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Best Shopify Countdown Timer Apps

The 12 strongest of the 12 countdown timer apps in our index of the Shopify App Store category chart, scored on four things we measure ourselves: how many stores use it, how well those stores rate it, whether it is gaining or losing ground, and what it costs. No editor picks the order, and nobody can pay to move up it.

Apps in category
12
Top score
98.5
With a free plan
7 of 12
Rank tracked for
53 days

The short answer

Five ways to be the right countdown timer app. Each award is the highest scorer that fits it, and no app can win twice.

Best overall

The highest total score in the category: 1,581 reviews at 5.0, and 100 out of 100 on adoption against every other countdown timer app.

Fastest growing

Gained 263 reviews in the last 53 days and climbed 2 places in the category chart.

Most established

1,441 reviews — more than anything else Shopify files under countdown timer — and still rated 4.8.

The full ranking

Sorted by BestAppify Score. The four bars under each app are its percentile within this category on each component — a 90 on adoption means only a tenth of countdown timer apps have more reviews.

  1. 1
    Essential Countdown Timer Bar

    Drive Sales by using Urgency. Countdown timer bar is one of the best ways to motivate buyers to act. Boost your store's conversions during your flash sales!

    5(1,581)Free · then $6.99Category rank 1+1
    98.5
    score
    Adoption
    100
    Satisfaction
    100
    Momentum
    93
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  2. 2
    Algoshop Promo Countdown Timer

    Add smart, customizable countdowns to product, cart and checkout pages. Drive urgency, track real-time data & optimize conversions for flash sales

    5(83)Free · then $9.9Category rank 8 0
    63.6
    score
    Adoption
    36
    Satisfaction
    82
    Momentum
    56
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  3. 3
    Countdown Timer Bar Samita

    Add countdown timers for low stock, promotions, BFCM and events to drive urgency and increase conversions. Perfect for any sale!

    5(171)Category rank 7 0
    59.4
    score
    Adoption
    46
    Satisfaction
    91
    Momentum
    51
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  4. 4
    GSC Countdown Timer Bar

    Place an unmissable countdown timer in your Shopify store. Create a strong sense of urgency to drive action and generate more sales, pre-orders, and signups.

    4.9(519)Category rank 4+2
    55.1
    score
    Adoption
    73
    Satisfaction
    18
    Momentum
    91
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  5. 5
    Hextom: Countdown Timer Bar

    One-time, auto-recurring, daily & weekly timers to add urgency and fear-of-missing-out effects to your sales events, and increase conversion.

    4.9(722)Free · then $9.99Category rank 3 0
    50
    score
    Adoption
    82
    Satisfaction
    9
    Momentum
    18
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  6. 6
    VR Urgency Countdown Timer Bar

    Boost sales with Vairo’s countdown timers, stock alerts, and cart animations. Create urgency, reduce cart abandonment, and enhance shopping experience.

    5(80)Category rank 9 0
    49.7
    score
    Adoption
    27
    Satisfaction
    73
    Momentum
    62
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  7. 7
    Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost

    Boost sales with 30+ tools: upsell, BOGO, product bundles, volume discounts, countdown timers, inventory alerts, badges, and smart recommendations.

    4.8(1,441)Free · then $9.99Category rank 2-1
    46.8
    score
    Adoption
    91
    Satisfaction
    0
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  8. 8
    ToastiBar Sales Popup & Proof

    Create AI-guided sales, cart, review, and visitor popups plus countdown timers, analytics, geolocation, and support for 75+ languages.

    4.9(505)Free · then $6.99Category rank 5-1
    45.5
    score
    Adoption
    64
    Satisfaction
    27
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  9. 9
    FoxKit: Upsell & Bundles App

    Upsell & cross sell app with product bundles, cart upsells, volume discounts, free shipping bars, and countdown timers to increase AOV and grow store revenue.

    4.9(349)Free · then $19Category rank 6-1
    45
    score
    Adoption
    55
    Satisfaction
    36
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  10. 10
    Hoppy FOMO Countdown Timer Bar

    Add Urgency & FOMO by placing countdown timer anywhere on your Shopify store to boost sales and AOV. Customize style, text and more to match your store theme.

    4.9(78)Category rank 10+2
    43.1
    score
    Adoption
    18
    Satisfaction
    46
    Momentum
    86
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  11. 11
    Discount Prime

    Ten discount types, metafield targeting, and margin-safe B2B and DTC pricing, all with a profit floor that never dips below cost and Dropshipping pricing.

    5(16)Free · then $9.9Category rank 12-1
    31.4
    score
    Adoption
    0
    Satisfaction
    55
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  12. 12
    Scarcity+ Countdown Timer Bar

    Add a sales countdown timer / cart timer to your online store and hurrify customers to buy within a given timeframe or their cart will be destroyed.

    5(21)Category rank 11-1
    28.3
    score
    Adoption
    9
    Satisfaction
    64
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store

How the score is calculated

The BestAppify Score is four measurements, each turned into a percentile against the other countdown timer apps and then weighted. It is computed from our own crawl of the App Store — no human ranks these, and no app can pay to move.

Adoption35%
Review count on a log scale. It is the only public proxy for how many stores actually run the app, and the log stops a single 43,000-review incumbent from flattening everything beneath it.
Satisfaction30%
The star rating, shrunk toward the category average in proportion to how few reviews back it. Half of all rated Shopify apps show exactly 5.0 off a median of four reviews, so the raw number separates almost nothing.
Momentum20%
Reviews gained and category-rank movement over the last 52 days, from our own daily snapshots of the App Store charts. An app losing ground scores badly here even if its lifetime totals look strong.
Price15%
A plan a live store can stay on for $0 takes the top of this component; paid apps are ranked cheapest-first across a narrower band, so price nudges the order without overruling thousands of merchants.

What it cannot see: whether the app is any good at the job. Nothing here reads the feature list or installs the app, so treat the score as a shortlist, not a verdict — it tells you which three or four of these 12 are worth an hour of your evening, and no more than that. Apps whose pricing the crawler could not read score below the paid range on price rather than in the middle of it, deliberately: a price you cannot check before installing is a cost too. Momentum is measured over the last 53 days — the run of days on which our coverage of this category has been complete enough for one day's rank to mean the same thing as another's. It is deliberately shorter for categories we finished crawling recently: a rank of 4th out of the 28 apps we had in July is not comparable to 6th out of 436 today, and treating it as though it were would have scored every established app in some categories as falling.

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