6 Best Covet Alternatives for Shopify [2026]
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Looking for a Covet Alternative?
Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews is a popular Shopify app for turning Instagram posts and customer photo reviews into shoppable galleries. Its galleries and review request emails, though, are capped by plan, from one gallery and 200 requests on Lite, and the app stops at galleries and reviews.
So, we compared six alternatives on where each feed gets its posts, how products are tagged, which store pages the feed reaches and what other store jobs each app takes on. Vitals is our app, and we've listed its gaps next to everyone else's.
What Is Covet Shopify App?
Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews is a Shopify app from Space Squirrel for building shoppable galleries out of Instagram content and customer photos. It pulls in posts from your profile, mentions and hashtags, and shoppers can open an image to see the tagged products and add them to the cart.
Here's what you can do with Covet:
- Instagram and hashtag feeds: Collect photos, videos, Reels and carousel posts from your profile, posts you're mentioned in and chosen hashtags, or upload your own images in bulk.
- Shoppable galleries: Tag one or many products on each image, place hotspots on the photo and show "Shop this look" with an Add to Cart button in the pop-up.
- Product Galleries: Build a gallery for each product from every image tagged with it, shown on that product's page.
- Photo and video reviews: Send review request emails after a purchase or through Shopify Flow, approve what comes in and reward reviewers with a discount.
- Embeds and APIs: Place galleries on any Shopify page, in page builders such as GemPages and PageFly, on other websites and in newsletters, with a Widget API and a REST API for developers.
Where Covet stands out is the range of sources it can mix in one gallery. Instagram posts, hashtag photos, customer reviews and your own lookbook images can sit side by side, which suits brands whose best content comes from their customers.
Customer reviews most often mention an admin that's easy to find your way around, galleries that embed quickly and a support team that has written custom CSS and code to put feeds into newsletters.
How Much Does Covet App Cost?
Prices from covet.pics on October 19, 2026, with a 14-day free trial.
Why Shopify Merchants Look for Covet Alternatives
Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews has a 4.7 rating from 206 reviews and isn't Built for Shopify. Merchants who move to another app point to these reasons:
- Galleries and review request emails are capped by plan, at 1 gallery and 200 requests on Lite, 5 and 500 on Growth, and 50 and 2,000 on Premium
- Hashtag feeds, mentions and manual uploads start at Growth, and hotspot tagging is kept for Premium
- It covers galleries and reviews only, so bundles, volume discounts and cart offers need other apps, and Space Squirrel sells its bulk discount app, MyBulk, separately
- Low-star reviews, mostly dated 2016 to 2022, describe images that vanished, Instagram connections that dropped and slow replies from support
- The newest low-star review, from August 2025, says the merchant couldn't find how to cancel
Moving makes the most sense for stores that would rather keep their feed, reviews and offers on one bill than add a new app for each job.
Read: The 7 Best Shopify Shoppable Instagram Feed Apps in 2026
How We Compared the Covet Alternatives
On October 19, 2026, we read the live Shopify App Store listing of every app here, plus its help docs and changelog, where available. Every rating and review count is the one its listing showed that day.
We compared the apps on:
- App type, standalone or all-in-one
- Gallery basics, from product tagging and video to layouts and where posts are pulled from
- Which pages of the store each gallery is allowed on
- How many separate apps each option replaces
- Scripts added to the storefront and how the app fits into the theme
- AI features and MCP support
- How setup goes, judged from reviewer comments, the docs and the listing
Short Answer
Vitals - All in One App is the best Covet alternative for most stores.
- It pairs a shoppable Instagram feed with photo and video reviews on one plan, while Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews caps galleries and review requests by tier, from 1 gallery and 200 requests on Lite
- It includes 40+ apps, such as reviews, bundles and discounts, in one subscription of $29.99/month
- It replaces multiple single-purpose apps that you would otherwise install and pay for every month
Vitals costs more than Covet's Lite plan and adds a usage fee once sales from conversion apps pass $1K a month. In return, the same subscription covers bundles, volume discounts and the rest of its 40+ apps.
What Are the Top Covet Alternatives for Shopify in 2026
Each app below fits a different kind of store, and the table sums that up before the entries go into the detail.
1. Vitals - All in One App
Best for: Stores that want Shoppable Instagram Feed, Product Reviews, Bundles and Volume Discounts plus 40+ apps in one subscription
Rating: 4.9 (2,984 reviews) | App type: All-in-one | Free trial: 7 days | Built for Shopify: Yes
Vitals is our app. It packs 40+ apps into one subscription of $29.99/month, and its shoppable Instagram feed sits there alongside product reviews, bundles and volume discounts.
The Vitals Shoppable Instagram Feed app turns the posts on your Instagram account into a gallery shoppers can buy from. Products can be tagged on each post, and on each image inside a carousel, so a click opens a pop-up whose numbered thumbnails lead to the tagged product pages.
New posts sync on their own, and display rules can limit the feed to chosen products or to a price, discount or stock range. For the reviews side of Covet's job, the Vitals Product Reviews app can collect photo and video reviews through review request emails.
Key features:
- Posts synced from your Instagram account about every 6 hours, shown straight away or held until you approve them
- Unlimited product tags per post, carousel images included
- Numbered markers and matching product thumbnails in a pop-up, each opening the product page
- Square or portrait versions of five grid and slider layouts, picked per device
- Automatic display on product pages and the home page, or a position picked by hand in the theme editor
- Display rules by product, price, discount or stock level
- An Analytics view showing how often the feed was seen, how often images were opened and how often tags were clicked
- Photo and video reviews with request emails from the Vitals Product Reviews app, which can also import reviews from a spreadsheet file or from apps such as Judge.me, Loox and Yotpo
- Product bundles from the Vitals Product Bundles app
- Quantity break tiers from the Vitals Volume Discounts app
Pros:
- One support team answers for the feed, the reviews and the offers, so a clash between widgets goes to one developer
- Built for Shopify, Shopify's mark for apps that pass its speed and design checks, which Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews doesn't carry
- Bundles, volume discounts and 40+ other apps on the same plan (e.g., Strapsology replaced eight single-purpose apps with one Vitals subscription)
- Chat-based control through Vitals MCP, where ChatGPT or Claude can edit Vitals app settings or turn apps on and off, while Shopify Sidekick fields questions about the feed
Cons:
- No hashtag feeds, mention feeds or uploaded lookbook photos, and the feed draws on one Instagram account per store
- Works on Shopify only
Pricing:
Prices from vitals.app/pricing on October 19, 2026, with a 7-day free trial.
Read: Best Shopify Review Apps in 2026
2. Socialwidget ‑ Instagram Feed
Best for: Stores that publish on Instagram and TikTok and want an Add to cart button on tagged posts
Rating: 4.9 (627 reviews) | App type: Standalone | Free trial: 14 days | Built for Shopify: Yes
Socialwidget ‑ Instagram Feed is made by OneCommerce and was listed as Instafeed PRO in the past. It mixes Instagram and TikTok posts in the same gallery, and its higher plans put Add to cart and checkout buttons on tagged posts. Its product widget can place the posts tagged with a product on that product's own page.
Merchants report setup is easy, with the live chat team often helping on the design.
Key features:
- Separate template sets for each screen, nine for desktop and six for mobile
- Photo, carousel and video posts, with autoplay for video starting on Standard
- A TikTok account pulled in beside Instagram (Standard plan)
- Variant-level product tags, with each plan setting a limit between 2 and 5 a post
- Checkout and Add to cart buttons placed on tagged posts (Professional plan)
- Product pages that can carry a widget of the posts tagged with that item
- Content from public business profiles you don't own, and from hashtags (Advanced plan)
Pros:
- TikTok videos alongside Instagram posts, a source Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews doesn't pull from
- A report covering widget views, pop-up opens and clicks on each button
- Automatic widget translation into 8 languages
Cons:
- Two product tags per post on Standard, rising to five only on Advanced
- New posts arrive daily on Standard, while Professional checks every 6 hours and Advanced every 2
- Reviews left between 2024 and 2026 mention the Instagram connection dropping without warning
- Cart offers, bundles and reviews sit outside its job, so other apps handle them
Pricing:
Prices from onecommerce.io on October 19, 2026, with a 14-day free trial.
3. RPTR Instagram Feed Connect
Best for: Stores whose theme only lacks a gallery of their own Instagram posts in brand colors
Rating: 5.0 (175 reviews) | App type: Standalone | Free trial: 3 days | Built for Shopify: Yes
RPTR Instagram Feed Connect is the only app Raptor Media makes, and it keeps to a single job. It shows posts from your own profile as a grid or slider in the store's colors, and its Professional plan adds product tags so the posts become shoppable.
The listing promises one-click setup with no code, and reviewers often mention support fixing display problems within minutes.
Key features:
- A grid layout on every plan, with a slider from Basic
- A load more button that keeps revealing posts, with no image cap (Basic plan)
- Like and comment counts on each post
- Overlay, text and hover colors
- Product tags styled in the store's own colors and wording (Professional plan)
Pros:
- A 5.0 rating from 175 reviews, many of them praising quick support
- A feed that updates itself, with nothing to add to the theme code
Cons:
- Shows your own profile only, with no hashtag, mention or customer photo feeds
- Reels and video posts aren't mentioned anywhere in its listing
- Handles the Instagram feed alone, leaving reviews and other store jobs to separate apps
Pricing:
Raptor Media's website doesn't list prices, so these come from the Shopify App Store listing on October 19, 2026, with a 3-day free trial.
4. GSC Instagram Feed, Instafeed
Best for: Stores that want every shoppable post tied to the orders and sales it brings in
Rating: 4.9 (297 reviews) | App type: Standalone | Free trial: 7 days | Built for Shopify: Yes
GSC Instagram Feed, Instafeed is Getsitecontrol's feed app. It connects shoppable posts to the orders and revenue they lead to, and feeds aren't limited on any plan. Posts that customers tag you in and media you upload can appear next to your own posts.
Reviewers say owners without technical skills can set it up with little effort.
Key features:
- A choice of collage, gallery, carousel or grid
- Reels and posts from your profile, joined by posts where customers tag the brand
- Your own photo and video uploads
- Tags that link Reels and posts to collections or single products
- A sticky video pop-up across the store
- A sales view that shows which orders and how much revenue came through the feed
Pros:
- Customer-tagged posts and uploads on every plan, where Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews starts mentions and uploads at Growth
- Revenue tracking on every plan, which Covet's help center doesn't describe
- Unlimited feeds on every plan, against 1 gallery on Covet's Lite plan
- Live chat help included with each plan
Cons:
- Its App Store listing is the only documentation, since there's no help center or changelog
- Stops at the feed, with no reviews, cart or checkout features
Pricing:
Getsitecontrol's website doesn't list prices, so these come from the Shopify App Store listing on October 19, 2026, with a 7-day free trial. Shoppable allows 20 tagged posts per widget, and Unlimited has no cap.
5. Square: Instagram Feed Gallery
Best for: Stores adding a shoppable feed as their only new store job, with no paid plan
Rating: 5.0 (62 reviews) | App type: Standalone | Free trial: Free plan | Built for Shopify: Yes
Square: Instagram Feed Gallery is a free app from Square Apps that shows your Instagram posts as a shoppable grid or slider. Square Apps offers its other store jobs, such as a sticky add-to-cart bar, upsells and a wishlist, as separate apps.
Installing it, per its guide, takes one step, turning on the app embed from the theme editor.
Key features:
- A slider or a grid, set one way for phones and another for desktop if needed
- Spacing, colors and post count for each device
- A pop-up listing the tagged products whenever a post is clicked
- New posts published automatically, or kept hidden until approved in the Posts tab
- Two placement options, the home page alone or the home page together with product pages
- Sign-in with Instagram, or with Facebook Business Manager when likes and comments should show
- Storefront text available in 15 languages
Pros:
- One plan that lists no caps on posts or tags, where Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews limits galleries by tier
- Reviewers praise quick, human chat support, and one moved over from a paid app that kept disconnecting
- No 1 to 3 star reviews among its 62 so far
Cons:
- Its listing mentions no analytics, hashtag feeds or video playback
- A single Instagram account for each store
- Reviews and cart offers fall outside its scope and need their own apps
Pricing: Free, with no paid plan (square-apps.com on October 19, 2026).
6. Instafeed for Instagram Feed
Best for: Stores that want their Stories and Highlights shown as shoppable circles, plus a link-in-bio page
Rating: 4.9 (393 reviews) | App type: Standalone | Free trial: No | Built for Shopify: No
Instafeed for Instagram Feed, formerly Instafeed+Story Instagram Feed, is Adevole's Instagram app. Next to a feed of posts and Reels, it brings live Stories and saved Highlights onto the store as story circles. It also builds a shoppable link-in-bio page for the Instagram profile.
Merchants report the account connects in one click by public username, with no Instagram login.
Key features:
- Six layouts, among them spotlight, arc and scattered next to grid, collage and carousel
- Reels and posts in the feed, with videos that play once you're on Sell
- Round story bubbles above the posts for Highlights and live Stories
- A three-product limit on links for each story or post
- Multiple widgets, each targeted at its own pages (Sell plan)
- Posts that can be hidden, moved or pinned in place
- A bio link page shoppers can buy from, with taps counted
- AI Studio, where a product photo becomes an image ready for Instagram, with caption choices
Pros:
- Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews can't display Highlights or Stories, and this app can
- AI Studio for product images, a feature Covet doesn't list
- A link-in-bio page in the same app as the feed
- Connects by public username, so no Business account linked to a Facebook Page is needed
Cons:
- Links three products at most to each post or story
- No hashtag feeds, mentions or TikTok posts
- Doesn't carry the Built for Shopify mark
- Star ratings on posts rely on Judge.me, a separate reviews app, since it handles Instagram alone
Pricing:
Adevole's website doesn't list prices, so these come from the Shopify App Store listing on October 19, 2026, with no free trial. Adevole's help center quotes other prices for these plans, so confirm on the listing first.
How Many Apps Each Option Replaces
More apps usually mean more code on each page, and that code affects load time. The table shows how many separate apps we count for each option.
How we counted it:
- A volume discount app, a bundle app, a reviews app and an Instagram gallery app are the first of up to 40+ single-purpose apps that Vitals - All in One App replaces
- With Socialwidget ‑ Instagram Feed, a store needs no separate TikTok feed app or Instagram feed app
- One Instagram gallery app is what RPTR Instagram Feed Connect makes unnecessary
- GSC Instagram Feed, Instafeed swaps in for a shoppable gallery app, with its video pop-up covering a second app at some stores
- Square: Instagram Feed Gallery does the work of one shoppable feed app, with each other store job its developer offers sold as its own app
- A link-in-bio app and a feed app are the two that Instafeed for Instagram Feed stands in for
- Two jobs move into Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews, photo reviews and an Instagram gallery
Pair Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews with a bundle app and a volume discount app, and the store loads code from three developers. A single Vitals subscription does those three jobs from one script.
When Should You Stay on Covet
Two kinds of store are better off keeping Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews.
- Your galleries mix customer review photos, hashtag posts, mentions and your own uploaded lookbook images in one shoppable layout
- You embed galleries outside Shopify, on other websites or in newsletters, or your developers use its REST and Widget APIs
Switch when bundles, volume discounts, photo and video reviews and a rule-based feed on product pages should all come from one subscription.
How to Migrate From Covet
Your posts stay on Instagram, but the customer reviews, product tags, hotspots, uploaded images and gallery choices live inside Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews. Save them before you uninstall.
- Ask Covet's support for a file of your photo and video reviews with ratings, dates and image links, since its help center doesn't describe an export. Note the products and hotspots on each image, the posts you hid and the pages each gallery sits on, and download any lookbook images you uploaded
- Install Vitals - All in One App and turn on the Vitals Product Reviews app. It can import reviews from a file in its own template, with photo links, so copy your Covet reviews into that template and upload it on the Import tab. If your export doesn't fit the template, check with Vitals support about importing your reviews, then set up review request emails
- Turn on the Vitals Shoppable Instagram Feed app, connect your Instagram account and tag the same products on each post. Vitals has no hashtag or mention feeds and no uploads, so put lookbook images on a regular Shopify page, or keep a separate gallery app for hashtag content
- On a copy of your live theme, choose where the feed shows, add display rules if you need them, and look over the feed and reviews on a phone and a desktop
- Turn off Covet's review request emails and any Shopify Flow workflow that sends them, so customers don't get two requests
- Remove Covet's gallery sections and any embed code from your pages, theme files, other websites and newsletters, then publish the theme and uninstall Covet Instagram Feed & Reviews
One Vitals subscription now does the work of several single-purpose apps at stores such as Crystal Pro Jewellery.
Read: Best All in One Apps for Shopify in 2026
Find the Best Covet Alternative for Your Store
Vitals - All in One App suits most stores, though the right choice depends on what's sending you away from Covet.
- Vitals, if you want photo and video reviews, a shoppable Instagram feed, discounts, bundles and 40+ apps in one single subscription of $29.99/month
- Socialwidget ‑ Instagram Feed, if one gallery has to hold TikTok clips beside Instagram posts, with a cart button on each tagged post
- RPTR Instagram Feed Connect, if your own posts in a styled grid are the only thing the store is missing
- GSC Instagram Feed, Instafeed, if a gallery has to prove its worth in orders before it stays
- Square: Instagram Feed Gallery, if a shoppable feed is the single store job you're adding and you'd rather not pay for it
- Instafeed for Instagram Feed, if shoppers find you through Highlights and Stories and your profile link should lead to products
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. Which app is the best Covet alternative for Shopify?
Vitals - All in One App is the best Covet alternative for most stores. It's the only all-in-one app that includes 40+ apps, such as a shoppable Instagram feed, photo and video reviews, bundles and volume discounts, in one subscription. Vitals is our app, and its entry lists what it doesn't do.
2. What makes merchants leave Covet?
Covet caps galleries and review request emails by plan, from 1 gallery and 200 requests on Lite. Hashtags, mentions and uploads start at Growth, and hotspots need Premium. Its low-star reviews, mostly from 2016 to 2022, describe vanishing images, dropped Instagram connections and slow support.
3. What features differ between Vitals and Covet?
Both make Instagram posts shoppable with product tags and collect photo and video reviews through request emails. Covet adds hashtag and mention feeds, manual uploads, up to 50 galleries, Product Galleries and embeds outside Shopify. Vitals adds display rules by product, price or stock, tag click analytics, bundles, volume discounts and 40+ other apps.
4. Does Vitals take over Covet's job and other apps' jobs together?
Yes. The Vitals Shoppable Instagram Feed app and the Vitals Product Reviews app cover Covet's feed and reviews, and the Vitals Product Bundles app and the Vitals Volume Discounts app replace a bundle app and a discount app. Stores that rely on hashtag galleries or embeds on other websites would keep a separate app for those.
5. Do Covet alternatives change how fast a store loads?
Any app a store installs can add scripts to the storefront, so speed depends on how many apps are installed as well as which ones. Vitals - All in One App loads its feed, reviews and other apps from one script, while a stack of single-purpose apps loads one script per app. We didn't speed-test these apps, so check your own pages before and after a change.
6. Do any Covet alternatives offer AI features or MCP support?
Not all of them. Through Vitals MCP, ChatGPT or Claude can edit Vitals app settings and turn apps on or off, and Shopify Sidekick can answer feed questions for Vitals stores. Instafeed for Instagram Feed offers AI Studio for Instagram-ready product images but lists no MCP support. Covet, Square, GSC, RPTR and Socialwidget list neither, as far as we found.
7. Which Covet alternatives show tagged posts on product pages?
Not all of them. Socialwidget ‑ Instagram Feed has a product widget that shows the posts tagged with a product on that product's page, much like Covet's Product Galleries. Vitals - All in One App, Square: Instagram Feed Gallery and Instafeed for Instagram Feed can place their feed on product pages, but each shows the same feed there rather than only that product's posts. RPTR and GSC don't say in their listings where the feed can appear.
8. What are the steps to move from Covet to Vitals?
Ask Covet's support for a file of your reviews, and note your product tags, hotspots and gallery pages. Copy the reviews into the Vitals Product Reviews app's import template, or check with Vitals support if the file doesn't fit. Turn on the Vitals Shoppable Instagram Feed app and re-tag your posts. Test on a duplicate theme, switch off Covet's review emails, remove its sections and embed code, and uninstall.
