A Privy alternative that recovers the cart instead of growing the list
Privy is an email and SMS marketing app whose popups exist to grow the list, priced by pageviews on the popups tier and by contacts on the email tiers. Resparq is not an email app and never asks for an address: it shows one offer to a shopper with items in the cart as they go to leave, applies the code on the way to checkout, and charges a flat monthly fee. If the job is a list, keep Privy. If the job is the order in front of you, read on.
A list-growth popup and a cart recovery popup are different tools
Privy
Shopify App Store listing “Privy ‑ Email, SMS & Pop Ups”, read October 15, 2026
Privy’s listing leads with “Grow your list and send Email & SMS messages”. The popups are the list-growth tool: the listing names multi-step and mini quiz forms, a flow builder, segmentation and revenue and engagement reporting; its pricing page at privy.com names spin-to-win, exit intent popups and cart savers among the popup types.
Pricing follows that shape. The Pop Ups & Displays tier is priced by monthly pageviews, from $24 a month for up to 10,000, and the Email and the Email and SMS tiers are priced by contacts and SMS credits. The listing shows 4.5 stars across 4,204 reviews.
Resparq
What the app does, from the code it ships
Resparq runs on your storefront, on product and cart pages, and when a shopper with items in the cart goes to leave, it shows one modal: an offer, or in AI mode sometimes a reminder with no discount. In Manual mode it is the offer you wrote. In Guided and AI mode the modal is chosen per shopper from signals like cart value, time on site, device, traffic source and past abandonment. Accept the offer and a single-use code is applied on the way to checkout.
The popup never asks for an email address. Starter is free, Pro is $50 a month flat and Enterprise is $150, with no overage and no commission on recovered orders. In Guided mode and AI mode on Pro and Enterprise, 10% of eligible shoppers are held out and never shown a modal, so the dashboard reports lift against that group once it clears 30 visitors.
Privy popups and Resparq, compared
Privy’s column describes its popups as the listing and privy.com describe them; Resparq’s column describes what the app does.
Privy on arrival, Resparq at the exit
Nothing here says to uninstall Privy. A store that wants a list needs a tool that asks for an address, and Resparq will never be that tool; the popup never asks for an email address. What a sign-up popup cannot do is act on the shopper who ignored it, filled a cart, and is now leaving without typing anything. That shopper is the one Resparq exists for.
The two do not fight over the screen. If another app has a popup open, Resparq waits rather than stacking. A shopper who signed up with Privy and later leaves a cart gets whatever Privy sends them after they have gone; a shopper who dismisses the Resparq modal and leaves still gets whatever email your other app sends, if it can identify them.
The price shape differs too. Privy’s popups tier is priced by monthly pageviews, so the bill tracks traffic. Resparq is $0, $50 or $150 a month, each plan with an impression cap and nothing metered past the flat fee: no overage and no commission on recovered orders.
What Privy charges, from its listing
Three plans on the listing on the day it was read. The popups tier runs higher at higher traffic; privy.com lists the popups-only pricing up to $1,500 a month at 3,500,000 views, with a 15-day free trial.
Pop Ups & Displays
Up to 10,000 monthly pageviews, priced by traffic. Unlimited popups and displays, all popup types, advanced targeting.
Up to 1,500 email contacts. Unlimited sends, popups and list growth tools, flows, segmentation, reporting.
Email and SMS
1,500 email contacts and 1,250 SMS credits. Everything in Email plus SMS marketing and automation.
Resparq’s plans are below. Privy is a trademark of its owner; Resparq is not affiliated with it. Figures are from the Shopify App Store listing, read October 15, 2026, except where this page names another public page; all of them change without notice, so check before you decide on price.
Flat monthly, no commission
Every paid plan includes a 14-day free trial. No setup fee, no cut of recovered orders, cancel any time.
Starter
Manual mode, up to 1,000 impressions a month
Pro
Guided mode and AI mode, up to 10,000 impressions a month
Enterprise
Unlimited impressions, white-label, custom CSS
Full plan details, annual pricing and the impression limits are on the pricing section. Want a number for your own store first? The cart abandonment calculator turns your sessions, conversion rate and order value into carts started and not bought, with the benchmark abandonment rate editable to your own.
Yes, and that is the normal setup for a store that wants both a list and the order. Privy asks for an address; Resparq never does, so there is nothing to sync and no flow to rebuild. If another app has a popup open, Resparq waits rather than stacking, and a shopper who dismisses the Resparq modal and leaves still gets whatever Privy sends them afterwards, if Privy can identify them.
No. The popup never asks for an email address, and there is no email or SMS sending in Resparq at all. If the job is growing a list, Privy or another email app is the tool. Resparq is the alternative for the exit moment, when a shopper with items in the cart is leaving and a sign-up form is the wrong ask.
The popup never asks for one. It shows an offer or a reminder, and if the shopper accepts a discount the code is applied at checkout automatically. The goal is the sale now, not an address for later. Like any app that tracks orders, Resparq does keep the customer email, or phone number, from a Shopify order it recovered, so you can see which orders came back; the privacy page covers that. If you want a newsletter popup, use an email app alongside Resparq.
Measure against a holdout. In Guided mode and AI mode on Pro and Enterprise, 10% of eligible shoppers are held out and never shown a modal, so the dashboard reports lift against that group once it clears 30 visitors. Starter runs in Manual mode with no holdout, so it reports conversions and attributed revenue rather than lift. Recovered revenue on its own always includes sales that would have happened anyway.
It works on the storefront, on product and cart pages, while the shopper is still there. On desktop the exit trigger watches for the cursor leaving the page, and in Guided and AI mode a variant can also fire on a timer on the page, on any device. On mobile there is no cursor, so Guided mode and AI mode use that timer, starting once the cart has items, and, for exit-intent variants, the shopper coming back to the tab after switching away. Manual mode on any plan can switch on a time-delay trigger that fires once the cart has items. The popup never asks for an email address, and an accepted discount is applied through Shopify’s discount link on the way to checkout.
No code. Install from the Shopify App Store, switch on the Resparq app embed in the theme editor, then switch the modal on from the Resparq dashboard. Two toggles, and it works with any Shopify theme. The scripts load deferred, after the page has rendered.
Starter is free: Manual mode, up to 1,000 impressions a month. Pro is $50 a month flat and adds Guided mode and AI mode. Enterprise is $150 a month for unlimited impressions and white-label modals. Paid plans include a 14-day free trial, with no setup fees and no commission on recovered orders.
The long reads
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Keep the list. Catch the cart.
Free Starter plan, 14-day trial on paid plans, two toggles to install. No email field, no theme code, nothing to sync with Privy.