Shopify app comparison · updated Sep 16, 2026
Appointment Booking vs Appointment Booking Cowlendar
Compare Appointment Booking and Appointment Booking Cowlendar for Shopify event booking using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
Appointly
Appointment Booking App Apntly
Take booking for events, appointments, services on your calendar. Calendar Appointment Booking App.
- Rating
- 5.00
- Reviews
- 1,611
- Review growth · 30d
- +57 · +3.7%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 5
- Stores observed
- 561
Booking Appointment Cowlendar
Appointment Booking Cowlendar
Take unlimited bookings and appointment on your calendar. Booking app for events, rental & service
- Rating
- 4.90
- Reviews
- 2,229
- Review growth · 30d
- +67 · +3.1%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 4
- Stores observed
- No footprint yet
What stands out
Appointment Booking Cowlendar carries 1.4× the App Store review depth; the other measurable signals are close.
- Rating
- Appointment Booking leads slightly5.0 vs 4.9
- Review growth
- Appointment Booking faster+3.7% vs +3.1%
- Review depth
- Appointment Booking Cowlendar1.4× more reviews
- Observed adoption
- Not comparable yet
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.
Appointment Booking Cowlendar leads total reviews; both are growing at a similar pace.
Reviews each app has gained since the start of this tracking window. · Tracking window · Aug 18 – Sep 16, 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 | Appointment Booking | Appointment Booking Cowlendar | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 5.00 | 4.90 | Appointment Booking +0.10 |
| Reviews | 1,611 | 2,229 | Appointment Booking Cowlendar 1.4× |
| Review growth · 30d | +57 · +3.7% | +67 · +3.1% | Appointment Booking faster |
| Listed pricing | Free plan available | Free plan available | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 5 | 4 | Appointment Booking +1y |
| Stores observed | 561 | No footprint yet | Not comparable |
Review corpus
What merchants actually report.
Appointment Booking
4.98 avg · 1,590 reviews
Appointment Booking Cowlendar
4.95 avg · 2,215 reviews
| Signal | Appointment Booking | Appointment Booking Cowlendar | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-star share | 98% | 97% | Appointment Booking leads |
| Rating · last 90 days | 4.99 | 4.93 | Appointment Booking leads |
| Replies to reviews | 0% | 1% | Level |
| Replies to critical (≤3★) | 75% | 44% | Appointment Booking leads |
| Long-term reviewers (1yr+) | 7% | 8% | Appointment Booking Cowlendar leads |
| Top market | United States 48% | United States 38% | — |
| Reviews analyzed | 1,590 | 2,215 | — |
Based on public merchant reviews, with newer feedback given more weight. OngoingAI matches each review to an identifiable store and the app they use.
Which fits your requirements?
Choose by what you actually need.
Choose Appointment Booking if…
- You need custom tickets
- You need custom css
- You need thank you page
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
Choose Appointment Booking Cowlendar if…
- You need download limits
- You need custom links
- You need ip restrictions
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What Appointment Booking and Appointment Booking Cowlendar each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 93% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Appointment Booking only
3
- Custom tickets
- Custom CSS
- Thank you page
Appointment Booking Cowlendar only
3
- Download limits
- Custom links
- IP restrictions
37 shared capabilities
- Event booking
- Appointments
- Rentals
- Classes
- Services
- Reservations
- In-person
- Online
- Custom events
- Calendar
- Scheduling
- Time slots
- Block dates
- Multi-booking
- Cancel booking
- Capacity limits
- Ticketing
- Event check-in
- Data sync
- Real-time updates
- Email notifications
- SMS notifications
- Multi-language
- Multi-location
- Payments
- Deposits
- Staff management
- Booking pages
- Calendar widget
- Custom forms
- Custom notifications
- Branding
- Digital products
- Courses
- Videos
- Custom
- Email delivery
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.
Adoption comparison unavailable — a publishable footprint exists for only one app.
Appointment Booking
561
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Appointment Booking Cowlendar
No reliable footprint yet
OngoingAI hasn’t observed enough high-confidence installations to publish an adoption count. This does not mean zero installations.
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 Appointment Booking and Appointment Booking Cowlendar.
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 16, 2026.
See who’s switching — as it happens.
Track app adoption on live ecommerce stores. Find merchants running Appointment Booking or Appointment Booking Cowlendar, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.