The app audit: what every installed app costs you
The monthly fee is the cost everyone can see and the smallest one. An app also costs you data reach, theme surface area and a dependency nobody wrote down.
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Everything we have written on apps — 4 posts, newest first.
4 posts on apps
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When a custom app becomes a product
You built something for one store and it works. Turning it into an App Store listing is not a distribution change — Shopify will not let it be one. It is a second app and a second business.
Building a Shopify app: the decisions before the code
Most briefs that arrive as “we need an app” are a Flow, a metafield or an extension. If you genuinely need one, four choices made in week one decide what it costs for years.
Theme app extensions: apps that do not touch your code
The old way was an app pasting a snippet into your theme and leaving it there forever. Extensions end that — and change which apps you should buy.
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Free store audit
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