Festify: Banners and Scenes vs Merch ‑ Announcements
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 Festify, Jul 7, 2026 for Merch.
The short answer
- Festify lists 11 features Merch’s listing doesn’t mention, including Animations, Backgrounds, Countdown.
Head to head
Spark
Fiesta
Gala
Spectacle
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureFestify helps merchants visually adapt their storefront for festivals, sales, and special moments. It allows banners and themed scenes to be shown at specific locations in the store, making promotions more noticeable without redesigning pages. Merchants can control when and where visuals appear, helping them keep their storefront timely, relevant, and consistent across campaigns.
Merchentia: Announcements lets you create announcement bars and inline banners and control where and when each one shows. Target the home page, product pages, collections, blog, pages, or cart, and schedule bars to start and end automatically. Choose text, image, link, or HTML content, and add countdown timers or a free-shipping progress bar. Translate content for other languages and target by device or country.
- Add festive banners and scenes across your storefront
- Control banner placement on product, cart, and checkout pages
- Enable or disable visuals instantly from one dashboard
- Announcement bars and inline banners (text, image, link, or HTML)
- Target any page, product, device, or country — include or exclude
- Schedule bars, rotate multiple, and pin sticky to the page
- Countdown timers and live free-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 |  Festify |  Merch |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Festify | Merch |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
FAQ
Festify and Merch: common questions
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Festify lists 11 the others don’t mention, such as Animations, Backgrounds, Countdown, Free shipping. Merch lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as Customer segments, Emojis, Links and buttons, Mobile responsive. 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 Festify, Jul 7, 2026 for Merch; 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 Festify, Jul 7, 2026 for Merch. 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.