The 10 Best Membership Apps for Shopify
The top 10 apps merchants see when they search the Shopify App Store for membership, in the exact order the store ranks them. Only Shopify's organic ranking is shown, never sponsored ads.
Updated September 6, 2026 · Organic rankingShopify has no idea what a member is. There is no entitlement, no access level, and no gated content: the only restriction the platform ships is a password across the entire storefront, which is all or nothing and not what anybody means by a membership. What apps use instead is customer tags, a plain list of words on a customer record with no access semantics attached to it whatsoever.
Everything follows from that. The gate is enforced by whatever is doing the rendering, which means theme code, an app block, or a page the app serves itself. Nothing at the platform level will stop somebody reaching a URL they were not supposed to have, so how robust your members-only area actually is depends entirely on the implementation you chose, and it is worth asking rather than assuming.
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Appstle℠ Memberships
App for membership plans, member perks, and recurring payments
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Seal Subscriptions App
Increase sales & retention with subscriptions & memberships!
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Simplee Memberships & Loyalty
Sell memberships, give members perks, discounts, store credits
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Subi Subscriptions App
Boost sales with subscriptions, memberships, bundles & loyalty
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YOYO: Loyalty, VIP, Membership
Enterprise Loyalty Programs, VIP tiers, Memberships, Referrals
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Bold Memberships & Loyalty
Sell Memberships, Member Perks & Custom Membership Access.
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Conjured Memberships
Powerful membership programs to grow your brand & sales.
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Smile: Loyalty Program Rewards
Grow customer loyalty with points, rewards & VIP tiers
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Appstle℠ Subscriptions App
Retain customers with subscriptions, subscription box, bundles
Built for Shopify
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What to look for in a Membership app
- Ask what happens to a direct link
- The honest test of a gate is a logged-out visitor pasting the address of a members page. Some of these hide content in the theme, which is a decoration rather than a lock, and some serve it from the app after checking who you are. If your members are paying for exclusivity, that difference is the product.
- Where the membership status lives
- Tags are readable by every other app you install and writable by several, so a tag-based gate is only as reliable as everything else touching that field. Ask whether status is stored somewhere less crowded, and what happens if a tag gets overwritten by an unrelated tool.
- What ends the membership
- Access is easy to grant and awkward to revoke. Find out what actually removes someone when a payment fails or they cancel, how quickly, and whether anything notices a card that expired last month, because a membership nobody is removed from is a discount you gave away permanently.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best Membership app for Shopify?
Based on the Shopify App Store's own organic ranking for "membership", Appstle℠ Memberships currently holds the #1 spot, with a 5.0 star rating across 892 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 "membership", 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 "membership", you can verify the current ranking there yourself.
Which Membership apps are Built for Shopify?
8 of the top 10 membership apps hold the Built for Shopify badge: Appstle℠ Memberships, Seal Subscriptions App, Zendra Memberships, Simplee Memberships & Loyalty, Subi Subscriptions App 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 6, 2026, the top-ranked membership app on the Shopify App Store is Appstle℠ Memberships, with a 5.0 star rating across 892 reviews. 8 of the top 10 carry the Built for Shopify badge, and the average rating is 4.9 stars across 18,497 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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