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Mantle shut down on 30 September 2026. Four jobs it did do not go away: billing, affiliates, analytics, and lifecycle email. Below is where each one lives now, and the part that is honestly ours.
Published 2026-10-28. No affiliate links on this page.
We are not a billing replacement. If you came here looking for one, use Shopify App Pricing (the native API). This page is honest about what we are and are not.
One row per thing Mantle did. The last column is the part most migration pages leave out.
| Pillar | What Mantle did | Where it lives now | The honest line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billing & plans | Usage-based pricing, trials, discounts, upgrade/downgrade flows across the Shopify Billing API. | Shopify App Pricing (the native API). If you need help on top: SaaS Insights or Dyno. | We are not a billing replacement. If someone sells you one that is not built on Shopify Billing, read the terms twice. |
| Affiliates & partners | Partner programs, referral tracking, payouts, and partner-dock landing pages. | PartnerDock, Shoffi, or your own affiliate tool. | Picking by who has the whitest Mantle-migration page is not a reason. Pick on payouts and the referral attribution window. |
| Analytics & ASO | App Store ranks, keyword tracking, competitor watching, store-wide market data. | BestAppify. The App Store database, keyword tracking, competitor alerts, and the rank-history our own crawl writes every day. | What you can and cannot see: Shopify disallowed crawling its search page on 6 September 2026, so stored keyword positions end there. Live positions now come from on-demand checks or from the customer's own Google Analytics. |
| Lifecycle email & push | Trial-ending, upgrade, winback, and merchant onboarding mail. | Klaviyo, Customer.io, or Shopify Email on the merchant's own account. | This is a merchant-domain capability, not an app-studio one. If a Mantle successor sells you merchant-grade lifecycle, ask who owns the suppression list. |
Not everything Mantle did was billing. These two pieces stayed necessary and are our work, measured on numbers, not slogans.
We crawl the Shopify App Store every day. Rank history, category positions, keyword ownership, and review counts for every app on the store — including yours and the three apps you are losing to.
See the category boardsPoint Claude, Cursor, or your own agent at the whole dataset. Rank checks, competitor watch, keyword discovery, and growth plans — called the same way an agent calls any tool.
One-click MCP installAn ASO tool whose owners publish their own app is a competitor on your dashboard. We do not. The data we show you about any app we show you about every app.
Track your own app, three keywords, and three competitors — no credit card. The MCP server is on every plan, including free.
Related reading: BestAppify vs Meridian · vs FusionMetrics
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