Smart Stories vs My Stories

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How Smart Stories and My Stories compare on the Shopify App Store: rating, review count, pricing, the Built for Shopify badge, and where each one ranks in the store's organic search results. Every number is the App Store's own and is never edited.

Updated September 8, 2026 · App Store data

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Smart Stories vs My Stories at a glance

As of September 8, 2026, Smart Stories is rated 5.0 stars from 8 reviews and My Stories is rated 5.0 stars from 22 reviews on the Shopify App Store.

  • Rating: Both are rated 5.0 stars.
  • Reviews: My Stories has more reviews, 22 against 8.
  • Pricing: Smart Stories lists "Free trial available", My Stories "Free plan available".
  • Built for Shopify: Only My Stories carries the Built for Shopify badge.
Smart Stories and My Stories on the Shopify App Store, as of September 8, 2026: rating, review count, pricing label, the Built for Shopify badge, and the date each app's data was last read from the store.
Fact Smart Stories My Stories
Tagline Create Instagram like stories to play videos across your shop My Stories - The Story video format, built for your store.
Rating ★ 5.0 ★ 5.0
Reviews 8 22
Pricing Free trial available Free plan available
Built for Shopify No badge Built for Shopify
Data as of September 8, 2026 September 8, 2026

Ratings, review counts, pricing labels and badges are read from each app's Shopify App Store search result card. Rankings are the store's organic results for the searches Rankbase tracks; sponsored results are excluded.

Where each app ranks in App Store search

Every Shopify App Store search Rankbase tracks where Smart Stories or My Stories is in the top 10 today, with the position merchants see. Organic results only, across 3,620 tracked searches; sponsored placements never count.
App Store search Smart Stories My Stories
Both apps rank · 2 searches
Sterni #3 #2
Qstomy #4 #2
Only My Stories ranks · 4 searches
Lead not in top 10 #3
Build My Store not in top 10 #4
Leadfor not in top 10 #4
Video UGC not in top 10 #4

In the App Store's organic search results, Smart Stories ranks in the top 10 for 2 of the 3,620 searches we track and My Stories for 6. They share 2 searches and My Stories ranks higher on all of them.

Frequently asked questions

Is Smart Stories or My Stories rated higher on the Shopify App Store?

Both are rated 5.0 stars. My Stories has more reviews, 22 against 8.

Which has more reviews, Smart Stories or My Stories?

My Stories has more reviews, 22 against 8.

Which ranks higher in Shopify App Store search, Smart Stories or My Stories?

In the App Store's organic search results, Smart Stories ranks in the top 10 for 2 of the 3,620 searches we track and My Stories for 6. They share 2 searches and My Stories ranks higher on all of them.

How is this comparison made?

Rankbase records the organic results merchants see when they search the Shopify App Store for 3,620 popular keywords, refreshed daily for published rankings and at least weekly for the rest. Each app's rating, review count, pricing label and Built for Shopify badge are taken from its App Store search result card, so they are exactly what merchants see; the date next to each app is the last time it appeared in any tracked top 10. Sponsored results are excluded, and nothing on this page is edited by hand, including for Rankbase's own apps.

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Rankbase paired these two apps on September 8, 2026, when both ranked in the top 3 for "sterni". The page stays as long as either app keeps ranking or the comparison keeps being read, and every number on it is refreshed from the App Store.

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