If you've worked with Shopify in the past, you've asked the question, “Which Shopify apps are the best?” The question generally comes from beginners trying to scale up their stores, but eventually, you'll start hearing similar thoughts ringing in your head. Although this time, it'll be more focused, like apps for accounting, email marketing or social media. You're also bound to hear yourself thinking about budgetary restraints, meaning the free and affordable apps are generally on your radar first.
Although this time, it'll be more focused, like apps for accounting, email marketing or social media. You're also bound to hear yourself thinking about budgetary restraints, meaning the free and affordable apps are generally on your radar first.
As you learn from on our Shopify reviews, this platform has consistently squashed competition because of a modern interface, beautiful support options and one of the best app stores on the market. In fact, there's no comparison, Shopify apps are far easier to install and use than other platforms.
So, in an effort to cut down your research, we want to review the best paid and free apps in the Shopify store. We sprinkled in apps from all categories, ranging from marketing to sales, social media to shipping, and customer service to reporting.
1. Product Reviews
Pricing: Free
If you'd like to add simple product review areas for customers to fill out, Product Reviews is the solution for you. It's completely free, and you get features such as bulk filtering, exporting, importing, SEO friendly review scores and more.
2. Xero
Pricing: Starting at $5 per month
The Xero Shopify app exports your orders to the amazing Xero accounting program. This way you can see beautiful financial reports, create invoices and receive global tax support. Read more about this fantastic solution in our detailed Xero review.
3. Smile: Rewards & Loyalty
Pricing: There's a free plan
We don't need to tell you, the more a customer engages with your brand, the better there's a chance of them becoming a loyal follower of yours. This is where having an enticing rewards program comes into its own.
Luckily for you, the Smile: Rewards & Loyalty plugin offers its users three styles of rewards program to choose from:
- The loyalty points program
- The referral program
- The VIP program
Any of these options provide customers with an avenue to engage with your brand. Not to mention, they also encourage shoppers to spread the word about your store.
Btw, did you check my full Shopify review?
4. Oberlo
Pricing: Starting at $4.90 per month
Oberlo is a dropshipper's dream because it imports large lists of products from AliExpress, and you don't have to worry about shipping, storage or packaging. In addition, your inventory counts and prices are constantly updated. And even better- Oberlo app users have exclusive access to the Oberlo Supply marketplace that offers a host of advantages such as hand-picked suppliers, bulk ordering and faster shipping times.
Don't forget to read our Oberlo review.
Update: Shopify now offers Oberlo as an embedded app within the platform.
5. Spocket
Pricing: Free plan available, plus 7-day free trial on the premium paid plans ($49/month and $99/month)
Here’s another helpful app for dropshippers. Spocket essentially helps you identify the best US and EU products to sell, plus leverage its expansive marketplace to link up with suppliers who are positioned closest to your target market. Consequently, you’ll be able to maintain a favorable shipping delivery record of 2-5 days. This platform also comes with a large database that makes the product searching process conveniently easily. In addition to that, you can take advantage of Spocket to automate your Shopify dropshipping business.
Don't forget to read our Spocket review.
6. Facebook Messenger Marketing
Pricing: Free
Did you know Facebook Messenger boasts an average open rate that's as high as 80%?
So unsurprisingly, more and more entrepreneurs are using plugins to interact with their Facebook Messenger subscribers. From there, they can do all sorts of things to build a relationship with them.
For example-
- Sending order receipts
- Sending shipping updates
- Launch marketing campaigns to different segments of your following
7. Shopify POS
Pricing: Free to $40 per month
If you own a physical store, or you'd like to sell product while on the move, the Shopify POS app provides a beautiful mobile app and a free card reader. It sends email receipts, accepts payments and tracks everything from orders to customers.
Don't forget to read our Shopify POS review.
8. Privy – Free email popups
Pricing: Free ($24 per month for the next plan up)
Create banners, announcement bars and popups with the Privy app. It all ties into your cart abandonment and exit intent strategy, and you can integrate with platforms like Mailchimp, Soundest and Adroll.
Dont forget to read our Privy review.
9. Parcelify
Pricing: $7.99 per month, 30-day free trial
It doesn't matter whether you're setting up shipping rates for local or international deliveries because the Parcelify app allows for custom shipping rates. For example, you could specify that local customers get cheaper shipping, while international folks have to pay a little more.
10. Pre-Order Manager
Pricing: $24.95 per month
The whole point of the Pre-Order Manager app is to accept pre-orders from your customers, all without having to pay for the app. You can enable this for individual products and even limit the number of pre-orders that come in for each of your products.
11. Free Shipping & Hello Bar
Pricing: $8.95 per month
Whether you're offering a free gift, free shipping or any other type of promotion, you should consider utilizing this free promotional bar that pops up when someone is browsing your site. Adding links and buttons is possible with Free Shipping and Hello Bar, and you can change around the location, color and overall style of your bar.
12. Bold Social Autopilot
Pricing: Free
The Bold Social AutoPilot app delivers Twitter tweets and Pinterest pins to those networks without you having to think about anything. The tool pulls from your product pages and blog posts, so you'll never have empty social feeds again.
13. WhatShare
Pricing: Free
The WhatShare app offers a simple social sharing button that has shown to improve conversions and get the word out about your products. It consolidates all of the sharing buttons into one, and you can track all of the products and pages getting shared.
14. Instafeed
Pricing: Free plan available
If your products make for quality Instagram posts, there's no reason you shouldn't be showing an Instagram gallery on your Shopify store. Instafeed app lets you select how many photos to put in the live feed, engaging more customers and showing them you have an Instagram page.
15. Quickbooks® Sync by Bold
Pricing: Free plan available
We recommend installing the Intuit app if that's the software you use for your bookkeeping. It lets you export orders directly into QuickBooks, and you receive some seamless reporting to view with the click of a button.
16. TRUST
Pricing: Free plan available
Sometimes you have to pay for security and trust seals to make your customers feel confident about shopping at your site. TRUST gives you plenty of seals for free, including a PCI Compliance Seal, SSL Seal, Secure Architecture Seal, and Money Back Guarantee Seal
17. ShipMonk | Order Fulfillment
Pricing: Free to install
ShipMonk (read our ShipMonk review) provides a powerful order fulfillment service that enables eCommerce entrepreneurs to adopt a more proactive attitude towards shipping and fulfillment.
‘How?!' we hear you cry.
Well, this software permits users to track their SKUs across a plethora of sales channels. You can also group together infinite product combinations, so you can make edits to your products without having to worry about the effect it'll have on:
- Tracking,
- Stock levels,
- Order fulfillment,
How clever is that?!
18. Infinite Options
Pricing: Free
If your product needs to be personalized in any way, or if you have lots of product variants, we recommend checking out the free Infinite Options app. You receive an unlimited number of product options, such as engraving, monogramming, radio boxes, dropdown menus and more.
19. Low Stock Alert
Pricing: From $5.99 per month
Most smaller stores don't need a complicated restocking tool. So the Low Stock Alert app sends you email notifications when an item is low or out of stock. You can import and export CSV, while also looking at a full grid with stock levels.
20. Restocked Alerts – Back in stock alerts
Pricing: Free Trial (Starting at $14.99 per month)
Here's another option for managing your inventory. The main difference is that the Restocked Alerts app notifies customers when an item is back in stock. Therefore, you can improve your sales through customers who showed interest but missed out on full shelves.
21. ByteStand – Amazon to Shopify in one click
Pricing: Free Trial (Starting at $10 per month)
Many businesses only sell on Amazon. But if you're thinking of also opening a Shopify store, the ByteStand app is the way to do it. Capture everything from images to complete product listings, and watch as one button populates the Shopify store with all items in your Amazon shop.
22. SEO Manager
Pricing: Starting at $20 per month
From managing 404 errors to templating titles, the SEO Manager app launches your SEO options to a new level. Whether it's Google, Bing or Yahoo, features like SEO scanning, suggestions, advanced meta settings and sitemap management are sure to move you up in the search rankings.
23. Pop-Up Window
Pricing: Starting at $5.95 per month
The Pop-Up Window app has mobile responsive pop-up windows and forms, and it integrates with services like Mailchimp and Klaviyo. Coupon codes are available, and you get other features like exporting, customization, frequency changes and typography options.
24. Last Second Coupon by Hextom
Pricing: Free to $5.99 per month
This app has advanced targeting and amazing customization tools by popping a coupon in front of customers who are trying to leave. For example, using Last Second Coupon, you could grab sales from abandoned carts and window shoppers.
25. ReCharge Recurring Billing & Subscriptions
Pricing: (Free trial for 60 days) Starting at $39.99 per month
This is the most robust recurring billing app with an onslaught of features. Customers can manage subscriptions from your website, while you can decide when to bill your customers. Along with bulk imports, major credit card integrations and multiple delivery options, the ReCharge app stands out.
26. Data Export
Pricing: Starting from $5 per month
Data Export can help you report and analyze any data from your store. Hundreds of Shopify merchants use Data export for sales, inventory, refunds, tax, billing, fulfillment, accounting, payout and many more custom reports. Data Export can be used to create custom dashboard using Google Sheets.
27. Cross-Sell
Pricing: Starting at $19.99 per month
The Cross-Sell app puts you in control of what you'd like your relevant products to be. Instead of relying on an algorithm, you choose the related up sells based on complementary items and more information. You can specify how many cross-sells to show, and it lets you customize the text above the recommendations.
28. Social Login
Pricing: Starting at $1.49 per month
The Social Login app links with services like Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon to provide quick logins for your customers.
29. Covet.pics – Custom & Instagram Galleries
Pricing: Free to $49.99 per month
Generate galleries from Instagram, or make your own using the Covet.pics app. The shoppable galleries sell products directly from your photos, and you can curate the images from places like Instagram or your own custom photos.
30. Reviews+Wishlist+Loyalty +more
Pricing: Starting at $9 per month
Reviews+Wishlist+Loyalty +more boosts social sharing, encourages reviews and rewards customers for taking action on your site. For example, the system prompts buyers to make reviews and share their purchases with friends.
31. Correios – SEDEX – PAC
Pricing: Starting at $4.99 per month
Correios is one of our favorite shipping apps, since it automatically shows customers shipping times and costs involved with each purchase.
32. Store Pickup + Delivery
Pricing: Starting at $29 per month
Here's an app that's ideal for stores with brick and mortar shops as well. You can offer in-store pickup, or customers can choose to have their products delivered locally. In addition, the Store Pickup + Delivery app provides in-store up-selling features.
33. ShipStation
Pricing: Starting at $9 per month
ShipStation lets you consolidate orders from multiple channels, print shipping labels and gain the best USPS shipping rates possible. You also get a mobile app for managing the whole process.
Don't forget to ckeck out our ShipStation review.
34. Bulk Product Edit by Hextom
Pricing: Free to $79.99 per month
Interested in bulk editing multiple product prices, product types, weights or descriptions? Bulk Product Edit allows you to edit by collection, keywords and other parameters. You no longer have to edit each product individually.
35. TradeGecko Inventory Management
Pricing: Starting at $99 per month
TradeGecko is known to make your inventory much easier to manage, so this app syncs TradeGecko with Shopify to monitor inventory and stock levels. All the data is provided in real time.
36. Tidio Live Chat
Pricing: Free to $12 per month
For a more advanced live chat module on your site, the Tidio app lets you always remain online for chatting via mobile devices. You can send automated messages, change languages and view all users on your site.
37. Product Questions and Answers
Pricing: Free to $4.99 per month
This is similar to the Questions area on Amazon. The Product Questions and Answers app asks customers to post questions on a product page. When an answer is submitted it goes on the product page and sends an email to the customer.
38. Sufio – Automatic Invoices
Pricing: Starting at $9 per month
Whether you're offering services or large batch order for B2B clients, invoices come in handy. The Sufio app automatically sends the invoices for each order.
39. Improved Contact Form
Pricing: Free plan available
Most Shopify stores come with contact forms, but this one has more to it. The Improved Contact Form app offers popup contact widgets and webpages, along with customizable form fields. Finally, the intelligent form tells you where customers are located before talking to them.
40. Crush.pics – Image Compression
Pricing: Free to $19.99 per month
Speed up your site by compressing images automatically! The process is rather simple: Once installed, the Crush.pics app provides lossless compression for current and future images.
41. Xporter Data Export Tool
Pricing: Starting at $7 per month
We like the Exporter app because it exports data like customers, articles, sales stats and orders in one spreadsheet.
42. Lucky Orange for Shopify
Pricing: Starting at $10 per month
Lucky Orange plays a video of users walking through your website. Combined with heatmaps, polls and form analytics, it gives you insights into when and why customers are leaving your site.
43. HelpCenter – Build an Attractive FAQs Page
Pricing: Free
You should have a FAQs page on your Shopify store. However, there's no need to spend much time on it. Therefore, consider utilizing the HelpCenter app to make a searchable FAQ with beautiful articles, categories, and sections.
Which Shopify Apps Are Best for You?
Now that you've had a chance to see our favorite Shopify apps, feel free to recommend some other options in the comments below. We covered just about every category needed for a successful shop, but we know there are plenty more awesome Shopify apps out there.
