Comparison · Last updated April 2026

Heartly vs Countdown Timer Bar Samita

Countdown Timer Bar Samita is free, Built for Shopify, and well reviewed. Heartly is the choice when the sale needs its own page, when the store is on WooCommerce, or when the discount is advertised into Germany.

01 · About Countdown Timer Bar Samita

What is Countdown Timer Bar Samita?

Countdown Timer Bar Samita, from SamiSales by Samita, adds countdown bars, cart timers, stock alerts and sale popups to a Shopify storefront, in fixed, recurring, scheduled and session-based modes across 19 languages. It rated 5.0 across 176 reviews in August 2026, carries the Built for Shopify badge, and is free.

On timers alone, a free and well-built app is the sensible pick, and this page says so. Heartly answers a different question: where the sale lives. Each Heartly sale is its own page with one offer, live stock, and checkout — a link that works in a bio, a broadcast, or on a printed code, rather than a widget on a page that already exists.

02 · Side by side

Feature comparison.

Feature	Heartly	Countdown Timer Bar Samita
Countdown timer	On the sale page	On existing pages
Dedicated sale page with its own URL	Yes	No
Stock alerts	Live inventory	Yes
Sale popup	No	Yes
Public Deal Marketplace (deals.heartly.io)	Yes	No
PAngV § 11 30-day lowest price	Yes	No
WooCommerce support	Yes	No
Shopify support	Yes	Yes
Free plan	1 active campaign	Fully free

When the free timer is the right answer

A merchant who needs a countdown on Shopify product pages, and nothing more, should take the free app. Samita rates 5.0 over 176 reviews and carries Shopify's own Built for Shopify badge. This comparison is only useful once the requirement grows past the timer — a page to send traffic to, a second platform, or German pricing law.

The sale as a destination

Heartly builds each sale a page carrying one offer and nothing else: the countdown, the live stock figure, and the checkout. That is what makes it linkable — an Instagram bio, a WhatsApp broadcast, a newsletter, a QR code on a flyer. Widgets improve a page that already exists; they do not give a campaign an address.

Two platforms, one dashboard

Samita is Shopify-only. Heartly runs on Shopify and WooCommerce with the same dashboard, the same marketplace publication, and the same compliance handling on both. Merchants operating a store on each platform, which is common in DACH where WooCommerce holds a much larger share than it does in the US, otherwise run two separate tools.

06 · Pricing

Pricing.

Countdown Timer Bar Samita is free (listed August 2026). Heartly is free for one active campaign, then €29 to €99 per month. For a Shopify-only store that needs a timer, free is the better deal. Heartly's price buys the sale page, the marketplace listing, PAngV § 11 handling, and WooCommerce.

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