Giga Menu has a solid mobile-responsive mega menu. Navi+ offers a fundamentally different mobile navigation paradigm — Tab Bar, FAB, and device-specific design rules. Here’s the practical difference.
Giga Menu on Mobile
Giga Menu handles mobile by collapsing its desktop mega menu into a mobile-friendly accordion or slide-out drawer. The result is a clean, usable mobile menu — better than many alternatives in the hamburger-menu category.
What Giga Menu does reasonably well on mobile:
- Clean accordion-style collapse of mega menu columns
- Smooth open/close animations
- Category images preserved in mobile view (on higher tiers)
- Good touch target sizes
Where Giga Menu falls short on mobile:
- Navigation is still hidden by default (hamburger tap required)
- No Tab Bar — no persistent navigation at bottom of screen
- No FAB — no floating shortcut button
- No per-device menu rules (same content on desktop and mobile)
Navi+’s Mobile-First Features
Tab Bar Navigation
The Tab Bar is a persistent bottom navigation bar — visible on every page, all the time. No hamburger tap needed. Visitors see your top 4–5 categories immediately when they land on any page.
Research shows this single change — switching from hamburger to Tab Bar — typically increases mobile pages-per-session by 20–40%. The reason is simple: reducing friction directly increases browsing behavior.
FAB (Floating Action Button)
The FAB is a floating button that persists on every page. Common uses:
- “Sale Now On” — drives traffic to promotional collections
- “Quick Contact” — phone or chat shortcut
- “New In” — surfaces new arrivals without a menu tap
- “Back to Top” + navigation combo
Smart Publish per Device
Navi+ lets you configure completely different navigation setups for mobile vs. desktop:
- Desktop: Rich Mega Menu with images, columns, and featured collections
- Mobile: Streamlined Tab Bar with 5 icons + FAB for promotions
This dual-track approach is not available in Giga Menu.
Conversion Impact: Numbers That Matter
| Mobile Navigation Pattern | Avg. Pages/Session | Bounce Rate Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Hamburger menu only | Baseline | Baseline |
| Hamburger + FAB | +8–12% pages | -3–5% bounce |
| Tab Bar (persistent) | +20–35% pages | -8–15% bounce |
| Tab Bar + FAB combo | +25–40% pages | -10–18% bounce |
Based on aggregate data from Navi+ merchants and published mobile UX research.
Which Should You Use?
Use Giga Menu if:
- Your store is desktop-primary (B2B, high-ticket items where desktop dominates)
- You want a highly polished hamburger/accordion mobile menu
- You don’t need Tab Bar or FAB specifically
Use Navi+ if:
- Mobile is your primary traffic channel (true for most Shopify stores today)
- You want Tab Bar as a persistent mobile navigation solution
- You want per-device different navigation layouts
- You want FAB for promotional shortcuts
For stores where mobile accounts for more than 50% of sessions — which is the majority of Shopify merchants — Navi+’s mobile capabilities represent a meaningful conversion advantage over Giga Menu.
→ See the full comparison: Navi+ vs Giga Menu