Can Shopify give a free gift without an app?

Yes, through a native Buy X Get Y automatic discount, as long as the trigger is a quantity. Native discounts cannot trigger a gift on cart spend, which is the offer most merchants want.

What happens when the free gift sells out?

It depends on the app. Some stop rewarding anyone with no warning. Look for an app that lets you list backup variants so the offer survives a sellout.

Will a free gift app change my product prices?

Some apps apply discounts, others edit the underlying prices. Price editing is more powerful and riskier: it has to be reverted correctly on uninstall, and reviewers report cases where it was not.

Which of these is cheapest?

Dealeasy starts lowest at $9, but the meter matters more than the headline. Kite is gated by your Shopify plan, so its cost can rise when you upgrade Shopify rather than when you use the app more.

App-Vergleiche

The best Shopify free gift apps, compared honestly

Three apps that can add a free product to a cart, judged on the things that decide whether the offer survives contact with a real shopper: what triggers the gift, what happens when it sells out, and whether the cart total holds at checkout.

Bewertungen und Preise geprüft am 8. Juli 2026

Die kurze Antwort

Kite is the strongest all-round pick for gift-with-purchase today: it is built on Shopify Functions, it covers free gift, BOGO and progress bars in one app, and it has the deepest review history of the three. Dealeasy is the better choice if your offer is really a build-a-box or mix-and-match, where its bundle builder is stronger. Discounty is the one to pick if you also want to edit prices in bulk, because it is a price editor first and a gift app second. All three can add a product at no charge; the differences show up in what triggers the gift and what happens when it runs out of stock.

Unser Interesse daran

We make Stackable, a Shopify discount app. It is not released yet, so it is not in the ranking above and nothing on this page is a recommendation to use it.

A discount engine built on Shopify Functions, where every offer type runs through the same server-side computation so the cart total and the checkout total agree, including through accelerated checkout. Gift offers carry an ordered list of candidate variants, so a sellout falls through to the next one instead of silently ending the campaign.

Ranking an app you cannot install would waste your time. We will add ourselves to this comparison when the app is live, and we will re-check every figure on this page on the same day.

Woran wir gemessen haben

What triggers the gift: Shopify native Buy X Get Y triggers on quantity, not on cart spend. "Spend $75 and get this free" is the offer most merchants actually want, and it is the one native discounts cannot express, so it is the first thing to check.
What happens when the gift sells out: A gift offer is backed by real inventory. An app with no fallback silently stops rewarding anyone the moment the variant hits zero, and nothing tells the merchant it happened.
Whether the total holds at checkout: The most damaging failure in this whole category, and the most common complaint across every discount app: the cart shows one number and checkout charges another, including through Shop Pay and other accelerated checkouts.
What the pricing is metered on: Plan-gated and revenue-based metering are the pricing models merchants object to most, because the bill rises without the app doing more.
Whether it changes your product prices: An app that rewrites prices has to put them back on uninstall. When that fails, the merchant is left with wrong prices and no obvious cause.

Die Apps

Kite

Skai Lama

Gelistet als „Kite Discount, Free Gift, BOGO“

Bewertung: 4.9 (952 Rezensionen)
Preis: Free to install up to 100 orders, then $19 and $49
Abgerechnet nach: Gated by your Shopify plan
Am besten für: Merchants who want gift-with-purchase, BOGO and a progress bar from one app.

Ihre Stärken

Built on Shopify Functions, so the discount is computed server-side rather than by rewriting prices in the theme.
Covers free gift, buy X get Y, tiered and volume discounts, and cart progress bars in a single app rather than across several.
Includes a bulk discount code generator, which most gift apps in this category do not.
The deepest review history of the three, at 952 reviews.

Wo sie schwächelt

Pricing is gated by your Shopify plan, so the bill can rise when you upgrade Shopify without the app doing anything more for you.
Our research did not sample its 1-star reviews, so we make no claim about reliability in either direction. Read the recent reviews yourself.

Schlägt uns bei It is released and has 952 reviews behind it. Stackable is not out yet, and a proven track record is a real advantage we cannot match today.

Kite im Shopify App Store ansehen

Dealeasy

Logbase

Gelistet als „Dealeasy: Volume Discounts App“

Bewertung: 4.9 (591 Rezensionen)
Preis: Free to install, then $9, $19 and $29
Abgerechnet nach: Order-count tiers
Am besten für: Merchants whose gift offer is really a build-a-box, where the shopper chooses what goes in.

Ihre Stärken

Mix-and-match and build-a-box are first-class here rather than bolted on, which matters if the shopper picks the contents.
Progressive rewards bars, so the shopper sees how close they are to the next gift.
Order-count pricing rather than plan gating, so the bill tracks usage rather than your Shopify tier.
Logbase has a strong reputation for support, and it comes up repeatedly in reviews.

Wo sie schwächelt

Positioned primarily as a volume-discount app, so gift-with-purchase is one capability among many rather than the focus.
Our research did not sample its 1-star reviews, so we make no reliability claim either way.

Schlägt uns bei Build-a-box, where the shopper assembles the set themselves. Stackable does mix-and-match pricing, but Dealeasy has built more of the box-building experience around it.

Dealeasy im Shopify App Store ansehen

Discounty

Gelistet als „Discounty: Bulk Discount Sales“

Bewertung: 4.9 (1178 Rezensionen)
Preis: Free plan, then $9.90, $29.90 and $49.90
Abgerechnet nach: Live discounted variants and campaign caps
Am besten für: Merchants who want bulk price editing and treat the gift offer as a secondary need.

Ihre Stärken

A genuinely strong bulk price editor, including compare-at handling, which none of the others match.
Auto-update rules, so products newly added to a tag or collection inherit the offer without manual work.
Customer-segment targeting.
The largest review base of the three, at 1,178.

Wo sie schwächelt

Reviewers report prices staying changed after uninstall, and reverting to unexpected price points. This is the risk that comes with editing prices rather than applying discounts.
Reviewers report scheduled campaigns failing to apply, and campaigns that cannot be paused once created.
Reviewers report conflicts between its discounts and native Shopify discount codes.

Schlägt uns bei Bulk price editing. Stackable deliberately never rewrites a product price, so if you want to actually change prices across a catalogue rather than apply a discount on top, Discounty is built for that and we are not.

Discounty im Shopify App Store ansehen

Wählen Sie eine davon, wenn

You want gift, BOGO and a progress bar from one app: Kite
The shopper builds their own box: Dealeasy
You want to bulk edit prices, not just apply discounts: Discounty
A single gift over a spend threshold, and nothing else: Shopify natively cannot do this, so any of the three
A quantity-triggered free product and nothing else: No app. Shopify native Buy X Get Y covers it

Was Shopify ohne App kann

Shopify can give a free product natively through a Buy X Get Y automatic discount, and for a straightforward "buy 2, get 1 free" that needs no app at all. Two things it cannot do: trigger a gift on cart spend rather than quantity, and fall back to another variant when the gift sells out. If your offer is "spend $75 and get this", that is the line where an app becomes necessary.

So sind wir vorgegangen

Ratings, review counts and pricing were read from the Shopify App Store listings and are stated with the date they were checked. Listings change, so verify the current one before you decide.
Complaint themes come from reading 1-star reviews. We sampled Discounty but not Kite or Dealeasy, so their sections make no reliability claim in either direction rather than an invented balance.
We did not install and test all three side by side for this edition. When we do, this page will say so and the method will change.
We make one of the apps in this category. That is disclosed above, and it is why we are not in the ranking.
If you build one of these apps and think we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Häufige Fragen

Can Shopify give a free gift without an app?: Yes, through a native Buy X Get Y automatic discount, as long as the trigger is a quantity. Native discounts cannot trigger a gift on cart spend, which is the offer most merchants want.
What happens when the free gift sells out?: It depends on the app. Some stop rewarding anyone with no warning. Look for an app that lets you list backup variants so the offer survives a sellout.
Will a free gift app change my product prices?: Some apps apply discounts, others edit the underlying prices. Price editing is more powerful and riskier: it has to be reverted correctly on uninstall, and reviewers report cases where it was not.
Which of these is cheapest?: Dealeasy starts lowest at $9, but the meter matters more than the headline. Kite is gated by your Shopify plan, so its cost can rise when you upgrade Shopify rather than when you use the app more.

So bauen Sie diese Angebote

Free gift on spend

One threshold, one gift added at no charge, with backups for when stock runs out.

Tiered free gift with purchase

A different gift at each spend threshold, with the highest qualifying gift awarded.

Discount plus free gift

An order discount and a free gift on the same threshold, both applying to one cart.