Anbar Announcement Bar vs Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026 for Anbar Announcement Bar, Oct 13, 2026 for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales.

The short answer

  • Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $5.99/month for Anbar Announcement Bar and $5.99/month for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales.
  • Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales lists 5 features Anbar Announcement Bar’s listing doesn’t mention, including Animations, Countdown, Custom CSS.

Head to head

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Pitch
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Categories
  • Banners
  • Banners
Languages
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • English
  • English
  • German
Launched
Sep 3, 2025
May 18, 2026
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Not badged
Reviews per month
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Detected stores
0active installs
0active installs
Most common store size
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Top countries
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Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
From $0 to $27.99/month
From $0 to $5.99/month
Plans
FreeFree
Starter$5.99/month
7-day free trial
Professional$9.99/month
7-day free trial
Enterprise$27.99/month
7-day free trial
Free PlanFree
  • · Add a link or button
  • · Highly customizable
  • · Translations
  • · Unlimited simple bars
Light Plan$5.99/month
  • · Add icons to the bar
  • · Everything in Free
  • · Translations
  • · Unlimited rotating bars
  • · Upload your own icons
Coverage
8 of 13 features62%
10 of 13 features77%
Unique strengths
  • Mobile responsive
  • Multi-announcement
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Animations
  • Countdown
  • Custom CSS
  • Emojis
  • +1 more
Banners
62%8/13
77%10/13
Banner type
67%4/6
67%4/6
Customization
57%4/7
86%6/7
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Anbar Announcement BarAnnouncement Bar ‒ Smart Sales13 features listed across both App Store listings

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How it sells itself

Create eye-catching announcement bars to promote sales, discounts, and important messages across your store. Customize colors, fonts, and positioning while targeting specific pages like homepage, collections, or cart. Display promotional codes, special offers, or urgent notifications with call-to-action buttons. Easy setup with automatic display or manual placement using unique IDs.

Improve your store’s performance with customizable announcement bars designed to capture attention and drive conversions. Easily create sticky, scrolling, or rotating promo bars to highlight flash sales, discounts, and important updates. Add call-to-action buttons to guide customers to key pages and for more engagement.

Key points
  • Create multiple announcement bars with discounts across your entire store
  • Sticky announcement bar: Create a fixed-position bar at the top or bottom
  • Animated announcement bar: Scrolling or marquee-style.
  • Create multiple announcement bars with discounts across your entire store.
  • Sticky Announcement Bar – fixed header bar visible while scrolling.
  • Scrolling / Marquee Bar – continuously moving text or messages.
  • Animated Bar Options – transitions between messages (scrolling, sliding, marquee
Screenshots
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Smart Bars for more sales in Shopify
For mobile audience in good shapeIncrease sales, boost urgency with Announcement BarEasy to configure, fast results with AnnouncementBar App

All the numbers

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Adoption

MeasureAnbar Announcement BarAnnouncement Bar ‒ Smart Sales
Detected storesNot publishedNot published
Net store change, 28 days0estimated0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesNot publishedNot published
Top store countriesNot publishedNot published

Reviews

MeasureAnbar Announcement BarAnnouncement Bar ‒ Smart Sales
App Store ratingNot publishedNot published
App Store reviewsNot publishedNot published
New reviews, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Reviewers a year or more inNot enough dataNot enough data

Pricing

MeasureAnbar Announcement BarAnnouncement Bar ‒ Smart Sales
Free planYesYes
Lowest paid monthly plan$5.99/month$5.99/month
Longest free trial7 daysNot listed
Plans listed42

Listing

MeasureAnbar Announcement BarAnnouncement Bar ‒ Smart Sales
Shopify category rank#406in Banners#337(ahead)in Banners
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedSep 3, 2025May 18, 2026
Languages2Portuguese (Brazil), English2English, German
DeveloperIS ConsultingFukuru Design LLC

FAQ

Anbar Announcement Bar and Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales: common questions

Is Anbar Announcement Bar or Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales cheaper?
Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $5.99/month for Anbar Announcement Bar and $5.99/month for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
Anbar Announcement Bar lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Mobile responsive, Multi-announcement, Personalized recommendations. Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as Animations, Countdown, Custom CSS, Emojis. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
Where does this comparison’s data come from?
Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Oct 14, 2026 for Anbar Announcement Bar, Oct 13, 2026 for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales; estimated figures are labeled.

How Shoplist compares apps

Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Oct 14, 2026 for Anbar Announcement Bar, Oct 13, 2026 for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.