FOR

• Massive internal enablement across many enterprise tools
• Broad governance programs across multiple departments
• Organizations needing a dedicated long-term adoption PMO

Inline Manual vs. WalkMe

WalkMe is a powerful enterprise Digital Adoption Platform—especially for large internal rollouts across many tools and departments. Inline Manual is built for customer-facing SaaS teams who want to ship guidance quickly, iterate often, and keep ownership in the product team—without a heavy program or services dependency.

Choose Inline Manual if you want:

Fast onboarding, in-app guidance, announcements, an in-app help center, analytics, personalization, localization, and automation—built for product teams.

Choose WalkMe if you need:

Large enterprise enablement across many internal systems, broad governance programs, and complex cross-department rollouts.

Ratings & Proof

Backed by verified customer reviews

Source: G2

Inline Manual

⭐ 4.6/5

High-rated for product adoption speed and ease of use on G2.

WalkMe

⭐ 4.5/5

Strong enterprise platform rating on G2.

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The Real Difference

✅ Inline Manual: Faster time-to-value

Launch real in-app guidance in days—not weeks. Inline Manual is designed for product teams to publish, iterate, and measure quickly.

❌ WalkMe: More setup overhead for lean teams

WalkMe can be a better fit when you have a dedicated digital adoption program and long-term ownership for platform rollout.

✅ Inline Manual: Built for customer-facing product adoption

Everything you need to improve adoption inside your app: walkthroughs, tooltips, announcements, checklists, and an in-app help hub.

❌ WalkMe: Enterprise scope can be overkill

WalkMe’s pricing flow is “request a quote,” which commonly maps to enterprise procurement and packaging.

✅ Inline Manual: Transparent pricing that scales

Start small, grow as you need—without mystery packaging.

❌ WalkMe: Quote-based pricing adds friction

If you’re trying to move fast, “book a call to get a number” can slow evaluation and buying.

✅ Inline Manual: Great for small product teams (without giving up power)

Product teams can own onboarding and in-app help without relying on services or specialized admins.

❌ WalkMe: Strongest when there’s a dedicated adoption program

WalkMe is excellent for large enablement programs—less ideal when adoption initiatives must live inside a busy product team.

✅ Inline Manual: No-risk evaluation

Try the full product with a 14+ day trial and no credit card required.

❌ WalkMe: Often harder to trial quickly

Enterprise evaluation typically involves sales-led cycles and platform planning.

Make Learning Your Product Feel Like Second Nature

Stop leaving users guessing. Give users guidance right when they need it—through interactive walkthroughs, tooltips, announcements, an in-app help hub, and automation.

PRODUCT WALKTHROUGHS

Transform Every Click into an “Aha!” Moment

Outcome: Reduce time-to-first-value and accelerate activation.

• Guide users through key workflows step-by-step—without friction
• Reduce frustration (and support tickets) by preventing mistakes
• Encourage the actions that drive activation and retention
• Segment experiences by plan, role, lifecycle stage, or behavior

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IN-APP GUIDANCE

Answers at Their Fingertips, Without Breaking Focus

Outcome: Deflect tickets and keep users moving.

• Provide a centralized in-app help hub so users don’t leave your product
• Deliver contextual tooltips at the moment of confusion
• Share updates, alerts, and feature highlights exactly where they matter
• Turn documentation into self-serve help—inside the app

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PRODUCT ANALYTICS

Know What Works. Fix What Doesn’t.

Outcome: Improve adoption with evidence—not guesses.

• Track engagement with guidance (what’s used, what’s ignored)
• Identify drop-off points in onboarding and key workflows
• Pair behavior insights with feedback to prioritize improvements
• Iterate fast and measure impact over time

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PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE

Built for Everyone, Designed for Individuals

Outcome: Increase relevance and reduce noise.

• Match your UI style so guidance feels native
• Localize experiences across many languages (including RTL support)
• Use variables to personalize by user attributes, role, name, or plan
• Deliver the right experience to the right user—automatically

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AUTOMATION & GOVERNANCE

Streamline, Automate, and Stay in Control

Outcome: Scale guidance without losing quality.

• Trigger walkthroughs and tips based on user behavior
• Keep content consistent with collaboration + version control
• Maintain governance with roles, approvals, and safe publishing workflows
• Reduce manual work while increasing coverage

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Switch from WalkMe Without Paying Twice

If you’re stuck waiting out a WalkMe contract, you don’t have to delay improving adoption.

We’re confident we can match the enterprise capabilities you rely on in WalkMe—this has been validated with customers who already migrated to Inline Manual.

Switching incentive: we’ll cover your remaining WalkMe contract

When you move to Inline Manual, we can offset your remaining WalkMe commitment with Inline Manual credits—so you can switch now, not later.

How it works

• Share your WalkMe order form or most recent invoice
• We confirm remaining value and eligibility and plan your content migration
• You receive a matching credit/offset with your Inline Manual agreement

Typical rollout

• Day 1: install + publish your first tooltip/walkthrough
• Week 1: launch onboarding + in-app help hub
• Week 2: segment experiences + measure impact

We’ll migrate your existing WalkMe content too

Our team helps move your key walkthroughs, tooltips, and in-app help so you can switch faster with less rework.

This includes enterprise-grade use cases and governance patterns we’ve already delivered for other teams moving from WalkMe.

1) Install

Add Inline Manual and publish your first in-app guidance flow.

2) Migrate existing content

Move your current walkthroughs, tooltips, and help content into Inline Manual.

3) Go live and optimize

Launch broadly, monitor adoption, and improve based on behavior data.

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Offer terms

• Available to new Inline Manual customers switching from WalkMe
• Requires proof of contract
• Subject to approval

Real Success Stories From Teams Like Yours

Every user journey starts with confusion and ends with confidence. See how teams use Inline Manual to drive adoption and reduce support load.

Doccle

“Inline Manual has been a huge help with reducing support tickets, providing instant information for the end-users, and improving in-app guidance when onboarding in Doccle.”

— Vera Martins, Product Designer, Doccle

Improved onboarding and support outcomes for a product used by over 1 million users.

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Currie & Brown

“Nothing is too much trouble and the support we have received in resolving issues we have come across is fantastic. Inline Manual ensured its system worked within our Unit4 ERP system.”

— Sam Haslam, Group Business and Systems Manager, Currie & Brown

Rolled out guidance across Unit4 ERP to more than 2000 users in multiple languages.

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LMC

“The LMC team uses Inline Manual to deliver personalized product experience within Teamio - a recruitment application for HR professionals. They significantly improved customer satisfaction and feature adoption for nearly 18,000 users.”

— Monika Štekrová, Customer Success Manager, LMC

Higher feature adoption and customer satisfaction across nearly 18,000 users.

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FAQ

When is WalkMe the better choice?

If you’re rolling out a large enterprise enablement program across many internal tools and departments—and you have dedicated ownership—WalkMe can be a great fit.

How long does Inline Manual take to implement?

Many teams publish their first experiences quickly, then expand coverage over the next couple weeks as they learn what users need most.

Do I need engineering help?

Inline Manual is designed for product teams to own guidance. Some setups may require light implementation support depending on your app (SPA routing, advanced targeting, etc.).

Can I try it without a sales call?

Yes—Inline Manual offers a 14+ day free trial with no credit card required.

Do you really buy out WalkMe contracts?

For qualified accounts, we can offset remaining WalkMe commitment with Inline Manual credits as part of your switch. Share your contract and we’ll confirm eligibility.

What does pricing look like?

Inline Manual offers transparent pricing. WalkMe uses quote-based pricing.

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