Black Friday falls on Friday 27 November 2026, with Cyber Monday three days later on 30 November. Few stores need more apps for that weekend. What they need is one dependable tool for each job the sale creates: switching prices at midnight, nudging a basket past a threshold, telling a shopper whether the parcel arrives before Christmas, and keeping bots away from the limited stock.
So this list follows those jobs in the order a store meets them, and it opens with the tools Shopify already includes at no cost. Each job gets two apps: an established one and a smaller one rated 4.7 stars or higher. We read every listing on the Shopify App Store on 26 October 2026 for its rating, review count, price and whether it carries the Built for Shopify badge, which Shopify gives to apps that meet its performance, design and integration standards. We have not installed all 22, so each description is what the listing offers, put in our own words. No vendor paid to appear here.
The short list
- Scheduling the sale: Shopify Rollouts (free), Discounty, NA Bulk Price Editor.
- Buy more, save more: Kaching Bundles, Dealeasy.
- Free gift with purchase: BOGOS, Gift Box.
- Free-shipping threshold: Hextom Free Shipping Bar, Hoppy.
- Countdown timers: Essential Countdown Timer Bar, Samita.
- Delivery dates: Essent Estimated Delivery Date, Synctrack’s Estimated Delivery Date Plus.
- Sold-out best sellers: Kbite, SMART Preorder.
- After the order: ReConvert, AOV.ai.
- Last-minute gifts: Shopify gift cards (free), Rise, Gift Card Hero.
- Fraud and bots: Shopify fraud analysis (free), Blockify, Wyllo.
- Reviews for December: Judge.me, Trustyy.
What Shopify does before you install anything
- Rollouts schedule the whole sale. Under Markets > Rollouts, a store on the Basic plan or higher can group theme changes, up to 250 discounts and catalog price changes into an Event that goes live at a set time and reverses itself when it ends. Experiments, which test a change against the current store, need the Grow plan or higher, and vintage themes can’t use rollouts at all (Shopify’s rollout requirements).
- Automatic discounts have a ceiling. A store can have 25 active automatic discounts at most, and discounts created by apps count towards that number. Applying two product discounts to one line item needs Shopify Plus (discount combinations).
- Gift cards come with every plan. The recipient receives the card by email with its own code. Shoppers choose from the amounts you set and can’t type their own, and Shopify asks you to discount a gift card with a discount, not a compare-at price (gift card considerations).
- Fraud analysis is built in. Fraud indicators show on orders from the Basic plan up. A risk recommendation needs the Grow plan or Shopify Payments, and Shopify Payments can block some risky checkouts before an order is even created (fraud analysis).
Scheduling the sale
Rollouts cover most stores. An app earns its place when the sale price has to appear with a strikethrough across thousands of variants, or when you need offer rules that native discounts don’t have.
Discounty
Discounty puts large parts of a catalogue on sale with a start and an end time and adds sale badges to the discounted products. The same screen handles the other Black Friday mechanics: buy X get Y with the gift added automatically or offered in a pop-up, tiers by units bought or basket value, and one code that can take money off products, the order and shipping together. Each discount can be aimed at a customer segment or limited to the online store or POS.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 1,282 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: The free plan covers 10 discounted variants and 3 campaigns; buy X get Y and free gifts start on Lite at $9.90 a month.
NA Bulk Price Editor
NA Bulk Price Editor by Northern Apps changes the prices themselves instead of layering a discount on top. It moves them up or down by a percentage or an amount and adds or clears compare-at prices so the strikethrough shows, on products picked by collection, tag, vendor, type, title or market. Changes can be queued for a future date, or set from a CSV file or from unit cost and margin. Choose it when shoppers should see the sale price on product and collection pages, before anything reaches the cart.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 257 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free for 100 price changes a month; $9.95 to $19.95 a month for more.
Buy more, save more
A tiered offer asks the shopper to add something to earn the better price, which protects margin better than one flat percentage. Two things to know first: each offer uses up some of your 25 automatic discounts, and both apps here cost more as your volume grows, so your biggest week is also your most expensive one.
Kaching Bundles
Kaching Bundles adds quantity-break tiers to the product page, such as one price for two and a better one for three, on the products or collections you choose. The saving can be a percentage, an amount off or a set price, the styling can follow your theme, and the dashboard reports the extra revenue the offers brought in.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 6,478 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free on development stores; paid plans run from $14.99 to $59.99 a month, banded by the extra revenue the app produces (up to $1,000, $5,000 or $10,000).
Dealeasy
Dealeasy by Logbase puts ten offer types in one app: quantity breaks and volume bundles on the product page, mix-and-match sets at a fixed price, BOGO and buy X get Y, and a cart progress bar that unlocks free shipping, a reward or a free gift as the basket grows.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 640 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free up to 50 orders a month, then $9, $19 or $29 a month depending on your store’s total order count; 30-day free trial.
Free gift with purchase
A gift that lands in the cart by itself saves the shopper a step, and saves you the support emails about codes that didn’t apply.
BOGOS
BOGOS has been on the App Store since 2014, and its listing leads with Black Friday. It adds the gift to the cart, or opens a pop-up to choose one, for buy one get one, buy X get Y and gift-with-purchase offers. It also builds fixed, mix-and-match and build-a-box bundles, runs volume, tiered and cheapest-item discounts, and promotes all of it with a progress bar, an announcement bar and an offer page. It works with Shopify POS, Flow and Hydrogen storefronts.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 4,543 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: The free plan includes 30 orders through the app for the life of the store. On Shopify Basic it is $29.99 a month for 300 app orders, then $0.05 each; on Grow it is $49.99 and on Plus $109.99.
Gift Box
Gift Box by Digismoothie does the gift and nothing else. A gift can be triggered by basket spend, by a buy X get Y rule or by products from a collection, adding the gift to the cart automatically is optional, and the gift pop-up can be translated with Shopify’s Translate & Adapt app.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 229 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: $29.99 a month up to 100 online orders and $49.99 up to 500, with no usage charges and your money back within 60 days if it doesn't suit. Free on trial and development stores.
Free-shipping threshold
If free shipping starts at a basket value, show shoppers how close they are. A threshold set a little above your average order value gives most baskets a reachable target.
Hextom: Free Shipping Bar
Hextom’s Free Shipping Bar updates its message as the basket fills, targets by location, Shopify Markets, customer, page, product and device, and converts the threshold into each visitor’s currency. The reason it is on this list: the bar can be scheduled, so a lower Black Friday threshold starts and ends on time without anyone touching it.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 3,050 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: The free plan gives a customisable bar with page and device targeting; Premium at $9.99 a month adds scheduling, Markets targeting, currency conversion and unlimited bars.
Free Shipping Bar Cart Upsell (Hoppy)
Hoppy’s Free Shipping Bar Cart Upsell, launched in February 2025, places the progress bar on the product page, the cart page, the cart drawer or a scrolling top banner, and pairs it with product suggestions that close the gap, plus free-gift and reward steps. Messages change by country, and it supports Markets and multiple currencies.
- Rating: 4.8 stars from 287 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free.
Countdown timers, with real deadlines
A timer is only worth showing when it counts down to the moment the offer really ends. Both apps can also run timers that restart for each visitor; for a sale, use the fixed-date mode and set it to your actual end time.
Essential Countdown Timer Bar
Essential Countdown Timer Bar puts timers in a top or bottom bar, on product pages, on landing pages, in the cart and in emails. Text, colours and placement can match the theme, and schedules can run to a date or repeat daily.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 1,744 reviews; no Built for Shopify badge.
- Price: Free up to 1,000 timer views a month; scheduled timers start on the $6.99 plan, and cart and email timers on the $9.99 plan.
Countdown Timer Bar Samita
Samita’s Countdown Timer Bar combines countdown bars, cart timers, low-stock messages and delivery timers with a sale pop-up, across product, cart and landing pages. Fonts, colours and placement are adjustable, and custom CSS is allowed.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 191 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free.
Delivery dates before checkout
From early December the question that costs sales is whether the order will arrive in time. Show an estimated date on the product page that respects your cut-off time and carrier holidays, and keep it in line with the carrier dates in our Christmas shipping deadlines list.
Essent Estimated Delivery Date
Essent Estimated Delivery Date, from the team behind Essential Countdown Timer Bar, shows a ship date and a delivery estimate on the product page, in the cart and at checkout. The estimate is built from your processing time, daily cut-off hour and days off, with an optional countdown to the cut-off and different estimates by market or visitor location.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 1,048 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free up to 1,000 views a month; paid plans from $4.99.
Estimated Delivery Date Plus (Synctrack)
Estimated Delivery Date Plus by Synctrack, on the App Store since 2018, works out the estimate from the shipping method, postcode or country. Rules can differ by product, collection or vendor, and the date follows the order into the cart, the confirmation email and the order status page. Cut-off times, holidays and an order-by countdown are included.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 448 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free for unlimited views and three estimate rules; $9.99 a month for unlimited rules, geolocation and carrier integration.
When a best seller sells out
A sold-out product page on Black Friday loses the sale unless it collects something: an email for a restock alert, or a pre-order with a deposit.
Kbite Back in Stock
Kbite by DEVSQUAT Solutions adds a “notify me” form to sold-out variants and sends an email or text when stock returns. Its most useful feature this month is the price-drop alert, which tells shoppers who asked when a product goes on sale. Waitlist numbers show which products people want most, and sign-ups can sync to your mailing list.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 4,344 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free for 30 emails a month, including back-in-stock and price-drop alerts; $5 a month for 500 emails and $9 for 2,500. Texts are priced by country, from $0.02 each in the US.
SMART Preorder & Back in stock
SMART Preorder & Back in stock sells sold-out or upcoming products on pre-order, taking the full price or a deposit and charging the balance automatically later, with notify-me waitlists alongside. Each pre-order campaign gets its own limits, markets, discount and ship date. It can also hide, reorder or rename the payment options a shopper sees, depending on their country, basket or customer record.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 632 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free.
After the order is placed
Once payment has gone through, an extra offer puts nothing at risk; the worst outcome is a shopper who says no. Both apps here are priced by order volume or upsell revenue, so check what a Black Friday week would cost.
ReConvert
ReConvert, now from Upsell.com, runs one-click post-purchase funnels where the shopper adds an item without entering card details again. Offers can also go on product pages, in the cart, at checkout and on the thank-you page, with A/B testing, audience segmentation and a visual editor.
- Rating: 4.8 stars from 3,121 reviews; no Built for Shopify badge.
- Price: Free up to 50 orders or $50 of upsell revenue; $9.99 a month for 51 to 100 store orders, rising with volume.
AOV.ai Post Purchase Upsell
AOV.ai Post Purchase Upsell shows one-click offers in three places after payment: the post-purchase step, the thank-you page and the order status page. Offers can target a product, basket value, customer segment or shipping country, appear in the shopper’s language by country, and run as two-variant A/B tests.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 167 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free until the app has earned $200 of upsell revenue in a 30-day period; $19 a month on Shopify Basic and $39 on Grow.
Gift cards for the last-minute shopper
Shopify’s own gift cards are enough for most stores. These two apps add what the native feature leaves out: delivery on a chosen day, top-ups and store credit.
Rise
Rise keeps a customer's gift cards, store credit, loyalty points, cashback and refunds together in a single wallet, sells branded digital and physical cards online and at POS, and runs cashback campaigns. Cashback paid as store credit to spend in January is one alternative to a deeper Black Friday discount.
- Rating: 4.7 stars from 764 reviews; no Built for Shopify badge.
- Price: From $19.99 a month, including 100 store orders, then $0.20 per extra order.
Gift Card Hero
Gift Card Hero by Syncube sends a gift card to the recipient on a chosen day, adds video greetings, offers a balance-check widget and handles bulk creation and sending from a CSV file. Reloadable balances and unused-balance reminders come with the PRO plan.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 177 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Pay as you go at 2% of gift card value (at least $9.99 and at most $49.99 a month); PRO is $19.99 a month.
Fraud, bots and chargebacks
Cheap stock draws bots and stolen cards. Work through Shopify’s fraud analysis first and add an app when the same patterns keep returning. Block narrowly: a whole-country block also turns away real customers who travel or use a VPN.
Blockify
Blockify blocks or redirects visitors by IP address, country or VPN and proxy connection, filters out bots, and can stop checkout for specific emails, phone numbers or names. Visitor and order analytics show what it stopped.
- Rating: 4.9 stars from 1,814 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free for 2 active block rules; $9.99 a month for 50 rules and automatic VPN, proxy and spam-bot blocking.
Wyllo (NoFraud and Yofi)
Wyllo, the combined NoFraud and Yofi, screens orders for payment fraud, spots bots and resellers that buy up discounted stock, and flags return and claim abuse, with connections to returns and support tools. A chargeback guarantee is available on the paid plans.
- Rating: 4.8 stars from 163 reviews; no Built for Shopify badge.
- Price: Screening is free for up to 100 orders a month after a 14-day trial; plans with a chargeback guarantee start at $250 a month.
Reviews to carry you into December
Reviews from Black Friday orders are what December shoppers read. Time the request to land after the parcel does.
Judge.me
Judge.me collects unlimited product and store reviews with photos and video on its free plan, shows them in widgets, star badges and carousels, and syncs ratings to Google and the Shop app. The paid plan adds automatic reminders, coupons for reviewers, AI replies and summaries, and Google Shopping and Meta syncing.
- Rating: 5.0 stars from 49,039 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free; the Awesome plan is $15 a month.
Trustyy
Trustyy Product Reviews & AI by Easy Commerce Apps emails a review request after each purchase, collects text, photo and video reviews through forms, pop-ups and imports, and displays them as carousels, galleries, star ratings or a full reviews page. Its AI summarises reviews, drafts replies and writes image alt text, and it filters spam and adds the markup that lets stars appear in Google.
- Rating: 4.8 stars from 31 reviews; Built for Shopify.
- Price: Free.
All 22 at a glance
| App | Job | Price on 26 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Discounty | Scheduled sale discounts | Free plan; from $9.90/mo |
| NA Bulk Price Editor | Scheduled price changes | Free plan; from $9.95/mo |
| Kaching Bundles | Quantity breaks | From $14.99/mo |
| Dealeasy | Tiers, BOGO, cart rewards | Free to 50 orders; from $9/mo |
| BOGOS | Free gifts and bundles | Free plan; from $29.99/mo |
| Gift Box | Free gifts | From $29.99/mo |
| Hextom Free Shipping Bar | Shipping threshold | Free plan; $9.99/mo |
| Hoppy Free Shipping Bar | Shipping threshold | Free |
| Essential Countdown Timer Bar | Countdown timers | Free plan; from $6.99/mo |
| Countdown Timer Bar Samita | Countdown timers | Free |
| Essent Estimated Delivery Date | Delivery estimates | Free plan; from $4.99/mo |
| Estimated Delivery Date Plus | Delivery estimates | Free plan; $9.99/mo |
| Kbite | Restock and price-drop alerts | Free plan; from $5/mo |
| SMART Preorder | Pre-orders with deposits | Free |
| ReConvert | Post-purchase offers | Free to 50 orders; from $9.99/mo |
| AOV.ai Post Purchase Upsell | Post-purchase offers | Free to $200 revenue; from $19/mo |
| Rise | Gift cards and store credit | From $19.99/mo |
| Gift Card Hero | Scheduled gift cards | 2% of value or $19.99/mo |
| Blockify | IP, country and bot blocking | Free plan; from $9.99/mo |
| Wyllo | Fraud and bot screening | Free to 100 orders; from $250/mo |
| Judge.me | Reviews | Free plan; $15/mo |
| Trustyy | Reviews | Free |
Six checks before you install
- Finish installing by mid-November. That leaves two weeks to test each app on real orders before 27 November.
- Put the changes in a Rollout. Theme and discount changes inside a Rollout Event switch on and off on schedule and reverse themselves afterwards.
- Keep one app per job. Two gift apps or two bars reacting to the same cart give out double gifts and contradictory messages.
- Count your automatic discounts. Discounts created by apps share the limit of 25 with the ones you create yourself.
- Price the app at Black Friday volume. Several apps above charge by orders or revenue, so work out the November bill before you commit.
- Test speed before and after. Run your product and cart pages through our Store Speed Test before and after each install, and remove the leftover code when you uninstall an app.
For the rest of the preparation, our BFCM checklist covers the store, the Black Friday guide covers offers and channels, and the ecommerce holiday calendar lists every sale date to January. Our BFCM readiness audit checks your store before the traffic arrives. On Shopify Plus, discount and cart rules built with Shopify Functions can replace several of these apps, and our Shopify Plus development team builds them.
FAQ
What are the best Shopify apps for Black Friday 2026?
The best one depends on the job. In our 26 October 2026 check, the strongest picks were Discounty or NA Bulk Price Editor for scheduled sale prices, Kaching Bundles or Dealeasy for quantity breaks, BOGOS or Gift Box for free gifts, Hextom’s Free Shipping Bar for thresholds, Essent or Synctrack for delivery dates, ReConvert or AOV.ai after checkout, and Blockify or Wyllo for fraud and bots. Start with Shopify’s free Rollouts, gift cards and fraud analysis.
Can Shopify schedule a Black Friday sale without an app?
Yes. Rollouts, under Markets > Rollouts on the Basic plan or higher, schedule theme changes, up to 250 discounts and catalog price changes to start at a set time, and an Event rolls the changes back when it ends. Each discount also keeps its own start and end dates.
How many automatic discounts can a Shopify store run at once?
25 active automatic discounts, and discounts created by apps count towards that total. Combining more than one product discount on the same line item needs Shopify Plus.
When should I install Black Friday apps?
By mid-November 2026. Black Friday is Friday 27 November and Cyber Monday is Monday 30 November, so that leaves time to test each app on real orders, check page speed and fix any conflicts before the traffic peaks.
Are countdown timers a good idea for a Black Friday sale?
Yes, when the timer counts down to the real end of the offer. A timer that restarts for each visitor shows a deadline that doesn’t exist, which misleads shoppers and costs trust when they notice. Both timer apps in this list have a fixed-date mode; use it.
