Recover Cart vs Smart Recently Viewed | Widget

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026.

The short answer

  • Only Smart Recently Viewed lists a free plan.
  • Recover Cart lists 8 features Smart Recently Viewed’s listing doesn’t mention, including Custom discount codes, Discount offers, Exit pop-ups.

Head to head

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Pitch
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Categories
  • Abandoned cart
  • Abandoned cart
Languages
  • English
  • English
Launched
Sep 3, 2020
Jul 23, 2026
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Not badged
Reviews per month
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Detected stores
0active installs
0active installs
Most common store size
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Top countries
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Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
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From $0 to $9.99/month
Plans
LiteFree
  • · Basic Exit Triggers
  • · Conversion Tracking
  • · Recovered Abandoned Carts
  • · Same Coupon for All Carts
ProFree to install
5% of sales recovered by Recover Cart
  • · Advanced Exit Triggers
  • · Automatic Unique Coupon for Each Cart
  • · Basic Exit Triggers
  • · Conversion Tracking
  • · Recovered Abandoned Carts
  • · Remove "Recover Cart" Branding
FreeFree
  • · Basic cart tracking
  • · Basic engagement analytics
  • · Basic widget customization
  • · Last 5 history items
  • · Per-page section visibility
  • · Recently viewed products
Advanced$4.99/month
  • · Advanced analytics
  • · Full widget customization
  • · Mobile/desktop visibility controls
  • · Priority support
  • · Shareable session snapshot links
  • · Translations (EN, DE, FR, IT)
Enterprise$9.99/month
  • · Advanced product insights dashboard
  • · CSV export of product insights
  • · Cross-device session recovery
  • · Everything in Advanced
  • · Per-product recovery analytics
  • · Priority enterprise support
Coverage
11 of 14 features79%
6 of 14 features43%
Unique strengths
  • Custom discount codes
  • Discount offers
  • Exit pop-ups
  • Personalized campaigns
  • +4 more
  • Cross-device carts
  • Customizable widgets
  • Multi-language
Abandoned cart
79%11/14
43%6/14
Cart recovery
83%5/6
33%2/6
Display options
75%6/8
50%4/8
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Recover CartSmart Recently Viewed14 features listed across both App Store listings

Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.

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How it sells itself

Recover Cart automatically monitors your website to detect if customers have added a product to their shopping cart and attempt to leave your store before completing their purchase. If that happens Recover Cart displays a notification bar for the customer with a special limited time offer to help motivate the customer to complete their purchase.

Increase sales with recently viewed products, shopping history, abandoned cart recovery, and cross-device cart sync. Help customers continue shopping where they left off, restore carts across devices, and revisit previously viewed items. Track customer journeys with built-in analytics, customize widgets to match your Shopify theme, and improve conversions with a faster, more personalised shopping experience.

Key points
  • Recover abandoned carts before customers leave your storefront website
  • Advanced exit detection triggers catch customers before they leave
  • Automatically provide a unique, single use discount code for each customer
  • Restrict unique discounts to the shopping cart items only
  • Shopping history widget with recently viewed products
  • Restore shopping history and carts across desktop, mobile, and tablet
  • Track customer browsing, product views, cart activity, and engagement
  • Customize the widget to match your branding, theme, and language
Screenshots
Recover Cart recovered orders
Recover Cart mobileRecover Cart recovered setupRecover Cart discounts
Recently Viewed section
Dashboard & AnalyticsSharing PageLocalizations

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A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.

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Adoption

MeasureRecover CartSmart Recently Viewed
Detected storesNot publishedNot published
Net store change, 28 days0estimated0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesNot publishedNot published
Top store countriesNot publishedNot published

Reviews

MeasureRecover CartSmart Recently Viewed
App Store ratingNot publishedNot published
App Store reviewsNot publishedNot published
New reviews, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Reviewers a year or more inNot enough dataNot enough data

Pricing

MeasureRecover CartSmart Recently Viewed
Free planNot listedYes
Lowest paid monthly planNo monthly plan listed$4.99/month
Longest free trialNot listedNot listed
Plans listed23

Listing

MeasureRecover CartSmart Recently Viewed
Shopify category rank#303(ahead)in Abandoned cart#364in Abandoned cart
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedSep 3, 2020Jul 23, 2026
Languages1English1English
DeveloperRecover CartKritxCode

FAQ

Recover Cart and Smart Recently Viewed: common questions

Is Recover Cart or Smart Recently Viewed cheaper?
Only Smart Recently Viewed lists a free plan. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
Recover Cart lists 8 the others don’t mention, such as Custom discount codes, Discount offers, Exit pop-ups, Personalized campaigns. Smart Recently Viewed lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Cross-device carts, Customizable widgets, Multi-language. 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 13, 2026; 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 13, 2026. 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.