Openly Store Hours vs Timed Promobar
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 4, 2026 for Openly Store Hours, Oct 13, 2026 for Timed Promobar.
The short answer
- Only Timed Promobar lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $1.99/month for Openly Store Hours and $7.99/month for Timed Promobar.
- Timed Promobar lists 7 features Openly Store Hours’s listing doesn’t mention, including Backgrounds, Campaign targeting, Countdown.
Head to head
Standard
- · 20 locations, 6 designs, 20 languages
- · Breaks, late nights and holidays
- · Close now with a note
- · Pause orders while closed
- · Status bar, badge and hours block
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 featureOpenly shows your opening hours on your store: a live “Open now · closes 5:00 PM” bar, a floating badge with the week, and an hours block for any page. Set breaks, late nights past midnight, closed days and holidays, and close early with one click and a note. Turn on Pause orders and Add to cart and checkout stop while you’re closed, including Buy it now and Shop Pay.
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.
- Live open or closed status bar and badge, in your store’s time zone
- Weekly hours with breaks, late nights past midnight and closed days
- Holidays and special dates that replace the usual week automatically
- Close now with one click and a note shoppers see, then reopen
- 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 |  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 | 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 | Timed Promobar | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $1.99/month(ahead) | $7.99/month |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 1 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Timed Promobar | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | Not enough data | #398 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Nov 4, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 2 |
| Developer | DevOptly | inventivo | Full-Service Webdesign Agentur |
FAQ
Openly Store Hours and Timed Promobar: common questions
- Is Openly Store Hours or Timed Promobar cheaper?
- Only Timed Promobar lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $1.99/month for Openly Store Hours 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?
- Openly Store Hours lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as Mobile responsive, Multi-language, Notification, Scheduling. Timed Promobar lists 7 the others don’t mention, such as Backgrounds, Campaign targeting, Countdown, Custom CSS. 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 4, 2026 for Openly Store Hours, Oct 13, 2026 for Timed Promobar; 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 4, 2026 for Openly Store Hours, Oct 13, 2026 for Timed Promobar. 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.