Announcement bars, promo bars and inline email capture on any site, with no monthly view caps and no Hello Bar badge. Captured emails go straight to your own CRM or email tool, and the bar ships with 9 other widgets on every plan.
The differences that decide your bill as traffic grows, and what you get on the entry plan.
Hello Bar meters every plan by monthly popup views: 5,000 on the free Starter plan, 50,000 on Growth, 150,000 on Premium, 500,000 on Elite. Run past the limit and you move up a paid tier. Amabrik has no view, pageview or visitor cap on any plan. Your bar and popups can show as often as your traffic needs, and the price never moves.
Amabrik's bar, popup and forms are a pure pass-through: a captured email is forwarded the instant it lands, straight to your connected CRM, email tool or webhook. Amabrik never stores, logs or sells it. There's no subscriber table and no lock-in around your list.
Hello Bar's free plan always shows the Hello Bar logo, and you only remove it by paying. Every Amabrik plan ships your bar with no logo and no back-link, so nothing on your site points back to us.
Hello Bar does bars and popups. Amabrik's bar comes with a cookie banner, popup, forms, AI chatbot, bookings, reviews, social feeds, social proof and a chat button, all from the one snippet you already installed.
Hello Bar's paid tiers run $29 to $99 a month by view volume. Amabrik is $59 a year for one site, or $99 once for unlimited sites, and both plans include every widget and both scanners.
One snippet works on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, custom and AI-built sites. The loader is under 5 KB, code-split and lazy-loaded, so the bar doesn't slow the page.
Every row is a concrete fact. Hello Bar figures verified as of August 2026.
| Feature | AmabrikRecommended | Hello Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Two plans: $59/yr for 1 site, $99 once for unlimited | Metered by monthly popup views across four tiers |
| Entry price | $59/year, 1 site, or a 7-day free trial | Free Starter, then $29/mo Growth (or $289/yr) |
| Monthly view cap | None on any plan | 5,000 free, 50,000 to 500,000 on paid tiers |
| Over the cap | Not applicable, no cap | Move up to the next paid tier |
| Announcement bar | Top or bottom bar, or a floating card | Top and bottom bars, plus page takeovers |
| Inline email capture | In the bar, sent to your CRM, with consent field | In the bar, sent to your email integrations |
| Popups | Modals, slide-ins, exit-intent | Popups, sliders and page takeovers |
| A/B testing | Not built in | Included on paid plans |
| Where emails go | Straight to your CRM, email or webhook, never stored | Sent to integrations; subscribers kept in Hello Bar |
| Powered-by badge | None on any plan | Shown on the free plan, removable on paid |
| What's included | Bar plus 9 other widgets and 2 scanners | Bars and popups only |
| Loader size | Under 5 KB, code-split | Loaded via Hello Bar's script |
Amabrik never counts views. Hello Bar meters every plan by monthly popup views and bumps you up a tier at the cap.
Two plans with no metering. Annual is $59 a year for one site. Lifetime is $99 once for unlimited sites. Every plan includes all 10 widgets and both scanners.
$199 $99one-time Launch price for the first 100 customers
A free Starter plan with 5,000 monthly popup views and a Hello Bar badge, then paid tiers metered by views: Growth $29/mo (50,000), Premium $49/mo (150,000), Elite $99/mo (500,000). Paid plans add unlimited popups and A/B testing.
$29/mo
Hello Bar's cost climbs as your bar and popups get shown more often, and passing a view limit moves you up a paid tier. Amabrik stays flat no matter how much traffic sees your bar, and it includes 9 more widgets. See Amabrik pricing.
The bar is one of 10 widgets on every Amabrik plan, so the same snippet covers the rest of your site too.
Amabrik isn't a forever-free public tool, but you can build a bar and try all 10 widgets on a 7-day free trial with no card, and there's a 14-day money-back guarantee after that. Hello Bar has a free Starter plan capped at 5,000 monthly popup views that always shows the Hello Bar logo. With Amabrik's trial you can ship an announcement bar with no badge and no view cap before you decide.
The main reasons are no monthly view caps, no forced badge, emails sent straight to your own CRM rather than kept in the tool, and 9 other widgets bundled in. Hello Bar adds A/B testing and a big template set, but for most sites Amabrik is the better choice because flat pricing, no caps and a full widget suite cover what you actually ship, without paying more as traffic grows.
No. Amabrik has no view, pageview or visitor cap on any plan. Your bar and popups can show as many times as your traffic needs and the price stays the same. Hello Bar meters every tier by monthly popup views, from 5,000 on the free plan up to 500,000 on Elite, and passing the limit moves you up a paid tier.
It depends on your traffic. Amabrik is $59 a year for one site, or $99 once for unlimited sites, whatever your view count. Hello Bar's paid plans run $29 to $99 a month by monthly views. On a busy site Amabrik is usually cheaper because the price never moves with views, and it includes 9 more widgets plus two scanners.
Yes. The Amabrik bar has an inline email field with an optional first and last name, a consent checkbox for GDPR, and built-in spam protection. Each email is forwarded the instant it's submitted, straight to your connected CRM, email tool or webhook. Amabrik never stores it, so your list stays in your own tools.
Yes. Alongside the announcement bar, Amabrik has a separate popup widget with modals, slide-ins and exit-intent, plus triggers for delay, scroll depth and exit. Hello Bar covers bars, popups, sliders and page takeovers; Amabrik splits the bar and the popup into two focused widgets that share the one snippet.
No. There's no Powered-by logo or back-link on any Amabrik plan, including the trial. Your bar carries only your own content. Hello Bar shows its logo on the free Starter plan and only lets you turn it off on a paid plan.
Yes. One snippet runs on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, custom sites and AI-built sites from Lovable, v0, Bolt, Cursor and Framer. Hello Bar also installs on any site and has a WordPress plugin.
Every plan includes 10 widgets (cookie consent, banner, popup, forms, AI chatbot, reviews, social feeds, social proof, bookings, chat button) plus two scanners: a Security scan and an SEO/AEO scan, each giving a copy-paste AI fix prompt per finding. Hello Bar focuses on bars and popups only.
For a team whose whole job is A/B testing bar and popup copy at scale, Hello Bar's testing tools and template library are a fair fit. For most sites Amabrik is the better choice: you get the announcement bar and popups that convert, no view caps, flat pricing, and a full widget suite, so the same plan covers consent, forms, chat and the rest of your site too.