Shopify app comparison · refreshed
Klaviyo vs Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
Two Shopify apps in the email marketing category, compared on the dimensions merchants actually weigh: ratings, review momentum, pricing, customer-support sentiment, bugs, and what reviewers uniquely call out. Built from 4,323 live Shopify App Store reviews.
Klaviyo
Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS
AI marketing and customer service automation for email marketing, SMS, and WhatsApp to grow faster.
- Rating
- 4.70
- Reviews
- 2,996
- Δ reviews · 49d
- +204
- Δ rating · 49d
- +0.10
- Pricing
- From $15/mo
- Built for Shopify
- No
Intuit Mailchimp
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
Drive sales with smarter SMS and email marketing automation built for ecommerce brands
- Rating
- 4.80
- Reviews
- 1,327
- Δ reviews · 49d
- +95
- Δ rating · 49d
- +0.00
- Pricing
- From $13/mo
- Built for Shopify
- No
Scorecard
The decision, by the numbers.
Each row reads directly from the live App Store listing and the observed review-stats history. No editorialising on top.
Trajectory
Momentum and risk profile.
Review momentum
Reviews gained since first observed snapshot · past 49d
Star distribution
Share of reviews at each star tier — wider 1- and 2-star bands read as a fatter tail of negative experiences.
Klaviyo
2,996 reviews
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
1,327 reviews
Feature footprint
How similar are these apps, really?
Every capability tag both apps list on the Shopify App Store, mapped into shared ground and side-specific edges. Same taxonomy on both sides — Shopify’s own.
Klaviyo only
4
Shared
64
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing only
7
Capabilities by Shopify category
72 · 76 total
Managing campaigns
Email marketing
Campaign types
Email marketing
Workflow automation
SMS marketing
Klaviyo only
4
- Push notifications
- Exit intent
- Subscriptions
- Product reviews
Shared
64
- Email campaigns
- SMS campaigns
- Newsletters
- Pop-ups
- Forms
- Discounts
- Promotions
- Upsell emails
- Cross-sell emails
- Cart emails
- Checkout emails
- Abandoned cart
- Browse abandonment
- Welcome emails
- Follow-up emails
- Price drop emails
- Back-in-stock emails
- Win-back emails
- Product recommendations
- Drip campaigns
- Custom campaigns
- Editor tool
- Templates
- AI generation
- Localization
- Custom code
- Custom fonts
- Bulk editing
- Import and export
- Email domains
- Consent collection
- Email capture list
- SMS capture list
- Triggers and rules
- Automations
- Targeting
- Geolocation
- Segmentation
- Tagging
- Tracking
- Reporting
- Insights and tips
- Analytics
- A/B testing
- APIs and webhooks
- Bulk messaging
- Compliance
- Custom sender ID
- Personalized messages
- Scheduled messages
- Two-way messaging
- Conversion metrics
- Real-time analytics
- ROI tracking
- Custom segments
- Opt-in
- Cart recovery
- Birthday messages
- Discount codes
- Feedback requests
- Order confirmations
- Order tracking
- Welcome messages
- Win-back campaigns
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing only
7
- Social media
- Landing pages
- Surveys
- Translation
- Payment reminders
- Subscription renewals
- One-time password (OTP)
Side-by-side by axis
What merchants actually say.
Semantic search across the review corpus, bucketed by sentiment, with the strongest positive and negative quotes per side.
customer support
Klaviyo
89% positive · avg rating 4.59
“Best customer service support chat. They are always willling to help!”
“every time you contact the chat it is 8 hours, and they are not fully trained and don't have an answer to any technical issue so you have to close and start a new chat hopping you'll get somebody else! no tel support.”
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
93% positive · avg rating 4.73
“Customer Support is available and knowledgeable. Very helpful in working through questions/problems to a successful result.”
“any help at all is reserved for pro. Absolutely horrible customer service because there is none unless you meet a certain requirement. At the very least your app should work as promised, even without support. Edit to respond to the reply: I connected with your team by mistake. Your team immediately told me that they wouldnt help me without looking at the message and told me if I wanted help I'd have to upgrade to pro. They could have read my email acknowledged that it was an error and send me kindly on my way. they did not however do that. Instead they sent a canned response that was completely irrelevant to the email. Which IS the definition of horrible customer service. I use your service and had this experience and decided it was noteworthy to share. I received a nice email response from the founder who addressed the issue. There's a lot of work that needs to be done on ur csr dept.”
pricing
Klaviyo
0% positive · avg rating 1.00
“False pricing plan. If you open pricing plan from the app page, then you will see that you can buy 20$ plan with 5000 emails. However, after installation I've tried to update plan, and the cheapest version is for 140$ only!”
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
0% positive · avg rating —
No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.
ease of use
Klaviyo
100% positive · avg rating 4.99
“Intuitive and easy to use for someone that is new to e-commerce.”
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
90% positive · avg rating 4.80
“App works exactly as described and is very easy to set up. Very intuitive to use and requires very little prior knowledge”
onboarding
Klaviyo
33% positive · avg rating 2.67
“A little rocky of a start in the learning process. I think It's a great process but scheduling in time to really understand the interface is important and an investment. Would recommend for serious entrepreneurs”
“When I speak with reps from other apps they rave about Klaviyo, but I'm guessing they have not gone through the onboarding process. We were assigned an onboarding specialist, but they don't help you much with the technical stuff. She's just a project manager, essentially who assigns all the tasks to you. Really great sales pitch, but you feel high and dry after you've signed up. Update: Their documentation is really awful.”
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
100% positive · avg rating 5.00
“hands on and helpful team - did an orientation that made it easy to get started with all the things i wanted to implement. and when i was confused about something, they have very helpful ~real humans~ to chat with you and troubleshoot. Marz stayed on the chat with me for an hour and a half and reconnected when i got booted out by my browser a couple times. and at the end sent a full transcript of our chat. love the level of service and accountability.”
bugs
Klaviyo
100% positive · avg rating 4.80
No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
0% positive · avg rating —
No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.
performance
Klaviyo
100% positive · avg rating 4.94
No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
100% positive · avg rating 4.50
No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.
What each is known for
Themes reviewers raise.
The topics that surface most across reviews — the shared backbone and what each app is uniquely known for.
Klaviyo
- customer-support223
- pricing131
- ease-of-use49
- onboarding34
- bugs31
- bug26
- performance25
- billing-issues24
Uniquely pricing · ease-of-use · onboarding · bugs · bug · performance · billing-issues · missing-features · billing
Mailchimp Email SMS Marketing
- customer-support1
- missing-feature1
- issue-resolution1
Uniquely missing-feature · issue-resolution
Shared themes
Same Shopify categories
Methodology
Where the numbers come from.
Ratings, review counts, pricing, and the “Built for Shopify” flag come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily. Trend deltas compare the snapshot from 365 days ago against today. Sentiment counts and quotes are derived from semantic search across the live review corpus, bucketed by rating sign — every quote on this page is a real review, not a paraphrase. Snapshot generated .
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