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Chaskiq vs Usertour
Chaskiq has 3,570 GitHub stars, 509 forks, 82 open issues and last shipped 3 months ago. Usertour has 2,305 stars, 158 forks, 30 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Chaskiq leads on adoption by 55% (3,570 vs 2,305 stars). Chaskiq is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; Usertour is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence. Chaskiq has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, Usertour 7%. Usertour was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Chaskiq | Usertour | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 3.6K | ★ 2.3K |
| License | Custom / other | Custom / other |
| Written in | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-06-30 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 509 | ⑂ 158 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Chaskiq if
- You weight community size — 3.6K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Usertour if
- You want the Usertour feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and Usertour fits your workflow better
About Chaskiq
Chaskiq is an open source customer communication platform for live chat, support, marketing, and sales messaging. It provides a web messenger, agent conversations, bots, campaigns, help center articles, and integrations in one self hosted application. The project lives in the open source customer support and messenger ecosystem, and the README describes it as an alternative to Intercom, Drift, and Crisp.
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About Usertour
Usertour is an open source user onboarding platform that lets teams build in app product tours, checklists, launchers, tooltips, announcements, and surveys. It is written in TypeScript and published with a NOASSERTION license, and it lives in the browser based onboarding ecosystem alongside commercial tools it explicitly positions itself against — Appcues, Userpilot, Userflow, Userguiding, and Chameleon. The repository carries the onboarding, checklist, surveys, tooltips, tour, nps, in app, and announcements topics, and it points to usertour.io for the hosted site, documentation, and blog.
read the full Usertour overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Chaskiq or Usertour more popular?
Chaskiq has 3,570 GitHub stars and Usertour has 2,305. Chaskiq has the larger community by that measure.
Are Chaskiq and Usertour free?
Neither Chaskiq nor Usertour declares a licence in this registry, so check each project's own repository before relying on either for a commercial use. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Chaskiq and Usertour?
Chaskiq is written in TypeScript and Usertour in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Chaskiq or Usertour?
Choose Chaskiq if you want the larger community (3,570 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose Usertour if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.