Whether you want to add customer reviews, improve email marketing, publish your products to Facebook, or get in-depth analytics, there’s something in the Shopify App Store for you.
But with so much to choose from, we thought it would be a good idea to highlight 20 of the best free Shopify apps (either completely free or that offer a useful free plan) that retailers and marketers can add to their store.
20 of the best Shopify apps for your ecommerce store
If you’re just getting started with a new store or looking to enhance your existing site, then this list is for you.
- Shopify Email
- ReConvert Upsell and Cross Sell
- Peek! ‑ Better Replay & Survey
- ESC ‑ Size Charts & Size Guide
- Jebbit
- PayWhirl
- Tip Quik
- Promo.com
- Easyship
- Pre-Order Alpha
- Change Commerce
- Shopify Local Delivery
- Easy Digital Products
- TikTok
- Stocky
- Printful
- Gameball
- Secommapp
- PixPix
- Smart SEO
1. Shopify Email
If you want to promote your business with email, Shopify Email is a great marketing app for building an email list and managing your campaigns.
With Shopify Email, you can send branded emails to subscribers from your Shopify admin dashboard in just a few clicks. The app has a variety of pre-made templates that pull your logo, product images, descriptions, and more from your store. You can also customize the text and buttons in minutes.
Simply import your contact lists into Shopify. Create and send your campaigns, then track results like opens, clicks, add to carts, and purchases to further optimize your customer acquisition and retention campaigns. You get 10,000 emails for free each month then pay only $1 for every 1,000 emails you send after that.
2. ReConvert Upsell & Cross Sell
Upselling and cross-selling to your customers is a great way to increase cart size and average order value. With ReConvert, you can build a custom thank you page (aka order confirmation page) that turns new customers into repeat ones.
It allows you to customize your landing page with a drag-and-drop website builder and access features such as countdown timers, personalized recommendations, post-purchase surveys, and reorder buttons that help you automatically re-engage customers who just bought in your store.
3. Peek! ‑ Better Replay & Survey
Ever wonder why shoppers don’t convert on your website? Peek! ‑ Better Replay & Survey provides live recordings of shoppers’ sessions so you can see how people interact with your Shopify store and what items they look at.
With this information, you can see and fix where shoppers get stuck and evaluate new ideas to improve conversions and lower abandoned carts in your store.
The best part? The app is free and there’s no coding required.
4. ESC ‑ Size Charts & Size Guide
A must-have for any fashion brand is an easy-to-read size chart. Size guides empower customers to confidently make purchase decisions, helping to recover sales that may have otherwise been lost.
They also help reduce the number of returns and refunds, since sizing issues are less likely to occur when customers know exactly which size fits their needs.
ESC’s size chart app helps merchants create size guides to match the look and feel of their store, and easily paste them into any page on their website. The app has a free plan that allows merchants to create up to three charts and a paid plan is available for merchants who need more.
5. Jebbit: Custom Product Quizzes
Jebbit helps you create beautiful quizzes that customers love to engage with. These match quizzes, also known as shoppable quizzes, can help people find the best fit products in your store to move them along the customer journey, increasing conversions and sales. You can build product match quizzes, personality quizzes, simple surveys, lead gen forms, and more.
Jebbit’s visual builder lets you quickly map out and build these experiences. With no-code design elements and omnichannel distribution, you can meet customers where they shop and provide personalized product recommendations that drive sales for your Shopify store.
6. PayWhirl Recurring Payments
PayWhirl makes it easy to create, manage, and sell subscriptions through Shopify’s native checkout. Customers can set up their own accounts, see their billing history, and make changes to their payment plans any time.
They can also add new payment methods and information associated with their subscription, all without contacting your support team.
7. Tip Quik | Tip Pop-up in Cart
Want to make both your employees and customers happy? Tip Quik gives customers the option to add a tip for workers before checkout. You can design a custom pop-up using Tip Quik, then install the snippet on your checkout page in minutes.
Your employees will be happier with more cash in their pocket, and your customers will have the chance to express their gratitude—win-win for everyone.
8. Promo.com
Promo.com is a free Shopify app that helps you create product videos that drive sales for your store. Video creation requires little to no effort on your part. You just have to choose the type of video you need and the product you want to promote. Then, Promo.com will pull all existing images and video on your website to create a promotional video for your business.
9. Easyship
Easyship is an all-in-one shipping app that helps you reach customers around the world with lower shipping costs and higher conversion rates. Over 100,000 retailers use Easyship to save time and money for their delivery services.
When you use Easyship, you get access to pre-negotiated shipping solutions from couriers around the world through a single account. It also provides an intuitive dashboard where you can manage orders, including printing shipping labels, storing product dimensions, accessing invoices and receipts, generating return orders, and more.
10. Pre-Order Alpha
Pre-Order Alpha provides a fast and flexible way to sell pre-order, out-of-stock, and coming-soon products in your store. Using Pre-Order Alpha, you can highlight pre-order products with customized ribbons, add Pre-Order Now buttons to your product page, and automatically tag pre-order items in your admin, so you can stay organized and keep track of everything.
Setup takes five minutes, and there’s an excellent technical support team to help you out along the way.
11. Change Commerce
Change Commerce is a donation app that lets customers give to a cause, directly from your store. It supports any 501(c)3 nonprofit. You can place your donation request widget on a product page, a shopping cart, or at checkout.
If a customer decides to donate, Change Commerce manages the entire donation process, giving you the opportunity to create a positive impact with little effort.
12. Shopify Local Delivery
Consumer trends show that more people bought online and had it delivered locally during the first three months of the pandemic than ever before. Shopify Local Delivery is a free app that helps any brick-and-mortar business capitalize on this new behavior.
You can choose your delivery area and price in your Shopify admin. Customers in your chosen area can choose local delivery during checkout. Shopify Local Delivery helps you manage the process by providing optimized routes, automated push notifications, and order status updates.
All delivery stops show up in a list on the app. After a delivery is completed, the upcoming stops get moved to the top of the list.
13. Easy Digital Products
Easy Digital Products is a great free Shopify app to increase sales for infopreneurs, allowing you to sell digital products easily in your store. You can attach any files to your products or variants, upload them fast, and track all orders in the app. Simply customize the interface, buttons and text with one click.
If you’re an Easy Digital Products user, you can import your own license keys or have the app generate unique ones for each order.
14. TikTok
You’ve likely heard of TikTok, but did you know consumers spent $3.8 billion in the app in 2023? If you want in on the action, use the TikTok Shopify app.
With it, you can create video ads, track results, and manage all your orders inside Shopify. It’s a great way to reach a younger target audience and drive sales on TikTok.
15. Stocky
Smart inventory management is a big advantage to any brick-and-mortar or ecommerce business. If you sell out of in-demand products, it can lower sales—and if you keep too much inventory, you can drain your resources.
Need a simple solution? Use Stocky by Shopify to optimize your inventory decisions. With one tool to manage and track your products, you’ll spend less time worrying about what to buy and more time increasing your profits with the best product mix for your store.
16. Printful
Printful is one of the best print-on-demand dropshipping apps for store owners selling print and embroidered goods like t-shirts and pillows. When a customer buys a product in your Shopify store, Printful automatically fulfills and ships it to them.
The company handles all shipping, inventory, and production, so you can focus on building your business.
17. Gameball: Loyalty & Rewards
Gameball is a customer retention platform that helps you manage loyalty programs to increase referrals and sales. Customers can complete challenges, earn points, and level up through different tiers to earn rewards and discount codes.
Gameball also lets you trigger pop-ups to encourage customers throughout their shopping experience to promote your program, interact with people, and create more loyal customers. The app offers a free forever version, with paid plans starting at $19 per month.
18. UpPromote Affiliate Marketing
If you want to run an affiliate marketing program for your store, you can create, manage, and track affiliates with UpPromote. When you install this free Shopify app, you get access to the UpPromote Affiliate Marketplace and find new affiliate marketers for your store. You can chat directly with influencers from the app, generate affiliate links, and track clicks and sales in one place.
19. PixPix Image Editor
PixPix is an easy-to-use image editor with a ton of great features. The interface is lightweight and user friendly, so you can crop, resize, and adjust color and lighting issues quickly.
It also provides automatic alt text and optimized file names for search engine optimization. You can integrate PixPix directly into your product pages, giving you the ability to edit photos and get your products live and selling faster.
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20. Smart SEO
Ecommerce SEO is a challenge for many business owners. It can take time, resources, and money to build a website and rank it high in search engines. But with Smart SEO, you can automate SEO optimization and drive more traffic to your store.
This free Shopify app automatically generates meta tags and alt tags, fixes broken links, and manages your sitemap to keep your pages Google-friendly. It also provides structured data to Google to boost your search results. All you have to do is choose a template and let Smart SEO do the rest.
Visit the Shopify App Store for more apps
Shopify apps can unlock new functionalities that will optimize your site for a better customer experience and boost sales.
While the apps above are some of the best free apps available in the Shopify App Store, there are cart abandonment, marketing automation, Facebook Messenger, sales channel apps for Amazon, Etsy, and plenty more to leverage for your unique business and keep ecommerce website costs low. It all comes down to finding the best app and pricing that suits your needs.
Visit the Shopify App Store to browse even more apps by use case, and feel free to share your favorites in the comments. Happy selling!
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