Quick recap if you’re just joining: my Shopify store had quietly accumulated eleven apps, including a countdown timer permanently stuck at “3 left” and a reviews app I’d apparently been paying for twice since April, under two different names, after a rebrand nobody told me about. That was the night I stopped asking which app to add next and started asking why I needed eleven of them in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer turned out to be that I didn’t. Most of what those apps were doing (reviews, upsells, cart recovery, trust badges) turned out to be things a single Shopify theme could handle natively, without a separate subscription and a separate login for each one. I moved everything over to Debutify<\/a>, and the eleven-app graveyard became one theme with the same functions built in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The math worked out almost insultingly well in the other direction this time. Running that many apps separately typically costs $50 to $100 a month combined; the bundled version starts well under that (free to try) paid plans from roughly $20 to $30 a month for the conversion tools switched on. My store got cheaper and faster on the same afternoon, which is not a sentence I expected to say about my own store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cancelling “Legacy” triggered one last pop-up asking me to rate my experience on a scale of 1 to 5. I did not dignify it with a number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll admit the new theme isn’t without its own personality. It has strong opinions about font pairings I don’t always share, and getting it to stop suggesting a “limited time offer” banner for a product that is neither limited nor on offer took more clicking around than I’d like to admit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n