Ultimate Addons and PowerPack: the best modules of each
A module by module walk through the two big Beaver Builder addon packs, and the pick list I built from them. Captured in January 2020 and preserved here as a snapshot.
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PowerPack
Developed by IdeaBox Creations
Ultimate Addons
Developed by Brainstorm Force
The short version
There is no outright winner, and after going through every module in both packs that conclusion held. Each has modules the other simply does not offer, and where they overlap the edge usually comes down to one or two options rather than a class gap. Most Beaver Builder developers end up installing both and cherry picking, which is exactly what the pick list below is for.
Install both, then hide what you will not useThis is a January 2020 snapshot
Editor's note, July 2026. The module comparison below was compiled in January 2020, and I originally said I would refresh it monthly. I did not keep that up, so rather than pretend otherwise I am preserving it as a dated snapshot. Every module verdict here reflects the plugins as they stood in early 2020. Both packs have shipped a great deal since, so treat the specific feature calls as historical and check the current module lists before you buy. What has held up well is the shape of the comparison: which pack leans where, and why you probably want both.
The good news is that nothing here has been discontinued. Both plugins are still actively developed. Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder is still a Brainstorm Force product and now ships north of sixty modules along with roughly two hundred row templates and a hundred page templates. PowerPack is still an IdeaBox Creations product and now advertises around sixty five modules and more than three hundred and fifty templates. The rivalry described below is still very much running.
Why compare the two at all?
There is a pitched battle among those of us who use Beaver Builder over the addon plugins that extend it, and none is more fought over than the two big module packs: Ultimate Addons and PowerPack. Each adds a large library of enhanced and unique modules on top of the Beaver Builder library.
They each have standout features, which is why most developers and designers simply install both and pick the modules they want from each. Still, I wanted to know whether there was an outright winner, so I worked through both as thoroughly as I could and built a list comparing their modules and extras.
The result is the pick list below: the modules I chose to keep on my own sites. You can open the settings screen for either plugin and enable only the modules on your list, which cleans up those enormous module menus and saves you from re-deciding every time you build a row. Further down, the full module by module breakdown explains each call.
My pick list
These are the modules I chose to enable from each plugin, based on which version had the better feature set, the deeper options, or the nicer editing experience. Where a module exists in only one pack, that pack wins by default.
Kept from Ultimate Addons
- Advanced Icons
- Advanced Menu
- Advanced Separator
- Advanced Tabs
- Button
- Contact Form
- Content Toggle
- Countdown
- Counter
- Creative Link
- Flip Box
- Gravity Form
- How To
- iHover
- Image Hotspot
- Info Banner
- Info Circle
- Interactive Banner
- Login Forms
- Marketing Button
- Off-Canvas
- Price List
- Progress Bar
- Retina Image
- Ribbon
- Slide Box
- Table
- Table of Contents
- Team
- Testimonials
- Video
- WooCommerce Modules
Kept from PowerPack
- 3D Gallery
- Advanced Accordion
- Album
- Alert Box
- Animated Headlines
- Announcement Bar
- Author Box
- Breadcrumbs
- Business Hours
- Category Grid
- Column Separator
- Content Tiles
- Coupon
- Devices
- Dot / Page Navigation
- Dual Button
- Facebook Modules
- Fancy Heading
- FAQ
- File Download
- Filterable Gallery
- Google Map
- Heading
- Highlight Box
- Hover Cards
- Icon List
- Image Comparison
- Image
- Image Scroll
- Info Box
- Info List
- Instagram Feed
- Logo Grid and Carousel
- Modal Box
- Photo Gallery
- Post Timeline
- Pricing Table
- Pullquote
- Search Form
- Sitemap
- Smart Heading
- Social Icons
- Social Share
- Star Rating
- Subscribe Form
- Timeline
- Twitter Modules
- User Registration Form
- Video Gallery
The full breakdown
Every module offered by either plugin, which pack has it, and when that pack introduced it, which is a decent proxy for who innovated first. The last column is my take on what gives one version the edge. Dates and verdicts are as of January 2020.
| Module | Ultimate Addons | PowerPack | My take (2020) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Icons | ✓ 7/8/2016 | × | More powerful than either icon list module. You can mix icons and images in one list, laid out horizontally or vertically. The one gap is that you cannot put text beside the icons. |
| Advanced Menu | ✓ 8/1/2017 | ✓ 7/17/2017 | One of the few modules where I see no difference between the two option sets, so I cannot pick a winner here. |
| Advanced Separator | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Broadly the same options, but Ultimate Addons adds colour hover options and icon background styling that PowerPack does not have. Edge to UABB. |
| Alert Box | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | A very basic module whose effect you can reproduce with a Callout or an Icon module. |
| Animated Headlines | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 11/15/2017 | An attractive way to emphasise part of a heading. PowerPack has many more animations and styles. Reduce the text size on mobile, because the animation will not wrap, it will just run off the edge of the screen. |
| Announcement Bar | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Useful for popup style notifications and alerts. An easy way to implement a simple consent message, since it can display a set time after first being seen. |
| Before After / Image Comparison | ✓ 1/18/2017 | ✓ 5/14/2019 | Both work, but PowerPack takes it on flexibility: both labels can be styled separately along with the handle and separator, and it adds a click to move option that UABB lacks. |
| Breadcrumbs | × | ✓ 10/9/2019 | A good way to place breadcrumbs anywhere on the site if you use a compatible SEO plugin. I was hoping it would work without depending on another plugin. |
| Column Separator | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | I do not really see the need, since separator options are already in the row and column settings. |
| Contact Form | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | If you do not use a third party form builder, go with UABB. The default style is more modern out of the box, and it has a built in email template editor with simple shortcodes. |
| Countdown | ✓ 1/18/2017 | ✓ 5/3/2018 | Edge to UABB for the timezone selection and the ability to customise the shape around the digits. Oddly it lacks the alignment option PowerPack has. |
| Counter | ✓ 7/4/2017 | × | Shares functions with the progress bar but is tuned specifically for number counting. |
| Creative Link | ✓ 7/8/2016 | × | Some genuinely nice animation options. They would have been welcome inside the Advanced Menu module, since that is effectively the same job without submenus. |
| Dot / Page Navigation | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Not just for one page sites. Good for long pages so users can jump straight to what they want. Keep the rows equal height or the auto navigation will not behave. |
| Facebook Modules | × | ✓ 3/22/2018 | The button module handles like and share with counters in several layouts. The comment module can replace WordPress comments, which helps with spam and visibility but limits anyone without a Facebook account. Page and embed modules are useful for events and highlighting posts. |
| Fancy Heading | × | ✓ 11/23/2016 | Fun animation options, but I do not think it needed its own module. These belong in the standard heading module. |
| Flip Box | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Nearly identical, but UABB flips the card while you edit the back so you can see what you are building. With PowerPack you save and hope. |
| Gravity Form | ✓ 7/4/2017 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Either version saves you enormous time styling Gravity Forms. Close to a tie. UABB adds more button style presets such as 3D and gradient. |
| Highlight Box | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Interesting hover effects, though I am not certain of its purpose. I am sure you can find a use for it. |
| Hover Cards | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Over a dozen hover animations with some nice layouts. Great for hiding a lot of information until it is wanted. |
| iHover | ✓ 7/8/2016 | × | A distinctive set of animations for revealing text over an image. With nineteen to choose from, one or two will fit. |
| Image Hotspot | ✓ 1/18/2017 | ✓ 5/14/2019 | Same features either way, except UABB lets you drag and drop the markers. PowerPack makes you type percentage positions, which is tedious to get exact. |
| Image Scroll | × | ✓ 5/14/2019 | A creative way to show very wide or very tall images without eating the page. Especially good for full page website captures or panoramas. |
| Info Banner / Smart Banner | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | UABB has more image hover animation, PowerPack has the full animation library for the content itself, though it did not work for me. I lean UABB. |
| Info Box | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Identical jobs and settings. The only difference is PowerPack's full animation library for the icon on hover. |
| Info List | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Basically identical, except PowerPack gives every icon the full animation library and lets each icon animate differently. |
| Instagram Feed | × | ✓ 3/1/2018 | A simple way to show your Instagram feed with hover animations and the option to display likes and shares. |
| Interactive Banner | ✓ 7/8/2016 | × | Very close to PowerPack's Hover Cards, except you build one banner rather than as many as you like. Still a nice hover effect banner. |
| Login Forms | ✓ 11/19/2019 | ✓ 6/11/2019 | The forms themselves are equivalent, but UABB stands out by letting people sign in with Google or Facebook accounts. It takes some setup but it is a good addition. |
| Logo Grid and Carousel | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | An easy way to display client or partner logos with several effects and layouts. Flexible for logos or images generally. |
| Marketing Button | ✓ 3/12/2019 | × | I would have called this Advanced Button. It is a button with an extra text field and more hover options and animations. |
| Modal Popup / Modal Box | ✓ 10/18/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Both cover the basics. UABB adds iframe, YouTube and Vimeo content plus nicer opening animations. PowerPack gives more control over the close button and, importantly, an exit intent trigger that is useful for lead generation. |
| Off-Canvas | ✓ 7/17/2019 | ✓ 4/25/2020 | Great for team bios without sending users to another page, and better still for off-canvas menus. PowerPack has the advantage of positioning the panel top and bottom, not only left and right. |
| Post Timeline | × | ✓ 12/30/2017 | A creative way to display posts, pages and custom post types in a timeline, with several style and layout options. A custom post layout option would have been a welcome addition. |
| Retina Image | ✓ 9/24/2019 | × | This will sound like heresy, but I do not get the point. Logos should be SVG and images should already be high resolution and optimised. Loading two identical images everywhere seems cumbersome. |
| Ribbon | ✓ 9/18/2016 | × | A nice way to emphasise a message, though a little dated for more modern sites in my view. |
| Slide Box | ✓ 7/8/2016 | × | I reach for this instead of an accordion, because it can trigger on hover and it overlays what is below rather than pushing content up and down. One of my favourites. |
| Sliding Menu | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | A neat way to cut the clutter of a large menu, with plenty of styling options to make it your own. |
| Star Rating | × | ✓ 12/11/2019 | Works in all sorts of layouts, though I expected some integration with the WooCommerce rating system and could not find one. |
| Subscribe Form | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 9/2/2016 | Same mailing providers and form settings on both. PowerPack adds popup options including exit intent, which is the differentiator. |
| Table | ✓ 10/3/2018 | ✓ 7/17/2017 | UABB is far superior here. Rowspan, colspan and custom widths give you much more control, plus a table search field and an entries dropdown for better usability. |
| Team | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 9/2/2016 | Very similar. I lean UABB because you can choose any icon for the social links rather than relying on the defaults. |
| Testimonials | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | A toss-up. UABB lets you choose icons or images but shows only one testimonial at a time. PowerPack has more slider flexibility but limits the visuals. Pick whichever constraint hurts less. |
| Timeline | × | ✓ 7/2/2016 | Simple and efficient for building timelines with custom content and links out to more detail. |
| Twitter Modules | × | ✓ 5/3/2018 | A group of modules for tight account integration: share buttons, embedded grid, tweet and timeline, with several display options. Dark mode is my favourite. |
| User Registration Form | ✓ 10/7/2019 | ✓ 1/15/2020 | Great for shops and forums, and pairing it with the login module lets you fully customise the sign up experience. Edge to PowerPack for the extra field options such as a consent checkbox and an image background. |
| Video | ✓ 7/8/2016 | ✓ 7/2/2016 | If you host on YouTube, UABB wins: it offers a subscription bar right on the page, and sticky video is a lovely touch. But UABB is limited to YouTube, Vimeo and Wistia, while PowerPack accepts any external link plus self hosted video. |
| Video Gallery | ✓ 10/19/2018 | ✓ 8/12/2019 | Both do the job well and it is close. PowerPack may just edge it for the extra playback options, including platform specific ones like Privacy Mode for YouTube or an intro byline for Vimeo. |
| WooCommerce Modules | ✓ 7/8/2016 | × | Products and Categories add real style to archive pages, with a preview popup of the single product page without leaving the listing. The Add to Cart module lets you put cart functionality anywhere, not just on WooCommerce pages. |
| 3D Gallery | × | ✓ 7/17/2017 | A distinctive gallery animation, though I am not sure it needed its own module. It would be better folded into the Photo Gallery module. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Are Ultimate Addons and PowerPack still available for Beaver Builder?
Yes. Both are still actively developed and sold. Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder remains a Brainstorm Force product and PowerPack remains an IdeaBox Creations product. Neither has been discontinued or renamed.
Should you install both Ultimate Addons and PowerPack?
Most Beaver Builder developers do exactly that, because each pack has modules the other does not offer. Install both, then use each plugin's settings screen to switch off the modules you will not use so the menus stay manageable.
Which has more modules, Ultimate Addons or PowerPack?
PowerPack is slightly ahead on raw count, advertising around sixty five modules and more than three hundred and fifty templates, against Ultimate Addons at over sixty modules with roughly two hundred row templates and a hundred page templates.
Is this module comparison still accurate?
Treat it as a January 2020 snapshot. The individual feature calls reflect the plugins as they were then, and both have shipped a lot since. The overall shape of the comparison, and the advice to install both and cherry pick, still holds.
Do these addons work with any Beaver Builder plan?
Yes. Both packs are built to sit on top of Beaver Builder and work with any of its paid packages, and they work alongside whatever WordPress theme you are using.
A rivalry that only benefits us
Going through both packs module by module, the honest answer is that neither wins outright. Each keeps adding an equivalent to whatever the other shipped first, and the gap on any given module is usually one or two options rather than a class difference.
That competition is the point. It is a great battle to watch, and one that only benefits the developers and designers using Beaver Builder. Install both, curate your module list, and get back to building sites.
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