Poptin Alternatives

OptiMonk is a popup and on-site personalization tool built mostly for online stores: popups, gamified popups such as a wheel visitors spin to win a prize, and an AI agent that designs and manages campaigns for you. It is the most direct answer to Poptin's free plan. The Free plan does not expire, needs no card, and includes 10,000 pageviews a month on one domain, and OptiMonk does not add its branding to your popups on any plan, including Free.

The unit is different, and it matters. Poptin counts unique visitors; OptiMonk counts pageviews, every time any page of your site loads, whether or not a campaign shows. A site with 2,500 visitors who each read three pages uses 7,500 pageviews: over Poptin's free limit, inside OptiMonk's. Paid plans start with Essential at $29 a month billed monthly, or $19 a month on yearly billing ($228 a year), for 20,000 pageviews and 2 domains. Growth is $99 monthly or $69 yearly for 100,000 pageviews and 4 domains, Premium $249 monthly or $179 yearly for 500,000 pageviews. Each plan is a range and its price is a starting point: Essential covers 20,000 to 50,000 pageviews from $19, and the price rises with the pageviews you pick. Subdomains count as separate domains, so shop.example.com and example.com use both of Essential's domains. Against Poptin's $19 Growth step for 5,000 visitors, which Poptin itself puts at about 15,000 pageviews, Essential gives 20,000 pageviews for the same yearly price, with no email side bundled. At the limit, campaigns pause until the counter resets or you upgrade, with an email at 80%.

OptinMonster is the long-standing reference for targeting: page-level rules, onsite retargeting and behavior automation, with a large integration list. It counts impressions, and an impression is registered any time a visitor sees an OptinMonster campaign. Basic covers 1 site and 2,500 impressions a month, Plus 2 sites and 10,000, Pro 3 sites and 25,000, Growth 5 sites and 100,000. OptinMonster itself advises a plan with 20 to 30% more impressions than your pageviews, and it never turns off campaigns when you go over: it moves you to the next tier when one exists.

The price needs two readings. The plans shown are annual, and the first year is an introductory price: Basic is $108 billed today and renews at $210 a year, Plus $288 then $570, Pro $348 then $870, Growth $588 then $1,470. The feature you probably used Poptin for sits higher than the entry plan: A/B testing starts on Plus, Exit Intent and removing the OptinMonster badge on Pro, and coupon wheel campaigns on Growth. Poptin includes exit intent and A/B testing even on its Free plan, so a Poptin user who wants exit intent without a badge pays $348 the first year and $870 the next on OptinMonster, against $19 a month ($228 a year) for Poptin's first Growth step. Monthly subscriptions exist, and annual ones are 50% less. You can also start free with Basic's features and 500 impression credits, but the account auto-upgrades to Plus when you exceed them: watch that counter if you only wanted a trial. Our OptinMonster switch guide covers why people leave it in turn.

Privy is a store-first tool: popups and embedded forms to grow a list, and email and SMS campaigns to sell to it, with Shopify at the center. It has two price lines. The Pop-Ups and Displays Only plan is priced by monthly page views, each step a starting price: from $24 a month up to 10,000, $48 up to 25,000, $84 up to 50,000, $168 up to 100,000, $300 up to 200,000 and $420 up to 500,000. That plan includes the template library, landing pages, embedded forms, A/B testing, spin-to-win, cart savers and cross-sell popups, multi-step popups and quizzes, and exit intent popups.

The Email plan starts at $30 a month for up to 1,500 mailable contacts, with unlimited email sends and 250 free SMS credits included, and you only pay for mailable contacts. That is the comparison that matters for Poptin users who added its email side: Poptin's email plans scale contacts and visitors together, Privy charges the list you can mail. For popups alone, 10,000 page views cost $24 a month on Privy, and the contacts you collect sync to your Shopify, BigCommerce or Wix account and to select tools including Klaviyo. Poptin's $19 Growth step covers 5,000 visitors, about 15,000 pageviews by its own estimate, with an email side you may not need, so measure your traffic in both units first. Privy has no annual contracts, and the 15-day trial needs no credit card. For a wider view of email tools for stores, see our ecommerce email marketing ranking.

Popupsmart is a popup builder priced on pageviews, with a monthly email quota on every plan for follow-ups, and a plan ladder built around the number of websites you run. Its free plan gives 5,000 pageviews a month on 1 website with 1 live popup and 100 emails a month: enough to replace one Poptin welcome popup, not a full set of campaigns. Paid plans are where it shines for people with several sites.

On monthly billing, the first paid plan costs $39 a month for 50,000 pageviews on 3 websites with unlimited popups. Then $69 for 100,000 pageviews on 5 websites, $99 for 250,000 on 7 websites and $159 for 500,000 on unlimited websites. Yearly billing is advertised at 20% off; on the first plan it comes to $390 a year instead of $468 (12 × $39), about $32.50 a month, or 17% less. Compare with Poptin: Growth covers unlimited domains, but 50,000 visitors cost $70 a month there, while Popupsmart's $69 plan covers 100,000 pageviews on 5 websites. A/B split testing starts on that $69 plan, not on the $39 one, and the free plan does not include the Unbranded option that every paid plan lists. Pageviews reset monthly, and one is counted each time a page loads. The detail to set on day one: when you exceed the limit with auto-extend enabled, you pay $10 for every extra 10,000 pageviews, and every extra 500 emails costs $5.

Sleeknote is a popup tool for ecommerce brands, known for well-designed campaigns and a separate gamification plan, with unlimited campaigns, unlimited domains and phone, chat and email support on Core. Like Poptin, it counts visitors: a visitor who views several pages during their visit counts once, which makes its quota easier to compare with Poptin than pageview or impression quotas.

The price is higher. Core costs $69 a month billed monthly, or $55 a month billed annually, for 0 to 25,000 monthly visitors, and Core with Gamification is $95 billed monthly or $76 billed annually. At the same 25,000 visitors, Poptin's Growth step costs $45 a month, so Sleeknote costs more for the same audience. An annual plan gives you the whole year's visitors upfront, so a Black Friday peak is absorbed by quieter months instead of forcing an upgrade. What you get for it is a softer limit and a long guarantee. Sleeknote warns you at 75% and 90% of your visitor limit, and only upgrades you to the next plan if you exceed 100%, without switching campaigns off. If you are not happy within 30 days on a monthly plan or 100 days on an annual plan, Customer Success refunds you. Cancelling goes through Customer Support, who cancel the account immediately; our Sleeknote alternatives page lists where its users go. The trial lasts 14 days and needs no credit card.

Hello Bar started with the notification bar at the top of a page, and that is still what it does best: a bar, a slider or a simple popup set up in minutes. It counts popup views, and the paid plans are generous on that unit: Growth includes up to 50,000 popup views a month, Premium 150,000 and Elite 500,000, at $29, $49 and $99 a month billed annually. On the regular plans, the view limit applies per website, so a second site uses its own allowance.

The free tier is the weak point for a Poptin user. Starter gives 5,000 pop-up views in total, not per month, and they do not renew; your popups always show the Hello Bar branding. Poptin's free plan, at 1,000 visitors a month, renews every month. When a paid site reaches its monthly limit, Hello Bar campaigns pause automatically. Monthly plans can be cancelled any time and stay active to the end of the billing period, first-time customers get a 30-day money-back guarantee, and a cancelled account moves to the free Starter plan. Our Hello Bar review scores each criterion, Hello Bar pricing details the plans, and Hello Bar alternatives lists where its users go.