Shopify app comparison · updated Aug 26, 2026
Kaching vs Recharge
Compare Kaching and Recharge 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
- 882
- Review growth · 30d
- +50 · +6.0%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 1
- Stores observed
- 347
Recharge
Recharge Subscriptions App
The subscription platform built for the world’s fastest-growing brands.
- Rating
- 4.80
- Reviews
- 2,964
- Review growth · 30d
- +12 · +0.4%
- Pricing
- Free trial available
- Years on Shopify
- 12
- Stores observed
- 2,215
Our read
Recharge has the stronger observed market footprint in OngoingAI's data — it appears on 6.4× more tracked stores and carries 3.4× the App Store review depth. Ratings and recent review growth are closer.
- Rating
- Kaching leads5.0 vs 4.8
- Review growth
- Kaching faster+6.0% vs +0.4%
- Review depth
- Recharge3.4× more reviews
- Observed adoption
- Recharge6.4× 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.
Recharge Subscriptions App leads total reviews, while Kaching Subscriptions App is adding them faster over the tracked window.
Reviews each app has gained since the start of this tracking window. · Tracking window · Aug 10 – Aug 25, 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 | Recharge | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 5.00 | 4.80 | Kaching +0.20 |
| Reviews | 882 | 2,964 | Recharge 3.4× |
| Review growth · 30d | +50 · +6.0% | +12 · +0.4% | Kaching faster |
| Listed pricing | Free plan available | Free trial available | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 1 | 12 | Recharge +11y |
| Stores observed | 347 | 2,215 | Recharge leads |
Which fits your requirements?
Choose by what you actually need.
Choose Kaching if…
- You need percentage discounts
- You need upsell discounts
- You need editor tool
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
Choose Recharge if…
- You need tiered pricing
- You need freemium
- You need trial periods
- A larger observed Shopify footprint is reassuring
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 Recharge each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 43% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Kaching only
12
- Percentage discounts
- Upsell discounts
- Editor tool
- Templates
- Custom fonts
- Currency conversion
- Localization
- Triggers and rules
- Discount stacking
- Automations
- Filtering
- Analytics
Recharge only
23
- Tiered pricing
- Freemium
- Trial periods
- Usage-based pricing
- Per-user pricing
- One-time payment
- Fixed bundles
- Multipacks
- Mix-and-match bundles
- Variant bundles
- Infinite option bundles
- Build a box
- Gift boxes
- Mystery boxes
- Sample packs
- Upsell bundles
- Cross-sell bundles
- Frequently bought together
- Related products
- Custom bundles
- Quantity breaks
- Volume discounts
- Flat discounts
17 shared capabilities
- Subscriptions
- Curated subscriptions
- Replenishment subscriptions
- Access subscriptions
- Memberships
- Services
- Product bundles
- Subscription boxes
- Digital products
- Physical products
- Custom subscriptions
- Recurring payments
- Subscribe and save
- Fixed pricing
- Dynamic pricing
- Custom pricing
- Discounts
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.
Kaching
347
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Recharge
2,215
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Scope
What this comparison measures.
What it measures
Shopify App Store ratings, review counts and 30-day review growth, listed pricing and capabilities, category data, and OngoingAI-observed storefront adoption for Kaching and Recharge.
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 Aug 26, 2026.
See who’s switching — as it happens.
Track app adoption on live ecommerce stores. Find merchants running Kaching or Recharge, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.