Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales vs Zentra Announcement Bar
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $5.99/month for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales and $4.99/month for Zentra Announcement Bar.
- Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales lists 5 features Zentra Announcement Bar’s listing doesn’t mention, including Animations, Banner position, Countdown.
Head to head
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
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
- · 1 Announcement bar
- · All features
- · Up to 1,000/month impressions
Growth
- · Everything from Free
- · Unlimited monthly impressions
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.
Zentra Announcement Bar helps you keep your store fresh and drive traffic to specific pages, products, sales, and more. Easily customize the essentials with a simple customizer: multi messages, page targeting, call-to-action, geo targeting, countdown timer, scheduling, device targeting, sticky display, carousel, branding, spacing. Match your brand with an easy-to-set-up, no-code solution.
- 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
- Drive clicks with a simple yet punchy CTA button.
- Add flair to your brand using fonts, colors, text alignment, and a divider.
- Give customers control with a dismiss button
- Rotate multiple announcements automatically with a simple toggle.
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 |  Zentra Announcement Bar |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Zentra Announcement Bar |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 1 |
| 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 | Zentra Announcement Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $5.99/month | $4.99/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 2 | 2 |
Listing
| Measure | Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales | Zentra Announcement Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #333 | #121(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | May 18, 2026 | May 4, 2026 |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Developer | Fukuru Design LLC | Zentra |
FAQ
Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales and Zentra Announcement Bar: common questions
- Is Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales or Zentra Announcement Bar cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $5.99/month for Announcement Bar ‒ Smart Sales and $4.99/month for Zentra Announcement Bar. 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 5 the others don’t mention, such as Animations, Banner position, Countdown, Custom CSS. Zentra Announcement Bar lists 4 the others don’t mention, such as Backgrounds, Free shipping, Mobile responsive, Multi-announcement. 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; 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. 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.