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Best Shopify Retail Apps

The 10 strongest of the 10 retail apps in our index of the Shopify App Store category chart, scored on four things we measure ourselves: how many stores use it, how well those stores rate it, whether it is gaining or losing ground, and what it costs. No editor picks the order, and nobody can pay to move up it.

Apps in category
10
Top score
92
With a free plan
7 of 10
Rank tracked for
9 days

The short answer

Five ways to be the right retail app. Each award is the highest scorer that fits it, and no app can win twice.

Best overall

The highest total score in the category: 520 reviews at 4.9, and 100 out of 100 on adoption against every other retail app.

Best paid app

No free tier, so the price component holds it down the ranked list — but 78 merchants rate it 4.9, and it starts at $10.79/month.

Fastest growing

Gained 4 reviews in the last 9 days.

Most established

371 reviews — more than anything else Shopify files under retail — and still rated 4.9.

The full ranking

Sorted by BestAppify Score. The four bars under each app are its percentile within this category on each component — a 90 on adoption means only a tenth of retail apps have more reviews.

  1. 1
    Easy Appointment Booking App

    Easy Appointment Booking App lets you take appointments on Shopify. Scheduling for your own calendar of events. Booking appointments for retail, jewelry, wine.

    4.9(520)Free · then $15Category rank 1 0
    92
    score
    Adoption
    100
    Satisfaction
    100
    Momentum
    60
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  2. 2
    Yanet Retail Barcode Labels

    If you are looking for a professional yet simple-to-use solution on creating and printing product barcode labels, our Barcode Label app is absolute...

    4.9(442)Free · then $7.99Category rank 2 0
    80.8
    score
    Adoption
    89
    Satisfaction
    89
    Momentum
    40
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  3. 3
    MS Barcode Labels & Generator

    Magestore's barcode generator for Shopify simplifies and speeds up the process of generating and printing retail barcode labels.

    4.9(371)Free · then $7.99Category rank 3 0
    73.6
    score
    Adoption
    78
    Satisfaction
    78
    Momentum
    40
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  4. 4
    Easyteam POS Time Clock In

    Time tracking, scheduling, checklists, sales commissions, and payroll for all types of retailers using the Shopify POS (Point of Sale)

    4.9(301)Free · then $30Category rank 4 0
    65
    score
    Adoption
    67
    Satisfaction
    67
    Momentum
    33
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  5. 5
    PML Stock Take Inventory Count

    Inventory management for Shopify stores. Track stock levels, run stock takes, inventory counts, manage transfers, create purchase orders & prevent stock issues.

    4.9(78)$10.79/moCategory rank 5 0
    59.6
    score
    Adoption
    56
    Satisfaction
    56
    Momentum
    53
    Price
    85
    View on the Shopify App Store
  6. 6
    Novel: Wallet Pass for Brands

    Apple and Google Wallet Passes for Brands

    5(12)Free · then $299Category rank 8 0
    36.1
    score
    Adoption
    22
    Satisfaction
    44
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  7. 7
    POS Time Tracker by ATeam Apps

    POS Time Tracker is an easy-to-use time-tracking app built into Shopify POS and Shopify Admin. Staff can clock in and out directly from any Shopify POS device.

    4.8(46)$15/moCategory rank 6 0
    34.2
    score
    Adoption
    44
    Satisfaction
    33
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    58
    View on the Shopify App Store
  8. 8
    POS Staff Time Clock In

    Streamline team management with Zon, the all-in-one staff management system for Shopify POS. Effortlessly track time, manage schedules, commissions, payroll.

    4.8(39)Free · then $24.99Category rank 7 0
    33.3
    score
    Adoption
    33
    Satisfaction
    22
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  9. 9
    Digno

    With digno you can easily measure performance of your stores and personnel as digno calculates a multi-factor score that is based on sales progress...

    4.9(2)Free · then $29Category rank 10 0
    18.3
    score
    Adoption
    0
    Satisfaction
    11
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  10. 10
    Mobile Self‑Checkout With QRs

    Boost sales & reduce lines with Leav’s mobile self-checkout for Shopify. Easy to install, no hardware needed—scan, pay, and go in seconds.

    3.4(3)$20/moCategory rank 9 0
    8.4
    score
    Adoption
    11
    Satisfaction
    0
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    30
    View on the Shopify App Store

How the score is calculated

The BestAppify Score is four measurements, each turned into a percentile against the other retail apps and then weighted. It is computed from our own crawl of the App Store — no human ranks these, and no app can pay to move.

Adoption35%
Review count on a log scale. It is the only public proxy for how many stores actually run the app, and the log stops a single 43,000-review incumbent from flattening everything beneath it.
Satisfaction30%
The star rating, shrunk toward the category average in proportion to how few reviews back it. Half of all rated Shopify apps show exactly 5.0 off a median of four reviews, so the raw number separates almost nothing.
Momentum20%
Reviews gained and category-rank movement over the last 52 days, from our own daily snapshots of the App Store charts. An app losing ground scores badly here even if its lifetime totals look strong.
Price15%
A plan a live store can stay on for $0 takes the top of this component; paid apps are ranked cheapest-first across a narrower band, so price nudges the order without overruling thousands of merchants.

What it cannot see: whether the app is any good at the job. Nothing here reads the feature list or installs the app, so treat the score as a shortlist, not a verdict — it tells you which two or three of these 10 are worth an hour of your evening, and no more than that. Apps whose pricing the crawler could not read score below the paid range on price rather than in the middle of it, deliberately: a price you cannot check before installing is a cost too. Momentum is measured over the last 9 days — the run of days on which our coverage of this category has been complete enough for one day's rank to mean the same thing as another's. It is deliberately shorter for categories we finished crawling recently: a rank of 4th out of the 28 apps we had in July is not comparable to 6th out of 436 today, and treating it as though it were would have scored every established app in some categories as falling.

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