Essential Countdown Timer Bar

Shopify countdown timer app by Essential Apps·Boost Your Sales with Sales Countdown Timer (when people see a count down timer, they rush to buy)

Snapshot

5.00(1,508 reviews)#1of 173 inCountdown timer

Ongoing.AI tracks Essential Countdown Timer Bar daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.

CategoriesCountdown timerBanners

Rating

5.00

1,508 reviews

Pricing

From $6/mo

freemium

Built for Shopify

Yes

Years live

4

launched Feb 10, 2022

Last updated

Jul 1, 2026

Shopify listing

Recent activity

Review trajectory.

Daily review count and rating drift. The blue line is cumulative review count; the dashed amber overlay is the rating on the right axis. Boring is good — sudden swings stand out against an otherwise stable curve.

New reviews

7-day Δ

+8

28-day Δ

+20

Rating change

7-day Δ

+0.00

28-day Δ

+0.00

1,5131,4991,4851,4701,4565.003.752.501.250.00May 28Jun 5Jun 14Jun 22Jul 1Total reviewsRating (0–5)
Essential Countdown Timer Bar added 20 reviews over the last 28 days.

Category rank over time

Where Essential Countdown Timer Bar sits day-by-day in Countdown timer.

Position across the Countdown timer page, snapshot daily. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so the strongest ranks sit at the top of the chart. Open the full Countdown timer leaderboard →

#1#2#3#4#5May 28May 31Jun 4Jun 8Jun 12Essential Countdown Timer Bar · #1GSC Countdown Timer Bar · #2VR Urgency Countdown Timer Bar · #3
Best position observed: #1. Essential Countdown Timer Bar held steady over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Catalog position

Where Essential Countdown Timer Bar sits in the App Store.

Rank and percentile inside the Countdown timer category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.

Rank in Countdown timer

#1

of 173 active apps

Review count percentile

100th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

77th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

4

since 2022

Listing change cadence

What Essential Countdown Timer Bar has changed lately.

Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.

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Shopify Lastmod · Jul 2

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PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

5.00(1,508 reviews)
  • 99%positive1,528
  • 0%neutral6
  • 0%negative3

Top themes

    What merchants praise

    “The team are great to work with and very fast communications too! Thanks Wendyle for all of your help along the way”
    UnderWunder · 5★

    What merchants complain about

    “Failed to do what was needed. EDIT: Manage to get it working after I left a review, but have been spammed via email by what seems to be an automated bot over multiple days in a row with the same message for leaving a review based off my experience.”
    EricTecce · 1★

    Plans

    Essential Countdown Timer Bar pricing tiers.

    Free Plan

    Free

    • Up to 1000 monthly views
    • Unlimited product page timers
    • Unlimited top bar timers

    Starter

    $6.99/month

    • Up to 10 000 monthly timer views
    • Everything in Free
    • Unlimited landing page timers
    • Scheduled timer
    • Recurring timer

    Essential

    $9.99/month

    • Up to 50 000 monthly timer views
    • Everything in Starter
    • Unlimited cart timers
    • Unlimited email timers
    • Add timer with tags
    • Geo-targeting

    Professional

    $29.99/month

    • Unlimited timer views
    • Everything in Essential
    • All premium features

    Capabilities

    What Essential Countdown Timer Bar can do.

    The 43 capabilities Essential Countdown Timer Bar lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

    Countdown timer

    Display options

    10
    • Custom CSS
    • Color and font
    • Custom text
    • Custom position
    • Announcement bar
    • Sticky banner
    • Animations
    • Cart page
    • Landing pages
    • Product pages

    Timing options

    9
    • Recurring
    • Scheduled
    • Date range
    • Event-based
    • Fixed end date
    • Fixed minute
    • One-time
    • Session-based
    • Timed session

    Timer type

    9
    • Daily deals
    • Flash sales
    • Time-limited promotion
    • Expiration date
    • Special event
    • Pre-order
    • Product launch
    • Shipping cut-off
    • Store launch

    Banners

    Banner type

    4
    • Announcement bar
    • Product page
    • Promotional
    • Countdown

    Customization

    10
    • Banner position
    • Sticky display
    • Links and buttons
    • Backgrounds
    • Color and font
    • Emojis
    • Multi-language
    • Mobile responsive
    • Scheduling
    • Geo-targeting

    Analytics and reporting

    1
    • Traffic reports

    FAQ

    Essential Countdown Timer Bar — frequently asked questions.

    What is Essential Countdown Timer Bar on Shopify?
    Essential Countdown Timer Bar is a Shopify app in the Countdown timer category. Sales Countdown timer app is a new secret method to boost your sales! Sale timer triggers urgency, scarcity and fomo, driving your customers to Buy NOW, instead of "Buy Later". Wanna sell more? Use this app every day, or use it for specific days (promotion, pre-orders, product launches, flash sale, holidays). Time clock is perfect for the best results during Black Friday, Cyber Monday & beyond. Just click 'Install' and join merchants who use this app to make more money. It averages 5.00 out of 5 across 1,508 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
    How much does Essential Countdown Timer Bar cost?
    Essential Countdown Timer Bar offers a free plan and 3 paid plans starting at $6/month and going up to $29.99/month. The free plan includes Up to 1000 monthly views, Unlimited product page timers, and Unlimited top bar timers. The paid plans unlock advanced features beyond what's available on the free tier.
    Is Essential Countdown Timer Bar free?
    Yes — Essential Countdown Timer Bar offers a free plan alongside paid options. The free plan includes Up to 1000 monthly views, Unlimited product page timers, and Unlimited top bar timers. Paid plans start at $6/month for advanced features.
    When was Essential Countdown Timer Bar launched?
    Essential Countdown Timer Bar launched on February 10, 2022 — over 4 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 1,508 merchant reviews.
    Is Essential Countdown Timer Bar Built for Shopify?
    Yes — Essential Countdown Timer Bar carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. This certification is awarded to apps that meet Shopify's published standards for performance, ease of use, and merchant value, and is reviewed by the Shopify team rather than self-declared by the developer.
    What are the best Essential Countdown Timer Bar alternatives?
    Merchants commonly compare Essential Countdown Timer Bar with Hextom, Hextom, Avada Boost Sales Trust Badges, and Hextom. Each alternative covers a similar use case but differs on pricing model, integration depth, and the specific themes merchants praise in reviews — see the alternatives section above for a side-by-side.

    Alternatives

    Apps merchants pick instead.

    Hextom

    Hextom: Free Shipping Bar

    4.90★2,907

    Hextom

    Hextom: Quick Announcement Bar

    4.90★2,279

    AOV.ai Store Design

    Avada Boost Sales Trust Badges

    5.00★1,478

    Hextom

    Hextom: Upsell Sales Boost

    4.80★1,418

    Known for: bug

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    Methodology

    Where the numbers come from.

    Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .

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