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Best Animation and effects apps for Shopify.

114 active apps, 2,473 total reviews, 4.58★ average. Live App Store data, daily rank-race for the top incumbents, and the apps merchants picked this week.

Active apps

114

live in this category today

Total reviews

2.5k

across the niche

Avg rating

4.58

review-count weighted

Built for Shopify

7%

of the niche carries the badge

Free apps

25%

or freemium

Leaderboard

Top 20 animation and effects apps.

Ordered by live position on the Shopify animation and effects category page — what merchants actually see browsing the niche — filtered to 4.0★+ for credibility. The ↑ arrow marks 7-day climbs on the category page; +N is new reviews in the same window.

  1. #1

    Dakaas AI Seasonal Effects

    Dakaas · Animate Your Store with AI 3D Effects, Decorations, Snowfall, Tab Animations, Music & Cursor Effects

    Rating

    4.90★

    Reviews

    1,583

    BFSFree
  2. #2

    RT: Christmas Snowfall Effects

    RoarTheme · Decorate your store to increase sales in Valentine's and BFCM seasons with music and effects.

    Rating

    4.70★

    Reviews

    154

    Free
  3. #3

    FX 3D Season Effects—World Cup

    Effective Apps · Animate your store with 3D effects decorations and games. 200+ holiday animations are available.

    Rating

    4.70★

    Reviews

    149

    +1 / 7d

    BFS$4+/mo
  4. #4

    Hura Snowfall Effects & Decor

    Hura Apps · Bring the festive atmosphere to the website to create a better shopping experience & increase sales.

    Rating

    4.90★

    Reviews

    116

    +1 / 7d

    BFS$1+/mo
  5. #5

    Easy Background Music ‑ Musica

    BirdChime · Quickly add background music to your store that vibes with your store's overall theme

    Rating

    4.90★

    Reviews

    87

    Free
  6. #6

    MX AI: Background Music Player

    Effective Apps · Play a song of your choice in the background of your store. Entertain your customers while they shop

    Rating

    4.80★

    Reviews

    55

    +2 / 7d

    BFS$2+/mo
  7. #7

    Loadify Preloader & Page Speed

    OnClick Solutions LLC · Loading screen, page effects & transitions - with TurboMode speed boosts & LCP/FCP fix

    Rating

    4.90★

    Reviews

    50

    BFS$3+/mo
  8. #8

    Shop Effects ‑ Event Booster

    The Indie Dev · The next level of boosting sales events and other holidays with 70+ effects

    Rating

    4.10★

    Reviews

    33

    $5+/mo
  9. #9

    Imgify: Logo Animation Effects

    Effective Apps · Add a falling effect of your brand logo to your store. Enhance customers experience while they shop.

    Rating

    4.80★

    Reviews

    27

    BFS$2+/mo
  10. #10

    SFX ‑ Snow Christmas Effects

    Astral · Welcome your customers with beautiful effects for Halloween,Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Christmas

    Rating

    4.90★

    Reviews

    24

    Free
  11. #11

    Osaria Audio Player

    Osaria · Perfect for online sales of audio products like: music, vinyls, sound bites, sample, music template.

    Rating

    4.90★

    Reviews

    17

    $3+/mo
  12. #12

    Preloadify ‑ Preloader Effects

    Piric Group · Preloader animations with your logo for branding, better CLS score for SEO, and reduced bounce rate!

    Rating

    5.00★

    Reviews

    15

    BFS$5+/mo
  13. #13

    Badgy : Product Label & Badges

    SolverCircle · Drive more Sales fast and easy with attractive product Labels & Badges : Sale, Hot, New, Trust

    Rating

    4.70★

    Reviews

    12

    $7+/mo
  14. #14

    Halloween Day Celebration

    Zestard Technologies · Make your store stand out this Halloween by using our last-minute solution for special effects.

    Rating

    4.40★

    Reviews

    12

    Free
  15. #15

    Music Player by Websyms

    Websyms IT Solutions · Create a music playlist for any page or product.

    Rating

    4.10★

    Reviews

    10

    $4+/mo
  16. #16

    Theme Animations And Effects

    MakeIT · Animations, secondary Image hover effects & seasonal effects for products, buttons, text and pages.

    Rating

    4.40★

    Reviews

    8

    Free
  17. #17

    HolidaySpark

    RoboTurk · Add a creative touch to your store with 100s of festive icons and animations.

    Rating

    5.00★

    Reviews

    7

    $3+/mo
  18. #18

    Animify – Storefront Animation

    Architechpro OÜ · Switch on Animify app to add some special atmosphere and grab potential customers attention.

    Rating

    5.00★

    Reviews

    5

    $4+/mo
  19. #19

    Listen Now ‑ Audio Player

    Accelerator Commerce · Listen Now makes your audio accessible. Add audio to any page on your store in minutes.

    Rating

    4.60★

    Reviews

    5

    $5+/mo
  20. #20

    3D: Animated Seasonal Effects

    GoodApps · Create a dynamic shopping experience with seasonal decorations and eye-catching effects.

    Rating

    4.00★

    Reviews

    5

    $4+/mo

Review growth

Top incumbents, traced daily.

Cumulative review count per day for the niche’s most- reviewed apps. The slope of each line IS the velocity — steeper slopes mean faster growth. Lines pulling away from the pack are the niche’s actual momentum leaders.

1.7k1.3k8694350May 28Jun 5Jun 13Jun 21Jun 29Total reviews · slope = velocity
  1. Dakaas AI Seasonal Effects1.6k
  2. RT154
  3. FX 3D Season Effects—World Cup149
  4. Hura Snowfall Effects & Decor116
  5. Easy Background Music ‑ Musica87
Tracked daily from Ongoing.AI's review-stats snapshots. Each point is the day's observed total review count, collapsed to one observation per day.

Shape of the niche

Pricing and rating distributions.

Where merchants actually pay, and where merchant sentiment actually lands. Useful for “is this niche price-anchored?” and “is the bar genuinely 4.5★+ or more like 3.8★?”

Pricing

Where this niche prices.

  • Free29.8% · 34
  • Under $20/mo68.4% · 78
  • $20–$49/mo0.9% · 1
  • $50–$99/mo0% · 0
  • $100+/mo0.9% · 1

Rating

Where this niche rates.

  • 5.0★52.5% · 32
  • 4.5 – 4.99★24.6% · 15
  • 4.0 – 4.49★9.8% · 6
  • 3.0 – 3.99★8.2% · 5
  • Below 3.0★4.9% · 3

Momentum · last 28 days

Who’s growing.

Apps adding the most reviews over the last 28days — the niche’s actual growth leaders, not just the cumulative incumbents. Pulled from Ongoing.AI’s daily review-count history.

  1. +4

    new reviews

    MX AI: Background Music Player

    Effective Apps · Play a song of your choice in the background of your store. Entertain your customers while they shop

    Pattern

    Rating

    4.80★

    Total reviews

    55

  2. +2

    new reviews

    Hura Snowfall Effects & Decor

    Hura Apps · Bring the festive atmosphere to the website to create a better shopping experience & increase sales.

    Pattern

    Rating

    4.90★

    Total reviews

    116

  3. +1

    new reviews

    RT: Christmas Snowfall Effects

    RoarTheme · Decorate your store to increase sales in Valentine's and BFCM seasons with music and effects.

    Pattern

    Rating

    4.70★

    Total reviews

    154

Full directory

All 114 animation and effects apps.

Every active app Ongoing.AI tracks in this category, best-first by review count. Each links through to its live report — ratings, install footprint, review fingerprint, and rank trajectory.

Methodology

Where the numbers come from.

Ratings, review counts, pricing, “Built for Shopify,” and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The leaderboard filters to apps rated 4.0★+ then orders by review count: a credibility-weighted definition of “best.” Rank race and movers come from daily category-page archives — each day’s position is the best (lowest) rank we observed across all pages of the Animation and effects category. New entries are apps whose first-seen date lands in the last 28 days. Snapshot generated .

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