Best Shopify exit-intent apps (2026)

The five checks

1. Does it fire on mobile, really? Classic exit intent watches the cursor, which does not exist on a phone. If the app has not implemented touch signals, it is invisible to most of your traffic and almost all social traffic. A responsive popup is not the same as a mobile trigger.
2. Is every code unique and single-use? A shared code ends up on coupon sites and gets auto-applied by browser extensions to shoppers who never saw the popup. Unique per-session codes cannot leak, because they stop working after one use.
3. Does pricing scale with traffic or with results? Pageview-based pricing charges most exactly when conversion is worst. Revenue-based pricing moves with outcomes. Neither is universally right, but the difference is large for high-traffic, low-conversion stores.
4. Can it prove a recovery? "Influenced revenue" counts any order that touched a campaign and is always flattering. A single-use code appearing on a specific Shopify order is proof. Ask which one the dashboard shows.
5. Does it protect margin automatically? The minimum set: never fires without an exit signal, never fires on already-discounted products, respects a cart-value floor, and expires codes quickly.

The main options

• OptiMonk. The broadest suite here: many campaign types, personalization, and testing. Priced by pageviews. Best when you want a toolkit and have someone to run it.
• Justuno. Strong design control and layered targeting, popular with larger stores. Highest configuration effort of the group, and merchants have reported needing to hand-tune mobile behavior.
• Privy. Popups bundled with email and SMS, so it can replace two tools. Priced by pageviews. Good fit if you want one vendor for messaging and popups.
• Wheelio and spin-to-win apps. Gamified capture, effective at list growth. Worth noting they are optimized for email capture rather than order recovery, and gamification tends to attract discount-seeking behavior by design.
• Clinch. Ours, and deliberately narrow. Exit offer only, mobile triggers included, single-use expiring codes, order-ID attribution, and a holdout that measures whether the offer caused the sale. No email, no campaign builder, no template library. Free plan is $0 per month plus 10% of revenue recovered.

Where Clinch is the wrong pick

If you want to design the popup yourself, run several campaign types, target by segment, or capture emails, Clinch does none of that and will frustrate you. Those are OptiMonk and Justuno territory. Clinch is also new, with none of the review history the others have earned.

What we would insist on regardless

Whichever tool you choose, insist on unique single-use codes and order-level attribution. Those two decide whether an exit offer protects margin or quietly erodes it, and they are the two most often missing.

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