Print on demand (POD) · refreshed Jun 12, 2026
PortL for Shopify
by PortalPrints · Custom merch that's made for Authors. Fast delivery across the USA.
4 reviews, 4.20★ average. Live data from the Shopify App Store + Ongoing.AI’s daily install crawl — updated Jun 12, 2026.
Rating
4.20
4 reviews
Pricing
Free
free
Built for Shopify
No
Years live
1
launched Mar 24, 2025
Last updated
Jun 9, 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
Catalog position
Where PortL 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)
#106
of 319 active apps
Review count percentile
67th
vs category siblings
Rating percentile
62th
vs category siblings
Years on App Store
1
since 2025
Listing change cadence
What PortL 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 · Jun 10
2026-05-30 → 2026-06-09
Shopify Lastmod · May 31
2026-05-29 → 2026-05-30
Shopify Lastmod · May 30
set to 2026-05-29
Review fingerprint
What merchants raise, and how they feel about it.
Sentiment breakdown
- Positive75% · 3
- Neutral0% · 0
- Negative25% · 1
“I'm an author and have been using The Portl App since the summer when the creators of the app found me at a book signing! They are really creative and so helpful with any idea. They did a book box for me for one of my books and it did so well. The quality of everything was phenomenal and my readers were really happy. I can't wait to continue building the store with Portls! The customer service is the best as they truly do everything to make sure their customers have the greatest experience. You really can't get better than these guys!”
“The app navigation is just bad... No customization for their odd 3d printed toy catalog. I have no idea what PortalPrints is trying to go for - the profile on the Shopify app store it looks like an interesting app for POD, on their website it looks like it's for author merch. As for the app integration - looks awesome but it is simply unusable. Has a lot of potential though.”
Top themes
Plans
PortL pricing tiers.
Free Forever
Free
- In-app credits available
- No payments until your first order
Alternatives
Apps merchants pick instead.
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Known for: customer-support
CJDropshipping
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ShopSocial, Inc.
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Known for: customer-support
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 Jun 12, 2026.
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