10 Best Modern Cart Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Modern Cart has 60,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Modern Cart
- 1
FireBox – WooCommerce Popup Builder, Exit Intent Popup, Email Optin & Cart Abandonment
4.9 (75) 7,000+ active installsNewsletter optins, discount coupon popups, sticky bars and lightbox modals that capture leads and recover abandoned WooCommerce carts.
Shares the free shipping bar tag on WordPress.org. 7,000+ installs against 60,000+, last updated 10 days ago.
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Side Cart Woocommerce | Woocommerce Cart
4.9 (452) 80,000+ active installsA powerful side cart designed to make shopping faster and easier. Give customers instant cart access and a seamless checkout experience.
Shares the cart drawer, floating cart tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 6 days ago.
- 3
Poptin – Email Marketing Automation, Newsletter & Exit Pop Ups, Email Popups
4.9 (695) 20,000+ active installsFree email automation, email campaigns, exit intent popup builder, gamified popups with spin the wheel, contact forms & smart pop ups. 🎉
About a third of the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
- 4
Popup Box
Paid version availablePopup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups
4.6 (81) 50,000+ active installsBuild flexible popups and modal windows with multiple popup types, triggers, and display controls.
A similar number of installs, last updated 4 days ago.
- 5
Superb Addons: Blocks, Patterns, Pre-built Pages, Sliders, Popups, Free Forms, Animations & More
4.9 (22) 80,000+ active installsCreate WordPress websites with free forms, Gutenberg blocks, popups, sliders, countdowns, animations, pre-built pages, patterns & The Theme Designer
A similar number of installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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Sliding Cart for WooCommerce by FunnelKit – Skip Cart & Reach WooCommerce Checkout Faster
5.0 (109) 30,000+ active installsFunnelKit Cart adds a beautiful sliding cart to your WooCommerce store. Let the buyers add items, edit quantity and add upsells on the side cart.
Shares the floating cart tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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Popup Builder & Popup Maker for WordPress – OptinMonster Email Marketing and Lead Generation
4.3 (816) 1 million+ active installs🤩 Make popups & optin forms to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales - #1 most popular popup builder plugin! 🚀
About 17 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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Coupon X – Discount Popups, Promo Codes Pop Ups for WooCommerce & Announcement Popups
4.9 (52) 1,000+ active installsBoost sales with engaging discount pop ups, coupon widgets, promo code pop up & coupon codes! Generate unique promo codes or use existing codes 🛒
1,000+ installs against 60,000+, last updated 4 days ago.
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Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7
5.0 (1,875) 600,000+ active installsSave and manage Contact Form 7 messages. Never lose important data. It is a lightweight contact form 7 database plugin.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
- 10
Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
4.8 (611) 600,000+ active installsElementor templates, Header footer builder, Elementor Post Grid, Woocommerce Grid builder, Slider, Forms, Gallery, Nav menu addons, Elementor widgets.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
Switching from Modern Cart: common questions
What is the best alternative to Modern Cart?
FireBox is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 7,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Modern Cart alternative has the most users?
OptinMonster, with 1 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Modern Cart alternative is rated highest?
CFDB7, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 1,875 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Modern Cart alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Modern Cart score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Modern Cart on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
FireBox is the closest match to Modern Cart by the data we track, and OptinMonster has the widest reach with 1 million+ active installs. Popup Box shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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