Pirate Ship

Name: Pirate Ship: CheapARR Shipping
Rating: 4.90 (138 reviews)
Author: Pirate Ship

Shopify shipping app by Pirate Ship·Save your booty on UPS & USPS shipping with Pirate Ship's pre-negotiated discounts.

Snapshot yesterday

4.90(138 reviews)#37of 901 inShipping

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

CategoriesShipping

Rating

4.90

138 reviews

Pricing

From $0/mo

freemium

Built for Shopify

Years live

launched Jul 11, 2017

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

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28-day Δ

Rating change

7-day Δ

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28-day Δ

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Pirate Ship added 8 reviews over the last 28 days.

Category rank over time

Where Pirate Ship sits day-by-day in Shipping.

Position across the Shipping 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 Shipping leaderboard →

Best position observed: #7. Pirate Ship slipped 4 positions over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Keyword rank over time

Where Pirate Ship shows up in App Store search.

Daily position on the Shopify App Store search-results page for every tracked term Pirate Ship ranks on. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so strong ranks sit at the top. Best so far: #5 on "shipping".

1 term, 12 daily observations. Tracked daily from Ongoing.AI's App Store search snapshots — gaps are days the app fell off the captured pages entirely.

shipping
#5
best #5
+1 positions

Catalog position

Where Pirate Ship sits in the App Store.

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

Rank in Shipping

#37

of 901 active apps

Review count percentile

96th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

75th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

since 2017

Listing change cadence

What Pirate Ship 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

2026-06-28 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 29

2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

4.90(138 reviews)

91%positive163
3%neutral5
7%negative12

Popular mentions

shipping rates
insurance claims
customer support
label fees
monitoring required

Top themes

shipping rates1
insurance claims1
customer support1
label fees1
monitoring required1

What merchants praise

“Easy to use and best shipping rates. As Shopify Amazon integration ends, you should add Amazon shipping to your App.”

Premium Supply USA · 5★

What merchants complain about

“Super slow to generate labels & import. So dont plan on this to make the shipping process any faster with this app. They changed how they bill without warning. I also noticed that usps lost alot of the package we shipped with pirate ship vs. what we shipped with shopify. They claimed to be cheaper but they are the same price as Shopify and you are constantly being billed later on for random things so watch out. Also horrible customer service. Shopify shipping ends up being cheaper if you take into account all the times they go back and bill you randomly!!!”

Blonde-Tee's · 1★

Plans

Pirate Ship pricing tiers.

Free

Free to install

Capabilities

What Pirate Ship can do.

The 16 capabilities Pirate Ship lists across its category, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

Labels and packaging

Label creation
Bulk printing
Address validation
Packing slips
Customs documents
Return labels
Shipping insurance
Delivery date
Order sync
Carrier selection
Shipping rates

Managing shipments

Order sync
Real-time tracking
Email notifications
Order updates
Shipping analytics

FAQ

Pirate Ship — frequently asked questions.

What is Pirate Ship on Shopify?

Pirate Ship, officially listed on the Shopify App Store as Pirate Ship: CheapARR Shipping, is a Shopify app in the Shipping category. Pirate Ship offers pre-negotiated rates for UPS and USPS, with access to secret services like UPS Ground Saver and USPS Priority Mail Cubic, which can save you tons of treasure! It averages 4.90 out of 5 across 138 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.

How much does Pirate Ship cost?

Pirate Ship is priced at $0/month on the Shopify App Store.

When was Pirate Ship launched?

Pirate Ship launched on July 11, 2017 — over 8 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 138 merchant reviews.

Is Pirate Ship Built for Shopify?

Pirate Ship 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 Pirate Ship alternatives?

Merchants commonly compare Pirate Ship with 17TRACK Order Tracking, ParcelWILL Order Tracking, Zapiet, and Track123 Order Tracking. 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 Pirate Ship?

7% of analyzed merchant reviews are negative. The pain points most often raised in critical reviews are shipping rates, insurance claims, and customer support — see the review fingerprint above for the per-merchant detail.

Alternatives

Apps merchants pick instead.

17TRACK

17TRACK Order Tracking

4.90★3,573

Known for: pricing

CWILL

ParcelWILL Order Tracking

5.00★2,564

Zapiet

Zapiet ‑ Pickup + Delivery

4.90★1,788

Known for: misleading-marketing

Track123

Track123 Order Tracking

4.90★1,469

Known for: tracking-accuracy

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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 yesterday.

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