Black Friday Animated Side Bar

Shopify discounts app by SideMonkey·Black Friday revenue boost for your store using a side bar. The ideal Black Friday sales driver.

Snapshot

5.00(12 reviews)#222of 912 inDiscounts

Ongoing.AI tracks Black Friday Animated Side 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.

CategoriesDiscountsPop-ups

Rating

5.00

12 reviews

Pricing

From $0/mo

freemium

Built for Shopify

No

Years live

5

launched Nov 4, 2020

Last updated

Jun 30, 2026

Shopify listing

Catalog position

Where Black Friday Animated Side Bar sits in the App Store.

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

Rank in Discounts

#222

of 912 active apps

Review count percentile

75th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

71th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

5

since 2020

Listing change cadence

What Black Friday Animated Side 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.

Listing changes · last 21 days+14shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-09 → 2026-06-16shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-16 → 2026-06-21shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-21 → 2026-06-22shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-22 → 2026-06-23shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-23 → 2026-06-30Jun 11, 26Jun 21, 26Jul 2, 26

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1

2026-06-23 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 25

2026-06-22 → 2026-06-23

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 23

2026-06-21 → 2026-06-22

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

5.00(12 reviews)
  • 98%positive43
  • 2%neutral1
  • 0%negative0

Top themes

    What merchants praise

    “I installed the app to notify my customers about special promotions, and to encourage them to increase purchases, the banner looks great and does the job. Looking forward for a version improvement that will allow you to edit fonts and add an image.”
    Hanny Klein · 5★

    Plans

    Black Friday Animated Side Bar pricing tiers.

    Free

    Free to install

      Capabilities

      What Black Friday Animated Side Bar can do.

      The 34 capabilities Black Friday Animated Side Bar lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

      Discounts

      Discount types

      20
      • Discount codes
      • Coupons
      • Fixed pricing
      • Volume discounts
      • Quantity breaks
      • Flat discounts
      • Percentage discounts
      • Bulk discounts
      • Wholesale pricing
      • Free shipping
      • Cart discounts
      • Checkout discounts
      • Gifts
      • Rewards
      • Limited time offers
      • Countdown timers
      • Upsell discounts
      • Cross-sell discounts
      • Banners
      • Custom discounts

      Managing discounts

      4
      • Templates
      • Custom fonts
      • Campaigns
      • Targeting

      Pop-ups

      Pop-up types

      6
      • Cart pop-ups
      • Discounts
      • Rewards
      • Banners
      • Announcements
      • Custom pop-ups

      Managing pop-ups

      4
      • Templates
      • Custom fonts
      • Campaigns
      • Targeting

      FAQ

      Black Friday Animated Side Bar — frequently asked questions.

      What is Black Friday Animated Side Bar on Shopify?
      Black Friday Animated Side Bar is a Shopify app in the Discounts category. \# New feature: promote your Black Friday & Cyber Monday BFCM sales. The ultimate Black Friday animation sidebar Add a sidebar to your store and drive more Black Friday sales. Increase cart value in your store and promote your products this black friday. The Black Friday sidebar by SideMonkey is designed to make your life easy. \* Maximize a sale or event you are holding. Black Friday, Cyber Monday or a special event. \* Drive sales to the products you desire to sell. \* Increase cart value. It averages 5.00 out of 5 across 12 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
      How much does Black Friday Animated Side Bar cost?
      Black Friday Animated Side Bar is priced at $0/month on the Shopify App Store.
      When was Black Friday Animated Side Bar launched?
      Black Friday Animated Side Bar launched on November 4, 2020 — over 5 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 12 merchant reviews.
      Is Black Friday Animated Side Bar Built for Shopify?
      Black Friday Animated Side Bar does not currently carry Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. The badge is awarded to apps that meet Shopify's published standards for performance, ease of use, and merchant value — many high-quality apps operate without it.
      What are the best Black Friday Animated Side Bar alternatives?
      Merchants commonly compare Black Friday Animated Side Bar with Pop Convert, SendWILL Popup Email Marketing, Smile, and Pumper Bundles Quantity Breaks. 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.

      Pop Convert

      Pop Convert ‑ Pop Ups, Banners

      4.90★8,311

      Known for: pricing

      SendWILL

      SendWILL Popup Email Marketing

      4.90★7,080

      Known for: customer-support

      Smile.io

      Smile: Loyalty Program Rewards

      4.90★4,275

      Profit Pumper Bundle

      Pumper Bundles Quantity Breaks

      4.90★3,038

      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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