Best Appifyfor Shopify merchantsBest Appifyfor Shopify merchantsHow we rank apps, what the store analysis looks at, and exactly where money changes hands.
A free way to find the right Shopify apps for your store. We track more than 6,700 apps on the Shopify App Store — their ratings, review counts, pricing and category standing — so you can compare real options instead of guessing from a search results page. There is also an instant analysis of your storefront that suggests where apps would actually help.
Yes. Browsing apps, the leaderboards and the store analysis are all free and need no account.
No, and this is worth being precise about: the analysis reads only your public storefront — the same pages any shopper or search engine can see. It never asks for Shopify permissions, never touches your admin, and has no access to your orders, customers or revenue.
It confirms the store runs on Shopify, then reads your public product catalogue and homepage to look for things that cost you sales: thin or missing product descriptions, products with only one image, missing product types, no sale or compare-at pricing, and a catalogue too small to merchandise well. It also detects apps already running on your storefront and treats a healthy stack as a positive signal, not a problem.
Some stores keep their products.json endpoint private, and headless or heavily customised storefronts render content in the browser rather than in the initial page. In those cases we fall back to lighter signals and say so rather than inventing a score. It is a limitation of reading public data only — which is the trade-off for not asking to install anything.
From the App Store's own public data, refreshed by our crawler: star rating, number of reviews, category, pricing and how the app's rank has moved recently. Leaderboards are computed from those figures. We do not hand-pick winners and there is no editorial ranking.
No. Ranking order is computed from public App Store data and is not for sale. Money does change hands in two places, both separate from ranking: some pages carry a clearly labelled "Ad spot" that a developer has paid for, and we run an affiliate marketplace where a developer can pay a commission when we refer an install. Neither moves an app up a leaderboard, and paid placements are labelled as ads wherever they appear.
Sometimes, and you should assume so. Links to the App Store carry tracking parameters so a developer can see the visit came from us, and some developers run affiliate programmes that pay a commission on a referred install. That is how the site is free. It does not change which apps rank where, because ranking is computed from public data before any of it is applied.
App listings — rating, review count, pricing, description — are refreshed weekly. Category and overall rank snapshots are taken daily. Anything showing week-over-week movement needs seven days of history for that app.
Almost always because the listing changed since our last crawl, which is at most a few days. The App Store is the live source of truth; we link straight to every listing so you can check. If something looks badly wrong rather than slightly stale, please tell us.
There is no correct number, but overlap is the thing to watch. Stores commonly pay for two apps that do the same job because each arrived to solve a different-sounding problem. When the analysis detects five or more apps on your storefront it flags that as worth reviewing for overlap — usually the fastest way to cut monthly app spend without losing anything.
It can. Apps that inject scripts into your storefront add weight to every page load, and the effect compounds. It is a genuine reason to prefer one well-built app over three partial ones, and a reason to remove apps you no longer use rather than leaving them installed.
No. We help you choose; the app's developer supports the app. Every listing we link to has the developer's own support contact.
No. BestAppify is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Shopify. All app data comes from the public Shopify App Store.
Yes, on our other site. bestappify.app is the developer side: App Store keyword rank tracking, competitor intelligence, review analysis, listing analytics and affiliate tooling. This site is for merchants choosing apps.