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Guide your users through a tour of your app

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Shepherd is an open source, fully featured, digital adoption platform (DAP) and user on-boarding service.

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 Shepherd

Shepherd makes it simple to create custom user on-boarding tours, trainings and announcements to drive user adoption. 

Shepherd enables you to guide users through a custom tour or journey within your app or website. Highly customizable with minimal styles, Shepherd allows for powerful customization while being easy to use. Various frameworks supported including React, Ember, Angular, Vue.js, ES Modules, or plain JavaScript. 

 Demo
See Shepherd Live on our website by clicking on the image:

  


 Using Shepherd

 Shepherd Open Source Library

The Shepherd Standalone Library has been open source since the very beginning. Check out our tutorials here:

 React Shepherd Wrapper
 Angular Shepherd Wrapper
 Vue Shepherd Wrapper
 Ember Shepherd Wrapper


 White Glove Services

If you have an idea or project in mind and would like to engage our team to build a custom tour, training or on-boarding experience, get in touch! 


 Resources

- Website
- Documentation
- Demo
- Discord


 Contributing

We encourage contributions of all kinds. If you would like to contribute in some way, please review our guidelines for contributing.
Our release process is mostly automated. For more details, see RELEASE.md.


 Projects Already Using Shepherd

 Rails gems

 abraham

Rails engine that generates and tracks Shepherd tours within an application

 Websites and Apps

 SimplePlanner

SimplePlanner uses Shepherd to help new users get familiar with its collaborative scheduling approach. 
You do need to sign up via OAuth or email to see the scheduling tour. 
Check out the Envato Tuts+ Startup Series on its codebase which describes how Simple Planner was built.

 LogSeq 

LogSeq uses Shepherd to guide users through initial setup steps.

 Snapsure

Snapsure uses Shepherd to help photographers learn how to set up alerts for their desired picture-perfect weather conditions.

 Drupal

The Drupal CMS uses Shepherd to offer tours of it's core modules, and allows developers to add Tours to their custom and contributed modules.

 Budibase Shepherd Tour Plugin

Budibase is an open source application which allows you develop low code applications rapidly and efficiently.This Budibase Shepherd tour plugin allows you to create interative walkthroughs for your application.


 Your Project Here

If you have a cool open-source library built on Shepherd, PR this doc.


 License

Shepherd.js is dual-licensed under AGPL-3.0 and a Commercial License.

- Free for open source and non-commercial use under AGPL-3.0
- Commercial license required for commercial products and revenue-generating companies

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