Promolayer – Popup Builder & Abandonment Preventer
Not your average popup builder! Boost conversions and subscriptions with beautiful popups, banners, slide-ins, coupon wheels, spin to wins and more.
Safe pick
Yes — Promolayer is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 weeks ago, and scores 82/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 2 weeks ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Momentum — downloads up 288.9% vs the previous 30 days
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Promolayer stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| exit-intent | #31 |
| notification bar | #56 |
| popup | #23 |
| popup builder | #10 |
| spin to win | #5 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 5 reviews
About Promolayer
From the official readme · v1.1.3Description
Promolayer helps you rapidly create popups, slide-ins, spin the wheels, banners and more on your website. Continuously optimize and improve with Promolayer’s A/B testing tools.
Promolayer offers no-nonsense ease of use and actionable data-forward reporting. You can create beautiful contact forms, signup forms, newsletter forms, and optins in just 2 minutes. Advanced targeting rules, triggers and exclusions are all included.
How Promolayer can help your growth
- Grow your email list at 3x the usual rate with spin to wins (coupon wheels)
- Capture more leads with beautiful popups
- Prevent missed conversions with realtime email correction
- Get more sales and create FOMO with countdown timers
- Increase your average order value by cross-selling and upselling using slide in popups
- Recover abandoning users with exit intent full screen popups
- Increase engagement with gamification
- Guide customers with banners and slide-ins
- Boost your subscription rate with teasers that allow reopening of popups.
Easy starting points.
Promolayer includes 12 built in starting points.
* Welcome spin to win (coupon wheel). The highest converting way to grow your email list.
* Welcome popups. The most flexible way to grow your email list.
* Welcome slide-ins. Capture emails without blocking the whole UI.
* Cart savers. Catch shoppers before they abandon your site.
* Exit email capture. Ensure you get the most out of every visitor to your site.
* Notification. Sale started? New blog post? Change of hours? Communicate with your customers.
* Free shipping bar. Increase your average order value by showing free shipping to your customers.
* Countdown timers. Timed sales are the best way to create FOMO. Urgency drives sales and increases CVR.
* Lead generation. Collect names, phone numbers, emails and more.
* Covid notifications. Communicate your policies easily.
* Cross sell starters. Increase AOV by targeting product pages and introducing related products.
* Cookie notifications. Stay compliant with Cookie notifications.
Didn’t find the starter you needed? Promolayer has over 100 templates to choose from that can be fully customized to match your brand and needs.
You can read more and see working demos at Promolayers Homepage.
Promolayer is completely free to use for the first 1,000 views / month.
User testimonials
I’m converting at least 3x more than I was when I was using the in-built popups. Gamification has changed our return on ad spend like you wouldn’t believe. THANK YOU Promolayer team.
FastFeet on Wix
Great app, easy to setup, works like a charm. Support team are there to help if needed, but on my side, it was not an issue. I really recommend Promolayer.
Techtoids on Shopify
Integrations
Promolayer integrates natively with Mailchimp and Klaviyo. A webhook is available to send data through Zapier to thousands of other services such as Active Campaign, Aweber, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, Drip, Gmail, Hustle, Mailchimp, Ontraport, Outlook, Salesforce, Sendinblue, WP Fusion, Zoho, Hubspot etc.
Our custom HTML component allows you to add quizzes, social share buttons (such as Messenger and Line buttons) Opinion Stage polls, Apester, Google surveys, Google maps, Typeform, Jotform, Wufoo and many more.
Promolayer is designed from the ground up for conversion rate optimization.
About Promolayer
Promolayer was created in Japan and has grown to fully support both English and Japanese, bringing world-class Japanese design sense and customer service to the global market.
Looking for more information about our features?
For our English-speaking customers, please visit our Popup builders homepage.
For our Japanese speaker customers you can find information on specifics such as abandonment prevention popups, cart abandonment reduction and our popup tool at the Promolayer homepage.
Installation
- Install the Promolayer plugin via the WordPress.org plugin repository or by uploading the files to your server.
- Activate the Promolayer plugin.
- Navigate to the Promolayer plugin page and click ‘Connect or create a Promolayer account’
- After logging in you are finished, everything is connected. All Promolayer features are available on our free plan. For high traffic sites please consider upgrading.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there a plugin? Isn’t this just a gateway to a SaaS?
The plugin removes the setup steps. It installs the Promolayer script for you, so there is no code to paste into your theme and nothing to re-add when you change or update your theme. If you prefer not to use the plugin you can sign up at promolayer.io and paste a single line of code into your site instead. Everything else works the same way.
How are popup views counted?
Every time the Promolayer plugin generates content on a page a single view is counted. We feel this is a very fair way of counting as if you have a welcome popup set to only show once you will only be charged for a single view per user no matter how many more pages the user sees. If you are a heavy user with popups on every page then each page will be counted.
How well does Promolayer convert?
Expect conversion rates to be fantastic. Our platform has proven to convert at consistently higher rates than our competitors due to our highly-usable forms and CVR focused features such as real time email domain correction. The final conversion rate will depend on your usage of the platform, the deals you offer your customers and the design and triggering you choose. For our paying customers we’ve got a team of CRO experts on hand to help you maximize your conversion rate.
Do I need a developer to get started?
No, the Promolayer plugin auto-integrates everything. Just log in and you are ready to go.
Can I customize the popups?
Sure you can! Promolayer has a content builder when you can customize most parts of the popups, slide-ins, banners, coupon wheels and fullscreen displays.
Will Promolayer make any changes to my site?
Promolayer adds a single script to your site to enable the popup functionality. If you choose to disable it the script will be gone with no lasting changes whatsoever. Promolayer makes no changes to your sites structure, database etc.
What types of popups and forms can I build with Promolayer?
Here are some examples of the types things you can create with Promolayer announcement popup appointment form banner bar conditional form contact button form contact form popup contact forms coupon popup custom form custom forms custom popup email form email forms email submit form event form exit intent popup forms exit popup feedback form floating bar popup lightbox popup lead generation forms mobile popup newsletter form newsletter popup popup form previews quiz form quote form quote request form registration popup scroll trigger popup signup form slide-in popup slide-in scroll popup…
Changelog
1.1.3
- Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
- Fixed a broken sentence in the plugin description.
1.1.2
- Updated plugin naming to comply with WordPress directory guidelines.
- Fixed typos in documentation.
- Added security improvements for direct file access protection.
- Improved internationalization.
1.1.1
- Tightened security, added adherance to new WordPress standards.
1.1.0
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.5 confirmed.
- Reporting features upgraded and much more in-app as always.
1.0.9
- Added auto-cache clearing on account connection.
- Added many new targeting and segmentation rules.
1.0.8
- Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.2
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Promolayer: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026
Is Promolayer free?
Yes. Promolayer is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Promolayer safe to use in 2026?
Yes — Promolayer is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 weeks ago, and scores 82/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Promolayer?
Promolayer is active on 1K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 18,919 times since it launched in April 2022. It was downloaded 980 times in the last 30 days.
Does Promolayer work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Promolayer up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 4.6 or newer.
What PHP version does Promolayer need?
Promolayer requires PHP 5.6 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Promolayer last updated?
The latest version, 1.1.3, was released on September 17, 2026 (2 weeks ago).
Who makes Promolayer?
Promolayer is developed and maintained by Promolayer Popup Builder.
What are the best alternatives to Promolayer?
The most popular alternatives to Promolayer are Smart Popup by Supsystic (10K+ installs), Optinly (700+ installs) and Nelio Popups (400+ installs).
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