iCart alternatives for your Shopify cart drawer
iCart offers drawers, popups and full cart pages. If you're comparing options, here are four alternatives and who they suit best.
Read articleKey takeaways
- Monster Cart is a good free start for low-volume stores.
- UpCart offers the most design control with custom code.
- iCart gives you several cart layouts.
- Amose pairs its cart drawer with bundles and post-purchase.
About Monster Cart
Monster Cart combines a slide cart, progress bar rewards, one-tick upsells and product page volume discounts. It's free up to 50 orders, then plans start at $9.99/month and scale with your order count.
It's a good app. Merchants usually compare alternatives for one of these reasons:
- Your order volume is growing and order-based pricing follows.
- You need the app in more languages than English.
- You want full product page bundles and post-purchase offers, not only volume discounts.
Quick comparison
| App | Starting price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Monster Cart (current) | Free up to 50 orders | Reward bars, free gifts and one-tick upsells |
| Amose Bundle, Cart & Upsell | Free, then $14.99/mo | Bundles, cart drawer and post-purchase in one app |
| UpCart | $29.99/mo | Maximum cart design control |
| iCart | From $9/mo | Choice of cart layouts: drawer, popup or full page |
| Rebuy | From $25/mo | AI personalization across the whole funnel |
Prices come from each app's Shopify App Store listing, checked in October 2026. They change often, so check the listing before you install.
1. Amose Bundle, Cart & Upsell
Amose covers the product page (quantity breaks, BOGO, mix & match, free and progressive gifts, subscriptions), the cart drawer (progress bar, upsells, timer, trust badges) and one-click post-purchase offers. The free plan covers up to $100 of additional revenue, Starter is $14.99/month up to $1,000 and adds the cart drawer and post-purchase, and $29.99/month removes the revenue limit.
Best for: bundles, cart drawer and post-purchase in one app.
Where it falls short: It's newer (launched in 2025).
2. UpCart
Built for Shopify, by Rokt. Upsells, add-ons, rewards bar, announcements and custom HTML, CSS and JSX templates. $29.99/month up to 200 orders, then $34.99 and $54.99, with a 14-day trial.
Best for: maximum cart design control.
3. iCart
Offers a slide cart drawer, a popup or a full cart page, with AI upsells, a multi-tier progress bar, bundles, volume discounts and an urgency timer. A free tier for your first orders, then order-based plans from $9/month.
Best for: choice of cart layouts: drawer, popup or full page.
4. Rebuy
A personalization platform with Smart Cart, AI recommendations, checkout and post-purchase offers, search and A/B testing. Plans start at $25/month and scale with orders, you pick the packages you need. Free on development stores, 14-day trial.
Best for: AI personalization across the whole funnel.
How to choose
- Count your orders: order-based plans grow with traffic, revenue-based plans grow with results.
- Test on mobile: most carts are opened on a phone, check the checkout button is always visible.
- Check compatibility with your bundle, subscription and gift apps, or use one app for all three.
- Measure average order value and conversion for two weeks before and after the switch.
