Bannerito vs Beacon Smart Banner

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 Bannerito, Oct 14, 2026 for Beacon Smart Banner.

The short answer

  • Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $19.99/month for Bannerito and $29/month for Beacon Smart Banner.
  • Bannerito lists 4 features Beacon Smart Banner’s listing doesn’t mention, including Animations, Free shipping, Notification.

Head to head

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Pitch
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Categories
  • Banners
  • Banners
Languages
  • English
  • English
Launched
Jul 23, 2026
Jun 10, 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 $49.99/month
From $0 to $29/month
Plans
FreeFree
  • · 1 live campaign
  • · 20 saved campaigns
  • · All three banner types
  • · Core styling and templates
  • · Unlimited storefront views
Growth$19.99/month
  • · 200 saved campaigns
  • · Advanced scheduling
  • · Mobile overrides and version history
  • · Page and device targeting
  • · Up to 5 scheduled or live campaigns
Pro$49.99/month
  • · 500 saved campaigns
  • · Country targeting and image backgrounds
  • · Everything in Growth
  • · Running and rotating announcements
  • · Up to 20 scheduled or live campaigns
FreeFree
  • · 2 Active Banners limit at a time
  • · Manual publish controls
  • · Store-wide & Page-specific targeting
  • · Text, button, emojis & countdown timers
Pro$29/month
30-day free trial
  • · Advanced Rules (Cart, Device, Location)
  • · Customer History (Spend, Order)
  • · Dynamic Text Variables (Cart, Location)
  • · Everything included in Free, plus:
  • · Only $19 for first 3 months
  • · Smart Scheduling (Start/End dates)
Coverage
14 of 18 features78%
14 of 18 features78%
Unique strengths
  • Animations
  • Free shipping
  • Notification
  • Sticky display
  • Behavior targeting
  • Emojis
  • Multi-language
  • Promotional
Banners
78%14/18
78%14/18
Banner type
80%4/5
60%3/5
Customization
77%10/13
85%11/13
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BanneritoBeacon Smart Banner18 features listed across both App Store listings

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How it sells itself

Bannerito helps merchants create announcement bars, fixed-date countdowns, and cart-aware shipping-goal progress banners in one editor. Customize content, colors, typography, placement, and responsive behavior, then preview before publishing.

Beacon helps you capture customer attention with highly customizable announcement banners. Without any coding, you can create smart banners that target specific products, cart contents, or customer tags. Highlight your sales events using live countdown timers and automated scheduling.

Key points
  • Create announcement, countdown, and shipping-goal progress banners
  • Schedule campaigns and control where and when banners appear
  • Target banners by page, device, and customer country
  • Customize colors, typography, layouts, images, and animations
  • Target banners by cart contents, specific products, or customer tags.
  • Display live countdown timers to highlight your limited-time special offers.
  • Automate your campaigns by scheduling specific start and end dates.
  • Experience a premium, frictionless dashboard with drag-and-drop reordering.
Screenshots
Bannerito placement editor with live storefront preview
Mobile free-shipping progress banner previewMobile countdown banner preview with call-to-actionPlacement and visibility controls with sticky banner preview
Display rules interface for targeting banners by cart or tags.
Banner styling options next to a real-time live preview canvas.Rich-text editor for banners with formatting and translation.Live countdown timer banner preview and scheduling settings.

All the numbers

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A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.

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Adoption

MeasureBanneritoBeacon Smart Banner
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

MeasureBanneritoBeacon Smart Banner
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

MeasureBanneritoBeacon Smart Banner
Free planYesYes
Lowest paid monthly plan$19.99/month(ahead)$29/month
Longest free trialNot listed30 days
Plans listed32

Listing

MeasureBanneritoBeacon Smart Banner
Shopify category rank#432in Banners#296(ahead)in Banners
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedJul 23, 2026Jun 10, 2026
Languages1English1English
DeveloperBanneritoAppublic

FAQ

Bannerito and Beacon Smart Banner: common questions

Is Bannerito or Beacon Smart Banner cheaper?
Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $19.99/month for Bannerito and $29/month for Beacon Smart Banner. 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?
Bannerito lists 4 the others don’t mention, such as Animations, Free shipping, Notification, Sticky display. Beacon Smart Banner lists 4 the others don’t mention, such as Behavior targeting, Emojis, Multi-language, Promotional. 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 Bannerito, Oct 14, 2026 for Beacon Smart Banner; 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 Bannerito, Oct 14, 2026 for Beacon Smart Banner. 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.