A Popupsmart alternative priced by leads, not pageviews

Popupsmart calls itself "the no-code popup builder for growing websites". It installs with one embed snippet on any site, and it also has an app on the Shopify App Store with targeting on Shopify data such as cart total and order count. That Shopify targeting is something a plain snippet cannot offer.

The catalogue is broad. Their site cites more than 350 free templates in one place and 500+ in another, and names 31 integrations. Popup types include lightbox and full-screen popups, announcement bars, surveys and spin-to-win. Targeting covers exit intent, scroll depth, time delay, geo-location, traffic source and an AI-driven Smart Mode. Popupsmart can also send autoresponder emails to new subscribers, within a monthly email quota.

We found no mention of right-to-left or Arabic support on the pages we read. Their site has an English and Turkish language switcher. If you need Arabic popups, ask them how RTL is handled before you commit.

At the time of review, Popupsmart pricing is tiered by monthly pageviews, with a website count and an email quota on each plan:

• Free: $0. 5,000 pageviews a month, 1 website, 1 live popup, 100 emails a month.
• Basic: $39 a month, or $390 a year. 50,000 pageviews, 3 websites, 1,000 emails, unbranded popups.
• Advanced: $69 a month, or $690 a year. 100,000 pageviews, 5 websites, 3,000 emails. A/B testing is listed from this plan.
• Pro: $99 a month, or $990 a year. 250,000 pageviews, 7 websites, 5,000 emails.
• Expert: $159 a month, or $1,590 a year. 500,000 pageviews, unlimited websites, 10,000 emails.

Their page also states overage terms: $10 for each additional 10,000 pageviews when auto-extend is enabled, and $5 for every extra 500 emails. It offers a money-back guarantee of 7 days on monthly subscriptions and 15 days on annual ones.

Tafsee Popup pricing

Tafsee Popup plans are priced by sites, live campaigns and leads stored per month. Visitors and pageviews are not counted, and reaching a limit does not switch your live popups off.

• Free: $0. 1 site, 3 live campaigns, 500 leads a month, with a small Tafsee badge.
• Starter: $9/month, or $84 billed yearly. 1 site, 10 live campaigns, 2,000 leads a month, no badge.
• Growth: $19/month, or $180 billed yearly. 3 sites, 15 live campaigns, 5,000 leads a month, A/B testing.
• Pro: $49/month, or $468 billed yearly. 10 sites, unlimited live campaigns, 25,000 leads a month, HubSpot and Zoho CRM.
• Business: $99/month, or $948 billed yearly. Unlimited sites, campaigns and leads, priority support.

Paid plans come with a 14-day trial. Full details are on the Tafsee Popup pricing page. To compare fairly, start from your own numbers. A store with 60,000 pageviews a month sits on Popupsmart's Advanced tier whatever it collects. In Tafsee Popup the same store picks a plan by how many leads it stores and how many campaigns it runs at once.

The Popupsmart figures above were read on their own public pages on 13 October 2026. Prices and limits change, so confirm them on their site before you decide. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

What the plan counts

Pageview pricing charges for visitors who never see a popup. Tafsee Popup counts sites, live campaigns and leads stored each month, so a traffic spike from an ad campaign or a seasonal sale does not move you up a tier or produce an overage line.

A lower first step

The jump from Popupsmart's Free plan to Basic is $39 a month. Tafsee Popup's Starter is $9 and removes the badge; Growth at $19 adds A/B testing and covers three sites. The Free plan allows three live campaigns, which is enough to run a welcome offer, an exit-intent popup and a floating bar together.

More than a wheel

Both tools have spin to win. Tafsee Popup also has scratch card, pick a gift, mystery box, slot machine and a quick quiz, all on every plan. If you plan to rotate games across seasons, our guide to spin-to-win done right covers prize odds and when a wheel is the wrong tool.

Arabic stores

Tafsee Popup's app works in Arabic and English, layouts mirror for right-to-left, and templates cover Ramadan, Eid, White Friday and UAE National Day. There are install guides for Salla and Zid alongside Shopify and WordPress.

Popupsmart is the better choice if you run a Shopify store and want an App Store app with targeting on cart total, order count and customer data. Tafsee Popup installs on Shopify by snippet and does not read that Shopify data.

It also has more templates than our 209 and names 31 integrations against our nine, so check their list if you depend on a tool we do not connect to. It can send autoresponder emails itself, which Tafsee Popup does not do. And if your traffic is modest but your lead volume is high, a pageview-based plan may work out cheaper than a lead-based one. Run the numbers both ways.

There is no automatic importer, so moving from Popupsmart means rebuilding the campaigns that earn their place. For most stores that is two or three popups, not twenty.

1. Create a free Tafsee Popup account and add your site.
2. Paste the Tafsee snippet into your site's header, or add it through Google Tag Manager. There is no plugin or store app to install.
3. Rebuild your best campaigns from the template library, and set when each one shows.
4. Connect where leads should go: Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or a webhook, and HubSpot or Zoho CRM on the Pro plan.
5. Export your existing contacts from Popupsmart before you cancel, then remove its script or app so visitors never see two popups at once.

If Popupsmart sends your welcome autoresponder, recreate that email in your email tool first, since Tafsee Popup will only deliver the lead.