Top Apps and Tools For Shopify Stores

We've spent over 6 years working with Shopify stores in various industries. In that time we've seen plenty of stores with similar problems and needs. Here are our favourite tools for building high quality Shopify websites.
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Shopify tools & apps

Shopify Page Builders

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Shogun

The leading app for creating custom landing pages in Shopify. Build pages with and easy to use drag-and-drop interface. Lots of templates to choose from. It's the most expensive app though.

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Pagefly

A cheaper alternative to Shogun. Pagefly is great if you only need a few custom pages. They even have a free plan.

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GemPages

Another page builder that is great if you have lots of landing pages that are not product pages. You get an unlimited amount of these pages, whereas the above apps always have limits on the number of pages.

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Shogun vs Pagefly vs Gempages - Price Comparison

Not sure which one to choose? Check out our blog post where we compare the three page builder apps.

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Review Apps

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Yotpo

One of the leading review apps with a tonne of features - regular reviews, photo reviews, and lots of customization options for the design.

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JudgeMe

Great customer support. Google rich Snippets. Add the app in multiple places on the site - under the title, on the collection page, or create a separate reviews page. Sync across multiple stores.

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Shopify Product Reviews

A very lightweight app from Shopify themselves. This app just does the basics but it's great if your main priority is keeping your store fast and snappy.

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Email Marketing Tools

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Klaviyo

The most feature-rich email marketing software, built specifically for eCommerce. Klaviyo has it's own Shopify app so integration is simple and seamless. The professional email marketers choice for large stores and complex email automation.

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ConvertKit

A lightweight and user-friendly system for smaller stores and beginners in email marketing. ConvertKit will provide lots of guidance and simplify the process. The emails are clean and minimalist.

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Mailchimp

One of the oldest and most well-known email marketing softwares. Mailchimp is used for a large variety of industries. It is a bit cheaper than Klaviyo but does not have a Shopify App. Meaning you must use ShopSync or Zapier to connect to Shopify.

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Shopify Email

Just launched this year, Shopify Email is an email marketing system built-in to Shopify. It's strength is the easy integration with the store, but the minus is that it's very lightweight and you need to add extra apps to do things like automated emails.

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Image Optimization

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Squooosh

Before we upload images to a store, we use Squooosh.com to compress them. Compressing images means faster loading times and more SEO-friendly web pages!

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Affiliate / Referral Rewards

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Referral Candy

Offer your customers rewards for referring their friends. You can reward them in cash or discounts. Depending on your product this can be an incredibly profitable marketing strategy.

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Refersion

The most popular referral software for digital products. Use this one if you are selling ebooks, courses or other downloadable products.

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Finding Shopify Developers

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Storetasker

Hand-picked experts for high-quality development, design, and marketing. Storetasker would be my go-to if I wanted to outsource some Shopify Development.

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Shopify Experts

Vetted by Shopify but can be hit-and-miss. A lot of these experts got on the platform a long time ago and are no longer as active, or their teams have changed.

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Upwork

Lower budget but you can find good ones if you look around and know exactly who you are looking for how to recognize quality professionals.

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Additional Product Options

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Bold Product Options

A tried-and-tested app for creating additional product options for your Shopify store. It isn't the most user-friendly but it does the job on thousands of stores.

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Infinite Options

A more lightweight and modern app than Bold Product Options. Their support teams is more focused on this app, whereas Bold has many different apps.

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Subscriptions

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ReCharge

The market leader when integrating subscription functionality on your Shopify store. Excellent support team, agency partners ecosystem, and tools for extending the app.

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Bold Subscriptions

Alternative to ReCharge. I used this app when ReCharge was not an option. Good for CBD industry.

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Booster Apps

Just the most lightweight, non-intrusive and customizable GDPR app I could find. This is what I use when I'm not coding the GDPR banner myself.

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Country Redirect Popup

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Cozy Country Redirect

This app lets you show a popup to people coming from the wrong country for your store. Lots of design options for the popup. Add UTM tags so you can track in Google Analytics. Great customer support!

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