Shopify is one of the most widely used platform for running Ecommerce stores. Although there is a huge competition in this space, but the best thing about shopify is smooth integration with almost all the related applications. Just like plugins with wordpress, we have got a lot of apps to make things easier in Shopify. Since there are hundreds of apps so in this post, we will cover the best free Shopify apps to skyrocket your sales.
Facebook Messenger ‑ Live Chat
We have categoried this as one of most widely used free shopify app now. With this app, you can Integrate Facebook free live chat to your website so your customer can connect to you any time.
Facebook Message is a powerful “all-in-one” customer support software used by small and medium sized businesses. Installation is fast and easy and no coding skills are required.
Consumers love live chat option as it is quick and has a HUMAN touch. They find it helpful and problem-solving
Messenger channel
The Messenger channel adds your products to a menu that shoppers can purchase from while chatting with your Facebook Page. Shoppers that browse your online store can use Messenger to ask questions before and after purchase. At checkout, customers can opt-in to get updates on the status of their order in Messenger.
With Shopify and the Messenger channel, you can:
- let shoppers browse products and make purchases from your Messenger chat
- send automated order updates to customers from Messenger
- customize the messages, buttons, and menu item titles that shoppers interact with
- add a “Message Us” button to your online store and have real-time conversations with shoppers (requires online store)
- provide support to customers with questions about their purchase
- fulfill Messenger orders from Shopify
- track Facebook sales using your sales channel overview and Analytics pages
Instagram channel
Give shoppers a way to buy from your store on Instagram by tagging products in your photos. Use the Instagram channel to connect your Facebook products to your Instagram account. Tag up to 5 products per photo and let customers check out without leaving Instagram. Once you’ve tagged products in 9 posts, a shop tab will show up on your profile that lets shoppers browse your shoppable posts—all in one place. You can also choose to further the reach of your tagged posts using Instagram’s sponsored post ads.
With Shopify and the Instagram channel, you can:
- add Instagram product tagging to your Instagram business profile
- connect your store’s Facebook product catalog to your Instagram business profile
- add shopping tags to your posts & stories and let customers purchase from your online store without leaving Instagram.
- fulfill orders placed on Instagram
Privy ‑ Pop Ups, Email, & SMS
Privy’s free suite of conversion, email marketing, & SMS tools, including exit-intent driven popups & banners, help you grow your email list from your Shopify store. All without coding or development skills needed.
- Customizable, mobile-friendly display types including email pop ups, spin to win wheel, banners, flyouts, announcement bars, & embedded forms for email collection
- Single use, and bulk coupon code integration. Surface coupon codes in your popups, or in email or SMS autoresponders
- Target campaigns based on exit, cart abandonment, cart value, scroll, timer, geography, device type, page, number of visits, number of orders, referral site, language & more
- Run automated A/B split tests to understand how small changes impact conversion rates
- Improve cart conversion rates with free shipping bars
- Send autoresponders & reminder emails & texts to turn signups into sales
- Run upsell modals with add to cart buttons
- Send newsletters, abandoned cart, & order follow up emails or texts
- Sync new contacts to more than 50 email marketing services like Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Bronto, Conversio & more
Simple, Powerful Campaign Designer
Choose from hundreds of high-converting templates or fully customize the design to match the look and feel of your brand.
- Pop Ups
- Spin to Win Wheels
- Overlays
- Free Shipping & Sign Up Bars
- Banners
- Flyouts
- Embedded forms
- Tabs
Robust Targeting Capabilities
Use advanced targeting to deliver the right message to the right visitor to your store based on one or more of the following: * Device type * Shopping cart value * Current page * Initial URL * Referral source * Traffic type * Country * Language * Time & date * Number of orders * Products in cart
High-Converting Campaign Triggers
Decide when to show your offer to visitors based on one or more triggers: * Time on page * Scroll percentage * When they attempt to leave your site * Frequency of visits
Real-Time Reporting
With Privy you’ll know exactly how your campaigns are performing: * Real-time dashboards that show how your campaigns are performing on a number of key metrics * A/B testing: Set up split tests to understand how display type, messaging, triggers or visuals impact opt-in rates.
Email Marketing
Use Privy Email marketing to send newsletters, abandoned cart emails & order follow up emails.
Text (SMS) Marketing
Use Privy Text to send triggered text messages including: abandoned cart reminders and welcome messages.
Due to all these features we have listed this in the best free shopify apps.
Frequently Bought Together
Effortless Amazon-like recommended products
You have probably browsed Amazon before and noticed that sometimes you can add a bunch of related products with one single click.
The Frequently Bought Together app brings this smart upsell feature into Shopify in the most convenient way: you can have it ready in your store within seconds and with zero configuration.
How does it work?
Frequently Bought Together analyses the previous purchases in your store database through data mining algorithms and produces a memory graph with the recommended products that are usually added together to the shopping cart.
How are the recommendations displayed?
When a customer visits a product page, a bundle comprised of related products is displayed.
One click upsell
With a single click on the ‘Add to Cart’ button, the featured products are added to the shopping cart. Easier for your customer means more sales for you.
The #1 recommendation app for Shopify
Frequenlty Bought Together was the first app bringing this Amazon-like feature into Shopify and it has recently surpassed Limespot and Bold Upsell to become the top recommendation app.
Fully customisable user interface
- The styles are automatically tuned for the most popular Shopify themes. We also check your installation manually to ensure everything blends smoothly into your theme
- You can select the position of the widget in the product pages
- Show ratings from the most popular review apps, including Shopify Product Reviews, Yotpo, Stamped (stamped.io), Judge.me, Loox and AliReviews (AliExpress Reviews)
- Option to skip cart, redirecting to checkout
Multiple recommendation algorithms
- Automatic recommendations: our AI algorithm has been trained with more and 1 billion orders and used by 150,000+ Shopify stores, producing the highest conversion rates
- Manual recommendations: you can also manually fine-tune the recommendations for each product, creating your own product bundles
- Show random products when there is not enough data for automatic recommendations. They can be filtered by collection, product type or product vendor to display similar products
Bundle Discount Upsell
- You can apply an automatic discount to the bundles, effectively using the app as a discount upselling widget. The type of discounts available are Percentage discounts, Fixed Amount discounts, Cheapest Item for Free or Free Shipping.
About Code Black Belt, the developers of Frequently Bought Together
We are a mid-size company exclusively focused on Shopify App Development since 2014. We created some of the top apps for Shopify, including our cross-sell app Also Bought. Our values are great user experience, high quality code and exceptional support.
Abandoned Cart Notifications
Add another marketing channel to your Shopify Store – Browser Notifications! Browser Notifications seamlessly integrate right into your store and bring customers back to their abandoned carts. No email, or phone number needed!
Who is the app for?
Any Shopify store of any size! Any store can benefit from using the app!
How will the free shopify app benefit my store?
Increase the chances of conversion by sending customers browser notifications to encourage them to complete checkout.
Features
Send Notifications to your customers No coding Instantly turn on or off Customize the messages to suit your brand and thats it! Nice and Simple!
Excellent free replacement for PushOwl (Push Owl), Recart, Smart Push Marketing, Firepush, and Push Monkey!
No developers needed!
This free shopify app works right away. Start improving conversions now! If you have any issues just let us know 🙂
Install today and start recovering abandoned carts via Browser Notifications!
One click installation. No coding needed! Takes less than 2 minutes to get set up.
PushOwl Web Push Notifications
Abandoned Cart Recovery Push
Automated cart abandonment protector via push notifications (order recovery) to increase sales. Perfect for BFCM (Black Friday Cyber Monday)
Engage w/ smart push marketing
Send push notification campaigns to bring back your store visitors or upsell more products, at a fraction of the cost of fb retargeting ads.
Reviews, Wishlist with WebPush
Integrations: Review Push Notifications (Stamped.io, Loox Reviews, Judge.me), Wishlist, Now Back In Stock; Recart & SMS Bump text marketing
Free Alternative Approach : Abandoned Cart Manual Recovery
If you are not willing to spend every month to automate abandoned cart recovery mail, you can also do it manually.
Feed For Google Shopping
Instant Sync with Google
You just link your Shopify Store with Merchant Center(App helps you do it) and app does its job on its own. No need to submit Feed URL and set fetching frequency and other settings. There is another benefit, Product updates don’t have to wait for Google to fetch the feed. Updates are pushed by app to Google Merchant Center within few mins of the update.
Promotions Feed for All or Specific Products
Now you can create Promotions Feed within App for both, Specific and All Products You can assign Promotions to Specific Products using Robust filtering and Bulk Edit features of the App.
Robust Interface
Precise Management of Additional Values required by Google. You can Add Custom Labels, Google Product Categories, Product Condition, Age, Gender, custom product values either in Bulk or product by product.
Advanced Filtering Options
by Vendor by Product Type by Tags by Google Product Categories Applied by Age by Gender by Promotions Applied by Material Assigned by Pattern Assigned by Custom Labels Applied or not applied When you are working on addition of custom labels, google product categories, defining age and gender of products, you should be able to filter the products based on several parameters. This app provides you to filter the products on Above listed parameters…
Includes All variants
Now you can submit All the Variants of each products with their own SKUs and GTIN. SKU will be submitted as MPN and Barcodes will be submitted as GTIN for each variant. This improves number of impressions your products can get.
You can use SEO Titles and Descriptions Or Custom Titles and Descriptions For Feed only.
App allows you to use SEO Titles and/or SEO Descriptions as your product titles and descriptions respectively.
Second Image as Product Image and Additional Images
Now you can use the second image as product image as on many stores, first images are having actual backgrounds which Google does not like much.
SKUs As Product IDs
You can submit standard Product IDs in the format as that of Google Shopping app of Shopify. e.g. Shopify_US_xxxxxxxx_yyyyyyy OR You get an option to select which will submit SKUs as product IDs.
Support for Additional Labels
Our app allows you to add Shipping Labels (For Complex Shipping Settings), Return Policy Label (For Google Express’s Different Return Policy requirements), Ads Label (For Dynamic Remarketing Ads Filtering).
Support for Facebook Catalog
Now, use the Google optimizations done for facebook too. No need to use any other app
Integrates with
- Google Merchant Center
Lucky Orange Heatmaps & Replay
Do you know why a visitor left your Shopify store before completing his or her purchase? Lucky Orange knows why.
Installation is fast and takes just a few seconds – no coding required. In addition, Lucky Orange is easy to use, ready to go “out of the box,” and every plan includes full access to all of our features:
- Dynamic Heatmaps
- User Recordings
- Form Analytics
- Live Chat
- Surveys & Polls
- Conversion Funnels
- Real-time Dashboard
- Daily Email Reports
Stop relying on Google Analytics to tell you and actually see your website through the eyes of your visitors and customers. Digitally watch over the shoulders of your visitors and customers as they navigate through your Shopify store. See exactly what they are seeing; watch as they click and move through the checkout process with our User Recordings and Dynamic Heatmaps:
- User Recordings: User Recordings act like a DVR for your Shopify store, giving you the chance to watch recordings and see video playback of visitors and customers as they interact with your store.
- Dynamic Heatmaps: Navigate through your store just like a visitor; data will be immediately populated on every element, drop-down, pop-up, and hover-over menu. Isolate certain devices, traffic sources, and visitors to identify potential pain points and problem areas.
Free Shipping Bar
Consumers today expect free shipping to be available at retail sites as a bonus for buying multiple items. According to recent data, 88% of consumers would be more likely to shop at a site online if they were promised free shipping
Free Shipping Offers with Progressive Messages:
- Display your free shipping offer in a slide out and customizable bar
- Show progressive messages when customers put more items in their shopping carts
- Congratulate customers when they get free shipping offers
- Track the performance of each bar, so you know which free shipping goals generate the most sales
Advanced Targeting:
- Geotargeting: Set different bars to display to visitors from different countries, such as “Free shipping over $50” in US and “Free shipping over C$70” in Canada
- Display page targeting: Configure bars to only display on certain pages, such as all pages, home page only, collection or product pages, orby providing the URLs
- Exclude page targeting: Configure bars not to display on certain pages, such as home page, collection or product pages, or any pages by providing the URLs
- Currency Detection: Auto-detect visitors local currencies and convert the free shipping amount with real-time exchange rates
Fully Customizable and Responsive:
- Curated bar background images express the holiday mood, increase conversions, and generate more sales
- Supports emojis in the bar messages
- Everything on the bar is customizable to fit your store style
- Bar can be configured to display at any desired positions on your website
- Responsive, and optimized for all screen sizes including desktop, tablet, and mobile
Judge.me Product Reviews
Judge.me helps you collect and display ratings and reviews about your products and Shopify store. Such social proof increases your conversion rate, organic traffic, and buyer engagement by leveraging your user-generated content.
Get all features at the most affordable price ($15/month). Or use our truly forever-free plan with no limit on orders or requests.
We do theme work for you (e.g. customize widget design and positioning) and will get you started within 2 minutes of installation with our 24/7 customer support standing by.
Migrating from Yotpo, Stamped, Loox, or Rivyo? No problem! Easily import your existing reviews from these apps and more.
Highlights
- Product reviews with text, photo and video and automatic reminders
- Unlimited review requests, orders and imports
- Review Carousel (6 free themes to show your best ratings)
- All Reviews Page, Floating Reviews Tab
- Question and Answers (Q&A) and custom forms/questions
- Share on Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest & Tumblr
- Product review groups & cross-shop synchronization
- SEO Rich Snippets (your ratings marked-up in Google search)
- Instantly loaded reviews (shopify metafields) to increase page speed and spam review filter
- 30-day refund, no questions asked
Sync with our other apps:
- AliExpress Review Importer (forever-free review import with images)
- Checkout Comments (collect micro reviews after checkout)
- Facebook Messenger Bot (show your products on FB chat)
Marketing
- Automatic social push to Facebook and Twitter
- Incentivize reviews with coupons
- Product reviews in Google Shopping to improve your CTR
- Social proof increases your conversion rate (e.g. with picture reviews)
Page Speed Optimizer ‑ FREE
Instantly speed up your Shopify store in one click!
In just one click – this free shopify app will improve the page speed and load times for your store.
Ultimate Sales Boost
- Make products stand out on Home pages and Collection pages
- Motivate customers to click “add to cart” on Product pages
- Urge customers to checkout faster on the Cart and Checkout pages
Announcement bar & top bar
Customizable free shipping and announcement bar
Yeps.io is a stylish and useful bar for collecting your visitor’s data and promoting content. Brought to you by the makers of Chatra — one of the leading chat platforms for Shopify.
Build your email base with an email collection bar
Growing your email list is very important. It allows you to get your customers back to your store on a continual basis by sending them offers, notifications of your new products or discounts, thus getting them to buy more products from you.
With Yeps bar, you can display a bar on your website, greet visitors and collect their emails and/or phone numbers.
Promote content
Show your visitors an elegant bar with a button that will take them to a certain page. This way you can inform your customers about your sales, new arrivals and any other content that might catch their interest.
On everything
Yeps bar is responsive and is optimized for all screen sizes and devices
Easy to install and use
- One-click Install our bar via Shopify, no need to code
- Create campaigns in just a few clicks
- Customize the colors of the bar to fit your store style
Advanced targeting
- Show a bar only to visitors from selected countries or to visitors speaking a certain language
- Set the bar to be displayed only on certain pages or groups of pages
- Target visitors from different channels and marketing campaigns
- Show different bars to first-time and returning visitors
Get started for free and begin growing your email list today!
BEST Currency Converter
Works with 160+ currencies including Bitcoin. Converts prices instantly, on any devices, any theme, even if you use ajax. You can even add all the currencies with the push of a button (which you can’t do with any other app).
Currency Rates get updated twice a day.
Auto-select currency based on Customer’s Location
This free shopify app detects your customer’s location and automatically selects the currency for them. They can also change it manually if they wish from the Currency Switcher.
Listfully Wishlist
Listfully is a new universal wishlist and registry solution that integrates with your Shopify store and lets you outsource the job to us. It gives your customers (the) freedom to add items from your store to their Listfully and organize them into wishlists to share with their friends and family.
Wishlists are easy to share and offer all the features of a gift registry, allowing customers’ friends and family to reserve the gifts they intend to buy. Listfully can be used to make registries for weddings, birthdays and other holidays.
Replay Live Session Recordings
See the browser, session length, location, and timestamp for each session alongside the session recording. This app provides great insight into customer behavior so you can analyze and focus on what is important, or eliminate elements that are not working and costing you time and money.
ShopSync
Connect Your Store With Mailchimp
Connect your Shopify store to a Mailchimp list in less than 60 seconds for free.
Sync
ShopSync will sync all information in your Shopify store to Mailchimp – customers, orders, and products.
Trigger Automations
Set up marketing automations in Mailchimp and trigger them automatically. Remind customers about abandoned carts, win back lapsed customers, and follow up after the sale.
Recommend Products
Generate recommended products based on a customer’s past purchase history.
Segment Customers
Track and segment customers based on transaction details and purchase frequency.
Sync Merge Tags
Map customer information within Shopify to Mailchimp – use for segments or campaigns.
Initiate Pop-Up Forms
In one click, embed a pop-up form that converts your website visitors to subscribers.
Free Survey, Feedback & Polls
Implementing a survey right after your customers make a purchase is an easy, non-intrusive way to help you boost your e-commerce sales.
By collecting website feedback, you get to learn directly from your customers how to improve the buying experience and overcome potential objections.
Yotpo Loyalty & Referrals
Yotpo Loyalty & Referrals (formerly Swell Rewards) helps eCommerce brands maximize LTV and reach new audiences via word-of-mouth. Build customized, on-brand programs to incentivize repeat purchase, referrals, social engagement, and content creation.
Buy Button channel
Create a Buy Button for any product or collection and add it to a website or blog. Use the Buy Button editor to match the style and colors of your brand, then copy and paste the HTML code to your platform of choice. You can also create quick checkout links that will send shoppers directly to your checkout page. Choose a single product and variant, then copy your link to any email, direct message or social media post.
With Shopify and the Buy Button channel, you can:
- use the Buy Button editor to build buttons with custom fonts, colors, and layouts
- update product details from Shopify without needing to edit the code on your website or blog
- fulfill orders for customers that are placed using Buy Buttons and checkout links
- track sales using your Home sales overview and Analytics pages
- create fast and easy checkout links to promote products
AVADA SEO Image Optimizer FREE
Key benefits using the app
- Improve website loading speed
- Faster Google index of websites images, content
- Auto-complete Google structured data for your website
- Increase click rate with standardized meta tags
- Control all web issues by SEO checklist
- No duplicate content
- One-click auto-run, no technical skills required
- Instant support and frequent update
Highlight Features of SEO Suite
Optimize Image ALT tag
ALT tags can be added automatically to every image on three pages: product page, collection page and blog post.
Image optimization
Optimize images to increase loading speed in two ways: – Automatically: Compress images size and keep its quality unchanged – Custom: Reduce both size and quality enough for great customer experience
Google structured data
- Important page structured data: Product page, Collection page, Blog listing page, Single Blog
- Business, review, item list structured data
Meta tags & rules
Auto-feature meta title and meta description in your Google search URLs. Applied in mass URLs of 4 pages: Product page, Collection page, Blog listing page, Single Blog
Site verifications
Verify your website authority with Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Pinterest, Yandex Webmaster Tools, Baidu Webmaster Tools, Alexa Certify Javascript, Norton Safe Web.
Social Meta
Add social meta to show previews of your page on social channels: Google, Facebook, Twitter
Redirect 404 pages
Allow redirecting 404 pages (broken links) to a specific URL
HTML sitemap
List all subpages so that visitors can easily navigate your website
Instant page loading
Preload any page to speed up your website loading instantly
SEO Analysis on all product pages
Detailed SEO analysis on your product pages with problem report and improvement solutions
Weekly email report
Advanced reports on SEO issues, Search performance (top queries, top page, total click, impressions, average CTA, position) and Image Optimization
Google Search Console
SEO Suite integrates well with Google Search Console tools. This helps you measure your site’s search traffic and performance, fix related issues, and make your website stand out in Google Search results.
SEO with confident
Image compression, Pagespeed or Page Speed, Image with text, Optimize SEO Contact us page, Product List, Product Details Google sitemap
Integration with best Shopify apps
Page Builder: Pagefly, Shogun, GemPages, LayoutHub Reviews & ratings: Loox, Yotpo, Ali reviews, Judge.me, TRUST Badges, Rivyo, Opinew Upsell & cross-sell: Cross Sell, Personalizer by LimeSpot
ReConvert Upsell & Cross Sell
ReConvert is a simple yet powerful app for thank you page optimization. It allows you to customize your thank you page fully & easily with a drag & drop interface.
We integrate with some of the most powerful apps on the platform, so that you can get the best of ALL worlds- use ReConvert’s amazing built-in widgets, to create the perfect converting thank you page.
Works with PayPal, Shopify Payments, Sezzle, Klarna, AfterPay & Stripe.
Key thank you page capabilities & OCU features:
- Triggered thank you pages
- Discount pop ups with countdown timer (upsell)
- Product recommendations upsell & Cross sell (Wiser, Personalized Recommendations, Recomatic & Rebuy integrations available)
- Birthday collector
- Reorder button (upsell)
- Images
- Videos
- Social sharing
- Call to action button
- Post purchase surveys
- Product upsell
- Header
- Order tracking with 17track – like Arrive
- Send birthday SMS with SMSBump
- Display reviews from Loox, Stamped, Judge.me, Ali Reviews & Rivyo
- Works with Kit & Shopify Flow
So, we hope that you would have installed these free shopify apps by now. We will keep updating this list often so as to give you best suggestions to boost sales.
Vijay Sood is a seasoned digital marketer with a passion for driving online growth and innovation. With a robust background in developing and executing comprehensive digital strategies, Vijay excels in leveraging SEO, content marketing, and social media to boost brand visibility and engagement. His expertise lies in transforming data-driven insights into actionable marketing campaigns, helping businesses achieve their digital objectives.