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These are the best Shopify apps to grow your ecommerce store revenues in 2022.
We focused on apps that would help you grow your brand, your business, or your revenues. There are many lists of ‘Best Shopify apps’ out there, but we didn’t want to focus on apps dealing with dropshipping, inventory, or fulfilment.
Instead, we identified 40 Shopify apps that fell into one of two categories:
Without further ado, let’s take a look:
40 Best Shopify Apps to Grow Your Ecommerce Store in 2022
Shopify’s Google Channel makes it easy for you to list products for free on Google and run Smart Shopping campaigns.
Reach more customers across YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, and Google Display Network.
Free trial: Free to install
Price: Free; the ad spend is billed directly to Google Ads
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CedCommerce’s Suite for Google Shopping Fed surfaces your products on various Google properties, like Buy On Google, Shopping Ads, Local Inventory Ads, and more.
Free trial: Free plan available, 7-day free trial.
Price: From $14/month
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AdRoll powers advertising and remarketing campaigns for thousands of merchants, and boasts the ability to run a campaign that integrates email and ads.
AdRoll boasts AI-optimized ads on Google, Facebook, Instagram, and over 500 networks.
Free trial: 30-day free trial, Free plan available
Price: From $25/month, plus advertising costs
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Automizely Traffic lets you target and retarget customers with the right ads at the right time.
The ads exchange allows you to display your products in other stores, in exchange for promoting partner ads on your website - a win-win for both your stores.
Free trial: Free!
Price: Free!
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VideoWise allows you to embed shoppable videos from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube on your store in a page-speed friendly way.
You can also add buy buttons to the video player to boost engagement and conversion rates.
Free trial: 14-day free trial
Price: From $49/month plus 2% of direct video orders
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Outfy makes it easy to create product collages, videos, gifs, and ads, and publish them to top social media networks like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and more.
The autopilot feature allows you to curate and publish posts automatically to promote and sell more.
Free trial: 7-day free trial.
Price: From $15/month
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Instagram Feed + Stories allows you to publish Instagram Stories and highlights to your website.
If you’re working with Instagram influencers, this app will be a perfect complement to your campaign.
Free trial: Free to install
Price: $4.95/month after 1,000 page visits
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Instafeed allows you to embed shoppable Instagram feeds on your Shopify store.
You can use Instagram to drive new traffic and content to your store, expand the reach to your followers, and convert store visitors into customers.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $4.99/month
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ReferralCandy helps you grow your sales through word-of-mouth marketing, by rewarding customers for referring their friends. We also allow brands to run an affiliate program with cash payouts for successful purchases.
ReferralCandy powers referral programs for over 3,000 brands, and is one of the best Shopify and Shopify Plus referral apps out there.
Free trial: 30-day free trial
Price: $49/month plus commissions
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The Dovetale Community platform offers key features to manage an influencer marketing platform.
Dovetale’s key features include custom recruitment pages, easy gifting templates to send gifts at scales, as well as easy tracking of commissions and payouts through PayPal.
Free trial: Free plan available; 7-day free trial
Price: From $19/month
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Smile.io is a loyalty platform best known for customer retention and VIP programs, but they also offer rewards for referral programs. Smile.io allows you to quickly set up and run your rewards program.
Boost new and repeat sales with Smile.io, the trusted loyalty provider for over 50,000 stores.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $49/month
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Goaffpro’s professional affiliate marketing app aims to turn your customers into marketing partners and affiliates.
Goaffpro also allows your affiliates to bring in other affiliates, to grow your network and revenues exponentially.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $24 per month
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Refersion is a complete marketing platform for influence, affiliate, and brand ambassadors. You can even find new affiliates and influencers in the Refersion Marketplace for free.
Refersion offers a customizable affiliate registration page, dashboards to track performance, as well as automatic coupon code creation for rewards.
Free trial: 14-day free trial
Price: $89/month with performance-based pricing
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Junip makes it easy to request customer reviews and display them on your product pages to help you convert customers. It also features review replies, Google Reviews snippets, and incentives for reviews.
Junip powers over 2,000 Shopify brands including top DTC brands like Doe Lashes, Huron, Baboon to the Moon, and more.
Free trial: 14-day free trial
Price: From $19/month
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Stamped.io is a social proof marketing platform, based on generating high-impact reviews, ratings, community Q&As as well as user-generated content like customer photos and videos.
Stamped.io aims to boost your sales and traffic by generating high-quality, informative reviews and sharing them to Facebook, Google. Instagram and more.
Free trial: 7-day free trial, Free tier available
Price: From $23/month
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Loox collects photo and video reviews, prompts customers for referrals, and displays the social proof with beautiful-looking widgets.
By collecting social proof and driving word-of-mouth, Loox aims to drive customer retention and build brand awareness to drive revenue.
Free trial: 14-day free trial
Price: From $9.99/month, +$5 for Loox referrals
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Reviewbit’s WhatsApp Customer Reviews prompts customers to create photo and product reviews through WhatsApp, which has a 100% open rate and higher response rate.
Best of all, the app integrates with Loox, Yotpo, and Judge.Me, so you can publish reviews collected through WhatsApp
Free trial: No free trial
Price: Free to install, but review requests start at $0.01 per message.
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Judge.me prompts your customers to create star ratings and reviews about your products and Shopify store, then displays it beautifully on your website with theme templates.
Judge.me offers free photo and video reviews, and allows you to publish reviews to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr to boost sales and social proof.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $15/month
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Vitals offers an all-in-one app with marketing and sales features like review, upsell and cross-sell, live chat, conversion optimization, and more.
Vitals is trusted by over 20,000 ecommerce stores to boost sales.
Free trial: 30-day free trial
Price: $29.99/month, with charges for add-ons
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The average attention span of a shopper is five to eight seconds. Product Badges aims to capture customer attention with badges like “20% Off” or “Best Seller!”
Mode Magic received an award for ease of use from Shopify, and also offers 3,000+ product badges and stickers ready to go.
Free trial: Free plan available; 7-day free trial
Price: From $9/month
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PushOwl allows you to send web push notifications to your customers – to remind them of abandoned carts, discounts, or items back-in-stock.
You can reach out to anonymous shoppers and browsers, get opt-in for email, push or text notifications, and turn them into subscribers.
Free trial: Free tier available
Price: From $19/month
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Zipify’s One Click Upsell app maximizes the average order value for your customers by offering one-click upsells, both when customers are viewing their cart and during post-purchase checkout.
Zipify also boasts split testing and upsells on the Thank You page, to maximize revenue.
Free trial: 30-day free trial
Price: From $24.99/month
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ReConvert offers you the ability to customize your order confirmation/thank you page, allowing you to create a post-purchase funnel for more upsell opportunities.
Since customers visit the order status page to review shipping updates, it’s a perfect opportunity to retarget customers for an upselling opportunity.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $7.99/month
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Shop-pop helps you reach customers with opt-in alerts on WhatsApp and Messenger. Customers can opt-in to receive alerts for new products, price drops, back-in-stock, and more.
ShopPop boasts 95% open rates for their alerts and easy data sync with Klaviyo.
Free trial: Free for up to 50 customers;
Price: Starting from $8/month
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Klaviyo is the leading email and text message marketing platform for Shopify. 265,000 businesses rely on Klaviyo to drive marketing for them.
Klaviyo integrates with other ecommerce platforms as well as plenty of apps (including ReferralCandy),
Free trial: Free tier
Price: Email starting from $20/month, SMS from $5/month
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Thousands of Shopify and Shopify Plus stores use Postscript as a turnkey solution for their SMS marketing.
Postscript also boasts a Safe Send feature to avoid sending too many text messages to a single customer.
Free trial: 30-day free trial
Price: From $25/month, with additional credits for SMS or MMS.
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Omnisend is an email and SMS marketing platform powering over 70,000 ecommerce merchants and a 9.3 ease-of-use rating on G2.
Omnisend allows you to send stunning newsletters, create automated ecommerce flows, and collect email and SMS opt-ins.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $16/month
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Privy offers a suite of marketing tools for SMS and email marketing and conversion-focused tools like pop-ups and wheels.
Privy also offers campaign triggers to show discounts and offers to customers at the right time.
Privy also has the most reviews on our list - over 24,000 reviews at the time of writing!
Free trial: 15-day free trial, Free plan also available
Price: From $15/month
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PageFly helps create beautiful, high quality for Shopify stores - everything from landing pages to FAQs and blog pages.
They also boast an Element Library with templates, custom animations, and trust badges like Reviews, Ratings, and Seals.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $19 per month
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Builder.io offers a powerful drag-and-drop visual editor that allows you to manage and publish content on any site or app -- headless CMS at its finest.
Nik Sharma has spoken highly of Builder.io, which also powers Alo Yoga, Harry’s, Everlane, and more.
Free trial: 14-day free trial
Price: From $20/month, plus additional charges per user and by monthly views
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This app does exactly what it says on the tin - allow you to add a Free Shipping announcement bar to your store. It also auto-detects the customer’s local currency and adjusts the free shipping amount instantly (e.g. Free shipping over $50 in the US and C$70 in Canada).
Research suggests that 88% of consumers would be more likely to shop if they were offered free shipping - so it’s a simple app to increase customers.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $9.99 month
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Gorgias offers a platform for Shopify brands to manage their customer support, all in one place. The centralized CRM offers support on every channel, from email and live chat to phone and social media.
Gorgias boasts a strong integration with Shopify, allowing your customer support team to see order details and refund, cancel or duplicate without leaving the app.
Free trial: 7-day free trial
Price: From $60 per month, plus additional charges per 100 tickets
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Tidio offers a live chat app bolstered by marketing automation and chatbots to address your customers’ needs and increase sales instantly.
Tidio boasts chatbots that can automatically reply to 43% of the most common queries, including questions about tracking and an Abandoned Cart Bot that offers discounts to help convert customers.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $15 per seat per month
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Did you know that consumers check the status of their order at least four times before it’s delivered? These WISMO (Where Is My Order?) tickets are especially frustrating for customers if packages get lost or are delayed, and create a poor impression of your brand.
Wonderment turns order tracking into a growth channel with proactive shipping tracking. You can direct customers to on-brand tracking pages to deliver upsells and a better customer experience.
Free trial: Free plan available for up to 500 orders/month
Price: From $49/month for up to 4000 shipments per month
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Octane AI offers quizzes and pop-ups to create a better shopping experience for customers. From a simple email-capture pop-up to more complicated quizzes about product preferences, Octane AI helps you generate customer insights while staying GDPR compliant.
With the rise of iOS 14 and the age of data privacy, insights from Octane AI will become more valuable to create product recommendations and advanced segmentation. But don’t take our word for it - the official Shopify Hardware store uses Octane AI too!
Free trial: 14-day free trial
Price: Starting at $29 per month
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Retention Rocket helps Shopify stores build a list of phone numbers, engage customers through 1:1 conversations, and automate SMS campaigns.
Retention Rocket prides itself on automated flows like abandoned cart and win-back series, as well as creating granular segments using Shopify data.
Free trial: Free plan available
Price: From $10/month, plus charges per SMS
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Govalo aims to reinvent the gift card for Shopify stores, with gift card purchases, welcome gifts for new customers, and premium analytics and data.
Customers hesitate to make the first purchase because of high price points - a problem Govalo aims to eliminate with their digital gift cards. With the gift card market growing at 14% annually, this could be an interesting app.
Free trial: 7-day free trial
Price: From $0 per month (but 2.9% commission on gift card value) to $500 and 2.4%
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Skio Subscriptions aims to make subscriptions easier - and capture all of Recharge’s customers. They offer merchants an easier way to modify subscriptions, a headless subscription portal, and native Shopify Checkout.
Merchants who are struggling with Bold and Recharge subscription apps can consider Skio as an alternative.
Free trial: 60-day free trial
Price: $299/month plus commissions
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BEST Currency Converter allows you to display prices in different international currencies. The Elite plan even updates the currency automatically, based on your customer’s browsing location.
This makes the shopping experience easier for your international customers.
Free trial: Free tier available
Price: $9.95/month for >5 currencies and auto-switch by customer location
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At the time of publication, there’s a waitlist to try out Triple Whale.
Triple Whale offers a unified dashboard for all your important ecommerce metrics, pulling from your tech stack like Shopify, Klaviyo, Facebook, Gorgias, and more.
We’ve included Triple Whale here because of glowing endorsements from DTC brands like Doe Lashes, Muddy Bites, and Obvi, but we haven’t tried out yet. It’s one to watch, and maybe sign up for, but stay tuned.
Free trial: N/A - Waitlist
Price: N/A - Waitlist
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