Describe your online store and the AI drafts the app: product catalog, cart, checkout, payments and push notifications for Android and iOS. Try it free, then publish on a paid plan.
An ecommerce app is a mobile app for Android and iOS that lets customers browse your products, add items to a cart and pay from their phone. Compared with a mobile website, an app gives you push notifications, an icon on the customer’s home screen and a listing in Google Play and the App Store.
Appy Pie’s no-code ecommerce app builder adds a Store feature to your app: a product catalog with categories, bulk product import from a CSV file, cart and checkout, payment gateways such as Stripe and PayPal, coupons and push notifications. You build and test on a 7-day free trial, then publish to Google Play and the Apple App Store on a paid plan.
No code and no developers. You describe the store, add your products and publish under your own developer account.
Type a short description of your store or pick an example. The AI drafts the first screens, categories and colour theme for you to edit.
Add your logo, colours and fonts in the drag-and-drop editor, and arrange the pages your customers will see.
Add products one at a time or import them in bulk from a CSV file. Then connect a payment gateway such as Stripe or PayPal.
Open the test version on your own phone and place a test order before any customer sees the app.
Submit to Google Play on the Gold plan and to the Apple App Store on Platinum, under your own developer account. The stores decide approval.
A four-minute walkthrough of adding the Store feature to an app, from Appy Pie’s own channel.
Prefer to read? Skip to the nine features below.
Only what the Store feature and its add-ons document today. Nothing on this list is a roadmap item.
Products grouped into categories, each with its own photos, description and price.
Upload a CSV file to add many products at once, including their custom options, instead of typing each one.
Customers add items to a cart and check out inside the app, without leaving for a browser.
The help centre documents Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, Mercado Pago, Hubtel and iPay88. Ask support about any other gateway before you commit.
Add the Coupon feature to publish discount codes and offers inside the app.
A digital punch card replaces paper stamp cards for repeat customers. See the loyalty app builder.
Send offers, new arrivals and sale announcements to customers’ phones. Included on paid plans.
Connect Shiprocket to handle shipping and fulfilment for orders. Shiprocket serves sellers in India.
Deliver orders yourself by pairing the store with the on-demand delivery feature.
Most ecommerce mobile app builders you will find, such as Tapcart and Shopney, only work if your store already runs on Shopify, and they start at $149 to $200 a month. Appy Pie’s Store feature keeps its own product catalog, so you can launch an online store app without a Shopify subscription and without an existing website.
Build the store here. Catalog, cart and payments live inside the app.
Your catalog lives on your site, and the Store feature does not sync products or orders with it. Turn the site itself into an app with the website to app converter, or compare the Shopify mobile app builders.
The ecommerce website builder is a separate product for an online store on the web.
That is a marketplace. Use the multi-vendor marketplace app builder.
Describe your store in plain English. The AI produces a first version of the app for you to refine. It saves the blank-page stage; it does not run your store.
Selling food? See the restaurant app maker. Several sellers in one app? See the multi-vendor marketplace app builder.
Put your own store on your customers’ phones and reach them with push notifications instead of paying for every visit.
Give a physical shop an app: your products, coupons and a loyalty punch card for regulars.
Take orders in the app and deliver them yourself with the delivery app builder.
A small catalog, a payment gateway and a way to announce new items. No website required.
Share catalogs, product videos and order requests with dealers, the way Elliquence does for medical devices.
You can build and test one for free. You cannot publish one for free. Ecommerce is a premium feature, so a store app goes live on the Gold or Platinum plan.
Prices are the offer prices shown on the pricing page for the United States on 28 Sep 2026. The trial is for personal, non-commercial use.
The same question has answers three orders of magnitude apart, because the routes are different products. These are published prices, read on 28 Sep 2026.
| Route | Published cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| No-code builder (Appy Pie) | $36 a month on Gold for Android, $60 on Platinum for Android and iOS | An app with its own store, built by you |
| Retail app builder (GoodBarber) | From $40 a month, billed yearly | A store app on a builder made for retail |
| Shopify app tools (Shopney, Tapcart) | $149 to $200 a month, billed yearly, on top of Shopify | An app of a store that already runs on Shopify |
| Website wrapper (Natively) | $12 to $32 a month, billed yearly | Your existing website inside an app shell |
| Agency or custom build | $25,000 to $250,000 and more | An app designed and coded for you |
| Store fees, every route | Google $25 once, Apple $99 a year | Your developer accounts |
Agency ranges as published in 2026 cost guides: Syndell $25,000 to $150,000 for a customer-facing app, MobiLoud $30,000 to $250,000 and more, Appinventiv $40,000 to $500,000 and more.
Hire one when the app has to do something a builder cannot: checkout rules of your own, a link to your ERP or warehouse system, or a catalog too large and varied for simple product options. If you are weighing that route, we compared the ecommerce app development companies and set out what an app costs to build by each method.
The vendors that appear on the search results for ecommerce app builders, compared on five points each of them publishes.
| Feature | Appy Pie | GoodBarber | Jotform Apps | Tapcart | Natively | Base44 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price for a store app | $36 a month (Gold) | $40 a month, yearly | $34 a month, yearly | $200 a month, yearly | $12 a month, yearly | $16 a month, yearly |
| Needs an existing store or site | No | No | No | Yes, Shopify | Yes, a website | No |
| What you publish | Android app on Gold, iOS on Platinum | Web app and native apps, by plan | Web app, not a store listing | iOS and Android apps | iOS and Android wrapper | Web app |
| Free to try | 7-day trial | 30-day trial | Free starter tier | Not stated | 3 to 14-day trial | Free tier, 25 credits |
| Strongest at | One builder for store, loyalty and delivery | Retail templates and design | Forms and order collection | Deep Shopify sync | Fast website conversion | AI-generated custom web apps |
Last verified: 28 Sep 2026. Prices in USD from each vendor’s pricing page.
Three published stories, each with a live app you can open. None is a pure retail store: one is a product catalog with ordering, two are food businesses. More on the customer stories page.
“We needed a powerful digital platform to support medical professionals with instant access to information and training.”
“Appy Pie gave us the freedom to own our customer relationships and reduce fees.”
“We wanted to make it effortless for our customers to enjoy Smokin Wheels & Co wherever they are.”
Read these before you start. Each one comes from the pricing page, the help centre or a customer review.
Ecommerce is a premium feature. It is available on Gold and Platinum, not on Basic and not after the trial ends.
1,000 app downloads a month on Gold and 2,000 on Platinum. Beyond that, each extra download costs $0.009.
A G2 reviewer who sells through the app found few options per product and for selling at different price levels. Complex catalogs will feel the limit.
The store keeps its own catalog. It does not pull products or push orders to a Shopify or WooCommerce store.
The help centre lists the Store feature as unavailable once the Taxi or Messenger feature is added to the same app.
Google and Apple decide whether an app is listed. Appy Pie supports the submission and cannot promise the outcome.
“I am getting my POS system and eCommerce website working with the App. It helped me get the On-Demand Delivery addon working with my Online Store.”
“I can use the punch card system in the app instead of manually punching the cards in the store. Also, I use the app to sell items.”
“It is useful for the ease of connecting my Globul.net store with the application with Android currently, and I am working on expanding it to include the appstore.”
Describe your store, add your products and test the app on your own phone before you pay for a plan. No code, and no credit card to start.
An ecommerce app is a mobile app for Android and iOS that lets customers browse products, add them to a cart and pay from their phone. Compared with a mobile website, an app gives you push notifications, a home-screen icon and a listing in the app stores.
It is free to build and test on a 7-day trial, with no credit card needed to start. It is not free to publish. Ecommerce is a premium feature, so a store app goes live on the Gold plan ($36 per app a month, or $360 a year) or the Platinum plan ($60 a month, or $600 a year).
With a no-code builder, $36 to $60 a month plus the store fees: $25 once to Google and $99 a year to Apple. Tools that turn a Shopify store into an app start at $149 to $200 a month. Agencies publish ranges from $25,000 to $250,000 and more for a custom build.
No. You describe the store, edit the draft in a drag-and-drop editor, add products by hand or from a CSV file, and connect a payment gateway through its settings page.
A first draft takes minutes. Adding products and testing takes as long as your catalog needs. After you submit, Apple says 90% of submissions are reviewed within 24 hours; Google’s review times vary and are longer for new developer accounts.
The help centre documents Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, Mercado Pago, Hubtel and iPay88. If you need another gateway, confirm it with support before you choose a plan.
Yes, but by a different route. The Store feature keeps its own catalog and does not sync with Shopify or WooCommerce. To put an existing online store in the app stores, use the website to app converter, which turns the site itself into an app.
Yes. Push notifications are included on paid plans, and you can send them to announce a sale, a new arrival or an offer to everyone who has installed the app.
Yes. Gold publishes to Google Play and Platinum adds the Apple App Store. You publish under your own developer accounts, and the stores decide approval.
ChatGPT can write code and plan screens, but it does not host the app, produce the builds that the stores accept or submit them for you. A builder does those parts. Appy Pie’s prompt box uses AI for the first draft and the builder handles the rest.
A website is found through search and works in any browser. An app is installed, sits on the home screen and can send push notifications. Many stores run both; for the website, see the ecommerce website builder.
Yes. Gold includes 1,000 app downloads a month and Platinum 2,000. Extra downloads are charged at $0.009 each.
No. The help centre lists the Store feature as unavailable once the Taxi or Messenger feature is added to the same app. Coupons, the loyalty card and on-demand delivery can sit alongside the store.
Stores with large catalogs, their own checkout rules or a link to an ERP system usually move to a dedicated commerce platform or a custom build. The cost section above sets out what those routes are priced at.
Abhinav founded Appy Pie in 2016 and has spent a decade building no-code tools for small businesses. This page was checked against the pricing page and the help centre on 28 September 2026.
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