Shopify app comparison · updated Aug 25, 2026
Printfulvs
Gelato
Compare Printful and Gelato for Shopify dropshipping using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
Printful Latvia AS
Printful: Print on Demand
Create and sell custom products with print-on-demand dropshipping
- Rating
- 4.80
- Reviews
- 3,777
- Review growth · 30d
- +56 · +1.5%
- Pricing
- Free to install
- Years on Shopify
- 13
- Stores observed
- No footprint yet
Gelato
Gelato: Print on Demand
Print on demand for your ecommerce business
- Rating
- 4.80
- Reviews
- 1,007
- Review growth · 30d
- +26 · +2.7%
- Pricing
- Free to install
- Years on Shopify
- 6
- Stores observed
- No footprint yet
What stands out
- Ratings
- Level at 4.80
- Review growth
- Gelato faster (+2.7% vs +1.5%)
- Review depth
- Printful 3.7× more reviews
- Adoption
- Not comparable yet
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 | Printful | Gelato | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.80 | 4.80 | Level |
| Reviews | 3,777 | 1,007 | Printful 3.7× |
| Review growth · 30d | +56 · +1.5% | +26 · +2.7% | Gelato faster |
| Listed pricing | Free to install | Free to install | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 13 | 6 | Printful +7y |
Which fits your requirements?
Choose by what you actually need.
Choose Printful if…
- You need bags and luggage
- You need home and garden
- You need baby products
Choose Gelato if…
- You need arts and crafts
- You need brazil
- You need chile
- Recent review-growth signals matter to you
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
48% of listed capabilities overlap.
These apps cover largely the same ground. The decision material is what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Printful only
20
- Bags and luggage
- Home and garden
- Baby products
- Sports products
- Pet products
- Latvia
- Pack-ins
- All-over-print
- Blankets
- Shoes
- Home decor
- Wall art
- Eco-friendly
- Organic
- White label
- Bulk shipping
- Custom shipping
- Eco shipping
- Global fulfillment
- Order tracking
Gelato only
21
- Arts and crafts
- Brazil
- Chile
- China
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Sweden
- Türkiye
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Personalization
Show 19 shared capabilities
- Dropshipping
- Clothing and accessories
- Australia
- Canada
- Japan
- Mexico
- Spain
- United States
- Print on demand (POD)
- Private labels
- Custom packaging
- Design tools
- Mockup generator
- Bags
- Apparel
- Embroidery
- Hats
- Drinkware
- Holiday gifts
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 Printful and Gelato.
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.
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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 25, 2026.
See who’s switching — as it happens.
Track app adoption on live ecommerce stores. Find merchants running Printful or Gelato, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.