Shopify app comparison · updated Sep 15, 2026
GSC vs Powerful Contact Form
Compare GSC and Powerful Contact Form for Shopify using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
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GSC Email Marketing + Popups
Email marketing with email automation, campaigns, newsletters, popups, and ready-made templates
- Rating
- 4.70
- Reviews
- 60
- Review growth · 30d
- +5 · +9.1%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 6
- Stores observed
- 4,793
Powerful Form
Powerful Contact Form Builder
Build your contact us form or custom form without any technical knowledge required
- Rating
- 4.90
- Reviews
- 2,482
- Review growth · 30d
- +152 · +6.5%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 9
- Stores observed
- 5,138
What stands out
Powerful Contact Form carries 40.7× the App Store review depth; the other measurable signals are close.
- Rating
- Powerful Contact Form leads4.9 vs 4.7
- Review growth
- GSC faster+9.1% vs +6.5%
- Review depth
- Powerful Contact Form40.7× more reviews
- Observed adoption
- Similar footprint
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.
Powerful Contact Form Builder 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 17 – Sep 14, 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 | GSC | Powerful Contact Form | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.70 | 4.90 | Powerful Contact Form +0.20 |
| Reviews | 60 | 2,482 | Powerful Contact Form 40.7× |
| Review growth · 30d | +5 · +9.1% | +152 · +6.5% | GSC faster |
| Listed pricing | Free plan available | Free plan available | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 6 | 9 | Powerful Contact Form +3y |
| Stores observed | 4,793 | 5,138 | Powerful Contact Form leads |
Review corpus
What merchants actually report.
GSC
4.79 avg · 56 reviews
Powerful Contact Form
4.88 avg · 2,396 reviews
| Signal | GSC | Powerful Contact Form | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-star share | 91% | 93% | Powerful Contact Form leads |
| Rating · last 90 days | 4.50 | 4.98 | Powerful Contact Form leads |
| Replies to reviews | 100% | 0% | GSC leads |
| Replies to critical (≤3★) | 100% | 7% | GSC leads |
| Long-term reviewers (1yr+) | 36% | 26% | GSC leads |
| Top market | United States 30% | United States 30% | — |
| Reviews analyzed | 56 | 2,396 | — |
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 GSC if…
- You need email marketing
- You need email campaigns
- You need discounts
- Recent review-growth signals matter to you
Choose Powerful Contact Form if…
- You need applications
- You need bookings
- You need contacts
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What GSC and Powerful Contact Form each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 13% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
GSC only
35
- Email marketing
- Email campaigns
- Discounts
- Promotions
- Cross-sell emails
- Welcome emails
- Follow-up emails
- Win-back emails
- Product recommendations
- Drip campaigns
- Editor tool
- AI generation
- Custom fonts
- Import and export
- Email domains
- Email capture list
- Triggers and rules
- Automations
- Targeting
- Segmentation
- Tagging
- Reporting
- Insights and tips
- A/B testing
Powerful Contact Form only
35
- Applications
- Bookings
- Contacts
- Custom
- Feedback
- File upload
- Multi-step
- Orders
- Pricing quotes
- Registrations
- Wholesale
- Font and color
- Custom fields
- Custom CSS
- Embedded forms
- Email templates
- Multi-language
- Conditional logic
- GDPR checkbox
- Email responses
- Auto-sync
- Data export
- Dashboard
- Form limits
5 shared capabilities
- Newsletters
- Pop-ups
- Forms
- Templates
- 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.
GSC
4,793
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 98%
Powerful Contact Form
5,138
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
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 GSC and Powerful Contact Form.
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 15, 2026.
See who’s switching — as it happens.
Track app adoption on live ecommerce stores. Find merchants running GSC or Powerful Contact Form, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.