Minimal Shopify App Stack
The average Shopify store has 17 apps installed. The average Shopify store also loads in 4+ seconds. These two facts are connected.
The 11 Apps We Actually Install
- Klaviyo — Email + SMS. Non-negotiable.
- Judge.me / Loox — Reviews with photos.
- Recharge — Subscriptions, if applicable.
- ReConvert — Thank-you page upsells.
- Bundler / Frequently Bought Together — AOV booster.
- Shopify Inbox — Live chat, free.
- GeoIP Redirect — Multi-region.
- PageFly — Only if you can't build custom sections.
- Hyros / Triple Whale — Attribution (one or the other, not both).
- Vitals / Octane AI — Quizzes for product discovery.
- Smile.io / Yotpo Loyalty — Loyalty programs.
Everything else — cut it. Less = faster.



