OptinMonster

Pros

Its Easy to capture a Lead with this functionality of popup Form Builder

Cons

Pricing can be on little lower side, also little support must improve

Alternatives Considered

Pros

Ease of use and the support they provide

Cons

Integration with gravity forms, not seem to be working for us

Pros

I liked that there were many more features that were available to use

Cons

Many things. The biggest one is that it blows my mind the forms are not very mobile responsive. Most of everyones traffic is mobile, yet they recommend you create a form for your website plus a different one for mobile. So it takes double the work to set anything up. Secondly, the forms they use are blocked by browsers like Brave and Tor, which means constant support enquiries to deal with. I tried asking optinmonster support team for help on this. That was 4 days ago. Still no reply. Now it is the weekend and that means we are going to continue to have this issue another 2-3 days.

Pros

Insanely easy-to-use tool for exit pop-ups primarily. the detailed logic of when certain pop-ups appear is very effective and easy for anyone to build. Design builder was also simple, templates worked great. We had some very high conversion rates on several of ours for a long time. A/B testing is also great.

Cons

We ended up moving on from it for one reason: multi-step forms. What optin monster does well, it is great for. But in our case, we needed forms with multi-step logic and more flexibility as far as embedding static forms/pages. So after years of using optinmonster plus other tools we found one that combined it all and chose that.

Pros

I like the variety of options available with the software, from the various templates to the customizable options, and so far it's worked seamlessly with my WordPress site. Once you get the hang of how their software works, it's fairly easy to knock out a great-looking "call to action" for your website, with easy to understand analytics and seamless integration.

Cons

Because we're using the free trial, we are a bit limited in what we can do. And, for a small business like ours, the monthly cost for the "Pro" option is just too high. The software itself takes some getting used to, especially if you're building something from scratch, and their system can be a bit slow at times when customizing your call to action.

Pros

Optinmonster provides plenty of different types of forms and ways to capture email addresses. There are more options than just about any competitor.

Cons

Because of all the Options, I find OptinMonster to be a bit confusing at times. I often have trouble customizing a display or getting it to display exactly when and where I want it.

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Reasons for Choosing OptinMonster

Reasons for Switching to OptinMonster

Pros

We had a great experience working with OptinMonster for our fundraising campaigns. The platform has allowed us to reach new audiences through our website integration.

Cons

Could be more userfriendly, we needed to know some limited coding in order to edit templates.

Pros

easy installation, good prices, great support

Cons

that i didn't find it earlier so everything would've been easy

Pros

I used optinMonster for opt-in forms. It's quite a great tool for lead generation.Opt-in forms are easy to customize and the user interface is very simple as well. You can drag and drop items into the builder and they readily adapt to small screen devices and it easily integrates with other tools like MailChimp.

Cons

What I dislike about optinMonster is the price for using it. It can be expensive compared to what you'll have to gain in return for your investments and secondly, for proper contact management, It's better to use MailChimp to handle contacts because optinMonster lacks a few functionalities that are essentially for handling managing subscribers. - The forms are also very limited, especially in terms of customization and feature-richness.

Pros

What I like the most is that OptinMonster is easy to use on every website you own. It works both on Wordpress websites and any other website you own. Either you use the WordPress-plugin or you just add a piece of code to your site to display your campaigns. You also get a lot of ready-made templates that are already optimized for high conversions. After being around for so many years and learning from customer campaign data, OptinMonster knows what works and is constantly improving their templates. This way you don't need to start from scratch and know something will work. All you need to do is browse the templates, pick one, customize it a little bit and then publish your campaign.

Cons

There's not much I dislike about OptinMonster. There are different plans that you can take depending on your specific needs, but one thing I'd like to see changed is the page view limitation that comes with each plan. Once your campaign is displayed a certain number of times per month, you will need to upgrade to a higher plan if you reached your maximum.

Pros

The AB testing capabilities of this product are top-notch. It provides a user-friendly interface that makes it incredibly easy to set up and run experiments without any technical hassle. One standout feature that I particularly enjoyed is the drag and drop functionality. It allows you to create and customize designs without any coding knowledge. This feature is incredibly convenient and significantly speeds up the design process.Great library of designs. It offers a wide range of professionally crafted templates and elements that cater to various industries and design styles.

Cons

The product is geared towards users with a solid technical background. I found myself spending more time than anticipated trying to locate specific features or elements, which slowed down my workflow.

Pros

The option for display rules is crazy incredelble to setup. Optinmonster has a lot of pre-design and fully customizable templates to choose from. Optinmonster has over the years improved their analytics system and it's still one of the reason I keep using their tool. It also have unique optin forms that can easily be setup by beginners.

Cons

They need to do improvement on the side of third party integrations

Pros

Ease of deployment and ease of reading analytics

Cons

I don’t have any cons for OptinMonster.

Pros

Easy and step by step guide in creating a new campaign regardless of your tech level

Cons

Nothing for now. As far as I have used OptinMonster, it's perfect for the task

Pros

Learned about optinMonster from a trust web professional who teaches other how to build their own website when they know nothing at all. Super helpful for creating leaders

Cons

Optin Monster has so many features, I don't think I will ever learn them all so if that is a con, there ya go.

Pros

Templates are great to build from when creating pop up and inline campaigns

Cons

I do wish the price was a little lower because I do feel like comparable products are more affordable

Pros

OptinMonster is a fantastic tool to create and publish interaction pop-ins on any website. We use it daily to attract leads on our landing pages. It's easy to use, and has a lot of features that others don't have, like exit intents, monster effects. Also, the targeting is super precise, with a lot various criterias.

Pros

I decided to try OptinMonster with a very specific goal in mind - their Exit Intent popups. However, thanks to the great content and tips that they creat, I soon realized this was the tip of the iceberg. There are several very advanced on-site retargeting features that can really do wonders to maximize conversions.

Cons

They lack official integration with SendGrid Marketing Campaigns.

Pros

Once you finally get it up and running, the ability to create pop ups and exit intents and top bars is great. It works as expected and it's nice to be able to a/b test.

Cons

The UI is terrible - editing a template requires clicking around aimlessly hoping you'll hit on whatever it is you need to be able to edit what you're trying to edit. There is no internal analytics - it relies on a connection with GA, so if you don't turn that on, you get no data on how it's performing.

Pros

They have a few CTA options so I guess that is a positive.

Cons

It's hard to use, support is slow, lots of bugs with their analytics, the builder is incredibly clunky. You're better off with many other tools. Don't waste your time.

Pros

For a first time user, I thought the documentation was outstanding. It was easy to implement on my blog. Whenever I had questions, there was always outstanding customer support. The software also offered easy integration with other products and my blog.

Cons

I find my self sometimes wishing there was a greater selection of templates. Although, I have been pleased with what is present available in the software.

Pros

Easy to use and configure, I’m very comfortable using this tool

Cons

Not yet for now, I have not seen any problem

Pros

Super easy to use! The drag and drop builder is the best. Also, the best thing is that we don't need to make campaigns on the wpadmin, which would have been a bit more difficult as per my views.

Cons

Integration with other apps like email marketing could add some more marketing sites like Sendgrid.

Pros

Nothing that stands out. Functionality cheaply available elsewhere

Cons

Minimal functionality and Bad Customer Support

Pros

I liked how it "appeared to be professional"

Cons

Nothing you can't get for a 3rd of the price from other pop up generators

Pros

With the perplexing optin forms, Optin monster provides, it's easy to persuade subscribers to join the list which in the future can be monetized. For users like myself, the split-testing feature is very important as I get to figure out what is best for my forms. It's a great portal for my future endeavors.

It's easy to use and supports most 3rd party integrations.

Although they do not offer free plans, however, they have affordable pricing options starting from as low as $9 per month with intrusive features included( card abandonment forms, exit-intent popups, list segmentation just to name a few).

This will provide quality proceeds depending on your marketing skills and the size of your business. As a newbie, they even offer expert courses and other forms of assistance to avail yourself of your success experience.

There is no crash to this if you ask. OptinMonster is worth trying, however, they offer a 14-days refund policy, unlike their competitors. You can try it at no risk.

Cons

the customer support service is not fast. They respond to open time within days and that's not evident to me. Should improve on it and that's why I rated a 2 stars.

Pros

Great for building email lists and nurture your leads. Is a good low-cost and easy to implement solution, specially if you are a startup. There is a bit of a learning curve but once you get it, you will master most of its features.

Cons

As you are using a plugin, your site performance will decrease. If you care for SEO, make sure to use a good hosting company. I don't really have any complaints with Optinmonster. Bear in mind that they only offers email support. If you need help, you will have to wait for assistance but I must say their customer support is great.

Pros

I started using Optinmonster because I couldn't design a good looking form and I couldn't get it to open / pop when I wanted it to. I needed something that looked better than what I could get from my email marketing software and I needed to make it appear when and how I wanted it to. This is easily accomplished with Optinmonster!

Cons

They don't update their form designs very often and if you want to have the same form used on different pages or in different ways (on click vs exit intent) then you have to design a new form and set it up for each individual interaction scenario you need.

Pros

You could teach this software to someone who has never used a form builder in their life before. It is simple and easy to use. While also being very effective,

Cons

What I wish this software had is the ability to upload files to the forms. So people could submit files for specific pages and what not.

Pros

OptinMonster is super easy to use and works extremely well. I've used it for 3+ years and the functionality has gotten even better since I started.

Cons

It's hard to write cons for OptinMonster. The price is right. It's simple to use. It runs really quickly. And when I have a support question, they answer it expertly and really quickly.

Pros

Slick, advanced technology for pop-up opt-in forms. Easy to create good-looking, smart forms with really impressive functionality. Exit intent is the most technologically impressive, but I thought the sidebar and embedded forms were the most practical. Great that it plugs into email marketing software like MailChimp and the like, avoids the need for using Zapier or a more manual workaround. The form creation menus were mostly self explanatory and straightforward.

Cons

I'm likely an anomaly, but I had trouble getting it to work consistently with the website builder I use (Strikingly). The pop-ups usually worked, but the embedded forms often didn't load. I'm still impressed with the technology, but it's worth thoroughly testing that the opt-ins work correctly on your website before committing, especially if you intend to buy one of the more expensive plans.

Pros

Optin Monster is a great, low-cost alternative to capturing leads on your website. The free version has a lot of what the average startup will need. And the pro version does some incredible things like A/B testing automatically. What I like is how simple it is to set up the landing pages, opt-ins, and thank you pages. I gave it to my clients to play with, and they were up and running with the software!

Cons

I don't really have any complaints with Optin monster. It works, there's frequent updates that makes the software better, and the free version is a excellent taste for many startups. Maybe one thing I don't like is the free version has the optin monster logo... but it's a free version for a reason.

Pros

The best about OptinMonster is they offer freemium services to know about the platform. OptinMonster is the best tool for the beginners who aspire to became a blogger, data miner, lead generator. It run the campaigns very effectively and the performance is at par with the high paid applications in the market. It offers various integration support and plugin supports.

Cons

The customization of the fields is little in the OptinMonster. The chat support takes time to respond in my time zone, apart from this everything is at best in OptinMonster.

Pros

Re-capturing Blog browser attention and getting them to optin for content upgrades is the best feature.

Cons

OptinMonster is fairly simple to use so no complaints.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing OptinMonster

Reasons for Switching to OptinMonster

Pros

This is the team also behind two other popular WordPress plugins: WPForms and MonsterInsights. The combination of three, OptinMonster along with WPForms and MonsterInsights, should give a competitive advantage when it comes to web development and internet marketing endeavors. When it comes to OptinMonster, cool features including Content Locking wherein a user is asked to enter his or her credential (say email) after consuming a part of content is great. It is a human tendency to finish a particular activity once started, and OptinMonster leverages many such human psychologies, giving a better return on money invested.

Cons

There is no free version of OptinMonster available unlike WPForms which has a free lite version.

Pros

Thought it was a lifetime purchase, so was really happy with this purchase for 7 years.

Cons

It was somewhat difficult during the transition from plugin to SaaS,--and, of course, what I disliked the most was that OptinMonster turned out to be a "bait and switch" scam,--offering a lifetime subscription when they were "new," and then revoking access to their platform when I did not purchase another subscription to something I already had purchased a lifetime subscription to.

Pros

Optinmonster is easy to use. They have great templates, you can copy and paste HTML/CSS in. Native Google Analytics integration makes tracking a breeze, and the setting triggers is super easy.

Cons

This tool breaks more often than it should. Every A/B test I've tried to run has technical issues. I've had pop-ups trigger when they shouldn't. CSS doesn't always play nicely. If you keep it super simple, you're good to go. If you try to get fancy with development and design, you might run into some trouble.

Pros

OptinMonster is a great lead gen tool for exit intent, slide-in CTA, lightbox popups, etc. The user interface and building a popup took me a little while but once I got the hang of it, not so bad. Also, whenever I've had questions or needed help their support team responded very quickly.

Cons

The biggest drawback is their templates are not very customizable. You can change colors of buttons and background colors and insert your own image but the templates I tried, the platform doesn't allow you move things around to get the pixel-perfect design I want. For example, inserting an image was locked into place basically without being able to crop it if necessary or move it closer or further away from other elements. Other competing software does offer that capability.

Pros

There are various things I like about OptinMonster including drag & drop builder, tons of pre-built templates, various options for campaign types, and the Yes/No forms.

My favorite part about the software is that it has tons of display options or targeting rules that you can set for your Campaign, this allows you to show relevant campaigns to the user, which in turn helps in improving the overall conversion rate.

Cons

There is nothing that I dislike about OptinMonster

Pros

It does the job for the most part, easy to use, pretty straight forward. Works like most apps (Mailchimp Etc.)

Cons

When you look at the reviews on this product you can tell it's deceptive. If you're in the industry you know all the ways to manipulate everything, and right off the back, the first review is bashing this product. The next two give it a 5 star review except it sounds way to good to be true. To top it off the company gives thanks to the person who supposedly gave the review and twice it says thank you Thomas? I mean come on. The odds of two people giving a 5 star review and they were both named Thomas? Good try Optinmonster, if they new better, they would know that if we are in the business, we no how deceptive it can be. They need a new editor because the one you have now just got you caught up as a fraud.

Pros

Integration was super easy. It's also very easy to edit currently running pop ups (no need to have a developer push anything new to code- simply log in to optinmonster's website, swap out an image or change some text and watch it update on your website in real time). They have exit intent pop ups which we utilize (and you can choose what pages on your site you want certain ones to show up on). There's analytics built in so you can see how your pop ups are doing. You can A/B test. They do it all!

Cons

Can't have unique promo codes generate. For instance, I can't have a unique promo code pop up for every customer. We have an exit intent cart saver pop up that gives customers a 5% off coupon code. I have to monitor the coupon websites around the web such as "retail me not" to make sure the promo code doesn't show up on there (it always does). Then I have to go and change the promo code. If OptinMonster had the option for unique promo codes this wouldn't happen.

Pros

Right from the start you're given solid templates that are easily tweaked to suit your brand. Within minutes we had our first campaign live which gave us instant traction.

Cons

There is a custom code version of this tool which is great, but we wanted to try an advanced feature that didn't come standard (in the particular way we'd like it) and would have taken some of our developer time. So could be done, but we just wanted to move a little quicker.

Pros

It's intuitive, easy to use and very effective.

Cons

It's a bit pricey, but there are good deals they offer and it's certainly very valuable and worth it.

Pros

- Ease of use
- Constant updates
- Great support

Cons

- The analysis around conversion wasn't the best but the last update that was made fixed this issue and now we have all the live stats that we need!

Pros

OptinMonster gives you serveral options to setup customized forms / screentakeovers etc. to collect leads in multiple ways on your website. With a few clicks you can setup the connection to your email-marketing-software to store your new subscribers.

Cons

Roughly 2 years ago they changed their interface and the way you set up optins completly from one day to another. At this point the new interface was quite unfamiliar.

Pros

This software is a MUST-HAVE for your website if you're serious about putting forth a functional inbound strategy. It's very easy to use and setup. The notification builder is great and intuitive, as well as the reporting feature.

Cons

Can't say that I have any cons I'd like to write about, it is flawless!

Pros

We currently like the pop up tools to help us generate leads

Cons

We dont currently dislike anything about opt in monster

Pros

It's simple to use OptinMonester. Even if you have no prior expertise with this kind of campaign you should go after, it provides step-by-step directions on how to create a distinctive marketing campaign from beginning. So yeah, very handy! Also, it's easy-to-use and powerful than most competitor tools.

Cons

One drawback is that you find it extremely difficult to design a form that allows users to upload files with Optinmonster. I frequently want to develop a form where users must upload a file and that's a problem right there.

Pros

I like how easy it is to get campaigns up and running within Opt-in Monster over to our website. It never takes me more than 15 minutes to get a basic opt-in for webinar registration up and running. The reporting is also useful and is a quick way to get data on what's getting the most conversions and what isn't.

Cons

We've had a couple of issues with Marketo form integration, but overall our experience with Opt-in Monster is very positive and I would recommend it.