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Pros
It is something that I can use daily, or only look into every now and then. It has been a great pop up source for lead gen and is super customizable to any company.
Every thing is so perfectly placed on the dashboard click and drop panels. I'm so excited I got this hands down one of my best investments for sure.
They made everything simple, even too simple for me. The ability to add several plugin with superb easy installation.
Impressed with ease of use, intuitive editor and quick publisher. Powerful opportunities with forms will help many entrepreneurs.
Cons
Also, they boast of having 60+ apps but most of them are repeats. It may be misleading information for potential new customers.
For example, many elements lack contrast. In addition, some sections of the website's content are truncated - making it difficult to read the text in these areas.
The only one problem that I found is about domain counting; I've never known automatically how many sites I have used. I have to count by myself.).
The only thing missing for me is integration with Square for payments.
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"A Must Have for Marketers!"
Pros: If you are a marketer and doesn't know how to code, POWR is a must-have tool in your arsenal. As a no-code developer, I depend heavily on plugins(WordPress). After subscribing to POWR, I was able to replace 3 WordPress plugins with POWR plugins. I am sure I will be able to remove more soon. Looking forward to using POWR on new projects and replace stuff in my old projects. So far, I haven't seen any drop in my page load times.
Cons: So far everything looks good. Nothing to dislike.
"Customer Service is Stellar. Product is Practical and Convenient."
Overall: I would recommend this app, overall. As I stated earlier, their customer service blew me away and I am in the software industry. You can add links, photos, and much more to each pop-up and the templates are designed to be conversion-driven, which I appreciate. The stats speak for themselves and we have gotten a good increase in captures since using Powr.
Pros: Form integration was simple and convenient and the drag and drop features made pop-up building very easy and quick. Customization was a bit limited but that was not a problem because they have many themes to choose from. For a basic / intermediate form builder it was exactly what we needed.
Cons: There were a couple glitches that made a simple task take longer due to the need to investigate and correct. For example, a couple times changes were not saved even after manually saving and other times we had to start over due to crashing. All in all, though, their customer service was extremely quick to help.
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"Disappointed"
Overall: Very disappointed
Pros: In theory it seems like a good idea, but the platform isn't working well at all for our needs
Cons: The continuous disconnect of our forms, and can't speak to a live agents immediately, is not a good application for critical medical practice...
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"Great Potential!"
Overall: I had a couple issues with setting up my account but customer service took care of it quickly and easily.
Pros: The functionality it adds to my website. My theme has a number of functions POWR brings but there a few key ones that are missing and Powr fills those gaps. The chat function, mystery box, pop up promotions will all help convert my customers.
Cons: Nothing yet - I am still setting up my Shopify store migration and I am playing with the product before we go live. I only that I wish I had found them BEFORE I bought my theme.
"POWR is the best and most useful application"
Overall: POWR helped me replace more than 5 plugins which in turn help me to speed the website.
Pros: I was using several plugins like countdown timer, popup box, slideshow etc. Fortunately i came across POWR & It has made my life easy. With 60 apps you can imagine the power of POWR. All I have to do is connect my account, set a time interval for when I want to post updates and POWR. It also have a Sutosave feature while creating apps. I have been using POWR for a few months now and I can attest to the fact that it is one of the best applications on the market.
Cons: I haven't come across any Issue as of now.
"Swiss Army Knife of web tools"
Overall: I love it. POWr saves me a lot of time to add flexibility to my websites that otherwise would take time and more money to deploy.
Pros: POWr is a true swiss army knife. It literally gives 60+ tools to you for your websites, and thus it replaces many tools and save money overall. The deployment is easy by just adding a script to the website, and anything can be done. Overall it is a real time saver for me. Sometimes I do not need to use Wordpress, and I can add many functions to any non-WP without any extra coding that would cost much time to do. The "comment section" plug-in is quite unique and easy to use. All the popular and necessary plug-ins/apps are available to choose from, for example, pop-up, forms, chat, paypal button, etc.
Cons: Not much. But for certain apps, the speed and code could be optimized a bit more.
"The perfect addon for webinar and convention platforms."
Overall: I needed a way to provide more information and interaction to my convention attendees, and this is the perfect solution
Pros: I've been working lately hosting online conventions, and most platforms are not designed to be deeply customized, I was looking for a way to add features for the events, and POWR has been an excellent solution. There are many "widget" options, and you can use different option fo code to add them to your platform. So far I have not noticed any significant impact in the way or speed the platform loads. I'm really ver happy with this!
Cons: So far I haven't found something that I don't like, although I would like to see a little more personalization options. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice.
"The Missing Link to building a website NO-Code"
Overall: It's easy to use. able to fill the apps that many no-code website builders missing. Even if you make HTML websites, power will help you save time on just embedding ready made widget/apps.
Pros: I often found website builders (drag and drop) lacking a certain features. Like a popup optin form, or a prettier form, or surprisingly a functional image gallery are lacking, or just not up to the standard I need for the website to be an effective conversion funnel. I often have to look up some tool individually and pay for them, and it is frustrating... Here at powr.io they have a whole arsenal of things you need to pay individually, all under one roof. ooooof, it is good. I just built a client site with webstarts (a previous deal, it is pretty awesome but missing some features I look for, well you can't have it all.) With powr.io, I was able to fill the gap. Yay.
Cons: It is a widget that loads AFTER the website loads, so you will see a 1-2 second lag time for the power widget to show. It is not powr's fault, it is just how websites are loaded.
"A Versatile & Powerful Software"
Overall:
Pros: This concept of generating plugins/addons from a central place and placing them via code onto my websites is genius! I am not a developer and having to use visual website builders to buils websites from scratch is time-consuming. With POWR, I could generate a lead capture popup in minutes and embed it on my site. I can then duplicate it to be embedded on another website. Easy. I am planning to build a whole ecommerce store just with POWR apps and move away from Shopify. POWR will really help me save time and headaches. Also, whatever I create can be replicated for my blog and other businesses' websites.
Cons: The design of the popups and forms can only be customised to certain extent. I will like them to be more customisable. Also, they boast of having 60+ apps but most of them are repeats. It may be misleading information for potential new customers.
"Powr is a Keeper"
Pros: Powr is VERY simple to use. I have 6 apps created and I was just messing with it last night. Just the social media feed widgets would probably be enough to keep this deal! Then I started experimenting with the pop ups... countdown timers... hit counters, FAQ's and form builders and it was like a light just clicked. This is the perfect tool for my use case. I teach High School and I am always trying to make things a bit more exciting for students so I have created some custom websites. This is too easy to implement and change on the fly. Countdown timers for assignments that can be modified completely with text and colors, feedback forms, FAQ's for assignments. I feel like I stumbled across something awesome... and it isn't going to be distracting to maintain or use it.
Cons: It would be nice if some apps would work in Gmail, but it does work with other email providers.
"Super Easy"
Overall: Wow! I'm one to buy apps cos I need them but dread the learning curve but this is super easy! I mean it's sleek, straightforward, and the really cool part- at your fingertips helps to show you how to put it on your website. and whatnot. No, you don't have to go through FAQ or search tutorials its right there. LOVE. Love. LOVe. Wow, I've not seen anything like that on other apps or websites etc. I wish Everyone followed by their example cos then I would be using all my apps without the anxiety of having to learn something new. seriously even an 8 year old or less can use this. Love it! I bought this cos I have Webstarts- YEAH cos it's easy and drag and drop (I'm not a coder or plugin wizard) but Webstarts it doesn't have the features that I wanted and this is where Powr came in has all that Webstarts lacks. Really looking forward to using this to complete my website. Not Anxious to learn how to use this, unlike all the others I own and are on the shelf! Nothing like this!(that I've come across at least) Every other app out there should have their help you feature when doing it right there!
Pros: Super Easy to use! if you use Webstarts u need this. Had social widgets, Popups, Tabs count down, the main things you need these days on and Paypal button too. Honestly, I love it!
Cons: Nothing! Every other app out there should have their help you feature when doing it right there!
"Definetelly will give your website super POWR if you know how to optimize it."
Overall: Helped a lot. Just using a new web builder called Sitejet, despite its all great features, they didn't have a good review tools, comment, social engagement, conversion boost, and many other that POWR have. With POWR, i feel like i can optimize my website more. Overall i love the features they offer. Almost zero learning curve.
Pros: The almost zero learning curve. In just 5 min, i feel like i understand everything. They made everything simple, even too simple for me. The ability to add several plugin with superb easy installation. Add comment box, review management, with custom css, then put some pop up, with that sooooo much integration and so much feature, this software offer that something needed by everyone who didn't have such good knowledge in coding, have static website, don't know what to do how to improve engagement and conversion. I love the way they present 1-2 step install. That was easiest plugin install compared other. The code also responsive.
Cons: Some buggy things and features i need: - They dont have live chat. In first onboarding - App got cut off - can't delete an app that I've just created - please do something to review stars app, why you allow to not put star? - No webhook, i with they have - The interface is outdated for me. Yes, we can do some CSS optimization. But hey, I'm not that good even I didn't know what the acronym of CSS.
"Good number of useful widgets"
Overall: Customer service is great and reacts within 1-2 business days. The widgets are working great and never issued any larger problems in the past 6 years.
Pros: The number of widgets with great features. I use more than 50% of all widgets available in their portfolio and they are all very useful and working.
Cons: Some important widgets are missing (for my needs...)
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"I need it to do one thing and it doesn't work"
Overall: Look above
Pros: It puts my instagram feed on my website.
Cons: It disconnects and it leaves my website blank
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"it adds more functionalities to my websites."
Pros: I love the Social Feed feature the most as I can bring Instagram posts on any web page. Also, it is very easy to add, publish and update an app.
Cons: Lack of more native integrations (there are only 3 at the moment - Mailchimp, Google Sheet and Zapier) it would be nice to see more with integrately, pabbly, syncspider.
"Great product!"
Overall: We promote our event primarily through instagram so having a tool to grab our latest posts is great. It gives us a way to keep our website looking fresh with new content.
Pros: This was really easy to set up and use. Runs smoothly and has many options to style the way our instagram feed displays. Would highly recommend this product!
Cons: Can't really think of any downside. It's a great product.
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"Great software "
Overall: Amazing quality service and product software
Pros: Works get to send out forms. Very easy to link to you website or any social media. Would suggest to any business owner
Cons: Not very many things to dislike, very great software to use
"Perfect for My Small Business"
Pros: I like the ease of implementing this into my small business to collect orders online. I needed a way to streamline my cookie orders and POWR makes it easy and simple for both myself and my clients. I am able to collect all of the necessary information I need and I like how I receive email notifications right away once someone submits an order form. It's saved me time and brain space knowing everything is captured in one spot!
Cons: I'd love the option for more questions on the form. I have one of the paid tiers but upgrading to a higher tier doesn't make sense for my small business.
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"Wow"
Pros: I love the simple interface, it goes perfect with my website. It show’s customers how beautiful my art is and how my other customers enjoy it.
Cons: I have no Cons for this app. It does everything I need it to.
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"Essential Engagement Tools"
Overall: Impressed with ease of use, intuitive editor and quick publisher. Powerful opportunities with forms will help many entrepreneurs.
Pros: Ease of use, customization and publishing the app to my website. The apps such as forms, pop-ups and timers look good and work when published. A few minutes and I had a countdown timer in place to promote a lead magnet.
Cons: There are many templates already, but I am sure more will follow. More direct integrations with more email providers (other than via Zapier) will be good.
"Awesome tool for Website and E-Mail"
Pros: With POWr I create cool widgets for my website, as well as for my newsletters. There are many cool apps, as they are called, but also a few gimmicks. I especially like the many customization options and the user-friendly dashboard. I would like to highlight that the widgets can also be perfectly inserted into newsletters, even if it is not (yet) officially intended that way.
Cons: I would like to see more native email apps, that would be a real unique selling point over the competition. Also, I feel like I have 100 tabs open when using POWr because almost every link opens in a tab. That doesn't have to be the case.
"Tool Replacer"
Pros: Ease of use, breeze to design and style. Fast support Intergrations
Cons: Not enough installs per license. Of course you could charge your customers extra per site for another license. But it would be great to start off with something like 10 to get it rolling
"Add a simple and elegant comment/star rating system to your blog, website, or app."
Overall: I was searching for an app that would allow me to implement a commenting system on my blog (im using Sitejet, Prestashop, and WordPress), and POWR was perfect for the job!
Pros: I have been looking for a commenting system for my blog and I stumbled on POWR. The first thing I noticed was that it has a star rating system. My readers can now give their feedback in the comments AND see what other people think about the blog post. The POWR suite of applications are a great way to improve the functionality of my blog.
Cons: The user interface of POWR is okay and well-structured. However, there are several design issues. For example, many elements lack contrast. In addition, some sections of the website's content are truncated - making it difficult to read the text in these areas.
"Amazingly simple additional functionality - with no coding or additional plugins!"
Overall: POWR can be a life-saver for WordPress folks that install a bunch of plugins to do some of these things, or non-coders who couldn't do some of these things otherwise. I love how POWR helps centralize and streamline the functions they offer.
Pros: This is an amazing service to help anyone who builds websites. POWR makes it easy to add customized buttons, forms, timers, sliders, popoups, FAQs, social connections, media players, surveys, and so much more to help "Boost Conversions, Get More Followers, Collect Information, Support Customers, and Engage Visitors" - without hard-coding or adding plugins.
Cons: As an agency, I would appreciate a bit better pricing per website.
"Great Product for any new startups website"
Overall: Excellent!
Pros: - Ease of use- took less than 3 hours to set up on our website. I have no coding experience so I did have to reach out to customer service (great experience)- inexpensive-very straightforward
Cons: - You can only send applicants to one email
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