The Best Inventory Management Shopify Apps

Introduction

Shopify is switching off the free inventory tool most merchants quietly relied on.

Stocky, Shopify's free forecasting and purchase order app, is being retired, with the app shutting down for good on August 31, 2026.

This guide covers the best inventory management apps to fill that gap, grouped by how your store actually works, with ratings pulled straight from the Shopify App Store.

By the end you will know which tool matches your store, and which ones are overkill.

What Shopify's native tools do and do not do

Shopify includes basic inventory management on every plan.

You can track stock by location, set low stock alerts, and move inventory between locations.

What it does not do is forecast demand, generate purchase orders automatically, sync stock to outside marketplaces, or give you deep reporting like ABC analysis.

With Stocky gone, that forecasting and purchase order gap is now yours to fill.

The apps below close it, each for a different kind of store.

Prediko, for AI forecasting and purchase orders

Prediko has become the go to Stocky replacement for direct to consumer brands that need to plan ahead.

It uses AI to forecast demand by product and season, then turns those forecasts into purchase orders in seconds.

It also tracks raw materials, manages bills of materials, and exports detailed reports.

It holds a rating of around 4.9 stars on the App Store, offers a free plan, and prices paid tiers based on your revenue so smaller brands are not priced out.

Best for DTC brands that live and die by restocking on time.

Stockful, for Stocky-style reporting

Stockful is the closest thing to Stocky's old reporting, built specifically for merchants who miss that visibility.

It delivers demand forecasting per location, ABC analysis, dead stock detection, and a stack of built in report types.

If what you valued in Stocky was the reports, this is the cleanest landing spot.

It carries a near perfect rating, with pricing starting at roughly $19.99 per month.

Best for former Stocky users who want reporting without a heavy platform.

506 EasyScan, for barcodes and receiving

506 EasyScan SKU and Barcode handles the physical side of inventory: scanning, receiving, and purchase orders.

It creates purchase orders, generates SKUs and barcodes, and lets you pick, pack, and check orders with a scanner to cut errors.

For any store with a stockroom or warehouse, this is where accuracy starts.

It holds a 5.0 star rating across more than 320 reviews, carries the Built for Shopify badge, and offers a free trial.

Best for stores that manage real physical stock and want barcode workflows.

Hextom Bulk Product Edit, for mass changes

Hextom: Bulk Product Edit solves the problem of changing thousands of products without doing it one by one.

It handles bulk editing, importing, and exporting of product and inventory data, including scheduled changes for sales.

When you need to adjust prices, tags, or stock across a large catalog, it saves hours.

It carries a 4.9 star rating across more than 1,000 reviews, with a free plan available.

Best for large catalogs that need frequent, sweeping updates.

syncX Stock Sync, for supplier and feed syncing

syncX: Stock Sync and Inventory keeps your stock numbers accurate when your data lives in many places.

It imports and syncs inventory from suppliers, spreadsheets, Google Sheets, FTP, and APIs, and updates quantities in bulk.

For dropshippers and merchants pulling stock from vendor feeds, this prevents the overselling that kills trust.

It holds a 4.7 star rating across more than 840 reviews, is Built for Shopify, and offers a free plan.

Best for stores syncing stock from suppliers or external data sources.

Syncio, for multi-store syncing

Syncio Inventory Sync is the tool for merchants running more than one Shopify store.

It keeps products and stock levels aligned across stores in real time, so a sale in one place updates the others.

This matters for brands with separate regional stores or supplier partnerships.

It carries a 4.7 star rating across more than 150 reviews, with a free plan available.

Best for operators managing several Shopify storefronts at once.

Bundles app, for kits and bundles

Bundles.app Inventory Sync fixes the headache of tracking stock for products sold both individually and as sets.

It syncs component inventory automatically, so selling a bundle correctly reduces the stock of every item inside it.

Without this, bundle sellers oversell constantly, because Shopify does not track shared components natively.

It holds a 4.9 star rating across more than 300 reviews, with a free trial.

Best for stores selling kits, bundles, or multipacks.

For multichannel sellers and manufacturers

If your biggest problem is stock accuracy across marketplaces, look at purpose built multichannel tools.

Sumtracker syncs inventory across Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and Etsy and handles bundles well.

If you manufacture or assemble your own products, Katana offers full production planning and bill of materials, though its App Store rating is more modest at around 3.6 stars and its pricing sits well above most apps here.

For full enterprise operations, Cin7 Core covers inventory, manufacturing, and B2B in one platform, but weigh its low App Store rating of 3.0 before committing.

Match the platform to the complexity you actually have, not the complexity you imagine.

How to choose without overbuying

Start with the one problem that hurts most: forecasting, overselling, or physical accuracy.

Pick a tool built for that job rather than a heavy platform that does everything poorly.

Run your new app alongside Stocky while it still works, so you can compare before the shutdown. Shopify's Help Center covers both the Stocky timeline and native inventory setup.

Most of these apps offer free trials, so test the connection before you migrate for real.

Conclusion

Stocky's shutdown is a headache, but it is also a chance to install something better than a free afterthought.

Pick Prediko or Stockful to replace forecasting and reports, add 506 EasyScan for physical accuracy, and layer in a sync tool like syncX or Bundles.app if overselling is your weak spot.

Match the app to how your store really operates, keep the stack lean, and start the migration now rather than in August.

For deeper guidance, Shopify's own inventory management guide is a solid reference.

So before your next big sale hits: do you actually know what you have in stock, or are you about to find out the hard way?