Fuel

Shopify print on demand (pod) app by Fuel POD·Sell Custom Products with Ease — Low Prices, Fast Shipping

Snapshot

4.30(140 reviews)#20of 324 inPrint on demand (POD)

Ongoing.AI tracks Fuel daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.

Rating

4.30

140 reviews

Pricing

From $0/mo

freemium

Built for Shopify

No

Years live

6

launched Sep 30, 2019

Last updated

Jul 1, 2026

Shopify listing

Recent activity

Review trajectory.

Daily review count and rating drift. The blue line is cumulative review count; the dashed amber overlay is the rating on the right axis. Boring is good — sudden swings stand out against an otherwise stable curve.

New reviews

7-day Δ

28-day Δ

+0

Rating change

7-day Δ

28-day Δ

+0.00

1401401391381385.003.752.501.250.00May 28Jun 2Jun 7Jun 12Jun 18Total reviewsRating (0–5)
Fuel added 0 reviews over the last 28 days.

Category rank over time

Where Fuel sits day-by-day in Print on demand (POD).

Position across the Print on demand (POD) page, snapshot daily. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so the strongest ranks sit at the top of the chart. Open the full Print on demand (POD) leaderboard →

#61#65#68#72#75May 28Jun 5Jun 14Jun 23Jul 2Fuel · #66Shopaw Product Options (POD) · #65PrintLab — Product Designer · #67
Best position observed: #64. Fuel climbed 1 positions over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Catalog position

Where Fuel sits in the App Store.

Rank and percentile inside the Print on demand (POD) category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.

Rank in Print on demand (POD)

#20

of 324 active apps

Review count percentile

94th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

64th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

6

since 2019

Listing change cadence

What Fuel has changed lately.

Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.

Listing changes · last 21 days+22shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-10 → 2026-06-11shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-11 → 2026-06-12shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-12 → 2026-06-13shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-13 → 2026-06-15shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-15 → 2026-06-16shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-16 → 2026-06-17shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-17 → 2026-06-18shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-18 → 2026-06-19shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-19 → 2026-06-20shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-20 → 2026-06-21works_with: Shopify Admin → noneshopify_lastmod: 2026-06-21 → 2026-06-22shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-22 → 2026-06-24shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-24 → 2026-06-25shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-25 → 2026-06-27shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-30 → 2026-07-01Jun 11, 26Jun 21, 26Jul 2, 26

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 2

2026-06-30 → 2026-07-01

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1

2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 30

2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

4.30(140 reviews)
  • 88%positive166
  • 2%neutral3
  • 10%negative19

Popular mentions

  • customer support
  • pricing
  • missing features
  • inventory management
  • product selection
  • shipping times
  • quality control
  • print quality

Top themes

  1. customer support5
  2. pricing4
  3. missing features2
  4. inventory management2
  5. product selection1
  6. shipping times1
  7. quality control1
  8. print quality1

What merchants praise

Customer support has been very quick, team responds to the queries quickly and supports with all the possible resources. I have not received any negative comment on the quality of the product that I have sold so far. Would recommend this for anyone to start. My customers give a 5 star reviews for the orders, the support, the operations are super streamlined in Fuel, and best part Fuel is it also provides them at best prices, which I have never seen anywhere. Highly recommended for any starting their POD business.
Wango Kart · 5

What merchants complain about

$5 for one shirt plus $3 for each additional. This is greed, this is robbery! If they do not change this, do not use them!
draculabyte · 1

Plans

Fuel pricing tiers.

Free

Free to install

    Capabilities

    What Fuel can do.

    The 32 capabilities Fuel lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

    Print on demand (POD)

    Product customization

    4
    • Design tools
    • Mockup generator
    • Personalization
    • Custom templates

    Products

    13
    • All-over-print
    • Bags
    • Blankets
    • Apparel
    • Embroidery
    • Hats
    • Drinkware
    • Holiday gifts
    • Home decor
    • Laser crafts
    • Jewelry
    • Wall art
    • Eco-friendly

    Shipping options

    7
    • White label
    • Custom shipping
    • Global fulfillment
    • Multi-shipping
    • Real-time updates
    • Inclusive pricing
    • Order tracking

    Dropshipping

    Products you can sell

    4
    • Clothing and accessories
    • Bags and luggage
    • Home and garden
    • Arts and crafts

    Sourcing locations

    4
    • China
    • Mexico
    • United States
    • Vietnam

    FAQ

    Fuel — frequently asked questions.

    What is Fuel on Shopify?
    Fuel, officially listed on the Shopify App Store as Fuel: Print on Demand, is a Shopify app in the Print on demand (POD) category. Fuel makes selling custom products simple with fast fulfillment, a dedicated support team, and an evolving platform built to grow your business. We’re always improving based on seller feedback, ensuring our tools and services meet your needs. Whether starting out or scaling up, Fuel empowers you to create high-quality products while we handle production and shipping, so you can focus on your business. It averages 4.30 out of 5 across 140 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
    How much does Fuel cost?
    Fuel is priced at $0/month on the Shopify App Store.
    When was Fuel launched?
    Fuel launched on September 30, 2019 — over 6 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 140 merchant reviews.
    Is Fuel Built for Shopify?
    Fuel does not currently carry Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. The badge is awarded to apps that meet Shopify's published standards for performance, ease of use, and merchant value — many high-quality apps operate without it.
    What are the best Fuel alternatives?
    Merchants commonly compare Fuel with DSers, Printify, Printful, and CJdropshipping. Each alternative covers a similar use case but differs on pricing model, integration depth, and the specific themes merchants praise in reviews — see the alternatives section above for a side-by-side.
    What complaints come up about Fuel?
    10% of analyzed merchant reviews are negative. The pain points most often raised in critical reviews are customer support, pricing, and missing features — see the review fingerprint above for the per-merchant detail.

    Methodology

    Where the numbers come from.

    Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .

    Find every brand running Fuel.

    Ongoing.AI tracks every Shopify brand’s app stack daily. Pull the full install list, filter by vertical or geography, and catch the moment merchants install — or churn off.

    Prefer the source? View Fuel on the Shopify App Store ↗