Simple Announcement Bars vs Vendor Alerts
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026.
The short answer
- Only Vendor Alerts lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $4/month for Simple Announcement Bars and $4.99/month for Vendor Alerts.
- Vendor Alerts lists 7 features Simple Announcement Bars’s listing doesn’t mention, including Banner position, Color and font, Custom CSS.
Head to head
Monthly
Free
- · Custom alert messages
- · Live preview before saving
- · Online Store app block
- · Priority-based matching
- · Style and icon controls
- · Tag-specific overrides
Starter
- · Custom alert messages
- · Live preview before saving
- · Online Store app block
- · Priority-based matching
- · Style and icon controls
- · Tag-specific overrides
Growth
- · Custom alert messages
- · Live preview before saving
- · Online Store app block
- · Priority-based matching
- · Style and icon controls
- · Tag-specific overrides
Pro
- · Custom alert messages
- · Live preview before saving
- · Online Store app block
- · Priority-based matching
- · Style and icon controls
- · Tag-specific overrides
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureKeep your customers in the loop with beautiful, targeted announcement bars. Whether you’re running a flash sale, highlighting free shipping, or making a storewide update, our app makes it simple to share the right message at the right time.
Vendor Alerts lets merchants show product-page messages for an entire vendor catalog or selected tagged products. Use it for vendor announcements, lead times, supplier delays, backorders, manufacturing updates, shipping exceptions, and item-specific notes without editing each product. It is especially useful for vendors with large catalogs or many variants.
- Flexible Placement – Choose where your announcement is shown
- Easy Customization - Easily manage the look content of your announcement
- Schedule - Set start and end dates for your announcements
- Apply one alert across a full vendor catalog
- Create tag-based overrides for specific products
- Share lead times, supplier delays, backorders, and exceptions
- Customize colors, icons, spacing, borders, and CSS
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 |  Simple Announcement Bars |  Vendor Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Simple Announcement Bars | Vendor Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Simple Announcement Bars | Vendor Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $4/month(ahead) | $4.99/month |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 1 | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | Simple Announcement Bars | Vendor Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #413 | #353(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Oct 1, 2025 | May 28, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Mark Tiddy | Apex Hardware NY Corp |
FAQ
Simple Announcement Bars and Vendor Alerts: common questions
- Is Simple Announcement Bars or Vendor Alerts cheaper?
- Only Vendor Alerts lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $4/month for Simple Announcement Bars and $4.99/month for Vendor Alerts. 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?
- Simple Announcement Bars lists 2 the others don’t mention, such as Backgrounds, Scheduling. Vendor Alerts lists 7 the others don’t mention, such as Banner position, Color and font, Custom CSS, 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 Oct 14, 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 14, 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.