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Comparison · Updated 3 November 2026

Best BOGO apps for Shopify, compared

Four of the five apps that show up on every “best BOGO app” list have a free plan. The fifth doesn’t. The four that do are capped in three different units — lifetime orders, monthly orders, and active campaigns plus revenue. Every figure below was read from that app’s own Shopify App Store listing on the same day and quoted verbatim.

The short answer

BOGOS is the most established BOGO app by review count, but its free tier is 30 lifetime orders — an extended trial, not an ongoing plan. Kite resets its 50-order cap every month, making it the most sustainable free option for low volume. AOV.ai caps at 2 active campaigns and $500 of monthly app revenue. NUO AI — our own app, disclosed below — states no cap. Vitals, which appears on nearly every BOGO roundup, has no free plan at all: a 7-day trial, then roughly $29.99/month as part of a 40-tool bundle.

What ends each free plan

BOGO / Buy X Get Y logic — buy a set quantity, unlock a discounted or free reward — is close to interchangeable across this category. The cap is what actually differs, so that's what this table compares. Ratings and review counts are as shown on the Shopify App Store on 3 November 2026.

AppRatingFree planCap unitWhat it costs next
NUO AI
our app		5.0 · thin review historyEvery feature, no stated cap—No paid tier
Kite
Skai Lama		4.9 · 1,370“First 50 discount orders free each month”Orders, resets monthly$29/mo if you go over 50
AOV.ai
AOV.ai		5.0 · 880“2 active campaigns” + “$500 monthly revenue by app”Campaigns + attributed revenue~$19.99/mo Basic to ~$39.99/mo Advanced
BOGOS
BOGOS		5.0 · 4,643“30 free orders lifetime by BOGOS”Lifetime orders$29.99/mo Basic (300 orders)
Vitals
Vitals		4.9 · 2,972None — 7-day trial onlyNot applicable~$29.99/mo Starter (bundled, 40+ tools)

Source for every row: the app’s own Shopify App Store pricing section, read 3 November 2026. The App Store showed pricing in INR for this session; USD figures above are converted at the page’s own stated rate and rounded to the nearest common price point — confirm the exact figure on the listing before installing.

Vitals is the one to read carefully. It is recommended on almost every “best BOGO app” list because its BOGO tool is genuinely good — but “free” refers to a 7-day trial of the whole Vitals suite, not an ongoing plan. If budget is why you're reading this comparison, Vitals is not actually in the free tier.

Who wrote this, and the bias you should assume

This comparison is published by NUO AI, and NUO AI is one of the five apps in it. That is a real conflict of interest and no amount of methodology removes it.

What we did to keep it usable anyway: every competitor’s pricing and rating was read from its own Shopify App Store listing on 3 November 2026 rather than copied from another roundup; each entry below names something that app does better than NUO AI; and NUO AI’s own entry states its thin review history rather than burying it.

If you would rather not take a vendor’s word for a vendor comparison, the useful part of this page is the cap-unit table above — every figure in it is checkable against a public listing in under a minute.

The five apps

NUO AI — the only uncapped free BOGO tier here, and the newest app here

Our app 5.0 · thin review history · NUO AI, Manhattan NY

Start with the caveat. Every other app on this page has between 880 and 4,643 App Store reviews. NUO AI has far fewer. If track record is your selection criterion, this is the wrong app on this page and one of the others is the right one.

What it offers in exchange is the only free tier here with no stated cap: BOGO and Buy X Get Y alongside gift-with-purchase, pick-your-gift, AI cart upsells and funnel analytics, all at $0 with no paid tier to graduate into. Nothing resets at 50 orders a month or stops at 30 lifetime orders.

  • Free planEvery feature, no stated order, campaign or revenue cap
  • Paid tierNone
  • Best forStores past the volume where capped free plans expire, and stores testing BOGO for the first time
  • Weakest atTrack record — a short App Store history against competitors with hundreds to thousands of reviews

Full breakdown of how BOGO works in NUO AI · Shopify App Store listing

Kite — the most sustainable ongoing free tier of the capped apps

4.9 · 1,370 reviews · Skai Lama

Kite runs BOGO alongside free gifts and tiered/volume discounts from one app built on native Shopify Functions, with redemption on the product page, cart and checkout. Its free allowance resets every month rather than draining a one-time lifetime pool.

The cap is order-based, not campaign-based. “First 50 discount orders free each month” covers BOGO along with its other discount types, after which it bills $29/month. A store doing 40 orders a month stays free indefinitely.

  • Free plan“First 50 discount orders free each month” across BOGO and its other discount types
  • Next tier$29/mo once over 50 orders · 7-day free trial on higher tiers
  • Beats NUO AI at1,370 reviews, native Shopify Functions performance, and stacked discount + BOGO combinations

Shopify App Store listing

AOV.ai — AI-assisted BOGO setup, capped on two axes at once

5.0 · 880 reviews · AOV.ai

AOV.ai supports BOGO free, BOGO discount, buy-2-get-1-free and a gift-multiplier structure for stacked promotions, with AI-suggested campaign setup and A/B testing on offers built in from the free tier.

The free tier caps twice. “2 active campaigns” and “$500 monthly revenue by app” — whichever limit a store hits first ends the free plan. A high-converting single BOGO campaign can exhaust the revenue cap before the campaign-count limit matters.

  • Free plan“2 active campaigns” and “$500 monthly revenue by app”
  • Next tier~$19.99/mo Basic · ~$29.99/mo Grow · ~$39.99/mo Advanced, unlimited campaigns
  • Beats NUO AI atAI-assisted campaign setup, A/B testing on BOGO offers, and 880 reviews at a 5.0 average

Shopify App Store listing

BOGOS — built around BOGO specifically, the tightest free tier

5.0 · 4,643 reviews · BOGOS

BOGOS supports every major BOGO type — BOGO free, BOGO discount, buy 2 get 1 free, multiplied BOGO, cheapest-item-free, and combined conditions — plus bundles and mix-and-match. It is the most-reviewed app in this comparison by a wide margin, with POS and headless support.

The free tier is not really an ongoing plan. “30 free orders lifetime by BOGOS” is an allowance spent once, and the first paid tier runs $29.99/month. Merchants who need BOGOS’ depth of BOGO edge cases should budget for it.

  • Free plan“30 free orders lifetime by BOGOS” — every major BOGO type, plus bundles and mix and match
  • Next tier$29.99/mo Basic (300 orders, $0.05/extra) · $49.99/mo Grow (600) · $109.99/mo Plus (2,000)
  • Beats NUO AI at4,643 reviews, POS/headless support, and the widest range of named BOGO structures

Shopify App Store listing · how gift-with-purchase pairs with BOGO

Vitals — a strong BOGO tool, but there is no free plan to use it on

4.9 · 2,972 reviews · Vitals

Vitals bundles BOGO offers inside a 40-plus-tool all-in-one subscription that also covers reviews, bundles, upsells, wishlists and more — the most feature-rich option in this comparison by a wide margin.

“Free” means a 7-day trial here, not a plan. The listing offers no ongoing free tier; after the trial, Starter runs roughly $29.99/month. Vitals appears on nearly every “best BOGO app” roundup regardless, which is the exact mismatch between headline word and actual terms this page exists to catch.

  • Free planNone — 7-day trial, then billed
  • Next tier~$29.99/mo Starter · ~$78.99/mo Growth · ~$178/mo Pro, all include the full 40+ app suite
  • Beats NUO AI at40+ bundled conversion tools, 2,972 reviews, and “Built for Shopify” status

Shopify App Store listing

How to pick, in one question

Work out your monthly order volume first, then read the caps against it. Whether a plan is actually free at your volume changes the answer completely.

Your situationWhat the caps doWhere to look first
Under 50 orders/mo, testing BOGONearly every free tier survivesKite or NUO AI
Growing past 50 orders/moKite starts billing; AOV.ai's revenue cap may hit tooAOV.ai's paid tier or NUO AI if you'd rather not pay
You want BOGO depth & edge cases (POS, headless)These are usually gated behind BOGOS' paid tiersBOGOS, budgeting from $29.99/mo
You want BOGO inside a 40-tool all-in-one suiteFree plan does not apply — budget from the startVitals, from ~$29.99/mo after a 7-day trial
You do not want a cap to think aboutOnly one option here has noneNUO AI — accepting the shorter track record

What this comparison does not tell you

Three things it deliberately does not claim, because the evidence for them does not exist:

It does not rank the apps by conversion lift. No one has run these five apps against the same catalog, traffic and BOGO structure. BOGO's effect on moving slower stock and rewarding bigger baskets is well documented generally; this comparison cannot tell you which app's implementation performs best for your store specifically.

It does not verify feature parity beyond the cap. “Multiplied BOGO” and “cheapest item free” mean similar things across these apps but were not tested side by side. The caps were verifiable from each listing in an afternoon; deep feature behavior was not.

Pricing goes stale, and currency display is regional. Everything here was read on 3 November 2026. The Shopify App Store showed INR pricing for this session rather than USD; the dollar figures above are converted at the page's own stated exchange rate and rounded, not pulled directly from a USD-denominated listing. Confirm the exact number in your store's billing currency before installing.

Frequently asked questions

Which Shopify BOGO apps actually have a free plan?

As of 3 November 2026, four of the five widely recommended BOGO apps have a genuine $0 plan: NUO AI, BOGOS, Kite and AOV.ai. The fifth, Vitals, does not — its BOGO tool only exists inside a paid all-in-one subscription with a 7-day trial and no ongoing free tier.

What is the difference between BOGO and Buy X Get Y?

BOGO (buy one get one) is the simplest case of the broader Buy X Get Y mechanic, where buying a set quantity (X) unlocks a reward quantity (Y) at a discount or free. Every app in this comparison supports both under one feature set, since BOGO is just BXGY with X and Y both equal to 1.

What actually ends a free BOGO app plan?

Three different units among the apps that have a free plan at all. BOGOS counts lifetime orders (30, spent once). Kite counts monthly orders that reset every month (50). AOV.ai counts active campaigns (2) plus a $500 monthly revenue cap. NUO AI states no cap. Vitals has no free plan to compare against these.

Is Vitals a free BOGO app?

No. Vitals bundles BOGO inside its all-in-one subscription, which carries a 7-day free trial and then bills from roughly $29.99/month. It appears on BOGO roundups because the feature itself is good, not because the plan is free.

Which free BOGO app has the most generous cap?

Kite's 50-orders-a-month cap resets every month rather than draining a lifetime allowance, which makes it the most sustainable ongoing free option among the capped apps for a low-volume store. NUO AI has no cap at all, with the trade-off of a much shorter review history.

Can BOGO offers run at the cart level, not just the product page?

Yes, on every app in this comparison. Cart-level BOGO tends to convert more reliably than product-page-only BOGO, because the shopper sees the reward item added automatically rather than having to notice an offer on a separate page.

Why does NUO AI appear in its own comparison?

Because leaving it out would be its own kind of bias. NUO AI publishes this comparison and is one of the five apps in it. Every competitor's pricing below was read from its own Shopify App Store listing on 3 November 2026 and quoted verbatim, and NUO AI's weakest point — a short review history against competitors with thousands — is stated rather than hidden.

How many App Store reviews does NUO AI have?

Far fewer than the other four apps on this page, which range from 1,370 to 4,643 reviews as of 3 November 2026. A merchant choosing on track record alone should weigh that heavily; this comparison does not argue otherwise.

No cap to plan around.

If the caps above are what's putting you off, NUO AI has none — and a shorter track record, which you should weigh honestly against the alternatives on this page.

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