Gelato
Shopify dropshipping app by Gelato·Print on demand for your ecommerce business
Snapshot
Ongoing.AI tracks Gelato 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
4.80
844 reviews
Pricing
From $29/mo
freemium
Built for Shopify
No
Years live
6
launched Jun 17, 2020
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
-4
28-day Δ
+12
Rating change
7-day Δ
+0.00
28-day Δ
+0.00
Category rank over time
Where Gelato sits day-by-day in Dropshipping.
Position across the Dropshipping 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 Dropshipping leaderboard →
Catalog position
Where Gelato sits in the App Store.
Rank and percentile inside the Dropshipping category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.
Rank in Dropshipping
#8
of 539 active apps
Review count percentile
99th
vs category siblings
Rating percentile
73th
vs category siblings
Years on App Store
6
since 2020
Listing change cadence
What Gelato 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.
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
Reviews
What merchants are saying
- 94%positive833
- 1%neutral9
- 5%negative47
Popular mentions
- customer support
- product quality
- pricing
- communication
- product issues
- bugs
- api issues
- performance
Top themes
- customer support3
- product quality2
- pricing1
- communication1
- product issues1
- bugs1
- api issues1
- performance1
What merchants praise
“New business and new ideas to produce and Gelato has been amazing!! I would recommend for all new businesses to get started and get the answers quickly with clarity!! Quick and easy to learn and produce your product!! Great store connections and easily priced. Thanks Gelato, Covenant Creations!!”
What merchants complain about
“Gelato has unfortunately become an unreliable PoD partner. - approaching almost 1 month delay - no communication whatsoever, only “we are verifying, thanks for your patience” - no transparency, no direct access to printing studios they use and thus no way to evaluate their individual quality - no easy access to support, everything is designed to land with annoying and redundant chat bots and the apparent human support is so far useless, - with the above, it is inevitable to feel hopeless if (when) an issue happens with Gelato Look for another PoD partner.”
Plans
Gelato pricing tiers.
Gelato Free
Free to install
- Print on demand for global creators
- Hundreds of products to design and sell
Gelato+
$29.99/month
- Up to 33% off products
- Exclusive tools
- Magic Mockups
- Instant Collections
- Price Navigator
- Product Migration with Velocity Switch
- Stock images, graphics and fonts
Capabilities
What Gelato can do.
The 44 capabilities Gelato lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.
Dropshipping
Products you can sell
2- Clothing and accessories
- Arts and crafts
Sourcing locations
25- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Türkiye
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Print on demand (POD)
Product customization
5- Private labels
- Custom packaging
- Design tools
- Mockup generator
- Personalization
Products
10- Bags
- Apparel
- Embroidery
- Hats
- Drinkware
- Holiday gifts
- Home decor
- Wall art
- Eco-friendly
- Organic
Shipping options
2- White label
- Global fulfillment
FAQ
Gelato — frequently asked questions.
What is Gelato on Shopify?
How much does Gelato cost?
Is Gelato free?
When was Gelato launched?
Is Gelato Built for Shopify?
What are the best Gelato alternatives?
What complaints come up about Gelato?
Alternatives
Apps merchants pick instead.
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 .
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