Chatbot Design Tool

Last update: December 27, 2024

Chatbot design tools are specialized tools that allow designers to model user's interactions with chatbots +Show More

Chatbot design tools are specialized tools that allow designers to model user's interactions with chatbots.

Designing conversational interfaces is different than typical software design as user's range of input in conversational UI is less constrained. This leads to higher complexity in design.

Given the increased interest in chatbots in the past few years, companies have been rapidly developing chatbots. As in any software, design is critical to good software built within budget and estimated timelines.

If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of Chatbot Design Tool and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Conversational AI.
How relevant, verifiable metrics drive AIMultiple’s rankings

AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
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Products Position Customer satisfaction
BirdEye logo

BirdEye

Leader
Satisfactory
Birdeye is the highest-rated all-in-one reputation and customer experience platform for local businesses and brands. Over 100,000 businesses use Birdeye’s all-in-one platform to effortlessly manage online reputation, connect with prospects through digital channels, and gain customer experience insights to grow sales and thrive. Birdeye also offers chatbot and messaging tools for customers to collaborate with teammates from a single inbox.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.38 / 5 based on 2k reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$50-100m
# of funding rounds
3
Latest funding date
March 10, 2022
Last funding amount
$50-100m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2012
Appy Pie logo

Appy Pie

Leader
Satisfactory
No-code solutions to start, run and grow your business in a well-rounded manner. Get started with Appy Pie's no-code mobile app builder (https://www.appypie.com/app-builder), no-code website builder (https://www.appypie.com/website-builder), no-code chatbot builder (https://www.appypie.com/chatbot/builder) or no-code workflow automation builder (https://www.appypie.com/connect/).
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.65 / 5 based on 2k reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
10-20 case studies
Company's number of employees
200-300 employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Zendesk Support Suite logo

Zendesk Support Suite

Leader
Satisfactory
Zendesk Support Suite allows your business to have natural conversations with your customers, without letting them feel what’s going on behind the scenes. It’s sophisticated enough to meet complex needs, and simple enough to let you get up and running immediately. The Support Suite lets you have conversations with customers on any channel (email, chat, voice, and even social messaging apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat and more), while keeping all the interactions and relevant context in one place for your agents. It’s a unified agent workspace — helping your teams provide a faster, more personal experience to your customers. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships. From large enterprises to startups, we believe that powerful, innovative customer experiences should be within reach for every company, no matter the size, industry or ambition. Zendesk serves more than 160,000 customers across a multitude of industries in over 30 languages. Zendesk is headquartered in San Francisco, and operates offices worldwide. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.28 / 5 based on 9k reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
200-300 case studies
Company's number of employees
30-40 employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Tidio logo

Tidio

Leader
Satisfactory
Tidio is an all-in-one customer service platform that levels up your customer support and helps to generate more sales. An easily accessible live chat widget makes your business available 24/7, while AI-powered chatbots engage your customers in real-time. Currently used on 300,000+ websites worldwide. You can create your Account and Meet Lyro - the first conversational AI chatbot for small and medium businesses. Lyro delivers personalized support to customers, as a human service agent would.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.83 / 5 based on 1k reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
10-20 case studies
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
3
Latest funding date
May 12, 2022
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2013
SendPulse logo

SendPulse

Leader
Satisfactory
SendPulse is a multi-channel marketing automation platform for multifaceted business promotion and customer retention. SendPulse allows you to send email and SMS campaigns, work with clients using chatbots for Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and create landing pages in just 15 minutes. SendPulse also offers a platform for creating online courses. You can easily track all of your marketing activities and client information with SendPulse’s free CRM.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.63 / 5 based on 1k reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Total funding
$100,000-250,000
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
August 9, 2016
Last funding amount
$100,000-250,000
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
Qlik Sense logo

Qlik Sense

Challenger
Satisfactory
Qlik Sense helps uncover insights that query-based BI tools simply miss.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.25 / 5 based on 1k reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
3k-4k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Qualified logo

Qualified

Challenger
Satisfactory
Meet Instantly with Qualified Prospects the Moment They Land on Your Website. Real-Time Website Analytics for Sales.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.83 / 5 based on ~800 reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
10-20 case studies
Company's number of employees
200-300 employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
4
Latest funding date
April 26, 2022
Last funding amount
$50-100m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2018
Drift logo

Drift

Challenger
Satisfactory
Drift is the leading conversational marketing platform.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.30 / 5 based on 1k reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
May 1, 2019
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
Chatfuel logo

Chatfuel

Challenger
Satisfactory
Chatfuel is the leading bot platform for creating AI chatbots for Facebook.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.32 / 5 based on ~70 reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
20-30 case studies
Company's number of employees
40-50 employees
Company's social media followers
30k-40k followers
Total funding
$100,000-250,000
# of funding rounds
2
Latest funding date
May 28, 2017
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
Botsociety logo

Botsociety

Challenger
N/A
Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.75 / 5 based on 3 reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
10-20 case studies
Company's number of employees
10-20 employees
Company's social media followers
1k-2k followers
Total funding
$100,000-250,000
# of funding rounds
3
Latest funding date
May 2, 2018
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2017

“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.


Sources

AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in chatbot design tools:


13 vendor web domains
9 funding announcements
37 social media profiles
4 profiles on review platforms
14 search engine queries

Chatbot Design Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

BirdEye logo
Appy Pie logo
Zendesk Support Suite logo
Tidio logo
SendPulse logo

What are chatbot design
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current chatbot design customer satisfaction leaders:

Zendesk Support Suite logo
Appy Pie logo
Tidio logo
BirdEye logo
SendPulse logo

Which chatbot design solution provides the most customer satisfaction?

AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.

While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.

  • Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
  • Recency is important as products are always evolving.
  • Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
  • older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.

What are chatbot design
market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current chatbot design market leaders:

BirdEye logo
Appy Pie logo
Zendesk Support Suite logo
Tidio logo
Qlik Sense logo

Which one has collected the most reviews?

AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:

  • Product line revenue (when available)
  • Number of reviews
  • Number of case studies
  • Number and experience of employees
  • Social media presence and engagement
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

Zendesk Support Suite
BirdEye
Appy Pie
Tidio
Qlik Sense

What are the most mature chatbot design tools?

Which one has the most employees?

HubSpot logo
Qlik logo
BirdEye logo
Drift logo
Appy Pie logo

Which chatbot design companies have the most employees?

179 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 156 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 12 companies with >10 employees are offering chatbot design tools. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 10k employees. The largest company in this domain is HubSpot with more than 10,000 employees. HubSpot provides the chatbot design solution: Hubspot Chatbot Builder

HubSpot
Qlik
BirdEye
Drift
Appy Pie

Insights

What are the most common words describing chatbot design tools?

This data is collected from customer reviews for all chatbot design companies. The most positive word describing chatbot design tools is “Easy to use” that is used in 13% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 3% of all the chatbot design reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for chatbot design customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 55% of chatbot design customers. For an average Conversational AI solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 32% of total customers.

Customer Evaluation

These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all chatbot design tools. Chatbot Design Tools are most positively evaluated in terms of "Customer Service" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".

Overall
Customer Service
Ease of Use
Likelihood to Recommend
Value For Money

Where are chatbot design vendors' HQs located?

What is the level of interest in chatbot design tools?

This category was searched on average for 16 times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other conversational ai solutions, a typical solution was searched 612 times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.