bestappify.com is where merchants compare Shopify apps before they install one. You can buy a labelled placement in that comparison — a sponsored review, a pinned slot in a category, or a whole category for a quarter. From $120 for a new app, $500 to $2,000 for the rest.
Nothing is owed until you accept a quote.
Live apps ranked, recrawled weekly
Category pages merchants browse to choose an app
Research pieces built on our own crawl data
Our rankings are generated from Shopify's own data, so an app with almost no ratings has nothing for the model to score and no row to pin a sponsored card above. 4,916 of the apps we track are in that position, which is simply where every app starts. So there is a separate, cheaper thing you can buy: a sponsored review post.
The full sponsored review further down this page is $1,200–$1,600 and includes a walkthrough of your app and an original chart from our dataset. This is the lighter version of it, at a new-app rate, because an app at this stage cannot use most of what the bigger one is for.
What you are buying is a permanent, indexed page next to our data and a labelled link — not a traffic figure, which we will not quote because we cannot stand behind one. Pay and we will email you for the brief within one working day. Not sure our readers are the right ones for your app? Ask first and we will tell you straight, before you pay.
Prices are a band, not a menu. A review of a niche B2B app is not the same job as one for a checkout upsell with 40,000 reviews, so you tell us what you want and we come back with the real figure.
A pinned slot at the top of the category listings merchants browse
Shown as a labelled Sponsored card. The ranking below it is unchanged — we do not move editorial positions for money.
30 days · live in about 3 working days
A full article about your app on bestappify.com, written by us
Labelled Sponsored at the top of the article, with rel="sponsored" links — required by Google's policies and the FTC, and standard for every publisher.
live in about 10 working days
Everything above, across a whole category, for a quarter
Every surface is labelled Sponsored. Exclusive: we sell one takeover per category at a time.
90 days · live in about 14 working days
Tell us what you have in mind and we will price it
Whatever we build, it ships labelled as sponsored.
live in about 5 working days
It does not buy a position in the rankings. Those come from our App Store crawl — review volume, ratings, pricing, listing changes — and they are the reason merchants read the site at all. A paid placement is an additional, labelled slot above the list; the list underneath stays exactly as the data left it, and it carries no position number, so nobody can mistake it for “#1” at anything.
Everything we publish for you is marked Sponsored where a reader sees it before reading, and every outbound link carries rel="sponsored". That is required by Google’s spam policies and the FTC’s endorsement guides — and it is in your interest too: an undisclosed paid link is a link scheme, and a penalty would land on the domain you just paid to appear on.
A sponsored review is written from a real walkthrough of your app, not your press kit. We will say what it is good at and who it is not for. You see the draft before anything publishes, and nothing goes live until you have read it — but we do not publish a version that says only what you would like it to say.
Placement buys attention. If what you need is answers — why merchants churn, whether the thing you are building solves a real problem — we book paid 30-minute calls with vetted Shopify operators instead.
Paid research and sales callsAsk here and we will tell you what we would do — including when the answer is “none of these, yet”. Or request a quote directly if you know what you want.