Shopify app comparison · updated Sep 16, 2026
Kaching vs Loop
Compare Kaching and Loop for Shopify subscriptions using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
Kaching Bundles & Upsells
Kaching Subscriptions App
Easily launch and manage recurring product subscriptions. Built for revenue growth and retention.
- Rating
- 5.00
- Reviews
- 1,029
- Review growth · 30d
- +170 · +19.8%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 1
- Stores observed
- 1,002
Loop Solutions Inc
Loop Subscriptions App
Boost Subscriber Growth with an All-in-One Subscription App for Smart Offers, Bundles & Cancel Flows
- Rating
- 5.00
- Reviews
- 756
- Review growth · 30d
- +64 · +9.2%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 5
- Stores observed
- No footprint yet
What stands out
Kaching carries 1.4× the App Store review depth; the other measurable signals are close.
- Rating
- Level5.0 vs 5.0
- Review growth
- Kaching faster+19.8% vs +9.2%
- Review depth
- Kaching1.4× 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.
Kaching Subscriptions App 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 18 – Sep 15, 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 | Kaching | Loop | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 5.00 | 5.00 | Level |
| Reviews | 1,029 | 756 | Kaching 1.4× |
| Review growth · 30d | +170 · +19.8% | +64 · +9.2% | Kaching faster |
| Listed pricing | Free plan available | Free plan available | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 1 | 5 | Loop +4y |
| Stores observed | 1,002 | No footprint yet | Not comparable |
Review corpus
What merchants actually report.
Kaching
4.98 avg · 956 reviews
Loop
4.96 avg · 717 reviews
| Signal | Kaching | Loop | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-star share | 99% | 98% | Level |
| Rating · last 90 days | 4.99 | 4.93 | Kaching leads |
| Replies to reviews | 0% | 69% | Loop leads |
| Replies to critical (≤3★) | 100% | 20% | Kaching leads |
| Long-term reviewers (1yr+) | 0% | 17% | Loop leads |
| Top market | United States 42% | United States 58% | — |
| Reviews analyzed | 956 | 717 | — |
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 Kaching if…
- You need digital products
- You need physical products
- You need discounts
- Recent review-growth signals matter to you
Choose Loop if…
- You need tiered pricing
- You need freemium
- You need trial periods
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What Kaching and Loop each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 48% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Kaching only
15
- Digital products
- Physical products
- Discounts
- Percentage discounts
- Upsell discounts
- Editor tool
- Templates
- Custom fonts
- Currency conversion
- Localization
- Triggers and rules
- Discount stacking
- Automations
- Filtering
- Analytics
Loop only
11
- Tiered pricing
- Freemium
- Trial periods
- Usage-based pricing
- Per-user pricing
- One-time payment
- Fixed bundles
- Build a box
- Gift boxes
- Mystery boxes
- Custom bundles
14 shared capabilities
- Subscriptions
- Curated subscriptions
- Replenishment subscriptions
- Access subscriptions
- Memberships
- Services
- Product bundles
- Subscription boxes
- Custom subscriptions
- Recurring payments
- Subscribe and save
- Fixed pricing
- Dynamic pricing
- Custom pricing
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.
Kaching
1,002
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Loop
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 Kaching and Loop.
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 Kaching or Loop, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.