App & Theme Audit

You're probably overpaying for apps you forgot you installed.

Most Shopify stores quietly bleed $300–$800+ a month on apps installed for a one-off need and never removed — plus the speed they cost you. We scan your store, tell you exactly which apps to kill, which are worth every cent, and which are cheaper rebuilt natively. Often the savings pay for the audit in the first month.

$300–800+
Typical monthly app spend we find
4 verdicts
Kill · Keep · Rebuild · Consolidate
14 yrs
Shipping on Shopify since 2011
Honest
We'll tell you to keep apps too
The problem

App sprawl is the silent tax on your store.

It happens to nearly every store. You install an app to solve a problem, the problem passes, the app stays — and the monthly charge keeps hitting your card. Multiply that across a few years and a dozen forgotten subscriptions, and you're funding tools nobody opens. Worse: every one of those apps injects scripts that slow your storefront down, dragging your mobile conversions with it.

How the audit works

Every app on your store sorts into one of four verdicts.

We scan your installed apps, your theme, and your storefront performance — then give you a plain-English ledger. No jargon, no upsell pressure. Just what each app is costing you and what we'd honestly do about it.

Kill it

Cancel today — pure savings

Installed-and-forgotten, unused, or redundant. Uninstall and the charge stops. Zero work for us, immediate money back in your pocket. We lead with these.

Keep it

Value for money — leave it alone

Doing real work, well-supported, fairly priced. A custom rebuild would cost you more over its lifetime than the subscription. We'll tell you straight: this one earns its keep.

Rebuild native

Cheaper as custom code

Simple functionality — a sticky cart bar, a countdown, trust badges, a custom field — where a one-time build beats a forever subscription and won't become a maintenance headache. Here's the break-even math.

Consolidate

Three apps doing one job

Overlapping tools you can collapse into one better app, or one build. Fewer subscriptions, fewer scripts, a faster store.

What you get

A clear ledger. Not a sales pitch.

Here's a simplified example of the kind of breakdown you'll receive — every app, its monthly cost, our honest verdict, and what it saves you.

App
Cost / mo
Verdict
Action
Popup builder (unused 8 mo)
$29
Kill it
–$29/mo
Countdown timer
$19
Rebuild
–$19/mo*
Reviews & UGC
$39
Keep it
worth it
3× trust-badge apps
$45
Consolidate
–$45/mo*
Email & flows
$60
Keep it
worth it
Potential monthly saving
≈ $93/mo

*Rebuild/consolidate items involve a one-time build cost — we show you the break-even point so you decide. Example figures only; your actual store will differ.

Theme audit

Stuck on an old theme because you're scared something will break?

You're not wrong to be cautious — and that's exactly why most stores freeze. Once a theme's been customized, Shopify won't just "update" it with a button: your changes have to be carefully re-applied to the new version. Done carelessly, things break. Done properly, you gain speed and features with zero downtime. We do it properly.

What staying frozen actually costs you

  • Missed performance gains — newer themes and Online Store 2.0 are faster, lifting mobile Core Web Vitals and conversion.
  • Missed native features you're now paying apps to replicate (which ties straight into the app audit above).
  • Compounding cost — the longer you wait, the more customizations pile up, and the bigger the eventual update gets.
  • Aging code with weaker support and security on very old theme versions.

How we update without breaking your store

We build on a duplicate (staging) theme — never your live one. We re-apply your customizations onto the current theme version, QA every template, test on mobile, and only then swap it live. Your storefront never goes down, and you sign off before anything ships.

You get a report first: how many versions behind you are, what you're missing, what the update costs, and what waiting another year will cost instead.

Pricing

Start free. Pay only if there's something worth fixing.

The free teardown shows you the savings. The paid tiers capture them. If we can't find enough to justify the work, we'll tell you that too.

Free App Teardown

$0
1-page report · 2–3 days
  • Full installed-app scan
  • Estimated monthly app spend
  • Quick kill / keep / rebuild verdicts
  • Top speed offenders flagged
Get the free teardown
Most popular

Full App & Theme Audit

From $1,500
Detailed ledger + plan
  • Everything in the free teardown
  • Full four-verdict ledger with cost + break-even math
  • Lighthouse before/after speed analysis
  • Theme version audit + update cost
  • Prioritized action roadmap
Book the full audit

Audit + Implementation

Quoted
We do the work
  • Everything in the full audit
  • We cancel/replace flagged apps
  • Native rebuilds of "rebuild" items
  • Safe staged theme update
  • Post-launch verification
Get a quote
FAQ

What merchants ask before booking.

Won't you just tell me to rebuild everything so you get paid?
No — and that's the whole point of the "keep it" verdict. Custom code has a lifetime cost: it needs maintenance and can break when themes or Shopify's APIs update. A well-supported app is often genuinely cheaper than bespoke code you have to babysit. When that's the case, we tell you to keep the app. An audit that recommends against our own services where appropriate is the only kind worth paying for.
How much can I realistically save?
It varies by store, but most stores we look at carry several forgotten or redundant subscriptions. The free teardown gives you a real number for your store before you spend anything. Often the savings cover the cost of the audit within the first month or two.
Is it safe to update my theme? I've heard it breaks things.
It breaks things when done carelessly on a live theme. We never touch your live theme — we work on a duplicate, re-apply your customizations onto the current version, QA everything, test mobile, and only swap it live once you've signed off. Your store stays up the whole time.
What do you actually need access to?
For the free teardown, very little — enough to see your installed apps and run a performance scan. For a full audit and any implementation, we'll set up proper collaborator access scoped to what's needed, and walk you through exactly what we're touching before we touch it.
What if the audit finds nothing worth doing?
Then we'll tell you your stack is lean and we're done — no upsell. That outcome is rare, but it's an honest possible result, and we'd rather say it than invent work.

Find out what your apps are really costing you.

No pitch. We scan your store and send a 1-page teardown with the numbers. You decide what to do with it.