Hello Bar is known for top bars and popups, but it is a cloud service that meters popup views, caps the free plan at 5,000 lifetime views, and loads an external script on your site. Notifal runs natively inside WordPress with floating bars, popups, exit-intent, targeting, and WooCommerce revenue analytics, with one flat price and no view limits on Pro.
Last reviewed: July 2026
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Hello Bar started as a sticky top bar and grew into a full popup platform with modals, sliders, and page takeovers. It is polished and widely used, but campaigns are built in Hello Bar's cloud dashboard, delivered via an embed script, and billed by popup views. The free plan stops at 5,000 views total across the life of the account, not per month. Notifal is a native WordPress plugin with flat licensing and data stored on your site.
Hello Bar is easy to start with, but view limits and cloud lock-in add up fast on a growing WordPress site.
Hello Bar's original WordPress.org plugin was closed years ago. Today you add a JavaScript embed from Hello Bar's cloud app to your site. Campaigns are created and stored on their servers. Notifal installs as a native WordPress plugin, renders on your server, and keeps settings and analytics in your database.
Hello Bar's free Starter plan allows only 5,000 popup views across the entire lifetime of your account. Paid plans meter views monthly, from 50,000 on Growth up to 500,000 on Elite. Notifal does not meter popup views, visitors, or impressions on Pro.
Hello Bar paid plans start around $29 per month billed annually for 50,000 views, scaling to $99 per month for 500,000 views. Notifal Pro is €139/year for one site, about €12/month, regardless of how much traffic you get.
Subscriber lists, impression stats, and campaign settings live in Hello Bar's cloud. Notifal stores leads, events, and revenue attribution in your WordPress database, so you control exports, backups, and migrations without depending on a third-party platform.
Notifal tracks clicked and influenced revenue with a native Notifal column on WooCommerce and EDD orders, plus an attribution meta box on each order screen. Hello Bar reports conversions in its cloud analytics and can connect to GA4, but does not attribute revenue inside WordPress orders.
Design bars, popups, and slide-ins with the Block Editor, Elementor, or an AI-assisted HTML builder, plus 100+ marketplace templates. Hello Bar uses its own drag-and-drop editor and theme library inside the Hello Bar cloud dashboard.
Hello Bar bills by popup views per month on paid plans. The free Starter plan caps at 5,000 views for the lifetime of your account. Notifal keeps it simple with a free plan and one flat Pro license.
Free plan on WordPress.org. Pro is one flat yearly license per site, about €12/month.
Prices shown are the annual-billing rate per month, at the time of writing. Popup views count each time a Hello Bar unit is displayed. The free plan is limited to 5,000 views for the lifetime of the account.
Hello Bar's free plan gives you only 5,000 popup views ever, then you must upgrade. A site with steady traffic can burn through that in days. Paid tiers then bill by monthly view bands. Notifal delivers bars, popups, exit-intent, and revenue tracking for one flat yearly price with no view metering.
An honest look at two conversion tools. Hello Bar is strong on bars, themes, and A/B testing. Notifal is WordPress-native with flat pricing, social proof, and order-level revenue attribution.
Hello Bar is built for list building with top bars, modals, and inline CTAs that connect to Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, and dozens of other tools via Zapier. Notifal covers the same core job with newsletter popups, exit-intent capture, scroll-triggered signups, discount opt-ins, and phone-number fields.
The difference is where it runs and what you pay. Notifal keeps leads in your WordPress database with flat pricing and no popup view caps, while Hello Bar stores subscribers on their cloud platform and limits the free plan to 5,000 lifetime popup views before you must upgrade.
See email capture templates & guideHello Bar is a mature conversion platform. In several areas it is ahead of Notifal today.
Hello Bar includes unlimited A/B tests on Growth, Premium, and Elite plans, with analytics to compare variants. Notifal does not offer split testing yet, so if experimentation is central to your workflow, Hello Bar has the edge.
Hello Bar offers geo targeting by country and city, UTM and campaign personalization, and a custom targeting rules engine. If you run geo-specific offers or heavy paid traffic segmentation, Hello Bar's cloud targeting stack is more mature.
Hello Bar works on WordPress, Shopify, and plain HTML sites through one embed script, with a drag-and-drop editor and hundreds of pre-built themes. If you are not committed to WordPress and want the fastest no-code setup across multiple site types, Hello Bar fits that model.
We will do it for you, completely free. We fully review your current Hello Bar units, triggers, and targeting settings, then rebuild them in Notifal. Open a support ticket and leave the rest to us.
Open a free migration ticketFor on-page conversion campaigns on WordPress, yes. Notifal covers floating bars, popups, slide-ins, exit-intent, scroll and idle triggers, display rules, dynamic tags, campaigns, and email or phone lead capture. Hello Bar adds A/B testing, geo targeting, and a larger theme library, but runs as cloud SaaS with popup view metering.
Hello Bar markets compatibility with WordPress, but its original plugin on WordPress.org was closed in 2010 and is no longer available. Today you add a Hello Bar embed script to your site and manage campaigns in their cloud dashboard. Notifal is a native WordPress plugin that runs entirely inside your site.
Hello Bar's Starter plan is free forever but capped at 5,000 popup views for the lifetime of your account, not per month. It also shows Hello Bar branding. Notifal's free plan on WordPress.org has no popup view cap, though advanced triggers and analytics require Pro.
Hello Bar paid plans start around $29 per month billed annually for 50,000 popup views, scaling to $99 per month for 500,000 views. Notifal has a free plan and a flat Pro license of €139/year for one site, roughly €12/month, with no view metering.
Yes. Notifal supports floating bars at the top or bottom of the viewport, including sticky bars that can sit above your site header. You get the same bar use case Hello Bar is named for, plus popups, slide-ins, and social proof in one WordPress plugin.
Hello Bar tracks conversions and can connect to Google Analytics, but it does not add native WooCommerce or EDD order attribution inside WordPress. Notifal tracks clicked and influenced revenue with attribution shown directly on order screens in your store admin.
Get floating bars, popups, exit-intent, targeting, dynamic content, and WooCommerce revenue analytics on your own WordPress site. Start free on WordPress.org and upgrade to Pro whenever you need advanced rules and analytics.