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title: "Launchers"
slug: "launchers"
description: "Enhance user engagement with Userflow's Launchers—create beacons, buttons, and tooltips to guide users seamlessly through your app."
updated: 2025-12-29T18:55:06Z
published: 2025-12-29T18:55:06Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Launchers

With Launchers, you can embed beacons/icons/buttons in your app outside the context of flows. You can use them to draw users’ attention towards certain parts of your app or add little explanation tooltips here and there.

## Creating a Launcher

To create a launcher, sign in to Userflow and

- Go to **Launchers** in the sidebar.
- Click **Create launcher**.
- Give it a name and click the **Create launcher** button.

Launchers are published in the same way as flows and checklists.

![Launcher builder](https://cdn.us.document360.io/9697557a-eb5d-476f-9b09-062b0f7bdcbd/Images/Documentation/launcher-builder.png)

Configure the following when setting up a launcher:

1. **Show on URLs matching** - Determines the URLs (=pages) it should show in the application. You can also add **Only show if** conditions.
2. **Appearance** - Should it show as a beacon, button, icon, or be hidden, and which target UI element should it be attached to in the UI?
3. **Behavior**
  - Should it activate when the launcher or target UI element is clicked or hovered?
  - Should it show a tooltip on activation or should it execute an action (e.g. start a flow, navigate to a page, evaluate js).
4. **Tooltip settings** - if the launcher shows a tooltip on activation you can change the tooltip settings including. the position, and whether it should dismiss the launcher after first activation in the tooltip settings.

## Use cases for Launchers

### Hotspots

Draw users’ attention to interesting elements in your app. When the user hovers over the hotspot, you can display a tooltip with information about it and possibly a button that initiates a flow.

![Launcher beacon](https://cdn.us.document360.io/9697557a-eb5d-476f-9b09-062b0f7bdcbd/Images/Documentation/launcher-beacon.png)

![Launcher activated](https://cdn.us.document360.io/9697557a-eb5d-476f-9b09-062b0f7bdcbd/Images/Documentation/launcher-activated.png)

### Explanation tooltips

Add icon launchers next to elements in your app that may require additional explanation beyond what your UI currently provides.

![Launcher icon](https://cdn.us.document360.io/9697557a-eb5d-476f-9b09-062b0f7bdcbd/Images/Documentation/launcher-icon.png)

### Buttons to restart flows

Add a button on a page that lets users (re)start a flow/Checklist they may or may not have already seen.

![Launcher button](https://cdn.us.document360.io/9697557a-eb5d-476f-9b09-062b0f7bdcbd/Images/Documentation/launcher-button.png)

### Customize the look-and-feel of your launchers

You can customize the look of your launcher beacons/icons/buttons under **Settings** → **Themes** as usual. See how in our [Themes guide](/userflow/docs/themes).

### Launcher z-index

In some cases, Launchers may appear on top of an object where you want it to be below. In this case, you can change the launcher z-index. Go to the Launcher and click on Advanced settings, and you will find the z-index setting.

A persistent list of tasks or items that users can follow to ensure completion of techniques, often used for onboarding, setup, or feature adoption.

## Related

- [Getting started with Userflow](/about-userflow-engagement-types-2.md)
- [Customizing Themes](/themes.md)