Crucial Announcement Bar vs Timed Promobar
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
- Only Timed Promobar lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $6.99/month for Crucial Announcement Bar and $7.99/month for Timed Promobar.
- Crucial Announcement Bar lists 12 features Timed Promobar’s listing doesn’t mention, including Animations, Behavior targeting, Behavior tracking.
Head to head
Pro
- · Built-in click & CTR analytics
- · Click-to-copy coupon codes
- · Free shipping progress bar
- · Geo & country targeting
- · Schedule bars by date & time
- · Unlimited bars — rotating & scrolling
Free
- · 1 active bar, unlimited views
- · Always on or a fixed time window
- · Runs in your theme, no extra request
- · Static bar with colors, text and link
Pro
- · Calendar and time travel preview
- · Free shipping progress bar
- · Rotating bars, marquee and countdown
- · Targeting rules and statistics
- · Templates and translations
- · Unlimited campaigns, one bar shown
Business
- · Everything in Pro
- · Schedule follows a discount code
- · Several bars stacked at once
- · Shipping cutoff countdown
- · Statistics export as CSV
- · Weekly repeat by weekday and time
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCreate and manage announcement bars directly in your Shopify admin, no code required. Choose simple, scrolling, or rotating bars, add a countdown timer or a ping-goal progress bar, and match your brand with custom colors, fonts, gradients, and buttons. Schedule each bar by date and target it by page, product, collection, or country. A built-in analytics view tracks impressions, clicks, and dismissals.
Timed Promobar puts a promotion bar at the top of your store and handles the timing for you. Set a start, an end, or a recurring window such as every Friday evening. All times run in your store's time zone, not your visitor's. Preview any future date to see exactly how the bar will look before it goes live, and see every campaign on one calendar.
- Simple, scrolling, and rotating announcement bars
- Countdown timers and shipping-goal progress bars
- Customize colors, fonts, gradients, buttons, and coupon codes
- Target by page, product, collection, or country, with date scheduling
- Schedule bars with a start, an end, or a recurring weekly window
- Preview your storefront at any future date before the campaign runs
- Presets for Black Friday, Christmas and nine more seasonal dates
- Static, rotating, marquee, countdown and shipping progress bars
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 |  Crucial Announcement Bar |  Timed Promobar |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Crucial Announcement Bar | Timed Promobar |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Crucial Announcement Bar | Timed Promobar |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $6.99/month(ahead) | $7.99/month |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 1 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Crucial Announcement Bar | Timed Promobar |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #251(ahead) | #403 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Jun 23, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 2 |
| Developer | Vizua | inventivo | Full-Service Webdesign Agentur |
FAQ
Crucial Announcement Bar and Timed Promobar: common questions
- Is Crucial Announcement Bar or Timed Promobar cheaper?
- Only Timed Promobar lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $6.99/month for Crucial Announcement Bar and $7.99/month for Timed Promobar. 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?
- Crucial Announcement Bar lists 12 the others don’t mention, such as Animations, Behavior targeting, Behavior tracking, Emojis. Timed Promobar lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Campaign targeting, Custom CSS, Performance tracking. 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.