8 Best Shopify Mobile App Builders To Turn Your Store Into An App

Shopping on a web browser on your desktop? Smooth, easy, and convenient. But, shopping on a web browser on your mobile? Evil. Feels like the equivalent of dragging your nails through a chalkboard. 

We cannot tell you the number of times we’ve abandoned our carts because the mobile website was too clunky to navigate. 

If you run your own Shopify store and most of your traffic comes from mobile users (as is the case for a majority of e-commerce stores), then it might be time to invest in an app if you don’t want to leave money on the table. Here are 8 Shopify apps that take your store and turn it into a mobile app. 

1. Tapcart

Pricing: Starts at $250/ month

Tapcart is an all-in-one, no-code mobile app builder for e-commerce brands powered by Shopify. In simpler words, this means Tapcart lets you build, customize, and scale your very own mobile app. 

You can own every single detail about your app — right from the layout to the features you want to include (be it interactive grids or curated collections). With Tapcart’s marketing features, such as push notifications and personalized messages, you can reach more customers on the device they use the most. 

To drive more app downloads, generate and add a custom QR code to your Shopify website. Tapcart also supports a ton of Shopify app integrations to give your customers the best shopping experience. 

💡 Tip: If you want you and your team to monitor your Shopify app on the go, use an eSIM card to connect everyone’s devices to the same network.

2. Shopney

Price: Starts at $149/ month

With Shopney, you can build and launch your Shopify app within days — even if you have zero design and coding skills. Use the drag-and-drop editor to design your mobile storefront, and the Shopney team will take care of the launching part.

Shopney’s personalized push notifications save you money on marketing. You also get a host of other features that make your customer’s experience smoother, such as in-app chat, cross-sells and upsells, address saves, recommendations, and so on. 

Shopney also syncs your Shopify store with your mobile app in real-time, so you won’t have to update everything twice!

3. MobiLoud

Pricing: Starts at $299/ month

MobiLoud takes your Shopify store and turns it into a mobile app without rebuilding anything. This means you get to fully retain all of your shop’s features (with some helpful mobile e-commerce extras), and can keep using your existing e-commerce tool integrations. 

What do you need to do to make it happen? Nothing! The team at MobiLoud handles the setup, design, launch, and updates for you, making it ideal for e-commerce sellers who want a no-code + tailored app experience on a budget. Oh, and when you update your Shopify store? The changes will be reflected on your app, too.

MobiLoud also offers several marketing features that help you retain customers long-term. These include personalized push notifications, app-exclusive loyalty programs, and QR codes to download your app easily.

4. StoreLab

Pricing: Starts at $499/ month

StoreLab lets you build a codeless, yet fully customizable mobile app that’s chock-full of marketing tools that will 3X your sales. When you work with this tool, you get a dedicated account manager and human support to help you. To get started, just book a discovery call, and tell the agent what you envision your mobile app to look like. 

You can integrate all of your favorite Shopify apps, so you won’t have to compromise on anything. With StoreLab, you can also send as many push notifications as you want — be it new product alerts or messages about exclusive discounts. 

StoreLab customers see an increase in their return of investment within the first month, so you’ll be in good hands!

5. Plobal Apps

Pricing: Starts at $199/ month, but there’s a free starter plan available with success-based fees of 3%

Plobal Apps has a simple, yet interactive drag-and-drop editor that lets you build your Shopify mobile storefront within minutes without any coding. But, if you do have the skills, you can tailor your app pretty much however you want with Plobal’s code blocks. 

Plobal offers several attractive features that help you reach your customers at the right time. This includes tailored push notifications based on your customers’ behaviors, deep links (to redirect people to your app from anywhere on the internet), advanced search options with smart filters, and AI-based product recommendations based on users’ purchase habits. 

You also get real-time data about how your customers interact with your products, so that you can see what works and what doesn’t. 

6. OneMobile

Pricing: Starts at $99/ month with a free plan available

OneMobile is a budget-friendly Shopify mobile app builder that’s ideal for small-scale e-commerce sellers who want a no-code option. It’s easy to get started — just pick a theme, and use the drag-and-drop builder with premade elements to design your app to reflect your Shopify store. 

You can add immersive shopping features, such as voice search, interactive videos, and real-time push notifications (that include images) with OneMobile. Other features that you can add are in-app surveys and reviews, faster checkouts (with a single tap), and product videos. Oh, and don’t forget the loyalty programs that you can run.

OneMobile’s toolkit to get you more app downloads includes QR codes on your Shopify and in-person store, as well as targeted ads. Once your app is built, use the OneMobile Preview app to see how it would look to your customers before launching. You can also use the Preview app to stay on top of how your mobile app is performing, schedule push notifications, and make changes on the go.

7. Evlop

Pricing: Starts at $99/ month

Evlop has both plug-and-play blocks that you can customize, and blank pages where you can build from scratch. The latter comes in really handy if you want to add specific elements such as forms or campaign pages. 

This tool offers several features that make your life and your customer’s shopping journey smoother. These include push notifications with images, loyalty programs for app users, a place to highlight your testimonials, and shoppable videos. Some other notable ones include translations and currency conversions to let users shop in their own language and currency, ability to set order limits for users, and subscription-based purchases. 

Use Evlop’s analytics to come up with a data-based marketing strategy and preview your app before it goes live! If you’re a developer, you can also customize your app to your heart’s content.

8. AppBrew

Pricing: Contact AppBrew. You only have to pay after your app goes live. 

Whether you’re new to Shopify, or have an established store presence, AppBrew can help you convert more customers by designing a no-code app for you. You’ll get to keep all your brand elements and Shopify app integrations. AppBrew’s apps boast a 3X conversion rate when compared to your Shopify store or your mobile website. 

AppBrew offers push notifications, faster checkouts, app-exclusive discounts to give users a reason to download, loyalty rewards, and subscriptions to keep them coming back for more. Oh, and did we mention that it syncs with your Shopify store in real-time?

Some other great features that you can add to your app with AppBrew are showcasing product reviews, including videos, and product recommendations. Certain features, such as Google and Apple login, user referrals, and special packaging are available only on the more expensive plan.

If you want to make some tweaks or run some new campaigns, you can do it easily within AppBrew’s dashboard. No coding skills needed. 

And that’s a wrap! Before you go, though…

Mobile apps vs. mobile websites for Shopify stores

Did you know that nearly 80% of the traffic to Shopify stores comes from mobiles. And mobile apps on average convert at least twice as many customers when compared to websites. 

Why is that? Mobile apps:

• Are faster
• Offer a better shopping experience with personalized recommendations, product saves, and instant alerts
• Have exclusive in-app offers
• Offer a smoother and faster checkout experience

In short, with a mobile app, you can reach your customers on the device that they use the most — just with a far better experience than what mobile websites offer.