Shepherd is an open source, fully featured, digital adoption platform (DAP) and user on-boarding service. Use our hosted SaaS or deploy to your own infrastructure to run on-premise.

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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

Commercial license

If you want to use Shepherd for a commercial application, theme or plugin the commercial license is the appropriate license. With this option, your source code is kept proprietary. Purchase a commercial license at shepherdjs.dev

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

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.

Your Project Here

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

Sheperd

Sheperd