Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales vs Digital Advisors News Ticker
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026 for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales, Nov 6, 2026 for Digital Advisors News Ticker.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $5.99/month for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales and $0.99/month for Digital Advisors News Ticker.
- Digital Advisors News Ticker lists 4 features Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales’s listing doesn’t mention, including Mobile responsive, Multi-announcement, Scheduling.
Head to head
Free Plan
- · Add a link or button
- · Highly customizable
- · Translations
- · Unlimited simple bars
Light Plan
- · Add icons to the bar
- · Everything in Free
- · Translations
- · Unlimited rotating bars
- · Upload your own icons
Free
- · Latest blog posts with a tag filter
- · One ticker on all or chosen pages
- · Scroll, rotate or still, fully styled
- · Unlimited views
- · Your own headlines with links
Pro
- · Everything in Free
- · Product, collection and page targeting
- · Scheduling with a live countdown
- · Ticker section for any template
- · Up to 5 tickers
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureImprove 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.
Your blog already holds your store news. News Ticker shows it on every page automatically: publish a post and it appears in the ticker. Scroll headlines, rotate them one at a time or keep them still. Add your own announcements with links. Match your theme with text size, separators, a coloured label and your own colours, then pick the position, pages and devices.
- 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
- Automatically shows your newest blog posts, filtered by tag if you like
- Scroll, rotate or still, with full style controls and a coloured label
- Top, bottom or sticky, on the pages and devices you choose
- Pause button, hover pause and reduced-motion support built in
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales | |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | Not published |
| App Store reviews | Not published | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $5.99/month | $0.99/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 2 | 2 |
Listing
| Measure | Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #334 | Not enough data |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | May 18, 2026 | Nov 5, 2026 |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Developer | Fukuru Design LLC | Digital Advisors |
FAQ
Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales and Digital Advisors News Ticker: common questions
- Is Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales or Digital Advisors News Ticker cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $5.99/month for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales and $0.99/month for Digital Advisors News Ticker. 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?
- Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales lists 2 the others don’t mention, such as Custom CSS, Emojis. Digital Advisors News Ticker lists 4 the others don’t mention, such as Mobile responsive, Multi-announcement, Scheduling, Sticky display. 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 13, 2026 for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales, Nov 6, 2026 for Digital Advisors News Ticker; 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 13, 2026 for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales, Nov 6, 2026 for Digital Advisors News Ticker. 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.