Shopify app comparison · updated Sep 5, 2026
Alia vs Smile
Compare Alia and Smile for Shopify using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
Alia
Alia: Email & SMS Popups
AI-powered popups for email and SMS capture that accelerate list growth and drive revenue.
- Rating
- 4.60
- Reviews
- 114
- Review growth · 30d
- +7 · +6.5%
- Pricing
- Free trial available
- Years on Shopify
- 3
- Stores observed
- 1,630
ShopPad Inc.
Smile
An original and effective way to get reviews on your products
- Rating
- 4.70
- Reviews
- 12
- Review growth · 30d
- +3 · +33.3%
- Pricing
- Free trial available
- Years on Shopify
- 9
- Stores observed
- 2,487
Our read
Smile has the stronger observed market footprint in OngoingAI's data — it appears on 1.5× more tracked stores. Ratings and recent review growth are closer.
- Rating
- Smile leads slightly4.7 vs 4.6
- Review growth
- Smile faster+33.3% vs +6.5%
- Review depth
- Alia8.8× more reviews
- Observed adoption
- Smile1.5× more tracked stores
Review trajectory
How each app's Shopify reviews are moving.
Daily App Store review counts since we began tracking — who's gaining reviews fastest, who holds the larger base, and how the race is developing.
Alia leads total reviews and is adding them fastest over the tracked window.
Reviews each app has gained since the start of this tracking window. · Tracking window · Aug 10 – Sep 5, 2026
Head-to-head
The signals, side by side.
Each row reads straight from the live App Store listing and OngoingAI’s census. The Difference column states the gap — not a buyer recommendation.
| Dimension | Alia | Smile | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.60 | 4.70 | Smile +0.10 |
| Reviews | 114 | 12 | Alia 8.8× |
| Review growth · 30d | +7 · +6.5% | +3 · +33.3% | Smile faster |
| Listed pricing | Free trial available | Free trial available | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 3 | 9 | Smile +6y |
| Stores observed | 1,630 | 2,487 | Smile leads |
Which fits your requirements?
Choose by what you actually need.
Choose Alia if…
- You need pop-ups
- You need sales pop-ups
- You need email pop-ups
Choose Smile if…
- You need product reviews
- You need voting
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
- Recent review-growth signals matter to you
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What Alia and Smile each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 3% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Alia only
36
- Pop-ups
- Sales pop-ups
- Email pop-ups
- SMS pop-ups
- Cart pop-ups
- Exit intent
- Discounts
- Rewards
- Spin the wheel
- Countdown timers
- Forms
- Games
- Quizzes
- Age verification
- Reviews pop-up
- Custom pop-ups
- Editor tool
- Templates
- AI generation
- Custom code
- Custom fonts
- Translation
- Localization
- Email capture list
Smile only
2
- Product reviews
- Voting
1 shared capabilities
- Surveys
Observed adoption
Who actually runs each, on real stores.
The stores OngoingAI’s weekly census observes running each app, and the platform each skews toward — observed presence, not vendor-reported install totals.
Alia
1,630
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 99%
Smile
2,487
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 91%
Scope
What this comparison measures.
What it measures
Shopify App Store ratings and review counts, rating distribution, developer reply rates, reviewer tenure and geography, listed pricing and capabilities, category data, and OngoingAI-observed storefront adoption for Alia and Smile.
What it doesn’t
Hands-on usability, customer-support quality, deliverability, merchant sentiment from review text, or revenue impact. We draw a sharp line around what we can observe.
Methodology
Where the numbers come from.
Ratings, review counts, pricing, and categories come from the live Shopify App Store listing, refreshed daily. Review growth compares the observed snapshots across the trailing 30-day window. “Stores observed” and the platform split come from OngoingAI’s weekly storefront census — the real stores running each app, not the listing’s claimed totals. Comparison generated Sep 5, 2026.
See who’s switching — as it happens.
Track app adoption on live ecommerce stores. Find merchants running Alia or Smile, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.