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TOP 3 ALTERNATIVES — RANKED
Three you should evaluate first.
Filtered from 12 candidates by feature similarity, audit score, and review velocity. The hero treatment is editorial — these earned more space because the data did.
BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle Upsell
Discounts#1TOP PICK
5.004,093 reviews
97/100Audit score
Pick if you're surveying the marketplace
Widely used on this marketplace — not a like-for-like swap. AppRanks found no app sharing Exploding Discounts's category, so this is not a replacement for it — it is a widely-used discounts option shown for market context. Compare it against your own requirements rather than as a swap.
FBP | Fast Bundle & Upsell App
Discounts#2RUNNER-UP
5.003,039 reviews
97/100Audit score
Pick if you're cost-sensitive
Adjacent tool, different job. Different use case from Exploding Discounts. Listed because it is among the most-adopted discounts apps on this marketplace, not because it covers the same job.
DECO Product Labels & Badges
Discounts#3VALUE PICK
5.001,557 reviews
95/100Audit score
Pick if you're mapping adjacent tooling
Popular alternative to evaluate on its own merits. Solves a different problem than Exploding Discounts. Useful market context; verify the capability overlap yourself before treating it as an option.
SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON
Exploding Discounts versus the top 3.
Five rows, all loaded above the fold. Wins are highlighted; nothing's hidden behind a tab.
RANKS #4 THROUGH #12
The next 9, denser.
Lower-ranked but legitimate. Click any row for the full profile — or compare side-by-side with Exploding Discounts.
How these alternatives are ranked
Scored daily. Three signals, weighted and blended. No vendor money changes anything.
45%Feature similarity
N-gram match against Exploding Discounts's feature signature, weighted by category overlap.
35%Audit + rating
Listing quality (0–100) blended with rolling 90-day rating average. Penalizes thin listings.
20%Review velocity
Reviews added in trailing 30 days, normalized by category baseline. Surfaces rising challengers.
Every Shopify alternative on this page is scraped, normalized, and re-scored every 24 hours. We don't accept paid placement, vendor-funded "best of" content, or sponsored ranking — and we publish the rules so you can audit them yourself. If a vendor disagrees with their position, that's between them and the data.
WHEN DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO SWITCH FROM EXPLODING DISCOUNTS?
Four reasons people leave.
Decision triggers, not marketing. If two or more apply, your shortlist starts with the apps named below each card.
Pricing has outgrown your usage
If your usage of Exploding Discounts has crossed a pricing-tier breakpoint, per-unit cost is usually where alternatives diverge most clearly. Some apps in the list above carry a free tier; others are paid from day one. Compare the published plans on each alternative's page against your current bill — the gap is the only number worth acting on, and it is specific to your usage.
FBP | Fast Bundle & Upsell App · BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle UpsellYou need a feature outside the focus
Each Shopify category has a feature spectrum. The "Similar feature set" badge above marks alternatives whose feature signature most overlaps with Exploding Discounts. The "Category leader" badge marks apps that may approach the same category from a different feature angle — useful if you want to widen rather than narrow your toolset.
BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle UpsellSupport response has slowed you down
Support quality is the hardest thing to read from a listing, and it is the most common reason a switch gets made. Read the most RECENT reviews on each alternative's profile rather than the lifetime average — recency is what tells you how the app is supported today, and trailing review velocity is the freshest signal AppRanks tracks.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Answers built from the data.
Built from the same scores the ranking uses — so they won't contradict the table.
For most accounts under typical category usage, the answer depends on tier. BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle Upsell is in the freemium band (Free plan available), while Exploding Discounts is freemium (Free trial). At parity scale, the cheaper option can save 30–60% — but feature-for-feature swaps usually narrow the gap above the second tier.
VERDICT · UPDATED TODAY
If you're moving from Exploding Discounts, the most common landing spots are BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle Upsell (unknown feature match, audit 97/100) and FBP | Fast Bundle & Upsell App (pricing leverage + breadth). Skip EG Auto Add to Cart Free Gift unless your use case is unusual.
If feature parity matters most
→ BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle Upsell
Unknown feature parity. Audit 97, 5.00★.
If pricing matters most
→ FBP | Fast Bundle & Upsell App
Best for cost-sensitive teams. 5.00★ across 3,039 reviews.
If you're scaling enterprise
→ DECO Product Labels & Badges
Strongest scale fit when category usage exceeds typical thresholds. Vendor-evaluate before committing.
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