Stocky alternatives: 14 apps compared

The comparison table

🔑 Prices are compared at the tier that reaches the same feature set, not at each app’s cheapest tier. “The same feature set” here means demand forecasting plus purchase orders plus receiving plus writing the result back to Shopify inventory. Comparing first tiers reverses the ranking: Stockie starts at $4.99, but that tier is alerts only and its purchase orders are on the $59.99 tier.

“Not stated” means we could not confirm it from public information — it does not mean the feature is missing. Prices and review counts change often, so check each listing before you commit.

Three things the table shows

1. Cold-start support still needs a basis

The requirement is stated openly in the apps’ own listings: Fabrikatör asks for six months of orders, Monocle for twelve months and twenty SKUs, Stockful learns from two years of daily history, Stockie forecasts from real sales history, Prediko needs sufficient history. That is a reasonable design for an established store, and the category is weakest around a new store, a newly launched product and a season the shop has not traded through yet. UreyukiBox can identify retail timing from a country calendar without a full year of product history, but the current normal quantity forecast starts only after that variant has synced sales. A zero-sales opening order remains a manual decision.

2. Nobody replaced the POS tile

Stocky’s full App Store name was Stocky — Inventory Management for Shopify POS Pro, and it had a tile on the point-of-sale smart grid. All fourteen third-party alternatives here are admin-only. Stockful lists Shopify POS under compatibility, but neither its site nor its documentation describes POS functionality, so that most likely means data compatibility. If your staff counted stock from the till, today the only POS-native path is Shopify’s own built-in inventory features. UreyukiBox has no POS or non-Shopify channel support and no committed date for either.

3. “Migration” means very different things

Some apps mean a CSV importer, some mean a support engineer will help you, and some do not say. The distinction that matters is what actually moves. Suppliers, purchase orders, stock adjustments and purchase tax types (sales rows excluded) are reachable through the Stocky API, so those records can be copied before August 31. Suppliers have no CSV export. Reorder points, supplier lead times, stock count history and minimum order quantities are not in the API — they only come out as CSV or by copying the screen. An app that imports a supplier list but drops your reorder points has still cost you the part that took years to tune.

Which one fits your store

• You want someone else to do the migration. Fabrikatör — the only app stating hands-on migration support. Budget $99 per month and six months of order history.
• You want the safest, most proven choice. Assisty at $19 (4.8 from 342 reviews) or Inventory Planner if you need multi-warehouse and multi-currency planning and can absorb the setup effort.
• You want seasonal timing without waiting for a full year. UreyukiBox applies your country’s retail calendar once a variant has enough sales evidence for a quantity estimate. A genuinely new product still needs a manual opening order.
• You mostly want a dashboard to make decisions from. Prediko, if the revenue-scaled pricing works for you.
• You manufacture or assemble what you sell. Katana, which is a manufacturing system first — bills of materials and production scheduling around the inventory — at $299 per month. Qoblex covers lighter manufacturing alongside wholesale from $99.
• You sell wholesale or B2B as well as direct. Qoblex, for batch, serial and expiry traceability and the Xero and QuickBooks integrations that come with running two order books.
• You want native assistance rather than a stored policy. Shopify’s free supplier management and purchase orders, Sidekick recommendations and Flow notifications.
• Your team works from the till. No app covers this yet. Shopify’s native POS inventory features are the only option today.

About UreyukiBox, in full

We make this one, so read it with that in mind. Here is what is actually different, and what is not.

What is genuinely different

• Calendar timing works before the first sale. Seasonality comes from a fixed calendar for your store’s own country — 51 countries, each cut in its own time zone, from Japan’s thirteen gift and holiday events through Lunar New Year and Singles’ Day in China, Chuseok in Korea, Diwali in India, Eid across Southeast Asia and the Gulf, and the Southern Hemisphere school year. The calendar identifies timing, not volume: the current app creates a normal quantity forecast only after that variant has synced sales, so a zero-sales opening order remains manual.
• It retains Stocky records and their sources. Through August 31, Stocky Copy preserves suppliers, purchase-order and adjustment parents and lines, purchase tax types, API payloads and PO-history product–supplier candidates. From September 1, the standalone Stocky CSV import route retains Stocky CSVs without requiring API copy; Order limits/Statistics tables and evidence can also be retained. Merchants can search and inspect the result in Stocky Data and export CSV or PDF.
• It refuses to answer rather than guess. A variant with no sales does not receive a normal quantity forecast. With too little data to measure variability, safety stock falls back to a plain deterministic reorder point. Purchase tax presets ship for 53 countries, and for the six where a single national rate would be wrong — the US, Canada, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia — it ships no rate at all rather than a confident wrong one.
• The whole loop is in one app. Reorder-point alerts by email, Slack or LINE, suggested order quantities, purchase orders as PDF or CSV emailed to the supplier, receiving in part-shipments, and the result written back to Shopify inventory — plus stock counts, adjustments, Business-plan transfers between locations, barcode scanning and label printing, landed cost with freight apportioned, and margin reporting by product and supplier.

Where it is behind

• No reviews. It was published recently. Assisty has 342 and Prediko 225; we have none. If proven-in-production matters more to you than anything above, that is a legitimate reason to choose one of them.
• No POS or non-Shopify channel support. There is no committed date for either. None of the third-party alternatives compared here has a verified POS tile.
• Location limits vary by plan. Free supports one, Starter two, Pro five and Business unlimited. Stockie includes unlimited locations from its cheapest tier.
• No backorders or pre-orders (Fabrikatör has these), no 3PL or WMS integrations, and no accounting integrations.

Pricing: Free for up to 100 products, then $19, $39 and $83 per month. Stores billed in Japanese yen pay ¥2,980, ¥5,980 and ¥12,800. Paid plans include a 14-day trial, and the Stocky migration runs on the Free plan.

The interface, the App Store listing and support are available in English. Alerts and supplier emails use English for stores outside Japan and Japanese for stores in Japan. The migration tools and the CSV import work on any Shopify store. Purchase orders follow your store too: totals are in your store’s currency, with editable purchase-tax presets for 53 countries. The US, Canada, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia start with no tax line because one national rate would be misleading.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Stocky alternative?

There is no single winner — the fourteen apps split by what you need. For the least migration effort, Fabrikatör states hands-on migration support. For the longest track record, Assisty has the most reviews (4.8 from 342) and Inventory Planner is the most feature-complete. If you manufacture, Katana adds bills of materials and production scheduling; if you also sell wholesale, Qoblex adds batch and expiry traceability. UreyukiBox — which we make — combines a 51-country calendar with an automatic Stocky API copy, but a brand-new variant still needs a manual opening order until it has sales evidence. Prices and requirements come from the App Store listings in August 2026, and every rating and review count was re-checked on 5 August 2026.

Does Shopify have a built-in replacement for Stocky?

Partly. Shopify provides native supplier management and purchase orders, Sidekick can use sales to recommend products and create a draft PO, and Flow can send low-stock notifications. These tools are free and have a native POS surface. They do not reproduce a persistent product-and-location replenishment policy with supplier lead times and minimum order quantities. Shopify also states that historical Stocky purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify.

Which Stocky alternatives work without sales history?

No app can infer a reliable quantity from literally no evidence. Checked on 1 August 2026, Fabrikatör asks for six months of orders, Monocle for twelve months and at least twenty SKUs, Stockful learns each product’s seasonality from two years of daily history, Stockie forecasts from real sales history, and Prediko requires sufficient history. UreyukiBox can identify country-calendar timing without a full year of product history, but its current normal quantity forecast still requires synced sales for that variant. A zero-sales opening order is manual.

Do any Stocky alternatives have a POS screen?

No. Stocky was bundled with Shopify POS Pro and had a tile on the point-of-sale home screen, but all fourteen third-party alternatives in this comparison are admin-only. If your team counted stock or received deliveries from the till, the only POS-native option today is Shopify’s own built-in inventory features. UreyukiBox has stock counts, receiving, adjustments and barcode scanning in admin; transfers require Business. POS and non-Shopify sales channels are unsupported and have no committed date.

Can I still move my Stocky data to another app?

Yes, but the deadlines differ. Through August 31, the API-copy route in UreyukiBox Stocky migration preserves suppliers, purchase-order and adjustment parents and lines, purchase tax types, API payloads and product–supplier candidates recovered from PO history. From September 1, the standalone Stocky CSV import route in the same entry accepts Low Stock, stocktakes, PO lists and individual POs, adjustments, Stock on hand, available Transfers, Average cost and other reports without requiring API copy. Order limits (MOQ) and Statistics are supported as pasted screen tables; manual notes and evidence preserve screen-only information. Shopify says read-only access, including exports, remains for at least 90 days, but Stocky history is not moved into Shopify. Save independent originals as well.

Is migrating off Stocky free?

With UreyukiBox, yes. One Stocky migration entry provides API copy and, from September 1, standalone Stocky CSV import without requiring API copy. Order limits (MOQ) and Statistics are supported as pasted screen tables; manual notes and evidence retention are included on the free plan. Retained records, sources and normalized rows can be reviewed by data type in Stocky Data and exported as CSV or PDF; generic rows beyond the plan allowance are withheld by the server. Copied purchase tax types are retained as reference data and are not assigned to current products automatically. If the API copy fails for a reason on our side, we refund the billing month immediately following migration in full; Stocky CSV imports and Order limits/Statistics table imports are excluded. The free plan caps active operations at 100 products, but migration itself is not subject to that cap.

Is there a free Shopify inventory app?

There is a free option, but be clear about which job you are asking it to do. Shopify’s own purchase orders and transfers are genuinely free and unlimited, and they cover recording and receiving orders — what they do not do is tell you when or how much to order. Free tiers on the forecasting apps are usually capped rather than reduced: Katana’s free tier stops at 30 SKUs, and UreyukiBox’s free plan stops at 100 products. UreyukiBox’s free plan also runs the whole Stocky migration, but reorder point automation and auto-drafted purchase orders start at $19 per month. We have not audited every free tier in this comparison — check each pricing page, and check what is capped rather than what is listed.

How much do Stocky alternatives cost?

From free to quote-only. Compared at the tier that actually includes forecasting plus purchase orders plus receiving plus writing back to Shopify inventory, the range runs from $19 (UreyukiBox, Assisty) through $25–$60 (IFH Forecasting Hero, StockTrim, Monocle, Prediko, Stockie) to $99 and above (Fabrikatör, Qoblex, Cogsy, and Katana at $299) and quote-only (Inventory Planner). Comparing first tiers instead reverses the ranking, because several apps put purchase orders behind their top tier.