Shopify app comparison · updated Aug 26, 2026
Recharge vs Skio, a Recharge Company
Compare Recharge and Skio, a Recharge Company for Shopify subscriptions using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
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
Skio
Skio, a Recharge Company
Where fast-growing brands scale subscriptions.
- Rating
- 5.00
- Reviews
- 225
- Review growth · 30d
- -1 · -0.4%
- Pricing
- $599/month
- Years on Shopify
- 5
- Stores observed
- 186
Our read
Recharge has the stronger observed market footprint in OngoingAI's data — it appears on 11.9× more tracked stores and carries 13.1× the App Store review depth. Ratings and recent review growth are closer.
- Rating
- Skio, a Recharge Company leads5.0 vs 4.8
- Review growth
- Recharge faster+0.4% vs -0.4%
- Review depth
- Recharge13.1× more reviews
- Observed adoption
- Recharge11.9× 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 and is adding them fastest over the tracked window.
Reviews each app has gained since the start of this tracking window. · Tracking window · Aug 10 – Aug 26, 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 | Recharge | Skio, a Recharge Company | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.80 | 5.00 | Skio, a Recharge Company +0.20 |
| Reviews | 2,964 | 225 | Recharge 13.1× |
| Review growth · 30d | +12 · +0.4% | -1 · -0.4% | Recharge faster |
| Listed pricing | Free trial available | $599/month | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 12 | 5 | Recharge +7y |
| Stores observed | 2,215 | 186 | Recharge leads |
Which fits your requirements?
Choose by what you actually need.
Choose Recharge if…
- You need fixed bundles
- You need multipacks
- You need mix-and-match bundles
- Recent review-growth signals matter to you
Choose Skio, a Recharge Company if…
- You need donations
- You need upsell and cross-sell
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What Recharge and Skio, a Recharge Company each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 55% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Recharge only
18
- 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
- Discounts
- Volume discounts
- Flat discounts
Skio, a Recharge Company only
2
- Donations
- Upsell and cross-sell
22 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
- Tiered pricing
- Freemium
- Trial periods
- Usage-based pricing
- Per-user pricing
- One-time payment
- 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.
Recharge
2,215
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Skio, a Recharge Company
186
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 Recharge and Skio, a Recharge Company.
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 Recharge or Skio, a Recharge Company, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.