Side-by-side comparison
Maximize customer loyalty with flexible loyalty rewards, points, VIP tiers, referrals, and POS
| Metric | Joy Loyalty Program Rewards | Riptide |
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| Rating | 4.9 ★ | ★ 5.0 ★ |
| Total reviews | ★ 1.8k | 1 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | Free plan available | Free plan available |
| Built for Shopify | ★ Yes | — |
| Pricing tiers | 4 tiers | 4 tiers |
| Listed features | 5 | 5 |
On the measured data here, Joy Loyalty Program Rewards leads on more dimensions (4 vs 0). Pick Riptide if one of the points where it leads is what you need.
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Read each app's audit: Joy Loyalty Program Rewards audit • Riptide audit
| Field | Joy Loyalty Program Rewards | Riptide |
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| Listing audit | 95/100 listing audit | 82/100 listing audit |
| Screenshots | images | images |
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| Featured placements | 2 | — |
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| Languages | 8 supported | 1 supported |
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| Listed since | Jun 2021 | May 2026 |
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| Keyword | Joy Loyalty Program Rewards | Riptide |
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| pass | #1 | Not ranked |
| loyalty | #3 | Not ranked |
| loyalty program | #3 | Not ranked |
| shopify flow | Not ranked | #219 |
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| Signal | Joy Loyalty Program Rewards | Riptide |
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| Average rating | 4.9 ★ (1.8k) | 5.0 ★ (1) |
Très réactifs grace au chatbot on arrive facilement à debloquer une situation et vérifier des paramétrages. Je n'ai pas encore de retour client, mais je pense que JOY sera efficace pour le consommateur également. Merci à vous
Great app and very easy to implement. The included features are generous, and the support team is exceptionally fast, knowledgeable, and helpful. Highly recommended.
I suggest staying away from Joy. Their development team completely broke our theme beyond repair and without telling us, they published a draft theme. This is completely unacceptable. No third-party app has ever done anything like this in our seven years with Shopify.
Top customer service
Great app!
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Both Joy Loyalty Program Rewards and Riptide offer a free plan. Joy Loyalty Program Rewards lists no paid plan with a published price; Riptide lists no paid plan with a published price. Prices are as listed on the Shopify App Store; check what each tier includes in the Pricing section above.
Joy Loyalty Program Rewards (4.9★, 1,785 reviews) and Riptide (5.0★, 1 reviews) are essentially tied on rating. Look at review velocity and individual reviewer quotes — both visible on each app's detail page — to differentiate.
Riptide holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 4.9★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.
Both apps are one-click installs from the Shopify App Store. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly; Joy Loyalty Program Rewards has more published reviews to read for user-reported install experience (1,785 vs 1).
AppRanks cannot say which fits a larger or smaller operation — there is no store-size measurement in the Shopify App Store data. What it can show: Joy Loyalty Program Rewards has 1,785 published reviews; Riptide has 1 published reviews. Compare plan limits and pricing tiers against your own volume.
Migration support varies by app and category. Joy Loyalty Program Rewards and Riptide both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Riptide" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.
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