What is the absolute best free gift app?

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Topic summary

A merchant is experiencing critical issues with their current BOGOS gift app: customers frequently miss selecting free gifts from popups, leading to incomplete orders and costly secondary shipments. Express payment methods bypass the gift selection entirely, forcing them to disable this checkout option. Manual order verification is unsustainable as their business scales.

Recommendations provided:

  • Alternative apps suggested: Corner Free Gift, AOV Free Gift, and EG Auto Add to Cart
  • For express checkout compatibility, apps using Shopify Functions are likely required
  • Automation solutions proposed: Shopify Flow for order validation/tagging, or Mechanic for automatic order editing

BOGOS team response (6 months later):

  • New feature: Gift slider can now embed directly on cart/product pages instead of popups
  • Express checkout limitation acknowledged: All gift apps track cart conditions, so fast checkout methods inherently bypass gift logic across all platforms
  • Claims comprehensive offer support (Buy X Get Y, bundles, upsells) with merchant case studies showing significant sales growth

Status: The core express checkout incompatibility remains an industry-wide limitation due to Shopify’s architecture. Solutions focus on improving gift visibility and backend automation rather than full express payment integration.

Summarized with AI on October 27. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi @pbg

There’s a lot of applications that offer free gift feature such as Corner Free Gift & Cart Upsell, AOV Free Gift Buy X Get Y, and EG Auto Add to Cart Free Gift. Here is the full list as well so you can check and see what will work best for you: Free Gift Applications.