Best Shopify Announcement Bar Countdown Timer for 2026
Essential Countdown timer is the leading Shopify announcement bar countdown timer.
- ★ 5.0 rating on the Shopify App Store
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Increase sales with urgency
Announcement bar countdown timer is one of the best ways to increase urgency and encourage buyers to make a decision.
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Encourage impulse buying
Announcement bar countdown timer triggers fear of missing out and urgency among buyers and encourages them to act.
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Satisfaction guarantee
Your satisfaction is our #1 priority, so we will do our best to help you get the most out of our product and assist you with any issue.
Increase conversion by up to 8,6%!
Creating urgency in your ecommerce store leads to conversion and revenue increase.
52,200+
Active stores
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Simple announcement bar timer installation process
Our announcement bar countdown widget works flawlessly with almost every Shopify theme. Don't worry: if for some reason the timer is not compatible with your specific theme, just drop us a line. We're more than happy to resolve any issues and make sure you're satisfied with our product.
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How to add timer to Shopify announcement bar?
Adding a countdown timer to your Shopify store's announcement bar has never been easier. With our user-friendly interface, you can publish your timer in a few minutes!
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Increase your conversion rate by using announcement bar countdown timer for Shopify.
Create a sense of urgency · Increase conversions · Communicate your desired message to customers
Reviews
What 52,200+ Shopify stores say
Merchants use this Shopify countdown timer app to increase urgency and conversions.
5.0 average on the Shopify App Store
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What can i say, i was blown away by the level of customer support offered by the dev team. Incredibly helpful, offering to help me with some dev work. The dashboard is very user friendly and very easy to understand. 10000% would recommend. Incredibly app considering its free!
shop.spacesUK -
Really have to give kudos to this app. It set up countdowns that work perfectly, really quickly and easily. Used it for both product page and banner styles; love that it can match your site fonts and colors. Bonus is that they don’t invade your customer information files like some similar apps.
OsoPorto -
The team is very responsive to all service requests and went above and beyond to accommodate my requests. Also, I was able to use this app to put a timer on my cart page and my home page during product releases.
Rare Concepts -
Perfect app for my needs. I have it on my homepage and cart page. I needed some help and Zydrunas contacted me in 1 minute. I was shocked how fast he was with assisting me. We solved everything and I'm very happy the support
Boss Babe Vibes
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Such a great app: the one that I was looking for a long time. Easy to use/beautiful countdown interfaces. You can also choose your theme which makes it easy to fit your store design. Would recommend 10/10!
Soda Futura -
Best countdown timer on Shopify! Fits seemlessly with the web design and very easy to design and edit. The team are very helpful and responsive if you need support. Thanks so much 🙂
Geek Crate -
Very happy to have found this app. I needed some help with design and placement and the support team went above and beyond to help me create the banner exactly as needed. Responses were always quick and detailed. Fabulous!!
Studio Scribe -
The app is amazing, and super easy to set up, tech support is amazing also, Zydrunas replied immediately and help me sort out my problems, definitely recommending this app to everyone who are in a search for a good timer 🙂 Thank you guys <3
Mados Rojus
Pricing
Simple and affordable pricing
30-day Money Back Guarantee, no questions asked.
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Free Plan
Free
For anyone trying out. No credit card required.
Start free- Up to 1000 views
- Unlimited Product & Top-bar timers
- To-date & Evergreen timers
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Starter
$6.99/mo
Use scheduled and recurring timers
Free 7-day trial- Up to 10 000 views
- Unlimited Landing timers
- Scheduled & Recurring timers
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Essential
$9.99/mo
Unlock the power of cart page timer
Free 7-day trial- Up to 50 000 views
- Unlimited Cart timers
- Add timer using tags
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Professional
$29.99/mo
All features and unlimited views
Free 7-day trial- Unlimited views
- All premium features
- Checkout timer (coming soon)
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Essential Shopify announcement bar countdown timer
Don’t hesitate to contact the Support if you have any additional questions.
- You can easily select to display a countdown timer on every product page of your Shopify store or select specific pages or collections for the timer to appear. You can watch this video showing how to add countdown timer to your Shopify announcement bar.
- Simply create a new announcement bar countdown timer and set the message, time duration and what should happen after the time ends. Feel free to adjust your cart countdown timer design in the “Design” tab of the Essential Countdown Timer application.
- The good time to put in your announcement bar timer for Shopify really depends from your goal and the message you use. But we typically see announcement bar countdown timer to be set between few hours to two weeks.
- We honestly believe that Essential Countdown timer is the best announcement bar countdown timer app for Shopify. It is a complete countdown timer solution that includes a lot of different timer types and the best announcement banner countdown on the market.
Discover other countdown timer placement locations
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Product Page Countdown
Add a countdown timer to your ecommerce product page below the add-to-cart button to increase urgency and conversions.
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Cart Page Countdown
Boost your store conversions and encourage customers to buy now by adding a countdown timer to your cart page.
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Landing Page Countdown
Display your promotion in the form of a countdown timer with a call-to-action button as a block at any page: homepage, collection, etc.