Airship vs. Convert Experiences

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Airship
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
The Airship Experience Platform provides an end-to-end solution for unifying experiences across channels and capturing value across the entire customer lifecycle.N/A
Convert Experiences
Score 9.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Convert Experiences is an experimentation platform that offers features and support to run A/B tests across multiple growth channels. Its enterprise-ready advanced features include full stack experimentation, multi-page testing, post-segmentation, sequential testing, targeting with 40+ filters, triggering tests based on data in other apps (data sources), dynamic triggers, complex goal tracking, and a secure API. It includes 90+ out-of-the box integrations in a…
$299
per month 100k tested users per month
Pricing
AirshipConvert Experiences
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Growth
$299
per month 100k tested users per month
Pro
$5988
per year 3M tested users available upfront
Enterprise
Pricing available on request
From 1M tested users/mo (billed annually)
Enterprise
Pricing available on request
From 1M tested users/mo (billed annually)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AirshipConvert Experiences
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details1. Annual contract or monthly payments available (40% discount for annual pricing). 2. Pricing is not feature dependent. Some features like integrations, goals, Live Logs are necessary to test successfully. This is why Convert caps by unique tested users - basically visitors who have been bucketed to see a variation and are unique to that variation. As a result the app tested users are always </= the site's net traffic.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Airship
Chose Airship
They are the only Application/Push vendor we have used since I started w/ the company about 4 years ago. I believe we have sued them since 2016 or so.
Chose Airship
Airship allows for more uses for a better value and is more of a focused outreach for the parishioners, and much easier to use with mobile devises.
Chose Airship
We've tested a bunch of different CRM tools over the years and Airship has been a winner for its functionality, features, cost, and ability to integrate with other softwares that we use. It has been great for SMS and mobile in particular. It could certainly be a one stop shop …
Chose Airship
Airship have a very different set of features, we could not find an exact match of it.
Chose Airship
Easy user interface and seamless integration. Great Customer engagement
Chose Airship
Airship allows for more uses for a better value and is more of a focused outreach for the parishioners, and much easier to use with mobile devises.
Chose Airship
We use Sailthru for emails. We have not used them for pushes so I can't compare the two.
Chose Airship
The above mentioned products were evaluated for initial RFQ process however Airship was awarded for the robustness and ease of use, and its strategy aligns with Vodafone's App usage engagement
Chose Airship
Airship is superb in customer support against all others. Even though I feel CleverTap may be a better choice but probably will not be as easy as Airship when setting them up and operating it. As for MoEngage, the last experience I had was simply not good enough, but that was …
Chose Airship
I have also worked with Vibes, Salesforce, Pendo, and Swrve for mobile app marketing efforts, and I always come back to airship as delivering the best Push and In-App messaging capabilities. If you want a full service platform for Push and In-App messaging rather than …
Chose Airship
There was a time when we went off Urban Airship and went to Spreed. We were using Spreed's app, so there was much better integration on push notifications. The push notification took readers directly into the story. When we moved from Spreed to our own native app, we went back …
Convert Experiences
Chose Convert Experiences
Three words: value for money. In a due diligence comparison, Convert Experiences came up more than twice less expensive than the nearest competitor, while offering more product features, better performance and a quick response time with support/sales agents that actually …
Chose Convert Experiences
Convert Experiences sits in a niche of great products, against which it competes very well and remains held in high regard as it achieves pretty much everything that the bigger platforms put on the table but in a more cost-effective model. The reason we initially chose …
Chose Convert Experiences
Convert has the best JS code editor for advanced users (and developers). It doesn't have as great integration with GA as Google Optimize, but it also doesn't have a limit to 5 tests at one time. It's also much easier to use than Optimizely.
Chose Convert Experiences
Although not as robust as Adobe Target, Convert fills the niche with solid functionality at a great price. Comparable to Optimizely and far above Google Optimize.
Chose Convert Experiences
Although VWO is slightly cheaper it flickers quite a bit, hence why I originally looked into alternative software to use for A/B testing. VWO also has other features that could be useful, but they can be found in tools you may already be using, like Hotjar. Also, their support …
Chose Convert Experiences
Convert Experiences has a better UI, better reporting and is a faster platform.
Chose Convert Experiences
Convert was selected based on price point, feature set, and UI/UX. All three are very friendly to new testers and small to mid-market size companies. Their UI and tool workflow is the best out of all of the non-enterprise solutions that I have tried. There is some small room …
Chose Convert Experiences
There were a number of other tools I used. Specifically though: they expose the DMP features that some other companies price into oblivion and enterprise levels (if the other tools have them at all!)

I feel like I've gushed a lot about the DMP and power user features of Convert …
Chose Convert Experiences
Convert is better vs. Optimizely and VWO for the following reasons:
  • Better pricing
  • Faster App - easier and quicker to create tests, less clunky but just as powerful as the others
Chose Convert Experiences
The biggest point for Convert Experiences is definitely the price and the completeness of their packages. Their Magento plugin makes it great for running tests on ecommerce stores. One thing that's missing for me is deeper insights into revenue (something optimizely does …
Chose Convert Experiences
Convert works similar to Optimizely, but at a more competitive rate.
Chose Convert Experiences
Visual Website Optimizer's feature set is not as well suited to advanced experiments (it doesn't seem to allow direct editing of variation code). Optimizely is expensive and their agency plan requires a 12 month minimum contract. Support is not as great. Optimizely also does …
Chose Convert Experiences
While Optimizely is an amazing A/B testing tool, Convert has almost the exact same offerings but at a much lower cost. The customer and technical support are excellent as well, and Dennis's insights and strategy calls are very helpful.
Chose Convert Experiences
Visual Website Optimizer costs too much and misses a lot of transactions due to third-party cookies. Optimizely flat out refused to support Shopify. They withdrew their app from the marketplace in 2014.
Features
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Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
Airship
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Ratings
Convert Experiences
9.4
Ratings
14% above category average
a/b experiment testing00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Split URL testing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multivariate testing00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Mobile app testing00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Test significance00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Advanced code editor00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Page surveys00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Visitor recordings00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Preview mode00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Test duration calculator00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Experiment scheduler00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Client-side tests00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Server-side tests00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Airship
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Ratings
Convert Experiences
9.9
Ratings
15% above category average
Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Traffic allocation control00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Website personalization00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Airship
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Ratings
Convert Experiences
9.4
Ratings
11% above category average
Heatmap tool00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Click analytics00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scroll maps00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Form fill analysis00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Conversion tracking00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Goal tracking00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Test reporting00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Results segmentation00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
CSV export00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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9.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.1
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Usability
6.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
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Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.8
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AirshipConvert Experiences
Likelihood to Recommend
Well-Suited for: 1. Mobile App Notifications: Ideal for targeted push notifications in apps. 2. Customer Segmentation: Effective for personalized marketing campaigns based on user data. 3. Event-Triggered Automation: Great for automated messaging based on user actions. 4. A/B Testing: Useful for optimizing campaign messages and strategies. Less Appropriate for: 1. Non-Mobile Channels: Less effective if the primary focus is on non-mobile communications like email or direct mail. 2. Basic Email Marketing: Other platforms might be better suited for simple, broad email campaigns without complex segmentation or personalization needs.
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Definitely well suited for budget conscious companies that want a solid array of functionality but without having to pay an exorbitant amount. Great for marketing and analytics team members that need the ability to get in and set up tests w/o dev assistance. But, functionality is there for developers to get in and set up more complicated tests.
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Pros
  • Setting up the target audience within Airship using attributes is one of my favorites.
  • Airship has a very user-friendly interface with detailed documentation for self-help. I also enjoy the training sessions, articles and reports Airship organized as those are very insightful and useful.
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  • The platform is good value for money, comparing its features and prices to some of the bigger players.
  • The tool is very flexible and can be used for simpler tests right through to much more challenging and rewarding testing but does require a more thorough knowledge of the platform.
  • Their support team is always available and always responsive, not resting until resolutions are met.
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Cons
  • The automated A/B testing winner selection and application should be added
  • The flexibility of message shape, specifically incorporating transparency so messages do not need to be a rectangular shape
  • Faster and more reliable servers around the globe
  • Making more detailed use cases and tutorials to be followed can simplify things for users
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  • The only thing I'm really missing is segmentation during or after testing of the results by device, new users etc., within the results page. Targeting of users based on segments is obviously possible.
  • There are a few inconsistencies in their user interface that I would have liked to see differently. This could be personal taste though.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Couldn't live without this, no other tool does precisely what we need them to do
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Usability
The interface takes a bit getting used to in order to know how to take advantage of everything. Some of the analytics that are available are particularly hard to find, so it's important to pay attention when customer support reviews everything, but everything I'd want and need in terms of Push and In-App messaging is all there.
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To use the platform in the context of developing enhanced tests that stretch the platform there is as with most things a learning curve. However, if you're a casual user or have standard experiments that you wish to run you would be easily able to hit the ground running.
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Support Rating
I have not had to interact much with customer support as I have been able to find the vast majority of the answers I'm looking for within their documentation, which I very much appreciate because it saves me a lot of time. Customer support has been responsive and helpful for the most part during the couple of interactions I've had.
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I use support only in very emergency cases. The support hasn't been very helpful and suggests the problem is on my site
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Alternatives Considered
I have also worked with Vibes, Salesforce, Pendo, and Swrve for mobile app marketing efforts, and I always come back to airship as delivering the best Push and In-App messaging capabilities. If you want a full service platform for Push and In-App messaging rather than configuring these channels through something that is no cost such as Firebase, then i would recommend Airship.
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Convert was selected based on price point, feature set, and UI/UX. All three are very friendly to new testers and small to mid-market size companies. Their UI and tool workflow is the best out of all of the non-enterprise solutions that I have tried. There is some small room for improvement, but that only really affects power users or tests that require significant coding/development work to execute.
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Return on Investment
  • The ROI has increased more than approx. 50% (exact details to be confirmed) based on cross-channel orchestration
  • Using push notifications alone, we have seen a huge increase in app engagement which was a challenge before to nudge users to get back to the App after initial download
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  • Using Convert has allowed us to make quick decisions on site edits and price changes. Seeing and sharing quick results makes our operations much more profitable.
  • Connecting the tests with Shopify has produced very valuable and timely results that we can act upon as soon as we see statistically significant results.
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Screenshot of the conditions that can be stacked to build complex goals that can track (almost) any visitor action to determine the test outcome.Screenshot of granular targeting so only the right people view variations. 40+ conditions included.Screenshot of the API that brings Convert's capabilities to a testing ecosystem.Screenshot of experiment reports that can be shared with stakeholders and on social media.Screenshot of several advanced test types that are available, including multipage (funnel) experiments.Screenshot of full-stack experimentation that can be used to run tests anywhere that Convert code can be deployed.