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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Gist

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AGist is a unified marketing, sales, and support platform. It includes live chat, a help desk, knowledge base, email marketing, marketing automation, opt-in forms, and more.

    $29

    per month

    Helpjuice

    Score2.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Helpjuice is a web app that companies can use to keep their help pages up-to-date. Instead of answering the same question repeatedly, companies can use Helpjuice to keep track of content. This app includes analytics that enable businesses to see the content their users are searching for the most as well as content that needs improvement. The vendor says that companies that manage a support page full of FAQs and user guides can benefit from using Helpjuice. This app can be integrated…

    $120

    per month

    Pricing
    GistHelpjuice
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $29.00
    per month
    Premium
    $99.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GistHelpjuice
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Every Plan Comes With A 100% Money-Back Guarantee, No Questions Asked. Starting price includes up to 4 users.
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    GistHelpjuice
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    Gist
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    83%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GistHelpjuice
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Gist and Helpjuice
    Feature
    Gist
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Helpjuice
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Gist and Helpjuice
    Feature
    Gist
    -
    Ratings
    Helpjuice
    4.0
    3 Ratings
    67% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings2.02 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings2.02 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Gist and Helpjuice
    Feature
    Gist
    -
    Ratings
    Helpjuice
    6.5
    4 Ratings
    19% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Gist and Helpjuice
    Feature
    Gist
    -
    Ratings
    Helpjuice
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GistHelpjuice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (112 ratings)
    2.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    GistHelpjuice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gist
    If your marketing model is selling products, services, or SAAS where you are doing inbound marketing and your website will do most of the lead generation and conversion, this is a great product. From live chat, support, event tracking, and automation, you could almost put your entire business on autopilot. If your marketing model is mostly outreach to cold leads and conversion, this software currently does not have any type of sales stages or task generation. I would still use Gist for website inbound but use another software for outreach and cold leads then when they become a lead put them into Gist for marketing automation.
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    Helpjuice
    Helpjuice is an excellent platform when you’re looking to modernize the way you create documentation. Many companies, especially larger corporations, are stuck in the past, utilizing PDFs and share drives to house and access procedures. With Helpjuice, we now have a centralized web-based platform that provides everything from analytic functions to standard templates, user-specific features, and more. My team specifically chose Helpjuice during the pandemic, when all the tech writers from my company (including myself) were moved into a single team. We needed to find a platform that would allow us to align our publishing standards while also moving us forward in the way we publish procedures. That platform was ultimately Helpjuice. Helpjuice certainly offers a variety of features, but one of the few drawbacks is that it does not incorporate or seem to integrate with any specific ticketing tool. While this isn’t an issue for me or my team, as we are required to use a specific tool internally, I can imagine that someone looking for a complete package with multi-step workflows and an intake process would not find Helpjuice adequate.
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    Pros
    Gist
    • Customer service via a unified inbox so you dont have to separately monitor your twitter, Facebook or IG account for consumer communication there. Gist unified all into one inbox, better than anyone else I've seen in the market. They archive all communications and tie them back to a single user so you get unified customer history / data.
    • Marketing segmentation and automation: they track user history and behavior across the site and have super detailed segmenting capability, on par with ActiveCampaign's, but better I'd say. Better UI for the marketing admin person, and more unified data than in AC.
    • Live chat and chatbot. Usually it's either one or the other but with Gist you can do both seamlessly.
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    Helpjuice
    • We were looking for a publishing feature where there would be some required oversight.
    • We have really enjoyed the AI Tool of Wizardshot as it has helped reduce the time spent writing articles.
    • The analytic dashboard to see who has contributed what and which articles are the most clicked on is wonderful
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Gist
    • Plan limits can be confusing. For example, there is a monthly charge for support and a monthly charge for "growth," plus there's a separate charge depending on how many contacts and seats you have. Perhaps this is normal in the industry, but it can make it a little challenging to understand the bill every month.
    • The vast amount of features means development will never be as fast as you'd like it to be (even though they release updates all the time). This may not actually be a valid concern, and it certainly isn't unique to Gist (who doesn't have a wishlist they're waiting on their favorite SaaS to get to?), but I do believe the likelihood of being stuck without your desired feature being developed goes up a lot as the product gets bigger and bigger.
    • Email deliverability has been less than perfect in the past, but it has improved drastically in the last year.
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    Helpjuice
    • Article feedback disappears when resolved, would like to see a integration with Jira which we now use to track feedback changes.
    • Analytics for the AI search would be appreciated. Currently we have no idea how many people are actually using this feature.
    • A way to train the AI search bot. Currently there is no way to up/down vote answers or indicate how accurate or helpful an answer is.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gist
    Gist is a quite reliable service with a lot of added values. We don't need to pay for different Saas for these important features. If I had an issue the team was super responsive and helpful, that is essential for every business. The email delivery is great, so virtually no email has landed into spam folder
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    Helpjuice
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    Usability
    Gist
    It’s pretty simple, but it does a lot so there are more complicated features which depend on an individuals ability for software implementation. I am not an IT expert and I’ve managed to implement everything myself, others that are more tech-minded may find everything easier.
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    Helpjuice
    HelpJuice is really amazing as a starter knowledge base vendor. They have great customer service and the ability to customize your website is endless. However, it is difficult to scale up.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Gist
    Fantastic support. Ask a question, get an answer within 24 hours every time. And sometimes within a few minutes. They've always come through for me, helpful and, even when it's an issue on my end, they point me in the right direction.
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    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Gist
    Gist combines all our previous products into one application and adds many more features that would require more apps. Gist is excellent and a no-brainer all-in-one application when compared to having to manage multiple applications at higher cost. The support from the whole Gist team has been extremely responsive.
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    Helpjuice
    Prior to using Helpjuice, I was using Microsoft Publisher to create all the training materials and manuals for multiple divisions within my company. It was awful. It would lag whenever I opened larger manuals, it operated like software from the late 90s, it was not intuitive, from a design perspective, and after migrating to a MacBook Pro as my work computer, I discovered that the program was NEVER created for Mac OS, requiring me to run Windows on my MacBook whenever I had to update any procedures that hadn’t yet migrated to Helpjuice. What a nightmare.
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    Return on Investment
    Gist
    • They are perfect for me as a someone who needs a lot of bang for the buck. The chat messenger device on my website alone has brought me new prospects that I did not have to spend money recruiting.
    • I am able to save hours of time with the automated emails that are GDPR compliant.
    • I don't have to pay for a designer to have excellent looking emails either.
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    Helpjuice
    • As I mentioned, my productivity in terms of working around issues, asking for help, etc. is greatly reduced on a DAILY basis.
    • I spend as much time finding bugs and filing tickets as I do writing content, and this was especially true at the beginning.
    • The Doc Center looks nice, so you'd never know the pain behind it.
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    ScreenShots

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