Comparison
HowdyGo captures your product's UI and turns it into clickable demos and sandboxes visitors explore themselves. Showdini gets on a call and gives that visitor a guided, narrated demo of your product over voice, then qualifies them for sales.
Why teams choose Showdini over HowdyGo
A presented demo, not a click-through tour
HowdyGo hands the visitor a captured replica to click through alone. Showdini presents the demo itself, showing and narrating your product over voice, so it feels like a rep walking them through it.
A voice on the call, not just tooltips
HowdyGo guides with clickable annotations on a fixed path. Showdini actually talks: it explains each screen out loud and answers the questions a tooltip never anticipated.
Qualifies, not just captures a lead
HowdyGo drops a form into the demo. Showdini works out in conversation whether this visitor is a real buyer, and routes the good ones to your team warm.
HowdyGo works by capturing screenshots and HTML of your product, then layering a guided story on top. The result is a polished replica the visitor clicks through alone. It's affordable, it covers the whole funnel, and it's a tidy piece of kit for what it does. Showdini works differently. It gets on a call and presents your product to the visitor over voice, sharing its screen to show and narrate a guided walkthrough, reacting to what they ask, and deciding whether they're worth your reps' time, all in the same session.
How they compare
Feature
Showdini
HowdyGo
Presents the demo, not a self-serve tour
✓
✗
Guides the visitor over voice
✓
✗
Answers unscripted questions
✓
✗
Qualifies and routes buyers to sales
✓
✗
Proven 20–30% demo conversion
✓
✗
Embeddable self-serve demos & sandboxes
✗
✓
Unlimited users on a low monthly price
✗
✓
Reusable demo content across the funnel
✗
✓
Best for
Live demos that qualify
Cheap self-serve demos
What changes when you switch
3% becomes 5–20%
Swapping a 'book a demo' link for an instant live demo lifts website-to-demo conversion from a typical 3% to somewhere between 5 and 20%.
Demos that convert
Showdini's demos are built from hundreds of real ones and convert 20–30% of the visitors who take them.
Buyers reach sales warm
Visitors are demoed and qualified in one session, so hot buyers hit your pipeline the same day instead of after a form and a wait.
A demo at 2am
Every visitor gets a real, spoken demo the moment they land, in any timezone, with no rep rostered on.
The verdict
Showdini is best for
High-intent website visitors who'd take a live, guided demo right now, and being qualified in that same session.
HowdyGo
is best for
Affordable self-serve demos and sandbox environments to embed across marketing, onboarding and upsell, with unlimited users.
Common questions
We already built demos in HowdyGo, is that work wasted?
Do we need to rebuild our HowdyGo demos in Showdini?
Can Showdini and HowdyGo run side by side?
Is Showdini a HowdyGo alternative?
HowdyGo has sandboxes for hands-on demos, how is Showdini different?
Will Showdini step on my sales team?
Does the qualified lead land in our CRM?
Can it demo to non-English visitors?