Shopify Inbox

Shopify chat app by Shopify·An AI sales associate for your online store

Snapshot

4.70(5,439 reviews)#1of 813 inChat

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

CategoriesChat

Rating

4.70

5,439 reviews

Pricing

Free

free

Built for Shopify

No

Years live

6

launched Aug 14, 2019

Last updated

Jun 30, 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

+11

28-day Δ

+37

Rating change

7-day Δ

+0.00

28-day Δ

+0.00

5,4465,4255,4055,3855,3645.003.752.501.250.00May 28Jun 5Jun 14Jun 22Jul 1Total reviewsRating (0–5)
Shopify Inbox added 37 reviews over the last 28 days.

Category rank over time

Where Shopify Inbox sits day-by-day in Chat.

Position across the Chat 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 Chat leaderboard →

#1#3#5#6#8May 28May 31Jun 4Jun 7Jun 11Shopify Inbox · #6Chatty AI Chatbot & Live Chat · #5Dondy · #7
Best position observed: #1. Shopify Inbox slipped 5 positions over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Catalog position

Where Shopify Inbox sits in the App Store.

Rank and percentile inside the Chat category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.

Rank in Chat

#1

of 813 active apps

Review count percentile

100th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

62th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

6

since 2019

Listing change cadence

What Shopify Inbox 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+21shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-09 → 2026-06-10shopify_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 → 2026-06-14shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-14 → 2026-06-15shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-15 → 2026-06-16shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-16 → 2026-06-17tagline: Acquire new customers and close … → An AI sales associate for your o…description: Shopify Inbox is a free messagin… → Inbox puts an AI-powered sales a…categories: Chat → Chatshopify_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 → 2026-06-21shopify_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 → 2026-06-26shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-26 → 2026-06-27shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30Jun 11, 26Jun 21, 26Jul 2, 26

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1

2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 30

2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29

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2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

4.70(5,439 reviews)
  • 93%positive5,055
  • 3%neutral167
  • 4%negative223

Popular mentions

  • missing features
  • feature limitations
  • product quality

Top themes

  1. missing features1
  2. feature limitations1
  3. product quality1

What merchants praise

Having an in-store chat option definitely increases customer engagement, and we have had a few extra customers purchase due to the chat, which might not have otherwise. It'd be great if the app had the option to add/edit hours of availability for the chat, so folks don't just sit around wondering when they'll get a response, but for what it is, it does its job well.
RiceRoadGreenhouses · 5

What merchants complain about

spam option is not a feature. Getting to many ‘bot created’ mails from marketing affiliates, spammers and phishing attempts. Absorbing 30 minutes a day to cleanse my mail.
HenryPawHaven · 1

Capabilities

What Shopify Inbox can do.

The 20 capabilities Shopify Inbox lists across its category, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

Real-time messaging

7
  • AI chatbots
  • Live chat
  • Email chat
  • File upload
  • Multi-language
  • Push notifications
  • Customer insights

Automated responses

6
  • Discounts
  • FAQs
  • Greetings
  • Product recommendations
  • Quick replies
  • Order updates

Customization

7
  • Color and font
  • Chat window
  • Business hours
  • Welcome messages
  • Chat buttons
  • Chat assignment
  • Agent avatar

FAQ

Shopify Inbox — frequently asked questions.

What is Shopify Inbox on Shopify?
Shopify Inbox is a Shopify app in the Chat category. Inbox puts an AI-powered sales associate on your storefront. Buyers can ask questions and get help finding the right products from your catalog. When buyers sign in with Shop, your Inbox agent can personalize replies using their preferences and purchase history from across Shopify. Run Inbox with or without the agent. Inbox learns from your catalog, policies, and store content while you control its tone, style, and rules. It averages 4.70 out of 5 across 5,439 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
How much does Shopify Inbox cost?
Shopify Inbox is free to install and use on Shopify — there are no paid plans on this app.
Is Shopify Inbox free?
Yes — Shopify Inbox is free to install and use on Shopify. There are no paid plans.
When was Shopify Inbox launched?
Shopify Inbox launched on August 14, 2019 — over 6 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 5,439 merchant reviews.
Is Shopify Inbox Built for Shopify?
Shopify Inbox 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 Shopify Inbox alternatives?
Merchants commonly compare Shopify Inbox with Chatty AI Chatbot & Live Chat, Tidio, Pushdaddy Many Chat ,Cloud API, and Dondy. 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 Shopify Inbox?
4% of analyzed merchant reviews are negative. The pain points most often raised in critical reviews are missing features, feature limitations, and product quality — 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 Shopify Inbox.

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