Best Shopify Apps You're Not Using in 2026 (5 to Install Now)

In short: The five best Shopify apps most stores have not installed yet are EZstock, EZDrop, EZBundle, PopBoost and Quizzo. I ranked them by what each one does that the popular app in its category can't, not by how many installs it has. EZstock moves you off Stocky and brings your suppliers and costs with you, not just your purchase orders. EZDrop is a drop waitlist where every friend a customer refers moves them up the line. EZBundle warns you before a bundle sells at a loss. PopBoost puts seven conversion tools in one app instead of five. Quizzo turns a product quiz into a ready-to-buy bundle. All five have a real free plan and cost less than the big-name app they beat.

One thing first: I built all five of these apps, under the name Extensions Market. So read this as the person who made them telling you where each one beats the popular option and why. You can check every claim on the live App Store listing, and every app is free to start, so you can test it on your own store before you pay anything.

Here is why I did not rank them by installs. An app is not like a physical product. Once the code is written, adding one more store costs the maker almost nothing. So the price of the well-known app is a little bit the software and mostly the brand and the pile of reviews it built up over the years. A high install count only tells you which app came out first. It does not tell you which one does more for your store.

The App Store hides this. The apps at the top of a search got there by launching early and spending on ads, so their spot is about age and budget, not whether they do the job best. A newer app can do the same thing, or more, for less money and still show almost no reviews, because reviews only pile up with time. This list is about that gap.

The five jobs and the cheaper pick for each

1. Inventory: EZstock instead of the Stocky scramble

Shopify is retiring Stocky, the inventory and purchase-order app a lot of stores relied on. One distinction matters here, because it gets confused often: Stocky is a separate app that is being discontinued, and Shopify's built-in inventory tracking is not going anywhere. What you lose when Stocky goes is the reorder machinery, the purchase orders, the demand forecasting, and the supplier records.

The obvious replacements, Sumtracker at around $49 a month and Qoblex closer to $99, are capable apps. The catch shows up during migration. Most inventory apps import your open purchase orders and then hand you empty tables for everything else. You re-enter every supplier, re-key every lead time, and remap every SKU to its cost by hand. For a real catalog that is days of work, and it is why so many stores put the move off until it becomes urgent.

EZstock's one edge over the pricier apps is that it brings the parts they leave behind. From a Stocky export it moves over your suppliers, their lead times, and the cost of each SKU, not just the purchase orders, so your whole reorder setup comes with you. On day one it can already tell you what to reorder and from whom. Beyond the migration it does the daily work too: barcode counting with a scanner or your phone, PDF purchase orders, demand forecasting from real sales velocity, and inventory that updates on receipt. It also answers inventory questions inside Shopify Sidekick, so you can ask what to reorder and get a real list back.

Price: free for up to 5 purchase orders a month with unlimited suppliers and products, then $19, $49, and $99 plans, each with a 14-day trial. That is cheaper than Qoblex at the top and starts at zero.

→ Get EZstock on the Shopify App Store

2. Drop waitlists: EZDrop instead of a flat email list

If you run limited releases, the standard tool is a "notify me" or waitlist app that collects an email and sends a message when the product lands. EQL is the best-known name aimed squarely at launches and drops. These apps do the front half well and then stop: the list you build is flat, and the launch is one blast to everyone at once.

EZDrop's advantage is that the waitlist is a competitive, referring queue rather than a flat list. A customer joins the waitlist for a drop and gets a personal referral link. Every friend they bring in moves them up a live leaderboard, and when the drop opens the top of the queue gets first access. It is the mechanic Robinhood used to turn a signup form into a viral loop: your place in line is visible, and you improve it by recruiting. That turns each signup into a small distribution channel instead of a dead-end address.

There is a second feature ad buyers will care about. EZDrop hosts its own drop and share pages and fires view and signup events into TikTok, Meta, Google and X from them, signals your storefront pixels never see because the action happens off your theme. For a pre-launch product with no sales yet, that is a rare source of optimization data. Checkout stays native Shopify; payment is never touched.

Price: free for 1 active drop and 500 entries, then Growth at $19 a month and Pro at $49 a month, with a 7-day trial on the paid tiers.

→ Get EZDrop on the Shopify App Store

3. Bundles: EZBundle instead of bundling blind

Bundling is one of the most dependable ways to lift average order value, and one of the easiest ways to sell at a loss without noticing. The popular bundle apps, BOLD Bundles at around $19.99 and Bundler near $9.99, build the bundle and apply the discount, and that is where they stop. None of them check what the products in the bundle actually cost you. If your discount cuts past the margin on the lowest-margin item, the bundle loses money on every sale and nothing warns you.

EZBundle's advantage is a live margin guardrail. As you build a bundle it reads each component's cost from Shopify's own cost-per-item field, or a manual override, and shows your true margin after the discount in real time: green above your target, amber when thin, red when the bundle would sell at a loss. Cross the line and it does not just color a number. It names the lowest-margin product dragging you under and tells you the price or discount that lifts the whole bundle back above your floor, which you set yourself and which defaults to 15 percent. In a category that treats every bundle as pure upside, it is the only one I know with a true-margin-at-build-time view.

To keep this honest: that margin math is build-time and cost-based only. It compares product cost to the discounted price. It does not fold in ad spend or shipping across a whole order. Its job is narrow on purpose, stopping one bundle from going underwater before you publish it.

Price: free for 1 fixed bundle with a basic guardrail, then Starter at $9 a month and Growth at $19 a month, with a 7-day trial. That sits under BOLD while adding the one feature BOLD lacks.

→ Get EZBundle on the Shopify App Store

4. Social proof: PopBoost instead of five separate apps

The usual way to add urgency and social proof is to stack apps: one for the sales popup, another for the countdown timer, a third for badges, a fourth for the free-shipping bar. ToastiBar and FOMO are the well-reviewed names here, and a single one runs anywhere from about $10 to $30 a month. Stack four of them and you have four subscriptions, four scripts loading on your storefront, and four things to configure.

PopBoost's advantage is that it is seven conversion widgets in one app: a social-proof and recent-sales popup, a countdown timer, a stock countdown bar, product badges, an announcement bar, a free-shipping progress bar, and an exit-intent popup. One install, one subscription, one place to manage all of it. The free plan is unusually complete: it includes all seven widgets, not a locked-down one or two, with the only limit being that you run one at a time and show a small badge. Paying removes the one-at-a-time cap and the badge, rather than being the price of entry to the features at all.

Because everything lives in one app, the widgets share a design and match your theme together instead of four unrelated apps each rendering in their own style.

Price: free forever with all seven widgets, then Pro at $19 a month to run them all at once and remove the badge, with a 14-day trial. One $19 plan against a stack of single-purpose subscriptions is the whole pitch.

→ Get PopBoost on the Shopify App Store

5. Product quizzes: Quizzo instead of a recommendation dead-end

Product quizzes help a shopper who does not know exactly what they want, and RevenueHunt is the app to beat in the category. Most quiz apps, including the big ones, do the front half well: they ask questions and recommend products. Where they tend to stop is the recommendation itself. The shopper gets a list and then has to add things to the cart, and any discount you promised depends on them entering a code.

Quizzo's edge is that it takes the shopper all the way to the end. They answer the quiz, spin a prize wheel for a reward, get a bundle matched to their answers, and the bundle discount is added at checkout on its own, with no coupon code, using a Shopify Function. The reward can never go past a limit you set, up to 50 percent, so a spin will never give away more than you allow. Quiz, spin, bundle, and automatic discount in one flow is something the others do not do. It works for any kind of store, and it can build a quiz from your products for you or let you make one by hand.

Price: a single plan at $19 a month with a 3-day trial. One flat price, and the flow ends at a priced, checkout-ready bundle rather than a plain list.

→ Get Quizzo on the Shopify App Store

How to judge a cheaper app with almost no reviews

The fair objection to this whole list is the review counts. Most of these apps have very few. That is worth noticing and a poor thing to decide on, because review count is mostly a clock. It measures how long an app has been installed and how much its maker spent getting seen, not whether it does your job well. Judge a low-review app the way you would judge a contractor with no reviews yet: on the work, not the star count.

Three checks do most of the job. Install the free plan and run it against your real store, not a demo, so you see how it behaves on your own data. Send support a real question before you commit, because on a small app you are often talking to the person who built it, and the answer tells you a lot. And read the feature list literally, testing the one claim that matters to you rather than the marketing around it. Every app here has a genuine free plan precisely so this kind of trial costs you nothing.

Which one to try first

These are five separate apps for five separate jobs, so the right first install is whichever cost is bothering you most. If you are staring down the Stocky retirement, EZstock saves you the manual rebuild. If your average order value is flat, EZBundle and Quizzo attack it from different angles. If you pay for a stack of conversion apps, PopBoost collapses them into one bill. If you have a launch coming, EZDrop makes the run-up build its own list. None of them needs the others to be worth it; each earns its place on the one feature its pricier rival left out.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are cheaper Shopify apps with few reviews safe to use? Review count mostly reflects how old an app is and how much its maker spends on marketing, not how good or safe it is. A newer app can do the job better than one with hundreds of reviews and simply not have been found yet. The honest test is to install the free plan, run it on your own store, and see how fast support answers. Every app here has a free plan for that reason.

What is the cheapest replacement for Stocky? EZstock starts free for up to 5 purchase orders a month and is built specifically to replace Stocky, importing your suppliers, lead times and per-SKU costs from a Stocky export rather than just your purchase orders. Stocky is the app being discontinued; Shopify's built-in inventory tracking is unaffected.

Is there a cheaper alternative to BOLD Bundles? EZBundle runs from free to $19 a month, under BOLD Bundles at around $19.99, and adds a live margin guardrail that warns you before a bundle discounts into a loss, which BOLD does not include. It supports fixed, mix-and-match and volume bundles with the discount applied automatically.

Do I need a separate app for popups, countdowns and badges? No. PopBoost includes seven conversion widgets in a single app, including a social-proof popup, countdown timer, badges, announcement bar, free-shipping bar and exit-intent popup, and the free plan includes all seven. That replaces a stack of single-purpose apps that would each carry their own subscription.

How much would all five apps cost together? Every one has a free plan, so you can run the whole set for nothing to start. If you moved each to its top paid plan, the total is about $205 a month, but most stores run a mix of free and one or two paid plans. Each plan is a flat price and does not go up as your sales grow.