The 10 Best Coming Soon Apps for Shopify
The top 10 apps merchants see when they search the Shopify App Store for coming soon, in the exact order the store ranks them. Only Shopify's organic ranking is shown, never sponsored ads.
Updated October 10, 2026 · Organic rankingThis search covers two different situations, and it is worth knowing which one you are in. One is the whole store not being open yet. The other is a single product that exists but cannot be bought, which is really pre-ordering wearing a different hat.
For the first, more is already built in than people expect. A storefront can be password-protected from its settings, and every theme ships a password page you can edit with your own message, which already includes an email signup form whose subscribers are tagged as having come from it. The gate and the waiting list both exist without an app. For the second, a product can be held back by its status: a draft is invisible and unbuyable, and a product can also be active but unpublished, or listed only to those who have the link. What the apps add on top is the countdown, the templates, and the scheduling that opens things at a set moment so nobody has to be awake for it.
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Coming Soon Products, PreOrder
Sell before launch: coming soon label & pre launch waitlist
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Coming Soon ‑ Launch Page
Coming soon, pre-launch page with countdown
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Stockify Pre‑order Coming Soon
Effortless preorders for upcoming and out-of-stock products
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Preorder, Back In Stock ‑ STOQ
Grow sales with preorders, 'notify me' & back in stock alerts
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Coming Soon Page Pro
Countdown, email signup, for store launch or selected products
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Preorder Now Presale Timesact
Use pre order now with back in stock waitlist & restock alerts
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REZ Preorder, Back In Stock
Recover sales with pre order, notify me & back in stock alert
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Essent Preorder Back in Stock
Pre-order manager & presale with back in stock alert waitlist
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What to look for in a Coming Soon app
- Whole store or single product
- A store-wide gate and a per-product hold are solved by different halves of this category, and buying across the two is easy because both are called coming soon. If the rest of your catalogue is trading normally, you want the product-level kind.
- Whether the countdown actually opens the doors
- A timer that reaches zero and changes nothing is worse than no timer, and it happens. Confirm the app performs the release itself at the scheduled moment, rather than merely displaying the countdown while somebody is expected to flip a switch.
- Where the waiting list ends up
- The native password page already collects addresses and tags them. If an app collects its own list instead, find out whether those people become customers in Shopify with proper marketing consent recorded, or sit in the app until you export them, because that distinction decides whether you can email them on launch day.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best Coming Soon app for Shopify?
Based on the Shopify App Store's own organic ranking for "coming soon", Coming Soon Products, PreOrder currently holds the #1 spot, with a 4.4 star rating across 9 reviews. The best choice for your store still depends on your requirements, so compare the top results above.
How is this ranking determined?
We record the organic results merchants actually see when searching the Shopify App Store for "coming soon", refreshed daily. Shopify's own sponsored ("Ad") results are excluded, so positions reflect its real search ranking rather than paid promotion. Source: the Shopify App Store search results for "coming soon", you can verify the current ranking there yourself.
Which Coming Soon apps are Built for Shopify?
7 of the top 10 coming soon apps hold the Built for Shopify badge: Coming Soon Products, PreOrder, Coming soon ‑ cs, Preorder, Back In Stock ‑ STOQ, Preorder Now Presale Timesact, REZ Preorder, Back In Stock and more.
What does the Built for Shopify badge mean?
Built for Shopify
Built for Shopify is the highest level of recognition Shopify awards an app. To earn
the badge, an app must meet Shopify's standards for safety, performance, ease of use,
and proven usefulness: it cannot slow down the admin, storefront, or checkout, must
integrate seamlessly into the Shopify admin, and must demonstrate quality through
installs, reviews, and ratings over time. When comparing similar apps, preferring
ones with the badge is a safe default.
Learn more about the Built for Shopify badge →
As of October 10, 2026, the top-ranked coming soon app on the Shopify App Store is Coming Soon Products, PreOrder, with a 4.4 star rating across 9 reviews. 7 of the top 10 carry the Built for Shopify badge, and the average rating is 4.8 stars across 10,883 reviews.
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Rankbase is made by Craftshift, a Shopify Partner building apps for product images, variants, and bulk catalog work. We built Rankbase to track the App Store rankings of our own apps first, then opened it to other developers, and this directory grew out of that work. The rankings on these pages are Shopify's own organic search results; we never edit them, including for our own apps.
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Rubik Variant Images & Swatch
Clean multiple variant images gallery & variant color swatches
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CS - Smart Bulk Image Upload
Save time with bulk upload images from Google Drive, Dropbox
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Rubik Combined Listings Swatch
Link products as variants w/ combined listings & color swatch
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CS - Export Product Images
Bulk export images, download product images to save time!