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Best Shopify Subscriptions Apps

The 15 strongest of the 15 subscriptions 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
15
Top score
92.6
With a free plan
13 of 15
Rank tracked for
25 days

The short answer

Five ways to be the right subscriptions 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: 8,229 reviews at 5.0, and 100 out of 100 on adoption against every other subscriptions app.

Best free option

The strongest app here with no paid tier at all — 39 reviews, rated 5.0, and $0 whatever your volume.

Best paid app

No free tier, so the price component holds it down the ranked list — but 853 merchants rate it 5.0, and it starts at $9.99/month.

Fastest growing

Gained 46 reviews in the last 25 days.

Most established

2,156 reviews — more than anything else Shopify files under subscriptions — 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 subscriptions apps have more reviews.

  1. 1
    Appstle℠ Subscriptions App

    Set up a powerful E-Commerce Subscription model on your online store. Explore build a box, replenishment, curation and other models today. Migration for Yotpo.

    5(8,229)Free · then $10Category rank 1 0
    92.6
    score
    Adoption
    100
    Satisfaction
    100
    Momentum
    63
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  2. 2
    Kaching Subscriptions App

    Easily launch and manage recurring product subscriptions. Built for growth and retention.

    5(853)$9.99/moCategory rank 6+1
    80.1
    score
    Adoption
    64
    Satisfaction
    86
    Momentum
    96
    Price
    85
    View on the Shopify App Store
  3. 3
    BIG Digital Downloads File PDF

    Sell digital products, music, & ebooks on Shopify. Automate file delivery with secure, protected links. No file size limits. Start your free trial today!

    5(863)Free · then $9.99Category rank 5 0
    74.4
    score
    Adoption
    71
    Satisfaction
    93
    Momentum
    33
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  4. 4
    Appstle℠ Memberships

    Set up a Powerful E-Commerce Membership Model on your online store to boost customer engagement, retention and repeat sales

    5(846)Free · then $19Category rank 7-1
    68
    score
    Adoption
    57
    Satisfaction
    79
    Momentum
    47
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  5. 5
    Seal Subscriptions App

    Shopify subscription app and recurring payments app, packed with features! Unlock consistent monthly recurring subscription revenue on our FREE plan!

    4.9(2,956)Free · then $5.95Category rank 2 0
    62.7
    score
    Adoption
    93
    Satisfaction
    14
    Momentum
    54
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  6. 6
    Appointment Booking Cowlendar

    The #1 scheduling app for Shopify. Sync Google Calendar, take bookings for services or rentals, and send automated reminders. Start your free trial today!

    4.9(2,156)Free · then $13.99Category rank 3 0
    60.6
    score
    Adoption
    86
    Satisfaction
    21
    Momentum
    46
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  7. 7
    Joy Subscriptions App

    Fully customizable subscription app, boost retention, LTV and AOV effortlessly with Joy subscriptions - flexible & built-to-order for any subscription models.

    5(433)Free · then $49Category rank 8 0
    58.8
    score
    Adoption
    50
    Satisfaction
    71
    Momentum
    24
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  8. 8
    Subi Subscriptions App

    Elevate your store's revenue with Subi - the all-in-one subscription and recurring payment tool for products, boxes, memberships, and more. Get started today!

    4.9(899)Free · then $29Category rank 4 0
    58.5
    score
    Adoption
    79
    Satisfaction
    29
    Momentum
    37
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  9. 9
    Easy Subscriptions App

    Scale without friction with Easy Subscriptions app for recurring revenue, subscription boxes, and bundles that improve retention and increase LTV.

    5(191)Free · then $39Category rank 10 0
    54.2
    score
    Adoption
    36
    Satisfaction
    64
    Momentum
    37
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  10. 10
    Simplee Memberships & Loyalty

    Simplee Memberships makes it ridiculously easy to sell a membership on your store. Members can get discounts, free shipping, restricted content, and much more

    5(77)Free · then $9.75Category rank 13 0
    37.7
    score
    Adoption
    14
    Satisfaction
    57
    Momentum
    3
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  11. 11
    Courses Plus

    Create & sell online courses on Shopify. Build lessons, modules, add quizzes (exams), track student progress, offer certificates, and grow recurring revenue.

    4.9(207)$19.99/moCategory rank 9 0
    34.2
    score
    Adoption
    43
    Satisfaction
    36
    Momentum
    20
    Price
    30
    View on the Shopify App Store
  12. 12
    TA Subscriptions App

    Manage your subscription products with TA Subscriptions App. Providing recurring payments and increasing customers' lifetime value.

    5(39)FreeCategory rank 14 0
    33.9
    score
    Adoption
    7
    Satisfaction
    50
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  13. 13
    PayWhirl Subscriptions

    Enhance your business with PayWhirl's adaptable subscription tools. Create custom plans, automate recurring payments, and boost customer retention effortlessly.

    4.8(183)Free · then $9Category rank 11 0
    29.9
    score
    Adoption
    29
    Satisfaction
    0
    Momentum
    24
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  14. 14
    Digital Product Subscriptions

    Monetize digital products like ebooks, PDFs, courses, and files with subscriptions. Automate billing, renewals & secure content delivery-no code required.

    4.9(15)Free · then $29Category rank 15 0
    29.3
    score
    Adoption
    0
    Satisfaction
    43
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  15. 15
    RecurrinGO! Subscriptions App

    Drive sales with RecurrinGO! Shopify recurring payments app. Advanced subscription management & subscription billing features. Start growing predictable revenue

    4.8(151)Free · then $9Category rank 12 0
    26
    score
    Adoption
    21
    Satisfaction
    7
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    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 subscriptions 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 three or four of these 15 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 25 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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