The 10 Best Low Stock Alert Apps for Shopify
The top 10 apps merchants see when they search the Shopify App Store for low stock alert, in the exact order the store ranks them. Only Shopify's organic ranking is shown, never sponsored ads.
Updated September 8, 2026 · Organic rankingThis is the alert pointed at you, not at your customer, and the reason it needs an app is that Shopify has nowhere to put the number. Inventory carries eight named states, incoming, on hand, available, committed, reserved, damaged, safety stock and quality control, and none of them is a threshold. The event a tool would listen to is a bare quantity for an item at a location, with no field saying what counts as low. So every "email me at ten units" is the app's own logic sitting on top of a number.
There is a native path, and it is assembly rather than a setting: Shopify's own illustration of workflow automation is captioned as a low stock notification built from a trigger, a condition and an action. If you are comfortable building that, the free tool may be enough. What the paid ones package is everything around it, thresholds per variant and per location, digests instead of a message per event, and in some cases reorder quantities worked out from how fast things sell.
That last part is worth separating, because only some of these do it. Shopify's own reporting can tell you sell-through rate, days remaining and inventory value over time per location, which is analytics you read, not a recommendation that arrives before you run out.
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iAlert ‑ Low Stock Alert
Send rules based low inventory alert via email, slack easily
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Bee Low Stock Alert & Forecast
Manage inventory with inventory alert and inventory forecast
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Notify Me! Back in Stock Alert
Waitlist, preorder, wishlist and low stock - all in one app.
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Stockie Inventory Management
Purchase Orders & Inventory Forecasting - Restock On Time
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Bundlex Product Bundles Upsell
Boost AOV with free bundle offers, quantity breaks & BOGO
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TA Preorder & Back In Stock
Preorders, back in stock, restock waitlist & low stock alerts
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Urgency+ Low Stock Counter
Create urgency with real inventory or Manual stock mode
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Stockbot Low Stock Alert
Low inventory alerts email & inventory forecast
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What to look for in a Low Stock Alert app
- A threshold that fits the product
- One number for the whole catalog is useless when you sell both slow furniture and fast consumables. Look for thresholds per variant, and for a sensible default you can override, since setting them one at a time across a real catalog is the work everybody underestimates.
- Per location, if you have several
- Stock is tracked per location, so a product can be healthy overall and empty where the orders are. An alert that only knows the total will tell you nothing until it is too late.
- A digest, not a firehose
- Instant alerts on a busy day become noise, and noise gets filtered into a folder nobody opens. A daily or weekly summary of everything below threshold is usually the version people keep reading a year later.
- Whether it also tells you how much to order
- Forecasting is a separate feature and only some listings have it. If reorder quantity is what you actually want, buy for that and check what it does with seasonality, lead time and a product with three months of history.
- Where the alert lands
- Email is universal and easy to ignore. If your team lives in a chat tool, an alert there gets acted on, and several of these send to one.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best Low Stock Alert app for Shopify?
Based on the Shopify App Store's own organic ranking for "low stock alert", iAlert ‑ Low Stock Alert currently holds the #1 spot, with a 4.8 star rating across 96 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 "low stock alert", 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 "low stock alert", you can verify the current ranking there yourself.
Which Low Stock Alert apps are Built for Shopify?
7 of the top 10 low stock alert apps hold the Built for Shopify badge: Notify Me! Back in Stock Alert, MB Low Stock Alert, Stockie Inventory Management, Bundlex Product Bundles Upsell, TikTok Shop Integration — SPL 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 September 8, 2026, the top-ranked low stock alert app on the Shopify App Store is iAlert ‑ Low Stock Alert, with a 4.8 star rating across 96 reviews. 7 of the top 10 carry the Built for Shopify badge, and the average rating is 4.9 stars across 5,222 reviews.
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