The best floating bar software of 2026

Convertful's floating bars can follow what your email platform already knows about each visitor. It reads tags, lists and custom fields from ActiveCampaign, AWeber, Kit, Drip, GetResponse, HubSpot, Keap, Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Platformly. That means a bar offering your newsletter can hide itself from people who already subscribe, while a customer tagged as a buyer sees a bar for the next product instead.

The floating bar is one of six widget types, along with pop-ups, inline widgets, scroll boxes, welcome mats and floating buttons, and every plan includes all of them. You can show a bar on exit intent, after a set time, after a click on a page element, at a scroll depth or after the visitor stops interacting. Other targeting rules cover the referring site, visit number, pages viewed, country and city, and, on WordPress, the visitor's login, post category and post type. Convertful has 100+ starting templates and works on WordPress, Shopify, Weebly, Magento and BigCommerce.

The two-way sync with your email platform starts on Starter, which costs $29 a month or $17 a month billed yearly and also removes Convertful's branding and adds A/B tests. Solo is cheaper at $9 a month, or $84 a year, but it covers one site and 10,000 pageviews and shows Convertful branding. There is no free plan; you get a 14-day trial and a 14-day refund.

Choose it if you already use one of the email platforms above and want the bar to change by subscriber.

Skip it if you need only a sitewide announcement. Getsitecontrol's free plan does that.

Getsitecontrol builds promo bars alongside pop-ups, inline forms and surveys, and its template gallery has 57 announcement designs to start from. You set display rules and triggers to choose the pages and moments the bar appears, and you can A/B test two versions.

The pricing is the reason it leads this list. Plans count widget views and are priced per site: Free covers 10,000 views a month, Pro costs $19 a month for 100,000, and Pro Max costs $29 a month with no view limit. A bar that sits on every page is seen on every page load, so compare these limits with your monthly pageviews. On a busy blog or store, the unlimited plan is the one to price. Every plan includes unlimited contacts.

Getsitecontrol can also email the people who sign up through your bar. Sending is billed on top of the plan: $2.00 per 1,000 emails on Free, $1.60 on Pro and $1.40 on Pro Max. It has a Shopify app, native integrations, webhooks and contact syncing.

Choose it if you want a bar on every page of a site with a lot of traffic, or you want to try one free first.

Skip it if you run many sites. Prices are per site, so ten sites on Pro Max cost ten times as much.

If you sell on Shopify and offer free shipping over a set amount, this is the bar to install. It shows a message that changes as the cart fills up, telling each shopper how much more they need to spend to get free shipping. Hextom, based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, launched the app in September 2015, and it has a 4.9 rating from 3,049 reviews in the Shopify App Store.

The free plan is usable on its own. You get a fully customizable banner that you can place in any position, device and page targeting, a link on the bar and emoji support. Premium, at $9.99 a month or $99 a year, adds unlimited active bars, geo-targeting with Shopify Markets, automatic conversion of the free-shipping amount into each visitor's currency, background images, scheduling and performance tracking. Premium has a 7-day free trial. You can schedule a free-shipping campaign ahead of a sale such as Black Friday, and the app comes in 10 languages.

Choose it if you run a Shopify store with a free-shipping threshold, especially one that sells in more than one currency.

Skip it if you want the bar to collect email addresses. The app listing describes shipping messages and links, with no sign-up form.

OptinMonster lists floating bars as one of its 12 campaign types and describes them as a header or footer bar that scrolls with you. You start from a library of more than 700 templates. It works on WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Squarespace and Wix, and it lists 50+ integrations.

The pricing needs a careful read. The prices on the page are first-year prices billed yearly, and they almost double when the plan renews. Basic costs $108 for the first year and renews at $210, and it allows one site and 2,500 impressions a month, which a bar shown on every page can use up quickly. Exit intent, countdown timers and removing the OptinMonster badge all start on Pro, which costs $444 for the first year and renews at $870. A free account gives you Basic features with 500 impression credits, then moves you to Plus when you run out.

Every plan has a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Choose it if you run WordPress, want a large choice of starting designs and plan to run pop-ups as well as bars.

Skip it if you want a countdown bar on a small budget. That needs Pro.

Poptin offers the floating bar as one of nine formats, along with lightbox pop-ups, full-screen overlays, slide-ins, gamified pop-ups, social widgets, mobile pop-ups, email capture and contact forms. It has more than 15 targeting rules, including exit intent, and lists 70+ native integrations plus Zapier and Make. You can add it to WordPress, Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, Weebly and Ecwid sites.

Poptin counts visitors rather than pageviews, so a reader who opens ten pages counts once, which suits a bar that shows on every page. The free plan covers 1,000 visitors a month on one domain and shows a "Powered by Poptin" credit. Basic removes the credit and covers 10,000 visitors for $20 a month billed yearly ($240) or $25 month to month, and Pro covers 50,000 visitors on 4 domains for $47 a month billed yearly ($564) or $59 month to month. Prices are in US dollars.

Choose it if your site is small and you want to test a bar before paying.

Skip it if you run several sites on a small budget. Basic covers one domain, and four domains need Pro.

Hello Bar made the thin bar across the top of a site a familiar sight, and it now builds bars, modals, alerts, sliders, inline forms and page takeovers. Its WordPress plugin, Hello Bar Popup Builder, has 3,000+ active installs and was last updated June 4, 2026 (version 1.5.3). The plugin page lists a visual editor, triggers and targeting, A/B testing, analytics and email platform integrations, and says Hello Bar has a free forever plan. You create the bar in your Hello Bar account, then paste a site snippet into the plugin.

Hello Bar's own site blocked our checks on November 4, 2026, so we could not confirm its current paid prices or plan limits. Check both on hellobar.com before you sign up.

Choose it if you want a free top bar on a WordPress site and are happy to manage it from a separate account.

Skip it if you want prices you can compare today. Every other tool here publishes them.