Tidio versus HelpScout

Tidio is a provider that offers a lot of value for startups and smaller companies. There are plenty of success stories from small founder teams with Tidio, including Wicklewood and Whisker Bag.

With a free forever plan that includes 3 agents as well as numerous upgrades and chatbots, they pack quite a punch!

Unique about Tidio is that you can initiate a chat with a user on your website in real-time as well as have a chatbot answer questions for you.

Founded in 2011, Help Scout has been a promotor of fully remote companies long before it reached mainstream popularity in mid-2020. With over 12.000 customers, they are a prominent player in the support-desk space. Help Scout is also a certified B-Corp.

Help Scout is a communication platform that helps teams across an organization have better conversations with their customers. Quick to set up and easy to use, companies use Help Scout to create email inboxes like support@ and info@, put live chat on their websites, build help centers, and more. All of those customer interactions flow into a single view that looks just like an inbox but offers powerful collaboration and automation tools under the hood.

Help Scouts offers an extensive collection of free templates, guides, courses, and resources in the Support Toolkit on their website. They also have a range of open source tools and APIs created by the community in the Help Scout GitHub repository