We make Listify, which is one of the seven apps below. You should know that before you read a word of it, and you shouldn't have to reach a footer to find out.
Here's how we've tried to make it useful anyway. The apps are ordered by review count on the Shopify App Store, oldest and most-established first. That's a number you can check in about ten seconds, and it puts us fourth. We're not going to rank ourselves, and any roundup that does is asking you to trust a judgement it won't show you. Every price, limit and feature below came off each app's public listing on 3 September 2026, and the ones about Listify render straight from our billing configuration, so they can't drift out of date while this page sits here.
Where another app is genuinely the better choice, we say so. There's a section further down that tells you which one to pick for five specific situations, and we're not the answer to three of them.
| Gift Reggie | Swym Registry | MyRegistry Lite | Listify | Little Registry | Registry Guru | Codebeans | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 185 | 39 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| On the store since | 2014 | 2023 | 2021 | 2025 | 2024 | 2026 | 2026 |
| Free plan | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Registries on the free plan | None | 5 | Not verified | 5 | 5 | 10 | None |
| Cheapest paid plan | $9/mo | $15/mo | Not verified | $9.99/mo | $15/mo | $7.99/mo | $9/mo |
| Top plan | $40/mo | $99/mo | Not verified | $39.99/mo | $99/mo | $34.99/mo | $129/mo |
| Registries at the top | 100 | 250 | Not verified | 250 | 300 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Registries in store (POS) | Yes | Yes | No | In development | Yes | No | No |
| Wishlists as well | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Analytics in your admin | No | Yes | Not verified | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
How to choose between them
Four questions get you most of the way, and none of them is "which has the most features".
How many registries will actually be live at once? Not how many you'll create in a year, how many are open on a given Tuesday. This is what every app on this list charges for, and it's where the pricing diverges wildly. A store running twenty active wedding lists is on a different plan from one running two hundred, and the gap between apps at the top end is a factor of three.
Do people register in your shop, or only online? If a couple walks your floor scanning items onto a list, you need Shopify POS support. Three of these seven have it today, and it's the single most decisive question on this page, because no amount of online polish substitutes for it. Ours is in development and isn't something you can buy this month.
Is the free plan a home or a trial? Three of these apps have no free plan at all, so your first month costs money before a single customer uses the feature. Of the ones that do, the registry allowance ranges from five to ten. That's the difference between finding out whether registries suit your store and guessing.
How much of your theme do you have to touch? This is the one people underestimate. Registry apps put a button on your product page, a panel over your storefront and often a whole page template. Some do that through Shopify's theme editor with no code. Some hand you a snippet to paste. And when you change theme next year, some settings follow you and some do not.
The rest of this page is the detail behind those four questions, app by app.
Gift Reggie
The incumbent, and by a distance. Gift Reggie has been on the App Store since April 2014 and holds 4.7 stars from 185 reviews, which is more than the other six combined and then some. If you ask a Shopify agency for a registry app, this is usually the name you get.
It's a full registry and wishlist product with the deepest in-store story here. The top tier includes Shopify POS support with barcode scanning, so a couple can walk your shop floor adding items to their list, and that's a genuine capability none of the newer apps have matched. It also carries Shopify Flow triggers and API access at the top of the range, and the listing declares integrations with Klaviyo and Langify, the latter being how you'd get it into a language other than English.
The catch is the price floor. There is no free plan, only trials, so the cheapest way to run a single registry is $9 a month. The tiers are $9 for 5 registries, $15 for 25, $30 for 50 and $40 for 100, with per-registry overage above each threshold at $0.75, $0.60, $0.25 and $0.10. That last number is the cheapest overage rate on this page by some way, so a store running several hundred registries should do the arithmetic rather than assume a newer app is cheaper.
Two things it doesn't do. There's no analytics dashboard, so you can see your registries but not what they're worth to you. And the listing is English only, which for a store selling into more than one language means the registry your customer sees stays in English.
Gift Reggie is what you pick when track record matters more than interface, when you need registries at the till, or when you're running enough volume that the overage rate dominates the monthly fee.
Swym Gift Lists and Registries
Swym is a large wishlist company, and this is their separate registry product. Not to be confused with Swym Wishlist Plus, which is a different app with 1,462 reviews and does not do registries. This one launched in March 2023 and has 4.6 stars from 39 reviews.
It's the second most established registry app here and the other one with real Shopify POS support, which it uses to unify online and in-store lists. The listing also claims in-depth analytics, gifter discounts to incentivise buying off a registry, and address masking so a gifter doesn't see the recipient's address at checkout. Privacy is a recurring theme in how they describe it.
Pricing is a clean ladder with no overages published: free for up to 5 active registries, then $15 a month for 25, $50 for 100 and $99 for 250, each with a 30-day trial, and each tier discounted around 17% if you pay annually. The absence of an overage rate means the tier limits are hard caps as listed, so you size up rather than spill over.
Worth knowing before you commit: the newest review on the listing is from April 2026 and the most recent developer reply we could find is from December 2024. That's not proof of anything on its own, and a stable product needs fewer replies than a young one, but it's a different support posture from an app whose developer answers weekly.
MyRegistry Lite
This one is structurally different from everything else on the page, and the difference matters more than any feature comparison.
MyRegistry.com runs a large universal registry network, the kind where someone builds one list that pulls products from many retailers. MyRegistry Lite is the Shopify app that puts your products into that network. Your customers' lists live on MyRegistry rather than on your store, and the pitch is visibility to gift-givers already using it rather than a registry experience on your own site.
The listing is the most explicit here about setup being effortless: added in minutes, no developer required, with professional integration by their team. It's aimed squarely at retailers who don't want to run this themselves. Launched October 2021, it holds 4.0 stars from 12 reviews, up from 2.8 earlier this year.
Pricing is where you have to do your own homework. The listing shows one plan, "free to install", with the note that upgrades are available and no published prices. You'll need to talk to them to find out what it costs, which is a meaningfully different buying process from the rest of this list.
Pick this if you want reach into an existing gifting network and are comfortable that the registry itself is not hosted on your store. Don't pick it expecting a registry that lives in your theme, because that isn't what it is.
Listify
Ours. Launched April 2025, 5.0 stars from 7 reviews, all of them from a ten-week window this summer. Seven reviews is not a track record and we're not going to pretend otherwise: Gift Reggie has twenty-six times as many, and if longevity is what you're buying, buy that.
What we built it around is the part most registry apps treat as an afterthought, which is how it looks and behaves inside your theme.
The registry and wishlist panel renders inside a shadow DOM. In practice that means your theme's CSS
can't reach in and break our layout, and ours can't leak out and break yours. That sounds like
boilerplate until you've had an app inherit a theme's html { font-size: 62.5% } and shrink its
entire interface to nothing, which is a real failure mode we specifically shut off at the boundary.
Everything ships as Shopify theme app blocks, so you place it from the theme editor without touching
code, and Shopify removes it cleanly when you uninstall. We write nothing into your theme's Liquid.
Appearance is set in the app rather than the theme editor, and that distinction has a consequence worth understanding. You choose a primary and accent colour, and each one expands into a full range of shades automatically, so you set two colours instead of twenty. You choose a style that controls corner rounding and border weight, whether the panel uses your theme's font or a system one, and a default cover image. Because those live against your shop rather than your theme, they follow you when you change theme. Your button colours and margins are per-block settings and do not, which is true of every app here, but the part that defines how it looks is portable.
Swipe or scroll
The registry button sits under Add to cart, in your theme's own layout. Colour, corner radius and label are yours to set.
The same block does wishlists, with its own colour. A saved item becomes a registry item later without the shopper starting again.
The registry page is a Shopify section you drop onto a page template. Create, find a friend's list, or open your own saved items.
Analytics in your Shopify admin: active registries, orders, attributed revenue and visitors. On every plan, including the free one.
Setup is a guided flow that checks its own work. Rather than a checklist you tick yourself, the app reads your live theme and reports which blocks are actually present and switched on, refreshed when a real shopper loads a page. It links you straight into the theme editor with the app embed already enabled rather than just revealing where the toggle is. On older non-OS-2.0 themes you do have to paste a snippet, and the app generates it for you with your colours already baked in.
Analytics are on every plan including the free one: active registries, registry and wishlist orders, total order value attributed to registries, and unique visitors, each with period-over-period comparison. Per registry you can see where visitors arrived from. We report revenue and visitors, not a conversion rate, because we don't calculate one.
Pricing is free for 5 active registries plus unlimited wishlists, then $9.99/mo for 20, $24.99/mo for 50, and $39.99/mo for 250, with a 7-day trial on the paid plans. The storefront ships in 18 languages, and on paid plans you can rewrite any of that wording yourself.
Little Registry
The closest thing to a direct feature-for-feature counterpart to what we've built, launched December 2024, 5.0 stars from 3 reviews.
It leads on privacy: shipping addresses masked from gift-givers during checkout, registrants choosing who can view a list, optional password protection. Address masking is the standout, because it's a real concern for anyone running a baby registry and not everyone here offers it. There's a Shopify POS registry app on the higher tiers, including a multi-store version at the top, plus analytics, stock tracking and co-registrant management. The listing says it adapts to your store's local language and currency, and offers ten languages.
Something they do that nobody else on this list does: styling, integrations, translations and migration are offered as white-glove support rather than as self-serve features. If you'd rather hand someone the job than configure it, that's a genuine difference in kind, not degree.
Free to install with 5 active registries, then $15 a month for 25, $50 for 100 and $99 for 300, with overages of $0.80, $0.30 and $0.15 and a 14-day trial. That top tier is the largest registry allowance on this page apart from the two unlimited plans.
Three reviews means the same caveat as ours, only more so.
Gift Registry Guru
The newest app here, launched May 2026, 5.0 stars from 2 reviews. It's also the one that undercuts everyone on paper, and we'd rather point that out than have you find it yourself.
The free plan gives you 10 active registries, twice what any other free plan here offers. Paid tiers start at $7.99 a month for 30 registries, then $19.99 for 100, then $34.99 for unlimited, all with a 15-day trial. If registries-per-pound is your metric, this wins it outright, and it isn't close.
It's also the only app on this list offering custom JS and CSS control as a paid feature, which if you have a developer and specific ideas is worth more than any preset. Public, private and password protected registries, an analytics dashboard covering views and purchases, automated branded email notifications, and customisable buttons and widgets are all on the listing.
Two numbers deserve a second look. The listing reports 32 languages, but that's the count for the app's own interface, not for storefront translations, which the plans meter separately: two languages on the entry tier, unlimited above it. And two reviews is two reviews. The pricing is real and public, the track record isn't there yet, and only you can weigh those against each other.
Its developer, Webframez, also publishes a comparison article ranking gift registry apps. Theirs places this app first and doesn't disclose the connection.
Codebeans Gift Registry
Launched March 2026, 5.0 stars from 1 review, registries only with no wishlist.
Six pricing tiers, more than anyone else here: $9 for 5 registries, $15 for 25, $30 for 50, $40 for 100, $99 for 250 and $129 for unlimited. The lower four carry a 3-day trial, which is the shortest on this page, and there's no free plan. No overage rates are published, so the tier limits read as hard caps.
The listing covers customisable registry design, password protection, address privacy at checkout, group gifting with flexible amounts, and a mobile-friendly experience. The upper tiers list API access and Shopify Flow support, though the listing's own integrations section names only Shopify Admin, so it's worth confirming the Flow claim with them before buying on it.
One thing you'll notice if you compare price cards closely: the four lower tiers match Gift Reggie's prices, registry limits and feature descriptions almost word for word. We're noting the overlap because it's visible on both public listings, and drawing no conclusion from it.
With one review, this is the least-proven option here.
Which one for your store
Five situations, and the honest answer for each.
| If this is you | Pick |
|---|---|
| You want to try registries without paying first | Gift Registry Guru, which gives you the most registries free, or Swym Registry, Little Registry or Listify at 5 |
| Customers register in your shop, not just online | Gift Reggie for barcode scanning at the till, or Little Registry if you run more than one location. Ours is in development, so not this month |
| You're running hundreds of live registries | Gift Reggie. Its overage rate above the top tier is the lowest here and at that volume the overage matters more than the monthly fee |
| Address privacy is the deciding factor | Little Registry, which masks the recipient's address from gift-givers |
| You sell in several languages, or you want it to match your theme without a developer | Listify |
We're the answer to one of those five. If you came here expecting a roundup where the author's own app wins every category, that's the thing this page is trying not to be.
Questions, answered honestly
- Is there a genuinely free Shopify gift registry app?
- Four of the seven have a real free plan rather than just a trial: Gift Registry Guru, Swym Registry, Little Registry and Listify. The others are trial-only, so running a single registry costs money from day one. Free plans are capped by how many registries are live at once, not by how many you create.
- Does Shopify have a gift registry built in?
- No. Shopify has wishlists in some themes and customer accounts, but nothing that handles a registry: no purchased-quantity tracking, no sharing with guests, no stopping two people buying the same gift. That's why this category exists.
- Which app allows the most registries?
- Gift Registry Guru and Codebeans both offer unlimited registries on their top tiers, at very different prices. Below that, the largest published allowance is Little Registry's 300. Compare the overage rate as well as the limit: an app with a lower cap but a cheap overage can work out cheaper at volume.
- Do I need a separate wishlist app as well?
- It depends on the app. Gift Reggie, Listify and Gift Registry Guru handle wishlists alongside registries. Swym Registry, Little Registry and Codebeans are registry-focused, so you'd be running a second app for wishlists, which usually means a second subscription and a second set of theme blocks.
- Can I move my registries from one app to another?
- Usually yes, but it's a hands-on migration rather than a button. Several of these apps offer data migration support on their paid plans. The part worth asking about before you switch is what happens to registry links your customers have already shared, because those point at the old app and stop working when you uninstall it.
- Which of these work with Shopify POS?
- Gift Reggie, Swym Registry and Little Registry have it today, and Gift Reggie's is the most developed, with in-store barcode scanning on its top tier. Listify's is in development and not available yet. If in-store registration is a requirement right now, that narrows the field before anything else does.
- Will these work with my theme?
- All of them work with Online Store 2.0 themes, where blocks are added from the theme editor without code. Older vintage themes are where they differ: some need a snippet pasted into your theme files. If you're on a vintage theme, ask before you buy, because that changes setup from a five-minute job to a developer task.
Where we'd leave it
If you want the safest choice, it's Gift Reggie, and it's not close. Twelve years, 185 reviews and the best in-store support here. You'll pay from day one, the interface shows its age, and you won't get analytics, but nothing else on this page has been proven at that scale.
If you want the cheapest, it's Gift Registry Guru, and that's also not close. Two reviews is the price of admission.
Most stores aren't at either extreme. They want registries that look like they belong on their site, that a shopper on a phone can actually use, that don't need a developer to install, and that tell them afterwards whether any of it made money. That's the gap we built Listify into, and it's why analytics is on the free plan rather than held back for a tier.
Try two of them. Build one registry in each, open it on your phone, and see which one you'd be happy for a customer to use.