ShopIt: Carousel Videos & UGC vs BuyButton Flair
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 28, 2026 for ShopIt, Jul 15, 2026 for BuyButton Flair.
The short answer
- ShopIt lists 3 features BuyButton Flair’s listing doesn’t mention, including Cursor effects, Images, Interactive animations.
Head to head
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 featureShoppers trust real people more than product photos. ShopIt turns your UGC, creator and TikTok videos into shoppable videos: tag products, and shoppers pick a size and add to cart without leaving the video. Show them as a video carousel, stories, a grid, a floating video and more. Product pages show each product's own videos automatically. Widgets match your theme, and you add them in the theme editor with no code.
BuyButton Flair lets you instantly add stunning visual effects to your store's buy buttons — no coding required. Choose from 9 professionally designed animation effects (glow, pulse, bounce, shake, rainbow, shimmer, neon, magnet, sparkle), add callout elements (arrows, badges, stars, circles, underlines), and customize colors, speed, and intensity to match your brand.
- One-click animations, Add effects instantly, no coding required.
- Scroll & hover effects, Animate text, images, and buttons on interaction.
- Custom cursors & trails, Enhance shopper experience with animated pointers.
- Confetti & page effects, Celebrate actions with lightweight visual effects.
- Animated Button Effects
- Hand-Drawn Callout Annotations
- Embed Emojis (and animate them!) Inside of your Buttons
- Flexible Page & Button Targeting
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 |  ShopIt |  BuyButton Flair |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| 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 | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | ShopIt | BuyButton Flair |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 4.7 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 9 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | ShopIt | BuyButton Flair |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ShopIt | BuyButton Flair |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #17(ahead) | #103 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Sep 5, 2025 | Jul 15, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | MakeIT | Cartcraft |
FAQ
ShopIt and BuyButton Flair: common questions
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- ShopIt lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Cursor effects, Images, Interactive animations. 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 Oct 28, 2026 for ShopIt, Jul 15, 2026 for BuyButton Flair; 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 Oct 28, 2026 for ShopIt, Jul 15, 2026 for BuyButton Flair. 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.