Amose: Subscriptions App vs Essential Subscriptions App
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of May 13, 2026 for Amose, Nov 8, 2026 for Essential Subscriptions.
The short answer
- Amose lists 3 features Essential Subscriptions’s listing doesn’t mention, including Access subscriptions, Curated subscriptions, Memberships.
Head to head
- United States
- Australia
- United Kingdom
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureAdd flexible subscription plans to your products in under 5 minutes—no coding required. Support both pay-per-delivery and prepaid subscriptions with ease. Designed to grow recurring revenue while keeping setup simple. Customers can manage subscriptions from a user-friendly portal, with live support always available. Fully optimized for speed, conversions, and compatible with all themes. Built for Shopify Checkout
Essential Subscriptions is a subscription app that adds subscribe and save to any product, no code needed. Create subscription bundles with lower prices on bigger packs, for one-time or recurring orders. Add free gifts to the first subscription order, with different gifts per delivery plan. When customers try to cancel or pause, ask why and show one matching offer.
- Offer product subscriptions with flexible billing and delivery frequencies
- Let customers pause, skip, swap, or cancel through a user-friendly portal
- Set up classic and prepaid subscriptions in minutes
- Track performance with real-time subscription insights
- Create subscription campaigns with subscribe and save discounts, no code needed
- Pay-as-you-go or prepaid billing with daily, weekly, monthly or yearly delivery
- Self-service customer portal to skip, pause, resume or cancel subscriptions
- Recover revenue with automatic payment retry, smart dunning and email alerts
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Amose |  Essential Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | 14 |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Health & Beauty, Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Home & Garden |
| Top store countries | Not published | United States, Australia, United Kingdom |
Reviews
| Measure | Amose | Essential Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 12 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Amose | Essential Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Not listed |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | No monthly plan listed | No monthly plan listed |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | Not listed |
| Plans listed | Not published | Not published |
Listing
| Measure | Amose | Essential Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #88 | #18(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | Yes |
| Launched | Apr 30, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Apotheose | Essential Apps |
FAQ
Amose and Essential Subscriptions: common questions
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Amose lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Access subscriptions, Curated subscriptions, Memberships. Essential Subscriptions lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Fixed pricing, Freemium, Replenishment subscriptions. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of May 13, 2026 for Amose, Nov 8, 2026 for Essential Subscriptions; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of May 13, 2026 for Amose, Nov 8, 2026 for Essential Subscriptions. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.