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 "vendor_domain": "effectify.io",
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 "summary": "Shopify app that drops your own logo — or snow, hearts and dozens of holiday presets — down the storefront, with a marquee slider for partner, payment and press logos and an AI logo maker for the artwork.",
 "best_for": "shopify stores that want their own logo falling down the page, or a marquee of partner, payment and press logos, rather than generic snow — and that have no artwork ready, since the AI logo maker is the one thing here the free competitors do not offer",
 "skip_if": "you only want seasonal snow, hearts or confetti: Dakaas Seasonal Effects does exactly that for nothing, with 200+ themes and a far deeper review record — and skip it too if you are counting on the free plan, which is restricted to development and partner stores and starts billing the moment you upgrade",
 "honest_knock": "Start with the word 'free' on the listing card, because it does not mean what it looks like. The free plan is development and partner stores only, and billing activates the moment you upgrade — a real storefront pays $2.99 from the first day, after a 7-day trial.\n\nThen the harder question: the nearest app in the same Shopify category costs nothing. Dakaas Seasonal Effects carries the same Built for Shopify badge, lists 200+ holiday themes plus cursor effects, music and scheduling, and has 1,567 reviews at 4.9 since May 2021 against Imgify's 32 at 4.8 since January 2020. So you are not weighing $2.99 against nothing at all — you are weighing it against a free app with a public record roughly fifty times deeper.\n\nWhat the money actually answers is narrow: the AI logo maker and the marquee slider for partner, payment and press logos, neither of which is on the free app's feature list. That is a real difference and it is the whole case for paying.\n\nAnd treat the sales pitch as a pitch. The listing promises effects that 'boost sales' and logo rows that build 'instant trust'; no conversion data is published for either claim, by this vendor or by the free ones. Note too what the recent reviews are built from — three of the newest come from stores that had the app installed for ten minutes, about three hours and nine months respectively, so most of that 4.8 says the install went smoothly, not that the thing kept working.",
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  "notes": "(prices read 2026-09-20 on apps.shopify.com/custom-falling-effect; re-verified 2026-10-20 on the same listing, unchanged) Billed in USD, with recurring charges billed every 30 days. There are two plans and the cheaper one is almost certainly not for you: the Development plan is free, unlocks every feature, and the listing states its limit plainly — development and partner stores only, with billing activated on upgrade. A live shop is therefore on the paid plan from day one. Monthly Plan is $2.99 a month, or $28.70 a year with the annual saving the listing puts at 20%, and it carries the falling effect, the AI logo maker, custom image upload, appearance and density controls, the marquee logo slider, dozens of holiday presets, support for all themes and live chat support. A 7-day free trial applies to the paid plan. Effective Apps' own site, effectify.io, publishes no pricing page at all — /pricing and /apps both return 404, checked the same day, and the home page carries no prices — so unlike most Shopify apps there is no upper half of the ladder hiding on a vendor site. What the listing shows is the whole price record.",
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   "description": "Monthly Plan per store, per month, billed month-to-month. From our pricing notes: “Monthly Plan is $2.99 a month, or $28.70 a year with the annual saving the listing puts at 20%” Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-20.",
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    "quote": "or $28.70/year and save 20%",
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  "name": "Dakaas Seasonal Effects",
  "why": "Both put falling effects on a Shopify storefront, both carry the Built for Shopify badge, and one of them is free. Dakaas lists 200+ holiday themes plus cursor effects, music and scheduling, and has 1,567 reviews at 4.9 since May 2021; Imgify has 32 reviews at 4.8 since January 2020 and costs $2.99 a month or $28.70 a year.\n\nThe comparison goes Imgify's way on one axis only, and it is a narrow one: your own brand rather than the season. The AI logo maker that generates falling artwork from a short prompt, and the marquee slider for partner, payment and press logos, are not on the Dakaas feature list. If you want snow for December, Dakaas does it for nothing and far more merchants have vouched for it. If you want your logo falling down the page, Imgify is the one that does that — and at $2.99 the price is not the part of this decision worth agonising over."
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  "vendor_site": "https://effectify.io"
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  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
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  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "Being verified: refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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