Essential Countdown Timer Bar

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E-commerce Unclaimed · our research only We found: Free plan; paid from $6.99 🔎 1 cost-trap flag
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Our pricing checkRead on their own pricing page, 28 Sep 2026
Cost-trap flags🧮 Usage-metered 🆓 Free tier
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What we found — independently

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Our pricing check · read 2026-09-28 on apps.shopify.com/essential-countdown-timer…Four plans priced on monthly timer views.
What will cost you money if you skim itThe free plan is smaller than it looks, because of what counts as a view.

Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence

🧮 Usage-metered — Credits, overages or percentage fees on top of the subscription
“There is no overage charge: past the limit you get an email, and if you do not upgrade within 3 days every published timer is unpublished until views…”
🆓 Free tier — A genuinely free plan or version exists
“The free plan is smaller than it looks, because of what counts as a view.”

Genuinely good for

Shopify merchants who run real, dated promotions, launches or shipping cut-offs and want a top-bar, product-page or cart countdown without code, starting on a free plan

Skip it if

your timers load tens of thousands of times a month and you are not ready to pay $29.99 for unlimited views, because on a lower plan the timers are switched off three days after you pass the limit; or your offers do not actually end, in which case a countdown is a claim you cannot stand behind

The honest comparisonScarcity.AI — Scarcity.AI is the closest comparison in our own dossiers: its developer also publishes a countdown timer, next to a low stock counter and a live visitors counter. On our reading of 22 August 2026 that countdown listing showed a free tier and no paid ladder, while Essential Countdown Timer Bar…

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