Getsitecontrol vs Privy.
Flexible website forms or a store marketing suite?
Compare Getsitecontrol and Privy for forms, Shopify campaigns, email automation, games and team access, including display capacity and sending costs.
What do you need your website to do next?
Getsitecontrol and Privy both combine onsite campaigns with email, but their centres of gravity differ. Getsitecontrol serves general website forms, feedback and announcements alongside store campaigns. Privy is closely organised around ecommerce capture, customer offers and ongoing email or SMS marketing.
The distinction is visible in the visitor journey. Getsitecontrol can branch a form around an answer or collect a rating. Privy can connect a display to Shopify products, cart activity and customer history, then continue the relationship through its messaging package.
Both also offer a popup-only buying decision. Getsitecontrol separates email credits from the site subscription; Privy has Displays and Email + SMS offers with different counters. The rounds below compare the tools first, then the plans needed for concrete workloads.
How the comparison works
15 rounds compare both platforms against the same 196 capability criteria, with 100 points distributed across the sections. Each round explains the practical differences and adds to the running score. The table beneath each round shows how the points are awarded. The conclusions bring those results together for different uses of the platforms.
Formats & content
Getsitecontrol builds standalone notices, slide-ins and bars, with teasers, countdowns and dynamic text. Desktop and mobile styles can be adjusted separately. Privy uses onsite displays to capture subscribers and present offers. The table separates individual display formats and content controls from the email workflows that follow a signup.
| Formats & content | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Message | +0.64 | — |
| Flyby / slide-in | +0.32 | +0.32 |
| Promo bars | +0.32 | +0.32 |
| Teasers | +0.32 | +0.32 |
| Content carousel | — | — |
| Eye-catching | +1.93 Eye-catching (+0.64) · Entrance animation (+0.64) · Element animation (+0.64) | — |
| Countdown | +0.32 | +0.32 |
| Button link | +0.64 | — |
| Copy coupon | +0.64 | — |
| Dynamic text | +0.64 | — |
| Mobile editor | +0.32 Set desktop and mobile styles and preview the widget. | +0.32 Desktop and mobile looks are customized separately. |
| Score | +6.116.11 | +1.611.61 |
Forms
Getsitecontrol offers more answer-driven form flexibility and rating inputs. Privy’s duplicate-signup controls, reCAPTCHA and preference steps are closely tied to building a store’s subscriber list. Getsitecontrol collects email, phone, text, single-choice and multiple-choice answers. It adds star, NPS, emoji and binary ratings, hidden values and consent checkboxes. Conditional fields and page branching tailor the next question to an earlier answer. Double opt-in verifies email ownership, while reCAPTCHA screens suspicious submissions.
Privy collects email, phone, text, date, radio, dropdown and checkbox fields, with separate email and text opt-in fields. Hidden attributes record UTM values or custom data, and Mini Quiz steps store a preference answer on the contact. Double opt-in, one-signup-per-contact rules and invisible reCAPTCHA protect the list.
| Forms | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Email capture | +0.16 | +0.16 |
| SMS capture | — | +0.32 |
| Phone field | +0.16 | +0.16 Collected in a separate step; a phone number alone does not opt in to SMS. |
| Single choice | +0.16 | +0.16 Radio buttons or a dropdown. |
| Multiple choice | +0.16 | +0.16 Multi-select checkboxes. |
| Free text | +0.16 | +0.16 Text and date fields. |
| Consent checkbox | +0.32 Consent checkbox (+0.16) · Email marketing consent (+0.16) | +0.65 Consent checkbox (+0.16) · Email marketing consent (+0.16) · SMS marketing consent (+0.32) |
| Hidden fields | +0.16 | +0.16 Hidden attributes store UTM values, the signup date or a custom value. |
| Multi-step | +0.65 Multi-step (+0.16) · Popup steps (+0.16) · Survey pages (+0.32) | +0.32 A mini-quiz chains a question, email and phone steps and a thank-you page. Multi-step (+0.16) · Popup steps (+0.16) |
| Logic | +0.97 Logic (+0.32) · Field logic (+0.32) · Step logic (+0.32) | — |
| Validation | +0.48 Validation (+0.16) · Phone format (+0.32) | +1.13 Validation (+0.16) · Field validation (+0.32) · Required fields (+0.32) · Duplicate email filter (+0.32) |
| CAPTCHA | +0.16 | +0.16 |
| Email double opt-in | +0.16 | +0.16 Each display switches between single and double opt-in. |
| Follow-up | +0.97 Follow-up (+0.16) · After signup (+0.16) · Email automation (+0.16) · Email sequences (+0.16) · Delays and branches (+0.16) · Lifecycle triggers (+0.16) | +0.97 Follow-up (+0.16) · After signup (+0.16) · Email automation (+0.16) · Email sequences (+0.16) · Delays and branches (+0.16) · Lifecycle triggers (+0.16) |
| Score | +4.6810.79 | +4.686.29 |
Surveys
Getsitecontrol collects feedback with NPS, star, emoji and binary ratings inside widgets. Privy’s mini-quiz templates collect preference answers into contact properties before signup. Those templates do not establish support for every rating format.
| Surveys | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Numeric rating | — | — |
| NPS | +0.41 | — |
| Star rating | +0.41 | — |
| Emoji rating | +0.41 | — |
| Binary rating | +0.41 | — |
| Quizzes | — | +0.82 Quizzes (+0.41) · Preference quiz (+0.41) |
| Score | +1.6412.43 | +0.827.11 |
Gamification
Getsitecontrol offers more compact game formats than a wheel alone. Privy’s Spin to Win provides configurable slices and losing outcomes within its store-capture workflow. Getsitecontrol offers a prize wheel, a scratch card and a tap-to-reveal card. Prize settings include codes and relative weights, with replay controls. The wheel adds spin duration and a pause after spinning; the scratch card sets how much of the cover must be removed. Privy’s Spin to Win sets a label, coupon, win ratio and result text for each slice, and slices can be winning or losing. The wheel can sit behind an email step, with desktop and mobile tabs to reopen it.
| Gamification | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Spin the wheel | +0.26 Spin the wheel (+0.13) · Prize weights (+0.13) | +0.53 Each slice sets its own label, coupon and result text. Spin the wheel (+0.13) · Prize weights (+0.13) · Losing slices (+0.26) |
| Slot machine | — | — |
| Plinko | — | — |
| Lottery ball | — | — |
| Claw machine | — | — |
| Scratch card | +0.26 | — |
| Pick a gift | — | — |
| Pick a card | +0.26 | — |
| Break the egg | — | — |
| Shake the tree | — | — |
| Memory cards | — | — |
| Treasure hunt | — | — |
| Learn to earn | — | — |
| Seasonal calendar | — | — |
| Daily offers | — | — |
| Score | +0.7913.22 | +0.537.64 |
Targeting
Both combine page, audience and timing conditions. Privy’s display-to-display rules help coordinate store promotions; Getsitecontrol pairs audience targeting with conditional questions. Getsitecontrol combines page, device, location, referral and visitor conditions, including Shopify cart data. Widgets can open after a delay, on scroll or on exit intent. Repeat-display settings respond to a view, closure or action; schedules use dates, hours and weekdays.
Privy opens displays on page load, after a delay, at a scroll depth or on exit intent. Audience rules combine current, initial and referring URLs, country, region or postal code, device, sessions and pageviews with AND/OR logic. Frequency settings, signup limits, schedules by date, weekday and time, and rules based on other displays keep campaigns apart.
| Targeting | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Page targeting | +0.23 | +0.23 Current, initial or referring URLs, combined with AND/OR. |
| Geo targeting | +0.23 | +0.23 Country, region or postal code. |
| Device targeting | +0.23 Target widgets by the visitor’s device. | +0.23 |
| Audience targeting | +1.35 Combine referral, visitor and Shopify cart or customer conditions. Audience targeting (+0.23) · New/returning visitors (+0.45) · Referrer targeting (+0.23) · Cart targeting (+0.23) · Profile targeting (+0.23) | +1.35 Audience targeting (+0.23) · Referrer targeting (+0.23) · Cart targeting (+0.23) · Profile targeting (+0.23) · Order history (+0.45) |
| Behavior triggers | +0.9 Trigger widgets after a delay, on scroll or on exit intent. Behavior triggers (+0.23) · Time delay (+0.23) · Exit intent (+0.23) · Scroll trigger (+0.23) | +1.35 Behavior triggers (+0.23) · Time delay (+0.23) · Exit intent (+0.23) · Scroll trigger (+0.23) · Page-load trigger (+0.45) |
| Click trigger | +0.45 | — |
| Scheduling | +0.23 | +0.23 |
| Frequency cap | +0.23 | +0.23 Repeat-display timing, exclusion of past signups and a signup-count stop. |
| Campaign control | — | +0.45 Rules include or exclude visitors who saw or signed up for other displays. |
| Score | +3.8317.05 | +4.2811.91 |
Experiments
Both test popup variants. Privy exposes traffic and stopping settings; Getsitecontrol’s widget tests end manually, independently of its email-broadcast testing. Getsitecontrol Pro runs widget A/B tests with random visitor assignment and reports views, actions and click-through rate for each variant. Tests end manually. Its separate email-broadcast testing can select a winning email, which does not establish an automatic winner for popup tests. Privy runs display experiments with a set traffic allocation, stopped after a number of days or participants, and marks the variation with the highest conversion rate.
| Experiments | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | +1.4 A/B testing (+0.35) · Popup tests (+0.35) · Email or SMS campaign tests (+0.35) · Email tests (+0.35) | +2.8 Tests stop after a set number of days or participants. A/B testing (+0.35) · Popup tests (+0.35) · Traffic split (+0.7) · Email or SMS campaign tests (+0.35) · Email tests (+0.35) · SMS tests (+0.7) |
| Score | +1.418.45 | +2.814.71 |
Email & SMS
Both can send the welcome sequence. Privy bundles unlimited email sends into its contact-priced offer; Getsitecontrol bills email credits separately from widget capacity. Getsitecontrol has its own email editor, broadcasts, contact segments and automations. A form submission can start a welcome sequence; workflows can add delays, apply conditions and respond to contact or store events. Email sends are billed as credits separately from widget views.
Privy’s Email + SMS plan adds campaigns, segments and flows for welcome, cart, checkout, browse, purchase, winback and back-in-stock journeys, with Yes/No splits, delays and contact updates. Sends are unlimited; the price follows mailable contacts, with 250 SMS credits a month included.
| Email & SMS | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Email marketing | +0.75 | +0.75 Email and SMS campaigns to segments, with product, coupon and timer blocks. |
| SMS marketing | — | +1.5 |
| Web push | — | — |
| Score | +0.7519.2 | +2.2516.96 |
Team & sites
Getsitecontrol gives more granular access by work area. Privy’s subaccounts share the parent traffic allowance, which is a different arrangement from separate site subscriptions. Getsitecontrol assigns None, View, Edit or Full access separately to widgets, emails and contacts on each site. Edit allows drafting; Full adds actions such as activation, sending or exports. Account admins can manage billing, sites and users, while only the owner can delete the account. Sites have separate subscriptions. Privy accounts have Owner and Member roles, and an event history records who did what. Subaccounts let one login manage several stores or brands under one bill, sharing the parent account’s traffic allowance.
| Team & sites | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Workspaces | +0.56 Workspaces (+0.28) · Several sites (+0.28) | +0.56 Subaccounts for several stores, with traffic and billing rolled up to the parent. Workspaces (+0.28) · Several sites (+0.28) |
| Team | +0.28 | +0.84 Owners and members add and remove users. Team (+0.28) · Activity history (+0.56) |
| Roles | +1.13 Roles (+0.56) · Billing access controls (+0.56) | — |
| Score | +1.9721.17 | +1.4118.37 |
Developer
Getsitecontrol provides browser hooks for widget actions and webhooks for captured data. These connections are separate from the assistant inside the editor. Privy’s API manages contacts and ingests order and custom events, but has no display or campaign endpoints. Browser events identify shoppers and update carts. Webhooks deliver signup and order events, while MCP provides account and performance data.
| Developer | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP API | — | +0.75 Contacts, orders and custom events; no endpoints for displays or campaigns. HTTP API (+0.38) · Scoped credentials (+0.38) |
| Browser API | +0.19 | +0.19 |
| Webhooks | +0.19 | +0.19 |
| MCP server | — | +0.75 MCP server (+0.38) · Read performance (+0.38) |
| Score | +0.3821.54 | +1.8820.25 |
Support
Both provide direct support channels. This is product assistance, not a reason to assume that either base subscription includes ongoing campaign production. Getsitecontrol includes live chat on all plans, including Free. Product support covers the widget and email platform; the subscription remains a self-service product rather than a campaign-production retainer. Privy lists email and live chat support on its plans.
| Support | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Chat support | +0.9 | +0.9 |
| Score | +0.922.44 | +0.921.15 |
Editor & workflow
Getsitecontrol lets you build on Free and save drafts before activation. Ask AI edits widget copy, appearance and targeting directly in the builder. Privy lets you save displays, flows and email campaigns as drafts and activate them later. Live displays can be paused without deletion. Access requires a paid plan after the trial.
| Editor & workflow | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Free editor | +0.77 Build widgets on the ongoing Free plan. | — No free plan; a 15-day trial instead. |
| Campaign drafts | +0.39 Save widget drafts before activation. | +0.39 |
| Saved versions | — | — |
| AI popup assistant | +3.09 AI popup assistant (+0.77) · Copy (+0.77) · Design (+0.77) · Targeting (+0.77) | — |
| Score | +4.2426.68 | +0.3921.53 |
Data & reporting
Privy links display signups with orders and attributed revenue. Getsitecontrol provides audience and page breakdowns for widget interactions plus separate email reporting. Getsitecontrol reports widget views, actions and click-through rates, with breakdowns by page, traffic source, country and device. Responses and contacts can be exported. Email campaigns have their own delivery and engagement reporting. Privy reports display views, signups, orders and revenue attributed to signups, and emails a summary each morning or each Monday. Contacts and a display’s signups export to CSV.
| Data & reporting | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Field mapping | +0.64 Map form fields, system values and static values to an external service. | — |
| Lead export | +0.32 Export collected responses and contacts. | +0.32 CSV of all contacts, a segment or one display's signups. |
| Scheduled reports | — | +0.64 Email digests of views, signups, orders and revenue, daily or weekly. |
| Revenue goals | — | +0.64 Reports attribute orders and revenue to signups. |
| Team notifications | — | +1.29 Team notifications (+0.64) · Slack (+0.64) |
| Score | +0.9627.65 | +2.8924.42 |
Integrations
Both can send contacts to another platform. Privy also connects with ecommerce review and loyalty tools; Getsitecontrol supports a wider general-form workflow through explicit mapping. Getsitecontrol connects forms to email services, CRM destinations, Google Sheets, Zapier and analytics. Field mapping passes form, system and static values to the destination. Webhooks provide another route for submissions, and its own contact list can power native email campaigns.
Privy sends contacts to email and SMS platforms including Klaviyo, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Attentive and Postscript, and to Facebook Custom Audiences. It connects to Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, WooCommerce and Squarespace stores, review and loyalty apps, Google Analytics, Slack and custom webhooks. A Zapier app is available by invitation.
| Integrations | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| +0.13 ActiveCampaign, Constant Contact, Brevo, MailerLite: Send submissions to the selected audience. Map form fields, visitor information and UTM parameters. Mailchimp: Choose an audience, map form and system fields, and optionally require opt-in confirmation. Mailchimp groups accept mapped radio-button or checkbox option values. Email integrations and field mapping are included in Free. Klaviyo: Select an existing Klaviyo list and map widget fields to profile properties. Create a new list in Klaviyo before selecting it here. Email integrations and field mapping are included in Free. | +0.13 Dotmailer, SendGrid, Sailthru: Send collected contacts and supported custom properties to email platforms. HubSpot: Send Privy signups to HubSpot. Its integration announcement describes timeline events for workflows; confirm current event and field support before building automation around them. Klaviyo: Sync email, phone and custom properties to Klaviyo. Property names must match Klaviyo’s internal names; welcome flows remain in Klaviyo. Mailchimp: Send email addresses and phone numbers from Privy to Mailchimp. Choose whether Privy or Mailchimp sends the welcome email to avoid duplicate messages. | |
| SMS | — | +0.25 Attentive, Emotive, Postscript, Redo: Send collected phone numbers and consent to SMS platforms. |
| CRM | +0.25 HubSpot: Choose a static HubSpot list or send leads directly to contacts. Map form answers, system data and fixed values to preserve both visitor details and campaign context. | — |
| Messaging | — | +0.25 Slack: Send signup and order events to a Slack channel. |
| Customer lifecycle | — | +0.25 Gorgias, Judge.me, Junip, Rivo, Smile, Yotpo, Recharge, Alia: Cover SMS support, reviews, loyalty, subscriptions and incoming Alia signup data. |
| Analytics | +0.13 Google Analytics: Record widget views, submissions, clicks and other interactions alongside site analytics. | +0.13 Google Analytics: Track signup and display performance in Google Analytics. |
| Advertising | — | +0.25 Facebook Custom Audiences: Send collected contacts to Facebook Custom Audiences for ad targeting. |
| Marketing tools | — | — |
| Store | +0.13 Shopify Customers: Widgets on a connected Shopify account can send contacts to the store customer list. | +0.13 Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, WooCommerce, Squarespace, Weebly, WordPress.org, Shift4Shop: Connect store activity to Privy marketing; capabilities vary by platform. |
| Product recommendations | — | — |
| Personalization | — | — |
| Reviews | — | — |
| Content | — | +0.25 Canva: Canva is listed in the authenticated hub and the email editor provides Import Canva Email. |
| Custom forms | — | — |
| Data & validation | — | — |
| Spreadsheets | +0.25 Google Sheets: Save form submissions to a spreadsheet with field mapping. | — |
| Automation | +0.13 Zapier, Integrately, Webhooks: Forward new submissions to other apps. Integrately uses a webhook configured in the widget. | +0.13 Zapier: Create or update Privy contacts from other apps; the Zapier app is available by invitation. |
| Custom connections | — | +0.25 Privy MCP, REST API: A read-only MCP server gives compatible assistants account access, and the REST API manages contacts, orders and events. Webhooks: Send signup and order events to a custom endpoint by POST. |
| Score | +128.65 | +226.42 |
Shopify
Privy has a particularly integrated store workflow for products, customer records and discounts. Getsitecontrol also acts on the cart, while its separate Shopify companion app must not be conflated with the main product. Getsitecontrol uses Shopify cart and customer parameters in targeting, and widget buttons can add a product to the cart or apply a discount. The main GSC Email Marketing + Popups app also connects store events to email workflows. The separate GSC Popup, Email Pop Up app carries the Built for Shopify badge and supports Shopify Flow; neither earns points for Getsitecontrol.
Privy’s Shopify app syncs products, collections and customers in both directions, tagging new signups. Displays target cart value, products and order count, and store events start flows. Coupons are created as master or unique Shopify codes and can be applied to the cart after signup. Cross Sell displays add a product to the cart from a button.
| Shopify | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| Storefront installation | +0.39 Install through the native Shopify app. | +0.39 A native Shopify app is available. |
| Native Shopify app | +0.39 GSC Email Marketing + Popups is the Shopify app for the main Getsitecontrol platform. GSC Popup, Email Pop Up is a separate app; its exclusive capabilities do not contribute to this score. | +0.39 A native app is available in the Shopify App Store. |
| Built for Shopify | — The Built for Shopify badge belongs to the separate GSC Popup, Email Pop Up app and does not earn points for Getsitecontrol. | — No Built for Shopify badge, as confirmed by the site owner. |
| Shopify media assets | — | — |
| Shopify products and variants | +0.39 Add product cards to emails and send customers selections of abandoned products, purchased products, related products, bestsellers and products on sale. | +0.39 Shopify products sync to Privy; Product blocks pull title, description and price into displays and emails. |
| Shopify collections | — | +0.79 Shopify collections sync to Privy for targeting, segmentation and email content, and can drive flow conditions. |
| Shopify discount assets | +0.39 Pro emails support unique, single-use Shopify coupons. | +0.39 Create master or unique Shopify discount codes from inside Privy: fixed amount, percentage or free shipping with minimum purchase rules and schedules. |
| Shopify metafields and metaobjects | — | — |
| Shopify customer data | +0.39 Use customer parameters and dynamic product, cart and customer text. | +0.39 Segment by customer tags, lifetime spend, order count, order history and shopping behavior. |
| Shopify customer synchronization | +0.39 Send widget contacts to Shopify Customers and import Shopify contacts. | +0.39 Signups sync to Shopify customers with an accepts-marketing flag and optional tags; Shopify customers marked as accepting marketing import and update in Privy. Deletions are not replicated. |
| Shopify events and triggers | +0.39 Shopify cart-add/remove triggers documented on Pro; store automation events include abandoned checkout, new/fulfilled order, subscriber and winback. Email sending separately billed. | +0.39 Privy Flows supports orders, refunds, shipments, browsing, carts, checkout and restock triggers. Privy Flows is its own automation system, separate from Shopify Flow. |
| Shopify audience and cart targeting | +0.39 Shopify cart, product and customer parameter conditions documented on Pro; Shopify page presets on Free. | +0.39 Filter by cart value, product or variant, order count and Shopify customer tags. |
| Apply a Shopify discount | +0.39 Apply a Shopify discount with a widget button. | +0.39 A display's coupon can be applied to the cart automatically after signup, so the shopper does not type the code. |
| Add a Shopify product to cart | +0.39 Add a product to the cart with a widget button. | +0.39 Cross Sell displays pull in a Shopify product and set the button URL to add that product to the cart on click. |
| Buy now / direct checkout | — | — |
| Shopify Flow | — Connect to Shopify Flow through the separate GSC Popup, Email Pop Up app. This does not earn points for Getsitecontrol. | — |
| Score | +3.9432.59 | +4.7231.15 |
Pricing
Compare the whole workflow: Privy’s contact package can suit frequent sending, while Getsitecontrol separates site traffic from email volume. Displays-only pricing answers a different requirement. Getsitecontrol Free includes 10,000 widget views per month. Pro costs $19 per month per site for 100,000 views; Pro Max costs $29 for unlimited views. Email credits are separate, so a popup-only bill and a popup-plus-email bill are different calculations. Privy Displays starts at $24 a month for 10,000 pageviews and reaches $168 for 100,000. Email + SMS starts at $30 for 1,500 mailable contacts with unlimited sends, popups included. There is no free plan.
| Pricing | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
A small website
| $0 / mo · Free 2,000 widget views fit the 10,000-view allowance, assuming one widget display per pageview. +1 point | $24 / mo · Displays · 10,000 pageviews There is no free plan; the entry Displays tier (10,000 pageviews) covers 2,000. +0 points |
Visitors explore more pages
| $19 / mo · Pro One display per pageview produces 60,000 widget views, within Pro’s 100,000. Fewer displays can reduce the required plan. +0.9 points | $168 / mo · Displays · 100,000 pageviews 60,000 pageviews exceed the 50,000 tier, so the 100,000-pageview tier applies. +0.1 points |
A higher-traffic website
| $19 / mo · Pro One display per pageview produces 100,000 widget views, matching Pro’s allowance. +0.9 points | $168 / mo · Displays · 100,000 pageviews The 100,000-pageview tier covers exactly this traffic. +0.1 points |
Two websites on one account
| $38 / mo · Pro × 2 sites Multiple sites require a paid plan. Two Pro site subscriptions cost $19 each; each includes 100,000 widget views. +0.56 points | $48 / mo · Displays · 25,000 pageviews Subaccounts share the parent plan's traffic, so two sites with 20,000 combined pageviews fit the 25,000 tier. +0.44 points |
Launch popups without vendor branding
| $19 / mo · Pro Pro removes widget branding and covers 2,000 widget displays. +1 point | — Privy does not publish whether its branding appears on displays or which plan removes it. |
Run a sale or promotion
| $0 / mo · Free A link or fixed-code promotion fits the Free editor and 10,000-view allowance. +1 point | $24 / mo · Displays · 10,000 pageviews Displays include coupon codes on popups; the entry tier (10,000 pageviews) covers this traffic. +0 points |
Improve popup conversion with A/B testing
| $19 / mo · Pro Widget A/B testing is a Pro feature; the traffic fits its allowance. +0.56 points | $24 / mo · Displays · 10,000 pageviews A/B testing is part of Displays, and the entry tier covers this traffic. +0.44 points |
Collect data and feedback with surveys, quizzes and forms
| $0 / mo · Free Text and single-choice fields fit the Free editor. Advanced branching is not required by this scenario. +1 point | $24 / mo · Displays · 10,000 pageviews Displays include forms with text answers and choice fields; the entry tier (10,000 pageviews) covers this traffic. +0 points |
Signup plus an automated welcome email
| $2 / mo · Free + 1,000 email credits Free supports welcome automations and unlimited contacts. 1,000 recurring sends cost $2; one-time signup credits are excluded. +0.94 points | $30 / mo · Email + SMS · 1,500 contacts The first email tier includes popups, a welcome flow and unlimited sends for up to 1,500 contacts. +0.06 points |
Popups and email marketing in one platform
| $10 / mo · Free + 5,000 email credits Free supports broadcasts, segments and automations. 5,000 sends cost $10; 10,000 widget displays fit Free. One-time credits are excluded. +0.75 points | $30 / mo · Email + SMS · 1,500 contacts Campaigns, segments, flows and popups are included, with unlimited sends for up to 1,500 contacts. +0.25 points |
| Score | +8.641.19 | +1.432.55 |
The final score
Getsitecontrol suits a broader website brief involving feedback, conditional forms and controlled access to content or contacts. Privy is a natural fit when Shopify capture and frequent email follow-up belong to one store-marketing programme. Compare Privy’s contact-based package against Getsitecontrol’s site and sending costs rather than assuming all popup traffic creates the same bill.
- Getsitecontrol
- 41.19
- Privy
- 32.55
What matters most to you?
Let’s put your priorities first
First, check that each tool can do the task. An absent or unconfirmed required capability means a dash with an explanation instead of a scenario score, and no winner highlight. Only qualifying tools share the points; a sole qualifier earns the full weight of each criterion it meets. 70 points go to the criteria directly related to it, and 30 to everything else. For “Popups without email marketing”, all 100 points go to the included capabilities and relevant popup pricing scenarios; unwanted features and email sending have zero weight. Both tools earn points for confirmed capabilities; unconfirmed ones earn zero. The first row keeps the original overall score.
| What matters to me | Getsitecontrol | Privy |
|---|---|---|
| The overall feature set | 41.19 | 32.55 |
| Popups without email marketing | 47.24 | 32.62 |
| Collecting more leads | 35.97 | 34.17 |
| Driving clicks and actions | 36.33 | 38.53 |
| Popups and email marketing in one service | 35.18 | 37.66 |
| Running campaigns for my Shopify store | 34.66 | 35.8 |
| A/B testing and measuring results | 28.38 | 45.93 |
| Creating and editing campaigns with AI | 77.52 | —Required capability unconfirmed |
| Collecting data and feedback | 38.49 | 32.31 |
| Working with a team or managing clients | 42.94 | 31.66 |
| Connecting AI agents to my workflow | —Required capability unconfirmed | 52.33 |
How the comparison works
These scores are relative to Getsitecontrol and Privy in this comparison. They cannot be carried over to comparisons with other products: each tool’s points depend on what the other participant offers.
Relative scores, not universal ratings
The same capability earns half the points when both tools have it, and all the points when only one does. Changing the opponent can therefore change a product’s score without changing the product itself. The review pages separately show absolute capability ratings without price.
One shared pool of 100 points
The 15 rounds cover 196 criteria. Each round has a set weight, divided equally among its criteria. These weights are our editorial choices.
How features earn points
If both products meet a criterion, they split its points equally. If only one does, it earns all of them. An unconfirmed capability earns zero. If neither qualifies, those points are not awarded, so the two totals can add up to less than 100.
How prices earn points
Ten scenarios carry 1 point each. We use the cheapest confirmed plan meeting each scenario’s traffic and feature requirements, billed monthly in USD. Equal prices split the point; a plan costing half as much earns twice the share. A free qualifying plan beats a paid one. If only one suitable plan and price are confirmed, it earns the full point.
Which plans count
Feature rounds cover capabilities across the products’ plans. The total does not describe a single subscription; the pricing scenarios identify the plan needed for each stated use case.
How your priorities change the score
A tool must first meet the task’s required capabilities. If a requirement is absent or unconfirmed, its scenario score is shown as a dash and it cannot be the winner; the status explains why. Only qualifying tools participate in point allocation and price comparisons. A sole qualifying tool earns the full weight of each criterion it meets; criteria it does not meet remain unearned. Standard priorities assign 70 points to their relevant criteria and 30 to the rest, preserving relative weights within each group. “Popups without email marketing” instead distributes all 100 points among its included criteria, preserving their relative weights and giving everything else zero. It includes lead capture, testing, reporting and external handoff. Its pricing criteria exclude email sending and feedback workloads. Included email features carry no penalty: only the required plan price counts. The evidence and scoring rules stay the same. The overall-feature row keeps the original weights.