Best Urgency Apps for Shopify in 2023
By thoroughly exploring the Shopify App store, we have gathered the apps that can help you create urgency and nudge customers to buy more with pop ups and countdown timers. We hope this will help you in your research to pick the best app for your store! Here are the best urgency apps for Shopify that we think you should use, free or paid, based on hundreds of recommendations.

Urgency Bear Countdown Timer
by:
Conversion Bear
Rating:
5.0
Reviews:
114
Free
App highlights:
Increase conversion rates with our Countdown Timer and Stock Countdown
The most effective way to instill a sense of urgency and scarcity in your store. Add a stock countdown and countdown timer to elevate your customers FOMO (fear of missing out).
Scarcity has been identified as one of the dominant buying decision drivers. Create a sense of scarcity by adding a low stock warning on your product pages with our stock countdown.
Creating a sense of urgency encourages indecisive customers to buy your products. Use our product countdown timer to motivate more buyers to stop debating and click add to cart!
Key Features:
- The countdown timer and stock countdown works out of the box with any theme - No theme code changes or code injections!
- Complete color, texts and design control to match your brand.
- Custom countdown placement inside your store.
- Hide countdown on specific product pages.
- Hide countdown on Desktop or mobile, or show on both.
- Edit all countdown texts to support your website language.
- Customize any part of the countdown app with built in custom CSS and custom JS.
- Live chat, around the clock support and concierge setup.
- Countdown to a specific time and date!
- Easy 2 minute setup
- Advertise stock scarcity with a beautiful stock countdown
- Create a sense of urgency with a stunning timer
- Perfectly matches your store design

Social Proof, Urgency, Pop ups
by:
Nextsale
Rating:
5.0
Reviews:
305
Free plan available. 10-day free trial. From $19/month
App highlights:
Display Product Reviews and Recent Sales Notification to create a Social Proof; Grow targeted E-mail & SMS list with Pop-ups; Run Promotions with Timers and Countdowns. Seamlessly integrate your review app with Nextsale and display product reviews and testimonials on your shop pages. Build trust around your brand with User-Generated Social Proof.
Show recent sales popups, recent conversion notifications to let your visitors know that it is safe to buy from your store. Build trust and boost your sales with the help of Social Proof.
Integrates with Shopify Customers, Klaviyo, MailChimp, Omnisend, HubSpot, Yotpo, Stamped.io, Judge.me, Capterra, Trustpilot, ResellerRatings, Mailerlite, Reviews.io, Growave, ActiveCampaign, Gumroad, Stripe
Key Features:
- Display Product Reviews
- Show Recent Sales Notifications
- Display Store Activity
- Grow Your Email and SMS lists
- Promote Special Offers
- Reduce Cart Abandonments
- Upsell by offering a "Free Shipping"
- Create Social Proof
- Promote Special Offers
- Grow E-mail & SMS list
- Reduce Site Abandonment

Countdown Timer Bar
by:
Hextom
Rating:
4.8
Reviews:
896
Free plan available. Paid plan starts from $9.99/month
App highlights:
By incorporating Countdown Timer Bar app, you will create a sense of urgency in your marketing messages within minutes. Add urgency & FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) effects to your sales events with countdown timer to nudge customers to BUY NOW instead of later. Multiple timer types fit any sales event, including one-time, auto-recurring, daily & weekly timers. For your flash, daily, scheduled sales.
Key Features:
- 1 click installation. Easy to Install and Setup
- 0 developers needed!
- Multiple types of countdown timers to meet different needs such as generic countdown, periodic countdown, daily/weekly countdown, and visitor session based countdown
- Good for early bird promotions, flash sale promotions, holiday promotions, time limited offers, product launch events and more
- With a call-to-action button on the bar, your customers will dash to your sales
- Supports unlimited active bars for creating different promotions on different pages
- Geo Target, display different promotions based on the visitors’ country
- Display highly urgent timers specifically for visitors coming from your social ads such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc
- With our auto-scheduling feature, you can create as many bars as you want for the next several months
- Highly Customizable. Options to define the pages you want the bar to display on, such as all pages, home page only, collection or product pages only, or any pages by giving the URLs.
- Add the bar to any desired position on your webpage
- Options to define which pages should be excluded, such as home page, collection or product pages, or any pages by giving the URLs
- Fully responsive and optimized across all screen sizes including desktop, tablet, and mobile
- We do NOT put our App logo on the bar to make your site look unprofessional!
- Unlimited number of impressions!

Sales Countdown Timer Bar 2.0
by:
SpurIT UAB
Rating:
4.5
Reviews:
540
Free plan available. Starts from $8.95/month
App highlights:
Countdown timer helps convince buyers that right now is the time to buy. Create a fully customizable countdown timer for any case: Holiday season, Black Friday, Christmas, flash sales, special offers, free shipping, and many more.
Easy-to-use countdown clock timer empowered with a handy editor to change font size/color/etc. Along with the background and buttons. Build up your unique visual style - our sales notification timer looks perfect in every store.
Key Features:
- Fully customizable background patterns and 11 design templates.
- Create countdown timers for Homepage, Collections, or Product Pages.
- Scheduled or fixed-length timers, generic or individual, for each visitor.
- Auto-restart for countdown timer clocks after the end date.
- Header or bottom timer bar position. Widget on specific product pages.
- Announcement bar to keep customers informed about free shipping, welcome discounts, special offers, and more.
- Countdown Style with 6 new designs (flipper, matrix, solid background, etc). Put your flash sales or special offers in the spotlight, and increase revenue!
- Fully customizable countdown bar
- Compatibility with any theme. If the app doesn’t work with your theme, our tech support will integrate it to your Shopify store for free.
- 100% mobile-friendly
- 100% quality guarantee. If the app doesn't pay for itself within two weeks, you can uninstall it and contact us for a refund. If you've used the app for not longer than one month and uninstalled it, we will refund 50% of your monthly subscription cost.
- 24/7 support

Stock Countdown Timer Bar
by:
Care Cart
Rating:
4.8
Reviews:
121
Free
App highlights:
How does Sold Stock Countdown bar widget improve conversion?
As a store owner you may be sending a lot of paid traffic to your store through ads and other means but you might not be getting the desired conversion. Bringing the visitors to your store who are interested in your products but still need that extra little push to convert them in to a paying customer is no more a painful task.
Countdown Timer aka countdown clock is live now so you can show the timer on your product pages to further boost the urgency and encourage user to buy within the limited time.
Our free app is designed to optimize conversion on your store. Create urgency on your store to make those procrastinating visitors to buy now from your store by implementing the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) technique.
Key Features:
- Best free app, simple and quick to setup in less than 30 seconds.
- Turn on/off countdown widget on any product page.
- Totally customizable look & feel of the stock bar.
- Establish social proof, scarcity and sense of urgency.
- Countdown timer bar to create urgency for unsure visitors
- Boost sales by improving conversion – totally free!
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