# Shopify Gift Wrap Apps [144,253-Store Study] > Compare Shopify gift wrap apps, free-plan limits and gifting workflows. Our 144,253-domain study found 112 Wrapped or Giftship signals. Published: 2026-10-23 Author: Anders Myrmel Tags: shopify, apps, gifting, data-study Canonical HTML: https://storeinspect.com/blog/shopify-gift-wrap-apps Shop worker tying a ribbon around a gift box on a green counter ## TL;DR - **112 of 144,253 domains** had a recorded Wrapped or Giftship signal: 75 Wrapped and 37 Giftship. This measures two selected app identities, not every store offering gift wrap. - **55 of those 112 matches** were in Gifts & Flowers or Food & Beverage. For agencies, those are useful categories to inspect before building a broad gifting prospect list. - **Wrapin starts at $3.99/month for a live paid-plan store.** Its free plan is for test and trial stores. Gift Wrap Plus has a small free allowance; Wrapped's free plan has eligibility and lifetime-sales limits. - **Check the packing workflow before choosing an app.** A visible gift-message field does not prove that the message reaches a packing slip or fulfillment partner. --- Shopify gift wrap apps solve several different jobs: charging for packaging, collecting a note, assigning gifts to individual products, or shipping a basket to multiple recipients. Choose the job first. A simple message field and a corporate gifting workflow do not need the same software. We queried StoreInspect's scan history, inspected a real gifting product page and checked current publisher documentation. The result is a workflow comparison with a small, explicitly scoped detection study. App popularity alone cannot tell you whether a gift will be packed correctly. ## How We Collected This Data We extracted the data on **October 23, 2026**. For each domain, we selected its most recent full scan that completed successfully between **October 21 at 02:00 Oslo and October 23 at 02:00 Oslo**, excluding the end. We excluded records currently confirmed dead and required a recorded app list. The **144,253 domains include 17,215 empty app lists**. We matched exact normalized names or slugs for **Wrapped** and **Giftship**, counting each domain once per identity. No domain matched both. A domain is not necessarily a separate business. Full scan describes the pipeline mode, not a guarantee that every product, cart and checkout page was inspected. Of the 112 matched domains, **100 were identified through app blocks and 12 through scripts**. Our Giftship script rule includes `gist-apps.com` and `/assets/giftship.js`; the Wrapped rule includes its vendor domain and gift-widget elements. These rules and recorded labels can still misattribute shared code or retain remnants. Detector versions were unrecorded throughout the panel, and we did not independently measure detection precision or recall. Categories and estimated traffic use store records at extraction time. The panel is a recent scan cohort, not a random sample of all Shopify merchants. Native theme features, custom code, unsupported apps and workflows outside scanned pages may be missed. Neither non-detection nor a detected app proves feature absence, active configuration, merchant spending or purchase intent. The app comparison uses official sources checked **October 23**. We did not install these apps, submit an order, access merchant systems or measure conversion lift. ## Shopify Gift Wrap Apps: Study Findings | Selected recorded identity | Matched domains | Share of the panel | Detection method | |---|---:|---:|---| | [Wrapped](https://apps.shopify.com/wrapped) | 75 | 0.052% | 74 app-block; 1 script | | [Giftship](https://apps.shopify.com/giftship) | 37 | 0.026% | 26 app-block; 11 script | | Either selected identity | **112** | **0.078%** | Deduplicated union | The low match rate does **not** mean the remaining stores lack gifting. We intentionally measured two identities, not the whole category. Wrapin and Gift Wrap Plus appear in the comparison because their documented workflows are relevant, not because this query establishes their adoption. ### Where an agency should start inspecting | Stored category | Panel domains | Wrapped or Giftship matches | Match rate | |---|---:|---:|---:| | Gifts & Flowers | 7,505 | 38 | 0.506% | | [Food & Beverage](/top-shopify-stores/food) | 7,685 | 17 | 0.221% | | Baby & Kids | 2,155 | 10 | 0.464% | | [Jewelry](/top-shopify-stores/jewelry) | 7,627 | 9 | 0.118% | | [Fashion](/top-shopify-stores/fashion) | 37,547 | 12 | 0.032% | Gifts & Flowers and Food & Beverage contribute **55 of 112 matches**, while accounting for **15,190 of 144,253 panel domains**. Fashion is a much larger category but contributes fewer matches than either of those two groups. For a gifting specialist, that supports starting research with gift-box sellers and food gifts instead of assuming apparel is the largest relevant pool. It does not establish demand for a new app. An existing gifting setup could already meet the merchant's needs. Inspect product eligibility, recipient information and packing instructions before proposing work. Traffic adds little certainty here. The panel contains **142,897 domains below 50K estimated monthly visits**, with 107 matches; 1,187 in the 50K–200K tier, with three; 167 in the 200K–1M tier, with two; and only two above 1M, with none. Those small upper tiers cannot establish a gifting benchmark for large stores. ## A Live Example: Packaging Choices and Gift Messages Our October 22 scan recorded Giftship on **aboxofdallas.com**. On **October 23**, we inspected its [Delightfully Dallas Gift Box product page](https://aboxofdallas.com/products/delightfully-dallas-gift-box). The page offered separate selectors for box color, ribbon color and gift tag. Selecting **“Is this a gift?”** revealed **To, From and Message** fields. The page loaded a Giftship-specific Shopify extension script, and the revealed fields used product-property names for the recipient, sender and message. We left the fields empty and did not add the product to a cart. This confirms the public message-entry behavior, not how an order is printed, fulfilled or charged for packaging. We also did not test multiple recipients. The useful distinction is visible before checkout: packaging selection and recipient-message capture are separate parts of the form. An agency should specify both, then verify how each reaches the packing team. A checkbox by itself is an incomplete acceptance test. ## Compare Shopify Gift Wrap Apps by Workflow Prices below are published monthly USD prices checked October 23, 2026. Allowances measure different things, so the lowest subscription is not necessarily the lowest bill. | App | Workflow to evaluate | Published entry point | Limit to check | |---|---|---|---| | [Wrapin](https://apps.shopify.com/wrapin-gift-wrap) | Product/cart wrapping and messages | Starter **$3.99/month** | Free is for test/trial stores. Automatic order tagging is on Basic at $5.99; multiple gift options and translation are on Pro at $7.99. | | [Wrapped](https://apps.shopify.com/wrapped) | Product-level or whole-order Gift Blocks | Access 1x **$19/month**, up to $10K monthly gift sales | Free lists Basic-store/development-store eligibility and a $1K lifetime gift-sales cap. Confirm eligibility and the feature you need. | | [Giftship](https://apps.shopify.com/giftship) | Gift options, box building and multi-address gifting | Micro **$29.99/month**, for Shopify Basic | Includes 200 online-channel orders, then $0.10/order. Multi-address shipping and box building are add-ons on Micro. | | [Gift Wrap Plus](https://apps.shopify.com/gift-wrap-plus) | Wrapping rules for products or collections | Small **free**, up to five gift orders and one gift product | The free tier is store-wide only. Product-based wrapping starts at $3.99 with a 20-gift-order allowance; collection rules are on the $19.99 tier. | ### Match the billing unit to your actual volume Giftship's [billing documentation](https://docs.giftship.app/article/giftship-billing-additional-usage-charges/) counts **all orders through the online sales channel**, not just gift orders. Child orders created by multi-address shipping do not count toward that allowance. Micro lists multi-address shipping as a **$15/month add-on**. Its Essential plan starts at **$59.99/month**, includes multi-address shipping and box building, and allows 500 orders before $0.10/order overage. Optional usage charges can apply separately. Wrapped's listing measures **gift sales**, while Gift Wrap Plus lists **gift orders**. Ask how the vendor defines and resets the relevant allowance before comparing costs. For a live store considering Wrapped's free plan, confirm eligibility and the required gift-fee behavior with the vendor before relying on it. For a merchant needing only a gift note, start with the simpler option below. For several physical recipients, evaluate the split-shipping and order-handling requirements explicitly. A wrapping widget is not evidence that an app supports that workflow. ## Can You Add Gift Options Without Another App? [Shopify's order-note documentation](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/customizing-themes/add-order-notes) describes collecting preparation or delivery instructions through a cart note in free Shopify themes. That can be enough for an order-level message when the team already handles packaging. A note does not itself create a priced wrapping item, attach a different message to each product or split an order between addresses. Shopify distinguishes order notes, cart attributes and line-item properties; choose the storage method for the information your team needs. Check your theme's current cart and [cart drawer](/blog/shopify-cart-drawer-apps) behavior rather than assuming a cart-page setting appears everywhere. If the requirement is inside checkout, identify the exact page. [Shopify limits apps customizing the information, shipping and payment pages to Plus](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/checkout-settings/checkout-customization). That is different from product/cart placement or thank-you/order-status extensions. Giftship and Wrapped also identify Plus requirements for their checkout gift blocks. Digital [gift cards](/blog/best-shopify-gift-card-apps), promotional [free gifts with purchase](/blog/best-shopify-discount-apps), and physical gift wrapping are separate jobs. Do not buy a wrapping app to solve a gift-card delivery requirement. ## A Gift-Wrapping Rollout Checklist Use a merchant-approved test environment to check the entire flow: 1. **Define the charge.** Once per order, per product, per unit or per package? Increase quantity and confirm the fee follows that rule. 2. **Mix eligible and excluded products.** Include an item that cannot be wrapped. Check the available options and what the customer is charged. 3. **Use the actual shopping paths.** Test product pages, quick-add, mobile cart drawers and accelerated purchase buttons that the store exposes. Confirm where shoppers can enter a message. 4. **Change the cart.** Remove a wrapped item, change its variant and remove wrapping. Check that no orphan fee or wrong recipient message remains. 5. **Check the packing output.** Follow the wrapping choice and message into the order, packing slip and fulfillment integration. Inspect a sample printout with the person packing it. 6. **Check the recipient experience.** Establish whether prices are hidden, which messages are included and what happens when an order is split. Test only the features the merchant intends to offer. These are proposed acceptance checks, not tests we completed across the four apps. The live Dallas observation covers only the public product form. For agency prospecting, use the category findings to choose a small research pool in [StoreInspect](/). Review current storefront behavior and identify a specific implementation question. “Where does the recipient message appear on your packing slip?” is useful after confirming the store collects one. “You are losing gift sales because we cannot detect an app” is unsupported. ## FAQ ### Which Shopify gift wrap app should I choose? Compare Wrapin for product/cart wrapping, Wrapped for product or whole-order gift blocks, and Giftship for broader physical gifting requirements. Gift Wrap Plus offers a small free allowance. Choose by placement, fee rules, packing output and plan limits; our detection counts are not a quality ranking. ### Is there a free Shopify gift wrap app for a live store? Gift Wrap Plus lists a free tier with up to five gift orders, one gift product and store-wide placement. Wrapped lists a restricted free tier with a lifetime gift-sales cap. Wrapin's free tier is for test and trial stores. Confirm current eligibility and whether your required wrapping or messaging feature is included. ### Do gift wrap apps require Shopify Plus? Product-page and cart options do not inherently require Plus. Apps customizing the information, shipping and payment pages of checkout do. Check the placement you need rather than treating “works with checkout” as a promise for every Shopify plan. ### Does a missing app signal mean a store needs gift wrapping? No. This study tracks only Wrapped and Giftship identities in a finite scan panel. A store could use another app, custom code, a theme feature or a manual process. Verify the current workflow and merchant requirement before recommending a change. ## Decision Summary | Finding or requirement | Practical decision | |---|---| | 112 selected signals in 144,253 scanned domains | Treat the study as scoped research, not category-wide adoption. | | 55 matches in Gifts & Flowers or Food & Beverage | Start agency research in relevant gifting categories, then inspect each store. | | A gift checkbox reveals recipient fields on the Dallas product page | Specify packaging and messages separately; verify their packing output. | | Different plans count orders, gift orders or gift sales | Compare the billing unit and feature entitlement before selecting a plan. | | A simple order-level note is sufficient | Check existing theme/cart notes before adding software. |