Marquee Addons for Elementor Alternative: MarqueeX vs Marquee Addons

Choose MarqueeX if you want marquees in both Elementor and the block editor, or free post and WooCommerce product marquees. Choose Marquee Addons if you build only in Elementor and want more widget types — video marquees, marquee buttons, image accordions — or Pro product cards that show price and an add-to-cart button.

Disclosure: WPXERO makes MarqueeX; this comparison covers MarqueeX 0.6.2. What we say about Marquee Addons for Elementor (version 3.9.92) comes from its WordPress.org readme as of October 27, 2026. Check it before you choose.

At a glance

Where Marquee Addons is stronger

Marquee Addons is a bigger Elementor widget pack built around motion. Beyond text, image, testimonial and news-ticker marquees, its free widgets include a Video Marquee, a Marquee Button whose label scrolls on hover, a Stacked Slider, an Image Accordion, an Image Hotspot and a search box.

Its Pro widgets go further: a Card Marquee with CTA buttons, a Media Marquee mixing images and videos, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts marquees, Post and Products marquees — products show price and an add-to-cart button — plus product category marquees and a product carousel.

It's also far more widely installed. If your site is all Elementor and you want the widest choice of moving widgets, it's a strong pick.

Where MarqueeX is stronger

It works without Elementor. MarqueeX has five native blocks — Text Marquee, Image Marquee, News Ticker, Post Marquee and Infinite Slider (fill it with any blocks) — that work in posts, pages and Full Site Editing templates. If you use the block editor, or might move away from Elementor later, your marquees don't depend on a page builder.

Posts and products are free. The free Post Marquee scrolls your latest posts, any custom post type or WooCommerce products as cards with featured image, category, title, author and date. See how to add a WooCommerce product marquee.

It's light. Marquees scroll with CSS keyframes rather than a JavaScript loop, each Elementor widget script is under 1 KB, and a page with no marquee loads nothing from MarqueeX. You can switch off any widget, block or a whole builder integration.

It's careful with motion. Marquees respect the visitor's reduced-motion setting and pause on hover, so moving text can always be stopped and read.

Pro is focused. MarqueeX Pro adds scroll interactions (spin the mouse wheel over a marquee to speed it up or reverse it, or drag to scrub, with momentum), hand-picked posts and products, advanced Elementor queries, eight more heading animations, gradient and image-masked heading text, and post card layouts. It starts at $19.99 a year.

The product marquee difference

This is the most practical difference for stores:

• MarqueeX (free): products scroll as cards with image and title, linking to each product page. No price or add-to-cart in the card.
• Marquee Addons Pro: product cards with image, title, price and add-to-cart.

If shoppers need to buy straight from the strip, Marquee Addons Pro fits. If the strip's job is to catch the eye and send shoppers to product pages — new arrivals, "you might also like" — MarqueeX does it free.

Which should you choose?

For more options, see the marquee and news ticker plugin comparison.