Digital Advisors News Ticker vs Announcer & Countdown
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 6, 2026.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.99/month for Digital Advisors News Ticker and $4.99/month for Announcer & Countdown.
- Announcer & Countdown lists 6 features Digital Advisors News Ticker’s listing doesn’t mention, including Backgrounds, Custom CSS, Email signup.
Head to head
- United States
- Australia
- Barbados
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
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
Starter
- · 1 Active announcement bar
- · Countdown, Moving Text, Rotating Bars
- · Scheduling
- · Templates library
- · Views & click analytics
Growth
- · Advanced Scheduling & Recurring Bars
- · Countdown, Moving Text, Rotating Bars
- · Page & visibility targeting
- · Templates library
- · Unlimited active announcement bars
Premium
- · A/B testing
- · Advanced Scheduling & Recurring Bars
- · Countdown, Moving Text, Rotating Bars
- · Multi-Language & Auto-translations
- · Page & visibility targeting
- · Regional variants
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureYour 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.
Grab attention with on-brand announcement bars. Choose five bar types — simple, rotating, news ticker, typewriter, and countdown — to run sales, free-shipping offers, and news on any page. Countdown timers add urgency with flip-clock, box, or circle styles, then show a fallback message when time runs out. Schedule bars ahead, target them by page, and show different messages per market or language.
- 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
- Simple bar, urgency countdown, or news ticker with a live indicator.
- Display Multiple announcements as slider or news ticker
- Scheduling and automatic expiration with fallback messages
- Custom announcements for different pages
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 |  Announcer & Countdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | 29 |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | −1 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Apparel & Accessories, Arts & Entertainment, Electronics |
| Top store countries | Not published | United States, Australia, Barbados |
Reviews
| Measure | Announcer & Countdown | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 2 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | 0 |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Announcer & Countdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $0.99/month(ahead) | $4.99/month |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 2 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Announcer & Countdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | Not enough data | #181 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Nov 5, 2026 | Aug 8, 2016 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Digital Advisors | Pasilobus |
FAQ
Digital Advisors News Ticker and Announcer & Countdown: common questions
- Is Digital Advisors News Ticker or Announcer & Countdown cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.99/month for Digital Advisors News Ticker and $4.99/month for Announcer & Countdown. 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?
- Digital Advisors News Ticker lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Notification. Announcer & Countdown lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as Backgrounds, Custom CSS, Email signup, 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 Nov 6, 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 Nov 6, 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.