Shopify app comparison · updated Sep 15, 2026
Printful vs Printify
Compare Printful and Printify 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
- 3,858
- Review growth · 30d
- +102 · +2.7%
- Pricing
- Free to install
- Years on Shopify
- 13
- Stores observed
- 14,773
Printify
Printify: Print on Demand
Create and sell custom products worldwide – no inventory required.
- Rating
- 4.70
- Reviews
- 4,340
- Review growth · 30d
- -23 · -0.5%
- Pricing
- Free to install
- Years on Shopify
- 11
- Stores observed
- No footprint yet
What stands out
Printful shows faster recent review growth; the other measurable signals are close.
- Rating
- Printful leads slightly4.8 vs 4.7
- Review growth
- Printful faster+2.7% vs -0.5%
- Review depth
- Similar volume
- 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.
Printify leads total reviews, while Printful is adding them faster 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 | Printful | Printify | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.80 | 4.70 | Printful +0.10 |
| Reviews | 3,858 | 4,340 | Printify 1.1× |
| Review growth · 30d | +102 · +2.7% | -23 · -0.5% | Printful faster |
| Listed pricing | Free to install | Free to install | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 13 | 11 | Printful +2y |
| Stores observed | 14,773 | No footprint yet | Not comparable |
Review corpus
What merchants actually report.
Printful
4.68 avg · 3,848 reviews
Printify
4.73 avg · 4,462 reviews
| Signal | Printful | Printify | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-star share | 86% | 83% | Printful leads |
| Rating · last 90 days | 4.79 | 4.65 | Printful leads |
| Replies to reviews | 54% | 61% | Printify leads |
| Replies to critical (≤3★) | 80% | 64% | Printful leads |
| Long-term reviewers (1yr+) | 20% | 11% | Printful leads |
| Top market | United States 70% | United States 76% | — |
| Reviews analyzed | 3,848 | 4,462 | — |
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 Printful if…
- You need home and garden
- You need japan
- You need mexico
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
Choose Printify if…
- You need health and beauty
- You need arts and crafts
- You need automotive
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What Printful and Printify each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 80% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Printful only
7
- Home and garden
- Japan
- Mexico
- Spain
- Private labels
- Custom packaging
- Custom shipping
Printify only
8
- Health and beauty
- Arts and crafts
- Automotive
- Czechia
- Germany
- Poland
- United Kingdom
- Personalization
32 shared capabilities
- Dropshipping
- Clothing and accessories
- Bags and luggage
- Baby products
- Sports products
- Pet products
- Australia
- Canada
- Latvia
- United States
- Print on demand (POD)
- Design tools
- Mockup generator
- Pack-ins
- All-over-print
- Bags
- Blankets
- Apparel
- Embroidery
- Hats
- Shoes
- Drinkware
- Holiday gifts
- Home decor
- Wall art
- Eco-friendly
- Organic
- White label
- Bulk shipping
- Eco shipping
- Global fulfillment
- Order tracking
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.
Printful
14,773
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Printify
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 Printful and Printify.
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 Printful or Printify, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.