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Share flash sale promo bar announcements using the Essential Announcement Bar banner. Choose between a scrolling announcement bar (moving announcem...
Free plan available, paid plans from $6.99/month. Prices are the published USD list prices on the Shopify App Store and exclude usage charges.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | Free |
| Starter | $6.99/month |
| Essential | $9.99/month |
| Professional | $29.99/month |
The top plan is 4.3× the entry plan, a normal spread — the tiers are most likely gated on volume rather than on features.
99% of ratings are 4 or 5 stars, and 2 merchants have left a 1-star review.
Across the 24 most recent reviews, the merchants writing them were mostly in United States, South Africa, Japan. 13% had been running the app for a year or more before reviewing it. The developer replied to 8% of them.
At $6.99/mo to start, Essential Announcement Bar is priced around the category — the median entry price across 7 apps in this category is $9.95/mo.
From our daily App Store rank tracking and review history — signals a static listing doesn't show.
Measured against the 22 reviewed apps in Banners, where it currently sits at #5 of 22 listings.
| Essential Announcement Bar | Banners median | |
|---|---|---|
| Rating | 5 | 5 |
| Reviews | 1,227 | 190 |
That is 6× the review volume of the typical app in this category — the rating is carrying a lot more evidence than most.
We track Shopify App Store search results daily. Essential Announcement Bar currently sits at #2 for “scrolling banner”, and is in the top 10 for 16 of the terms we track it on.
| Search term | Position | How contested |
|---|---|---|
| scrolling banner | #2 | Easy(15/100) |
| marquee | #2 | Hard(62/100) |
| announcement | #3 | Approachable(37/100) |
| announcement bar | #4 | Approachable(35/100) |
| banner | #4 | Hard(71/100) |
| essentials | #5 | Hard(72/100) |
| banners | #5 | Hard(63/100) |
| trustbadges bear | #7 | Moderate(45/100) |
| flash sale | #7 | Hard(66/100) |
| trustbadge bear | #7 | Moderate(45/100) |
| annoucement bar | #8 | Approachable(37/100) |
| flash | #8 | Moderate(58/100) |
Its most contested win is “essent” at #8, a term we score 74/100 for difficulty — the apps competing for it hold thousands of reviews between them.
Showing its 12 strongest positions of 21 tracked search terms.
The most-reviewed apps in Banners, with their current rating and entry price.
| App | Rating | Reviews | Price from | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pandectes GDPR Compliance | 5 | 2,894 | $9/mo | compare |
| Hextom: Free Shipping Bar | 4.9 | 2,796 | $9.99/mo | compare |
| Hextom: Quick Announcement Bar | 4.9 | 2,220 | $9.99/mo | compare |
| Essential Countdown Timer Bar | 5 | 1,581 | $6.99/mo | compare |
| TA Banner Slider, Sales Pop up | 5 | 1,194 | $9.99/mo | compare |
| Attrac Popup, Announcement Bar | 5 | 1,031 | $8.99/mo | compare |
| Avada GDPR Cookies Consent | 5 | 843 | $9.95/mo | compare |
| GSC Countdown Timer Bar | 4.9 | 519 | — | compare |
Built by Essential Apps, on the App Store since August 2023.
Essential Announcement Bar has a free plan, and paid plans start at $6.99 per month. The free tier is normally capped on volume, so check the limit against what your store does today.
Essential Announcement Bar publishes 4 plans: Free (free), Starter at $6.99/month, Essential at $9.99/month, Professional at $29.99/month. These are list prices from the Shopify App Store and exclude any usage-based charges.
Essential Announcement Bar holds 5 out of 5 from 1,227 merchant reviews, with 99% of them at 4 or 5 stars. That is a large enough sample to take the rating seriously — only about 2% of apps on the store reach 1,000 reviews.
Essential Announcement Bar currently ranks #2 for "scrolling banner" in Shopify App Store search, based on our daily rank tracking.
The most-reviewed alternatives in Banners are Pandectes GDPR Compliance, Hextom: Free Shipping Bar and Hextom: Quick Announcement Bar. The comparison table above shows each one's rating, review count and entry price.
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