We make Listify, one of the seven apps below. This guide is about which kind of store each app suits, including the situations where another app is the better fit, and we say so where that is the case.
The apps are listed alphabetically. Prices, plan limits, trial lengths and review counts change often, so we do not reproduce them here; each app name links to its Shopify App Store listing, which is the only place those numbers are current. What follows is the part that stays true for years: how each app is built and who it is built for.
What to decide before choosing
Six questions narrow seven apps to two or three, and none of them is "which has the most features".
Where do registries get created: online, in your shop, or both? If registries touch your counter at all, you need Shopify POS support, and then the follow-up matters more than the yes: do your staff build the list with the couple at the till, or do guests come in to buy from a list that already exists? Apps that do one do not necessarily do the other.
Do you need registries, wishlists, or both? Some apps include wishlists, some are registry-only. A registry-only app usually means a second app, a second subscription and a second set of theme blocks for wishlists.
Is address privacy essential? For baby and wedding registries, some stores want the recipient's shipping address hidden from gift-givers at checkout. Not every app does this.
Do you sell in more than one language? An English-only registry on a multilingual storefront is a visible seam. Check what the storefront ships in, not what the admin does, because listings sometimes count the two together.
How much of your theme do you have to touch? Registry apps add a button to your product page, a panel over your storefront and often a page. Some place all of it from Shopify's theme editor with no code, some hand you a snippet, and some do the setup for you. When you change theme, some settings follow you and some do not.
Are you moving existing registries from another app? If so, what transfers and what happens to the links your customers already shared matters more than any feature. That is a separate guide: switching gift registry apps safely. If you are on Gift Reggie or Swym, there is a guide for each: migrating from Gift Reggie and migrating from Swym.
At a glance
These are the rows that change on the order of years rather than months. Anything about price or plan size is on each app's listing.
| Codebeans | Gift Reggie | Gift Registry Guru | Listify | Little Registry | MyRegistry Lite | Swym Registry | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free to install, plans unpublished | Yes |
| Registry lives on | Your store | Your store | Your store | Your store | Your store | MyRegistry's network | Your store |
| Shopify POS | Not listed | Build and buy at the till | Not listed | Buy at the till (Pro plan) | Yes, multi-store on top tier | Not listed | Yes |
| Wishlists included | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | On MyRegistry's network | No (separate Swym app) |
| Analytics in your admin | Not listed | Not listed | Yes | Yes, all plans | Yes | Not listed | Yes |
| Multilingual storefront | Not listed | Via Langify | Metered by plan | Yes, built in | Ten languages | Not listed | Not listed |
| Setup | Self-serve | Self-serve; support available | Self-serve; custom CSS and JavaScript available | Theme blocks; generated snippet on vintage themes | White-glove support available | Integration handled with their team | Self-serve |
The seven apps
Codebeans Gift Registry
A registry-only app, launched in 2026, with no wishlist. The listing covers customisable registry design, password protection, address privacy at checkout, group gifting with flexible amounts, and API access and Shopify Flow on the upper tiers.
It suits a store that wants registry-specific features such as group gifting and already has a wishlist solution, or does not need one.
The tradeoff is track record. It is the newest app here with the least public history, and the Flow claim is worth confirming with them before buying on it.
Gift Reggie
The incumbent. Gift Reggie has been on the App Store since 2014 and is usually the name an agency gives you first. It does registries and wishlists, and its in-store story is the deepest here: on the top tier, staff can build a list with a couple at the till, with barcode scanning, and take registry sales at the counter.
It suits established registry programs, stores where staff-led registration at the till is part of the service, and anyone for whom a long track record matters more than anything else.
The tradeoffs are an older interface, an English-only storefront unless you add Langify, and no analytics dashboard that we could find on the listing. There is no free plan.
Gift Registry Guru
A newer app from Webframez that does registries and wishlists and offers the most configuration on this list, including custom JavaScript and CSS on paid plans, public, private and password-protected registries, branded email notifications and an analytics dashboard.
It suits stores with a developer and specific ideas about how the registry should look and behave.
The tradeoffs are a short public track record, no POS, and storefront languages metered by plan even though the listing quotes a larger figure for the app's own interface.
Listify
Ours. Listify does registries and wishlists and is built around how the registry behaves inside your theme. Everything ships as Shopify theme app blocks placed from the theme editor, nothing is written into your Liquid, and the panel is isolated from your theme's CSS so neither can break the other. Appearance settings live against your shop rather than your theme, so they follow you when you change theme. The storefront currently ships in 18 languages, analytics are on every plan including the free one, and we run migrations from other apps with you rather than through an importer.
It suits stores that sell in more than one language, want the registry to match their theme without a developer, want registries and wishlists from one app, and want to see afterwards what the registries were worth.
The tradeoffs are at the till and in styling. Our POS app, on the Pro plan, is for the guest who walks in to buy: staff find the registry by name or QR code, tag the items in the basket and take payment. Shoppers create registries on their own phone, including in your shop by scanning a sign, but staff cannot build a list at the counter, and an offline till cannot look a registry up. On styling there is no font-family picker, no padding or shadow controls, and no dark panel background. Listify also does not hide the registrant's shipping address from gift-givers at checkout; if address masking is essential, look at Little Registry or Swym.
Little Registry
The closest counterpart to Listify in shape, launched in 2024. It leads on privacy: shipping addresses masked from gift-givers at checkout, registrants choosing who can see a list, optional passwords. It has a POS app on the higher tiers with a multi-store version at the top, analytics, stock tracking and co-registrants, and ten storefront languages.
What sets it apart is that styling, integrations, translations and migration are offered as done-for-you support rather than settings. It suits a store that would rather hand someone the job than configure it, and any store where address masking decides the choice.
The tradeoffs are no wishlists and a short track record.
MyRegistry Lite
Structurally different from everything else here. MyRegistry.com runs a universal registry network where one list pulls products from many retailers, and MyRegistry Lite is the app that puts your products into it. Your customers' lists live on MyRegistry, not on your store, and their team handles the integration.
It suits a retailer that wants reach into an existing gifting network and does not want to run registries itself.
The tradeoffs are that the registry does not live in your theme or on your domain, and that pricing beyond the free install is not published, so you have to ask.
Swym Gift Lists and Registries
The registry product from Swym, a large wishlist company. It is a separate app from Swym Wishlist Plus, which does not do registries. It has Shopify POS support that unifies online and in-store lists, analytics, gifter discounts, and address masking at checkout.
It suits a store that wants online and in-store registries from an established commerce-app vendor, particularly one already running Wishlist Plus and wanting one vendor for both.
The tradeoff is that wishlists come from a separate app, so wanting both means evaluating two products. Stores with heavily customised themes should also confirm the installation method before proceeding.
Which one fits your store
| If this is you | Look at |
|---|---|
| Staff build registries with customers at the till | Gift Reggie |
| Guests come in to buy from a list that already exists | Listify (Pro), Gift Reggie, Swym Registry or Little Registry |
| You run more than one physical location | Little Registry, which has a multi-store POS version |
| Address privacy is the deciding factor | Little Registry or Swym Registry, both of which mask the recipient's address from gift-givers |
| You sell in several languages | Listify or Little Registry |
| You want registries and wishlists from one app | Listify, Gift Reggie or Gift Registry Guru |
| You use a modern Shopify theme and want the registry to match it without a developer | Listify |
| You want someone else to do the setup | Little Registry or MyRegistry Lite |
| You want reach into an existing universal registry network | MyRegistry Lite |
| You want to try registries before paying anything | Listify, Little Registry, Gift Registry Guru or Swym Registry |
| You are moving an existing registry program from another app | Ask each app what transfers and what happens to shared links. We cover our own process on the migration page |
We are one of the answers in some of these rows and not in others. If you came here expecting a roundup where the author's app wins every category, that is what this page is trying not to be.
How to test your shortlist
Install two, not seven. Most of the apps here have a free plan or a trial, and an afternoon with two of them tells you more than any comparison, this one included.
- Build one real registry in each, with real products from your catalog.
- Open it on your phone and add something to it. This is how your customers will see it.
- Share the link and open it as a guest in a private window.
- Make a test purchase and check the registry updates.
- Look at the merchant side. Can you see what was bought, by whom, and what the registry is worth to you?
- If in-store matters, walk through your actual counter workflow on POS, not the demo.
- Contact support once with a real question and see how long the answer takes.
Then uninstall the one you are not keeping, and check it left nothing behind in your theme.
Common questions
- Does Shopify have a gift registry built in?
- No. Some themes and customer accounts have wishlists, but nothing that handles a registry: no purchased-quantity tracking, no sharing with guests, no stopping two people buying the same gift. That is why this category exists.
- Is there a genuinely free Shopify gift registry app?
- Several of the apps above have a free plan you can run registries on, capped by how many registries are live at once rather than how many you create. Others are trial-only. The listing states which, and the cap changes, so check it there.
- Do I need a separate wishlist app as well?
- Depends on the app. Gift Reggie, Listify and Gift Registry Guru include wishlists. Swym Registry, Little Registry and Codebeans are registry-focused, so wishlists mean a second app.
- Which of these work with Shopify POS?
- Gift Reggie, Swym Registry, Little Registry and Listify. They do not all do the same job at the till: Gift Reggie's staff can build a list with the customer, while Listify's is for selling from a list that already exists. If the counter is part of how you sell registries, ask each app which of those it does before anything else.
- Will these work with my theme?
- Most current registry apps support Online Store 2.0 themes, but how they install differs. Some use theme app blocks, some require a snippet pasted into theme files, and some offer provider-managed integration. Vintage themes are more likely to need code, so confirm the setup method before installing.
- Can I move my registries from one app to another?
- Usually, but it is a hands-on migration rather than a button. Ask what transfers, whether purchased gifts stay marked as purchased, and what happens to the registry links your customers already shared. Those links may depend on the old app's URL structure, so continuity needs checking before the old app is uninstalled. Our guide to switching registry apps covers all three.
Where we'd leave it
No app is the best fit for every store. Start with the operational requirement you cannot compromise on, whether that is staff-led registration at the counter, address privacy, a multilingual storefront, a universal registry network, or a registry that lives entirely inside your own Shopify storefront.
Listify is built for stores that want registries and wishlists to feel like part of their storefront, work well on a phone, and report on orders and revenue attributed to registries. Guests can buy from a registry through Shopify POS, while registrants build their own lists online or on their phones.
Shortlist two apps, build a real registry in each, and choose the experience you would be comfortable giving your customers and your staff.
Feature claims checked against each app's public listing in September 2026; pricing and plan limits are on each listing.